scholarly journals The alignment of agricultural and nature conservation policies in the European Union

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 996-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hodge ◽  
Jennifer Hauck ◽  
Aletta Bonn
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Conservation Policies

15. Environmental law and policy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Horspool ◽  
Matthew Humphreys ◽  
Michael Wells-Greco
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Context ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Environmental Law And Policy

This chapter reviews environmental law and policy in the European Union, considering Union powers and the international context. It discusses the framework for Union environmental law and policy; environmental principles; European Union environmental law by sector; trade in endangered species; nature conservation; environmental protection implementation and enforcement; and environmental litigation.

The Mac Sharry Plan and integration of EU policy on agriculture and nature conservation

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kees J. Canters
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Common ◽  
Oriented Approach

Over the past few decades the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) has resulted in major surpluses of agricultural products. However, it has also resulted in severe environmental pollution and degradation. For these reasons, in the early 1990s, the CAP was reformed by means of the Mac Sharry Plan (MSP) (Commission of the EC 1991). This Plan aims to: 1) reduce agricultural surpluses and expenses, 2) adopt a more market-oriented approach, 3) keep a sufficient number of farmers in the countryside, and 4) render agriculture more benign to nature and the environment. The last of these aims has not yet been adequately elaborated in the MSP and it is uncertain whether the adopted measures will really lead to less agricultural pressure on nature and the environment.

scholarly journals CONSIDERAÇÕES E PROPOSTAS PARA A POLÍTICA DE CONSERVAÇÃO DE MATERIAIS PÉTREOS DO PATRIMÔNIO CONSTRUÍDO NO BRASIL

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovana Maria Nassif Henrique ◽  
Antônio Gilberto Costa
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Stone Conservation ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Stone Materials ◽  
Brazilian Politics

ResumoEste artigo pretende abordar a questão das políticas de conservação no Brasil voltadas para o patrimônio cultural construído, especificamente no tocante aos materiais pétreos. Como forma de preencher estas lacunas identificadas na política nacional, pretende-se recorrer a práticas e metodologias atualmente adotadas no âmbito da política cultural da União Europeia, especificamente em Portugal, visto que nesse país ações implementadas e referentes à problemática da conservação de materiais pétreos no patrimônio construído tem alcançado resultados satisfatórios, podendo, portanto, contribuir e referenciar propostas que se mostrem necessárias e adequadas à realidade do Brasil.Palavras Chave: patrimônio; rochas; conservaçãoAbstractCONSIDERATIONS AND PROPOSALS FOR CONSERVATION POLICY OF STONE MATERIALS FROM HERITAGE BUILT IN BRAZIL. This article aims to deal the issue of conservation policies in Brazil, focused on built cultural heritage, specifically regarding to stone materials, and how such mechanisms have beenseen insufficient and sometimes nonexistent to meet the demands of brazilian material heritage properties. In order to fill these gaps in Brazilian politics, cultural policy adopted in the European Union and Portugal, which actions have obtained a certains successful and, probably, increase appropriate proposals concerned about the context of our country reality.Keywords: Heritage; Stone; Conservation

scholarly journals The Forest Stakeholders’ Perception towards the NATURA 2000 Network in the Czech Republic

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Schneider ◽  
Aleš Ruda ◽  
Žaneta Kalasová ◽  
Alessandro Paletto
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Natura 2000 Network ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Conservation Interventions

Natura 2000 is a network of European protected areas, established under the provision of two directives of the European Union: the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and the Birds Directive (79/409/EEC; 2009/147/EU). The Natura 2000 network can be considered an interesting instrument to maintain and improve ecosystem services provided by protected sites. The European Union member countries are free to organize the participatory process in the implementation of the Natura 2000 network. The participatory process is often overlooked despite it being an important tool to increase the social acceptance and reduce conflicts among stakeholders with different interests. The aim of the present study is to investigate the stakeholders’ perceptions towards the ecosystem services provided by the Natura 2000 sites in the Czech Republic. The data was collected through a questionnaire survey involving 53 stakeholders (forester managers and nature conservation authorities) in all regions of the Czech Republic. The results show that for the respondents, the implementation of the Habitats and Birds Directives in the Czech Republic is very or quite important (54.7%), but at the same time, many respondents consider the Natura 2000 network an obstacle for economic activities close to the sites (66.0% of total respondents). In accordance with the stakeholders’ opinions, the three most important human activities near and inside the Natura 2000 sites are agricultural activities, followed by nature conservation interventions and forestry activities. The representatives of environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and academia emphasize the importance of nature conservation interventions, while the other groups of interest consider the provisioning services supplied by agricultural and forestry activities as the most relevant ecosystem services. The results of this study can be considered as the starting point aimed to improve the participatory process in the establishment and management of the Natura 2000 sites based on the stakeholders’ feelings and opinions.

De-Extinction, Regulation and Nature Conservation

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-322
Author(s):  
Jessica Allen ◽  
David M Doyle ◽  
Shane McCorristine ◽  
Aisling McMahon
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Conservation Law ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Us ◽  
Legal And Ethical Issues ◽  
The Eu

Abstract This analysis maps the key challenges posed by de-extinction to nature conservation law. The aim is to start a conversation about how such challenges should be framed and addressed if ongoing de-extinction projects in the United States of America (US) and the European Union (EU), the two jurisdictions examined, are successful. The analysis commences by providing a brief overview of existing debates in the conservation literature on the legal and ethical issues posed by de-extinction within the animal context. The article then proceeds to highlight two challenges animals created via de-extinction (de-extinctees) will likely pose for nature conservation law, namely: (1) to what extent taxonomies or definitions of ‘species’, and the methods for classifying these species under existing conservation frameworks, will be challenged by de-extinction; and (2) how existing conservation law frameworks in the US and the EU would likely apply to de-extinctees, and whether de-extinctees would be protected under these frameworks. It concludes by posing the broader question of whether and to what extent the law should facilitate de-extinction attempts in the same way that it has done for nature conservation.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Kirsten A. Greer
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The North ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Migrant Birds ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Politics Of Nature ◽  
Migrating Birds

The introduction situates the importance of the book within current politics of nature in the Mediterranean. For the few last decades, there has been talk of a “war” on European migrant birds in the southernmost point of the European Union (EU) and former British colony—Malta. Located in the Mediterranean Sea, Malta has long been viewed as a bridge between Europe and North Africa, with its proximity to Tunisia and Libya in the south and Sicily to the north. Each spring and autumn, thousands of European migrating birds use the Maltese Islands as a resting place for their long journeys to and from their wintering grounds in Africa. While some people have claimed that the EU is another form of imperialism now imposed on the Maltese, what is missing from this understanding are the ways in which bird protection in Malta, the production of the Maltese “pothunter,” and environmental ideas of British migrant birds and semitropicality are rooted in part in Britain’s imperial past in the Mediterranean region. Moreover, Malta’s so-called unnatural relationship with birds has been put into sharp relief in comparison to Britain’s other previous Mediterranean colony—Gibraltar. Once a monument to empire, the British overseas territory is now promoted as a model of nature conservation and ornithological study in the Mediterranean.

15. Environmental law and policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 542-576
Author(s):  
Margot Horspool ◽  
Matthew Humphreys ◽  
Michael Wells-Greco
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Context ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Environmental Law And Policy

This chapter examines environmental law and policy in the European Union, considering Union powers and the international context. It discusses the framework for Union environmental law and policy; environmental principles; European Union environmental law by sector; trade in endangered species; nature conservation; environmental protection implementation and enforcement; and environmental litigation.

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