Legitimacy in European Nature Conservation Policy

• European Nature Conservation Policy Making.- Protected Species.- Wintering Geese in the Netherlands.- Vindicating Arrogant Ecologists.- Legitimacy of Species Management.- Animal Governance: The Cormorant Case.- Protected Areas.- Legitimacy Problems in Spanish Nature Policy.- How to Deal with Legitimacy in Nature Conservation Policy?.- Resistance to Top-Down Conservation Policy and the Search for New Participatory Models.- Visions and Scales of Nature and Society in Nature Management.- Creation of a Bottom–Up Nature Conservation Policy in Poland.- Nature Conservation in Poland and the Netherlands.- Conservation in Context: A View from below.- Towards Governance and Procedural Legitimacy?.- Countries.- Endangered Legitimacy.- Nature Policy in Flanders.- Between European Injunction and Local Consultation.- The Local Implementation of Nature Policy.- Legitimacy of Biodiversity Policies in a Multi-level Setting.- Are Conflicts of Nature Distributive Conflicts?.- Conclusions.- European Union Environmental Policy and Natura 2000.

From the reviews: "Numerous expert contributors-25 in total-examine issues of governance and legitimacy via exploring various European case studies. ... the text to be straightforward, the discussions of policy issues to be informative, and the examinations of legitimacy production to be revealing. ... accessible to novices of EU nature conservation policy as well as to experts in the field. ... With its breadth of information, depth of discussion, and clarity of presentation, this text is accessible to both novices and experts of EU nature conservation policy."--- (Sarah Beach, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 24, 2011)