First Annual Cummings Colloquium on Environmental Law. Beyond the balance of nature: Environmental law faces the new ecology Author various authors Date 1996 Source IUCN (ID: MON-061047) Publisher | Place of publication Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Duke University School of Law | Durham, NC, USA Pages 223 p. Language English Country/Territory United States of America Subject Wild species & ecosystems Keyword Research Ethics and environment Ecosystem preservation Wetlands Abstract Contents: 1. Beyond the balance of nature 2. Adjusting law to nature 's discordant harmonies 3. Ecosystem management in the Clinton Administration 4. Change, constancy, and creativity: The new ecology and some old problems 5. Managing without a balance: Environmental regulation in light of ecological advances 6. Preserving dynamic systems: Wetlands, ecology and law 7. Making the law more ecocentric: Responding to Leopold and conservation biology 8. The potential for unconventional progress: Complex adaptive systems and environmental quality policy 9. Environmental law: Ethics or science?