You can't eat biodiversity: Agency and irrational norms in European aquatic environmental law

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2017-03
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O'Higgins, Tim G.
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10.12924/cis2017.05010043
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Abstract
Policies of the European Union cover a range of social, environmental and economic aspirations and the current environmental directives and laws have evolved from a suite of norms which have changed over time. These may be characterised loosely according to 'Three Ps ': Practical, those taking an anthropocentric approach; Pure, those taking an ecocentric approach and Popular, those appealing to the general public. In this paper I use these three perspectives as a tool to analyse the complexity and identify contradictions in European aquatic environmental legislation. Some trade- offs between development and conservation are identified and used to characterise the potential qualities of more successful agency to achieve environmental goals in the governance of European aquatic environments.
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Biodiversity , Environmental policy , Ecosystem services , Transformation
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O'Higgins, Tim G. (2017) 'You can't eat biodiversity: Agency and irrational norms in European aquatic environmental law'. Challenges in Sustainability, 5 (1):43-51. doi: 10.12924/cis2017.05010043
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http://www.librelloph.com/challengesinsustainability/article/view/cis-5.1.43
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https://hdl.handle.net/10468/3942
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© 2017 by the authors; licensee Librello, Switzerland. This open access article was published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).