Ecological restoration is as essential as sustainable development for the health of the biosphere. Restoration however has been a low priority of most countries' environmental laws, which tend to focus narrowly on rehabilitation of small, discrete sites, rather than the more ambitious recovery of entire ecosystems and landscapes.
Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari is at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Professor Benjamin J. Richardson is based at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
List of contributors
1. Ecological Restoration in the Anthropocene
Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Benjamin J. Richardson
Part 1
Concepts of Ecological Restoration Law
2. The Social Life of Plants and Trees and the Limits of Environmental Law's Recovery Imagination
Afshin Akhtar-Khavari
3. Timescapes of Ecological Restoration
Benjamin J. Richardson
4. The Story of Stewardship and Ecological Restoration
Emily Barritt
5. Ecological Reconciliation on Private Agricultural Land: Moving Beyond the Human-Nature Binary in Property-Environment Contests
Robyn Bartel and Nicole Graham
6. Linking Restoration Science and Law
An Cliquet and Kris Decleer
7. Green Financing of Ecosystem Restoration
Froukje Maria Platjouw
Part 2
Case Studies of Ecological Restoration Law
8. Legal Considerations when Operationalizing Eco-restoration within the European Union: A Sisyphean Task or Unlocking Existing Potential?
Hendrik Schoukens
9. Public Participation and Socio-Economic Justice in Eco-restoration Law and Governance: The UN Environment - Ogoniland Case Study
Uzuazo Etemire and Menes Abinami Muzan
10. Motivating Ecological Restoration by Private Landowners through Special Purpose Districts
Anastasia Telesetsky
11. Reconstructing the Environment: Perception and Changes in Australia's Murray-Darling River Basin
Francine Rochford
12. Reforming Restoration to Support Climate Change Adaptation
Phillipa McCormack
Index