A5076605687- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Property Rights and Legal Doctrine
- Environmental law and policy
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Legal and Constitutional Studies
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- International Maritime Law Issues
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Artificial Intelligence in Law
- Legal principles and applications
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Vanderbilt University
2015-2024
Vanderbilt Health
2023
Washington College
2000-2019
Trinity College
2000-2019
George Mason University
2000-2019
American University
2000-2019
Florida State University
2000-2016
University of California, Berkeley
2010
University of Tulsa
2008
Georgia State University
2008
Efforts around the globe need legal and policy clarification
Transformative governance is an approach to environmental that has the capacity respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological systems (SESs) at multiple scales. The goal of transformative actively shift degraded SESs alternative, more desirable, or functional regimes by altering structures processes define system. rooted ecological theories explain cross-scale dynamics complex systems, as well social change, innovation, technological transformation. Similar...
DeCaro, D. A., B. C. Chaffin, E. Schlager, A. S. Garmestani, and J. Ruhl. 2017. Legal institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance. Ecology Society 22(1):32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09036-220132
Derived from funds of natural capital, ecosystem services contribute greatly to human welfare, yet are rarely traded in markets. Most supporting (e.g., soil formation) and regulating water purification, pest regulation) services, some cultural aesthetic enrichment) provisioning capture fisheries, fuel wood) declining because a complex social trap, the "tragedy services," which results part overconsumption common-pool resources. Additionally, current economic incentives encourage development...
Cosens, B. A., R. K. Craig, S. Hirsch, C. A. (T.) Arnold, M. H. Benson, D. DeCaro, Garmestani, Gosnell, J. Ruhl, and E. Schlager. 2017. The role of law in adaptive governance. Ecology Society 22(1):30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08731-220130
Over the past several decades, environmental governance has made substantial progress in addressing change, but emerging problems require new innovations law, policy, and governance. While expansive legal reform is unlikely to occur soon, there untapped potential existing laws address both by leveraging adaptive transformative capacities within law itself enhance social-ecological resilience using those allow systems adapt transform. Legal policy research date largely overlooked this...
The speed and uncertainty of environmental change in the Anthropocene challenge capacity coevolving social–ecological–technological systems (SETs) to adapt or transform these changes. Formal government legal structures further constrain adaptive our SETs. However, new, self-organized forms governance are emerging at multiple scales natural resource-based Adaptive involves private public sectors as well formal informal institutions, fill gaps traditional roles states. While new emerging, they...
The success of several environmental trading markets (ETMs) has led to proposals for broader use ETMs in and resource management policy.The successful all share a basic feature-they exchange units trade that are fungible, such as tons ofsulfir dioxide or kilos offish.This feature promotes allocation efficiency while advancing protection.But most commodities exchanged current proposed ETMs, wetlands endangered species habitat, exhibit nonfungibilities across the dimensions type, time,...
Bring tools of complexity science to bear on improving law
Administrative law needs to adapt adaptive management. Adaptive management is a structured decision-making method the core of which multi-step iterative process for adjusting measures changing circumstances or new information about effectiveness prior system being managed. It has been identified as necessary best practices component regulation in broad range fields, including drug and medical device warnings, financial regulation, social welfare programs, natural resources Nevertheless, many...
Abstract Adaptive management is an approach for stewardship of social–ecological systems in circumstances with high uncertainty and controllability. Although they are largely overlooked adaptive (and system management), it important to account spatial temporal scales mediate within- cross-scale effects actions, because interactions increase can lead undesirable consequences. The iterative nature be expanded multiple accommodate different stakeholder priorities ecosystem attributes. In this...
Imagine driving in a world with no traffic controls-no speed limits, lights, stop signs, and rights to prevent or punish reckless driving.Now imagine brimming plethora of controls-lights at every comer, street one-way, zones changing by the block, causes action available challenge slightest inetiquettes.In which would you rather drive?In lawless world-the total driver freedom-would not yearn for some degree socially imposed management exercise free will, so that navigating each intersection...