Overview
- Argues that legal geography provides new insights into contemporary conservation challenges
- Discusses the protected area phenomenon and calls for changes to current approaches
- Reveals how current approaches can be improved by taking into account the people–place–law nexus embedded in legal geography research
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About this book
The book examines two protected area types: World Heritage Sites, where places of ‘outstanding universal value’ are protected for all humanity, and Ramsar protected wetland sites, one of the first global environmental protection initiatives. Using case studies from the Australasian region (Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia), it reveals how current approaches can be improved by taking into account the people–place–law nexus embedded in legal geography research.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Josephine Gillespie is an academic, and former lawyer, based at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is an environmental legal geographer interested in the complex intersection of geography and law. Her research investigates environmental protection and human–environment geographies throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Protected Areas
Book Subtitle: A Legal Geography Approach
Authors: Josephine Gillespie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40502-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40501-4Published: 27 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40502-1Published: 26 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 116
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Environmental Geography, Environment Studies, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, International Environmental Law