Introduction to Topic "towards the Legal Recognition and Governance of Ecosystem Services"

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  • alejandro Iza IUCN Environment Law

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2013/v16i2a2349

Abstract

On behalf of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre, the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, I would like to introduce you to the topic of this Journal "Towards the legal recognition and governance of ecosystem services." First of all, I would like to thank the Co-Chairs of the Academy´s Research Committee and the Deputy Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law for this initiative and I am most happy to see that, throughout its organisation, collaboration between the three organisations has continued to grow. We organised our first joint-workshop in 2011 in Ghent, Belgium, just before the IUCN Academy´s 8th annual colloquium. The feeling that we all had as the successful event came to an end, was that this collaboration should be repeated on an annual basis. The 2011 Mpekweni Workshop revolved around legal frameworks for the recognition and governance of ecosystem services. Maintaining healthy ecosystems and the continuing provision of services such as water supply or climate regulation is key to ensuring present and future human livelihoods, the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals and for any form of poverty alleviation strategy.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Greiber and Schiele Governance of Ecosystem Services

Greiber T (ed) Payment for Ecosystem Services IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No 78 (2009 IUCN Gland) http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/EPLP-078.pdf [date of use 14 June 2013]

Greiber Payment for Ecosystem Services

Greiber Thomas and Schiele Simone (eds) Governance of Ecosystem Services IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No 79 (2011 IUCN Gland) http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/EPLP-079.pdf [date of use 14 June 2013]

Published

03-05-2017

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Introduction Note

How to Cite

Iza, alejandro. (2017). Introduction to Topic "towards the Legal Recognition and Governance of Ecosystem Services". Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 16(2), 6-10. https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2013/v16i2a2349