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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?