Biodiversity and Climate Change

Edited by Frank Maes, Professor, Faculty of Law, Ghent University, Belgium, An Cliquet, Professor, Faculty of Law, Ghent University, Belgium, Willemien du Plessis, Professor, North-West University, South Africa and Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada

• Contents:IntroductionPART I: NATIONAL AND LOCAL EXPERIENCES1. Bureaucratic Rhetoric of Climate Change in Nigeria: International Aspiration versus Local RealitiesRhuks Ako and Olubayo Oluduro2. Combating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss in a ‘Hot Spot’ Mega-diversity CountryGloria Estenzo Ramos3. Does the Concept of Ecosystem Services Promote Synergies between European Strategies for Climate Change and Biodiversity?Nathalie Hervé-Fournereau and Alexandra Langlais4. Impacts of Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Population on Sustainable Development in EthiopiaMekete Bekele Tekle5. Climate Change, Human Rights and the Darfur CrisisLinda Mbone Ndongo and Frank MaesPART II: INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSBOUNDARY APPROACHES6. The Clustering of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Can the Clustering of the Chemicals-related Conventions be Applied to the Biodiversity and Climate Change Conventions? Nils Goeteyn and Frank Maes7. Retreading Negotiations on Equity in Environmental Governance: Case Studies Contrasting the Evolution of ABS and REDD+Claudia Ituarte-Lima and Suneetha M. Subramanian8. Climate Change, Biodiversity and Human Rights: Can Synergy Help? Svitlana Kravchenko9. Reducing Emissions in the Forest Sector under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A New Opportunity for Biodiversity Conservation? Annalisa Savaresi10. Transboundary Conservation of Mountain Biodiversity in a Climate Change Impacted World: Governance Perspectives from Central Asia and the Island of Borneo Michelle LimPART III: LAND USE AND AGRICULTURE11. Climate Change, the EU Floods Directive and Biodiversity Protection: Lessons from the Scheldt on Land Use Planning as an Adaptive MeasureKatrien Debeuckelaere and Gretta Goldenman12. Climate Change and Biodiversity: The Vulnerability of the Amazon Rainforest in the Face of Increasing Ethanol Demand Heline Sivini Ferreira, Maria Leonor Paes Cavalcanti Ferreira and Patryck de Araújo Ayala13. The Contribution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy to Protecting Biodiversity and Global Climate in EuropeEckard RehbinderPART IV: SOLUTIONS FROM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY14. Creating Marine Protected Area Networks in Pacific North America for Biodiversity Conservation: Linking Ecology to LegislationVernon G. Thomas15. Preventing and Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss through BiosecurityOpi Outhwaite Index

'Environmental lawyers, particularly those who practice internationally will appreciate the diverse insights into biodiversity and climate change contained in this book. . . this book makes an important academic contribution towards linking legal solutions to global warming with biodiversity conservation.'