Legal Design for Social-Ecological Resilience

An exploration of the legal features compatibility with the theories of social-ecological resilience and their applicability for effective governance frameworks.

Brita Bohman (Author)

9781108840170, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 March 2021

264 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.513 kg

Theories of social-ecological resilience have developed over the past decades and rapidly become an important framework for governance of complex non-linear environmental problems. This book explores the resilience theories and their compatibility with law, it identifies corresponding legal features. The legal features identified, including legal measures, mechanisms, principles and approaches, form a legal design for social-ecological resilience. A legal design that can be applied to different governance situations. It can be a tool both for designing new laws, as well as for assessing the effectiveness of current laws and legal systems. In many ways environmental law has adjusted and developed new approaches to meet complex environmental problems, but law is still challenged by the complexity that characterize environmental problems and the environmental change connected with the Anthropocene. This book provides a comprehensive review of the most fundamental components of the governance framework for social-ecological resilience and the role of law.

1. Introduction
2. Environmental law
3. Law and governance
4. Defining features for resilience governance
5. Adaptivity, flexibility and transformability
6. Multidimensional and polycentric structures
7. Stakeholders and structures for participation
8. Operationalization, monitoring, compliance and trust building
9. Conclusions – effective legal design for resilience governance.

Subject Areas: Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Environmentalist thought & ideology [RNA], Environment law [LNKJ]