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Rights for Ecosystem Services
Local Communities and the Rights of Nature
Overview
This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative Rights for Ecosystem Services framework.
Key Concepts
Ecosystem services describe the range of social, ecological, and economic benefits that people obtain from nature. Recognising the role of local communities, and criticizing the very use of the term services, this book draws on arguments for the rights of nature. Against a market approach to nature conservation it thereby transforms the current Payments for Ecosystem Services framework into a unique Rights for Ecosystem Services framework. With reference to a case study from Sicily, the book develops such a framework as a crucial means through which the environmental role of local communities can be recognised, protected, and fostered.
Intended Audience
Employing insights from a range of disciplines, this book will appeal to scholars working in the areas of environmental law, legal theory, political philosophy, human rights, and environmental studies, as well as others with practical concerns in the fields of conservation science and local communities' rights.
