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From Government to Governance? New Governance for Water and Biodiversity in Enlarged EU

November 4, 2010

Author

Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská

Author   
Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská (editor)

Publication year
2010

Source
Prague: Alfa Nakladatelství

The book is a result of interdisciplinary research conducted under GoverNat Project (Multi-level Governance of Natural Resources: Tools and Processes for Water and Biodiversity Governance in Europe), a Marie Curie Research Training Network in the 6th Framework Program of the European Commission focusing on research and training in all aspects of multi-level environmental governance.It explores evolution of environmental governance in the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), in particular: How the recombination of institutions “with the ruins of communism” affects the restructuring of command-and-control systems in the post-socialist countries of CEE and how it affects the EU environmental governance.

The book collects 5 chapters presenting conceptual contribution to the evolution of environmental governance in the enlarged EU and 8 case studies on the tools and processes for new governance of water and biodiversity in Europe. It aspires to provoke academic and policy debate on the evolution of environmental governance in the region of Central and Eastern Europe The book will be of interests to interdisciplinary researchers, policy makers and students.

It is written by a team of 17 authors from 10 European countries: Dr. Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská, Professor Andy Gouldson, Professor Jouni Paavola, Professor Jiřina Jílková, Dr. Lenka Slavíková, Dr. Veronika Chobotová, Dr. Felix Rauschmayer, Dr. Dimitrios Zikos, Dr. Maria Falaleeva, Ms. Minna Santaoja, Dr. Norbert Kohlheb, Dr Bálint Balázs, Dr. Peter Wirth, Dr. Gérard Hutter,  Dr. Jochen Schanze, Dr. Ilona Banaszak, Ms. Sonja Trifunovová.

About the author

Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská

Founder and director of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Study of Institutions, Evolutions and Policies (CETIP) at the Institute of Forecasting at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. She is a member of the Management Committee of the COST Action IS0802 “Transformation of Global Environmental Governance: Risks and Opportunities (TGEG)".

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Rule of Law for Nature – New Dimensions and Ideas in Environmental Law

'Human laws must be reformulated to keep human activities in harmony with the unchanging and universal laws of nature.' This 1987 statement by the World Commission on Environment and Development has never been more relevant and urgent than it is today. Despite the many legal responses to various environmental problems, more greenhouse gases than ever before are being released into the atmosphere, biological diversity is rapidly declining and fish stocks in the oceans are dwindling. This book challenges the doctrinal construction of environmental law and presents an innovative legal approach to ecological sustainability: a rule of law for nature which guides and transcends ordinary written laws and extends fundamental principles of respect, integrity and legal security to the non-human world.

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