You can't eat biodiversity: Agency and irrational norms in European aquatic environmental law
| dc.contributor.author | O'Higgins, Tim G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-11T09:33:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-11T09:33:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-03 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2017-05-11T09:24:32Z | |
| dc.description.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. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | 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 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.12924/cis2017.05010043 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 51 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2297-6477 | |
| dc.identifier.issued | 1 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Challenges in Sustainability | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 43 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/3942 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 5 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Librello | en |
| dc.relation.uri | http://www.librelloph.com/challengesinsustainability/article/view/cis-5.1.43 | |
| dc.rights | © 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/). | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Biodiversity | en |
| dc.subject | Environmental policy | en |
| dc.subject | Ecosystem services | en |
| dc.subject | Transformation | en |
| dc.title | You can't eat biodiversity: Agency and irrational norms in European aquatic environmental law | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
