Ecological Restoration Law

Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari is at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Professor Benjamin J. Richardson is based at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

List of contributors



1. Ecological Restoration in the Anthropocene



Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Benjamin J. Richardson

Part 1



Concepts of Ecological Restoration Law



2. The Social Life of Plants and Trees and the Limits of Environmental Law’s Recovery Imagination



Afshin Akhtar-Khavari



3. Timescapes of Ecological Restoration



Benjamin J. Richardson



4. The Story of Stewardship and Ecological Restoration



Emily Barritt



5. Ecological Reconciliation on Private Agricultural Land: Moving Beyond the Human–Nature Binary in Property-Environment Contests



Robyn Bartel and Nicole Graham



6. Linking Restoration Science and Law



An Cliquet and Kris Decleer



7. Green Financing of Ecosystem Restoration



Froukje Maria Platjouw

Part 2



Case Studies of Ecological Restoration Law



8. Legal Considerations when Operationalizing Eco-restoration within the European Union: A Sisyphean Task or Unlocking Existing Potential?



Hendrik Schoukens



9. Public Participation and Socio-Economic Justice in Eco-restoration Law and Governance: The UN Environment – Ogoniland Case Study



Uzuazo Etemire and Menes Abinami Muzan



10. Motivating Ecological Restoration by Private Landowners through Special Purpose Districts



Anastasia Telesetsky



11. Reconstructing the Environment: Perception and Changes in Australia's Murray-Darling River Basin



Francine Rochford



12. Reforming Restoration to Support Climate Change Adaptation



Phillipa McCormack



Index