Journal article
Legal barriers and enablers to upscaling ecological restoration
Restoration Ecology, Vol.32(7), pp.1-11
2024
Abstract
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework both signal the urgent need to upscale restoration efforts worldwide. Facilitative policy and governance frameworks are critical to these efforts. However, the legal barriers to restoration have been historically understudied. This paper assesses the legal issues affecting the implementation of ecological restoration, synthesized across four broad themes: recognizing the role of law in supporting ecological restoration, the incompatibility of some existing laws with the purposes of ecological restoration, the need to clarify terminology, and the legal challenges for restoration at the landscape scale. It concludes by summarizing the key considerations from the literature to inform effective legal frameworks for ecological restoration and identifying areas for further research.
Details
- Title
- Legal barriers and enablers to upscaling ecological restoration
- Authors
- Rose Foster (Corresponding Author) - The University of QueenslandJustine Bell-James - The University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Restoration Ecology, Vol.32(7), pp.1-11
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1111/rec.14203
- ISSN
- 1526-100X
- Copyright note
- © 2024 The Author(s). Restoration Ecology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Ecological Restoration. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991243599602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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