Biodiversity and Climate Change

Edited by Frank Maes, Professor, Faculty of Law, Ghent University, Belgium, An Cliquet, Professor, Faculty of Law, Ghent University, Belgium, Willemien du Plessis, Professor, North-West University, South Africa and Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada

Contents:

Introduction

PART I: NATIONAL AND LOCAL EXPERIENCES
1. Bureaucratic Rhetoric of Climate Change in Nigeria: International Aspiration versus Local Realities
Rhuks Ako and Olubayo Oluduro

2. Combating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss in a ‘Hot Spot’ Mega-diversity Country
Gloria Estenzo Ramos

3. Does the Concept of Ecosystem Services Promote Synergies between European Strategies for Climate Change and Biodiversity?
Nathalie Hervé-Fournereau and Alexandra Langlais

4. Impacts of Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Population on Sustainable Development in Ethiopia
Mekete Bekele Tekle

5. Climate Change, Human Rights and the Darfur Crisis
Linda Mbone Ndongo and Frank Maes

PART II: INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSBOUNDARY APPROACHES
6. The Clustering of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Can the Clustering of the Chemicals-related Conventions be Applied to the Biodiversity and Climate Change Conventions?
Nils Goeteyn and Frank Maes

7. Retreading Negotiations on Equity in Environmental Governance: Case Studies Contrasting the Evolution of ABS and REDD+
Claudia Ituarte-Lima and Suneetha M. Subramanian

8. Climate Change, Biodiversity and Human Rights: Can Synergy Help?
Svitlana Kravchenko

9. Reducing Emissions in the Forest Sector under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A New Opportunity for Biodiversity Conservation?
Annalisa Savaresi

10. Transboundary Conservation of Mountain Biodiversity in a Climate Change Impacted World: Governance Perspectives from Central Asia and the Island of Borneo
Michelle Lim

PART III: LAND USE AND AGRICULTURE
11. Climate Change, the EU Floods Directive and Biodiversity Protection: Lessons from the Scheldt on Land Use Planning as an Adaptive Measure
Katrien Debeuckelaere and Gretta Goldenman

12. Climate Change and Biodiversity: The Vulnerability of the Amazon Rainforest in the Face of Increasing Ethanol Demand
Heline Sivini Ferreira, Maria Leonor Paes Cavalcanti Ferreira and Patryck de Araújo Ayala

13. The Contribution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy to Protecting Biodiversity and Global Climate in Europe
Eckard Rehbinder

PART IV: SOLUTIONS FROM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
14. Creating Marine Protected Area Networks in Pacific North America for Biodiversity Conservation: Linking Ecology to Legislation
Vernon G. Thomas

15. Preventing and Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss through Biosecurity
Opi Outhwaite

Index