Animal Welfare and International Environmental Law: From Conservation to Compassion

Author:   Werner Scholtz
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
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9781788113939


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   31 May 2019
Format:   Hardback
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At a time when the planet's wildlife faces countless dangers, international environmental law continues to overlook its evolving welfare interests. This thought-provoking book provides a crucial exploration of how international environmental law must adapt to take account of the growing recognition of the intrinsic value of wildlife. Animal Welfare and International Environmental Law offers compelling and timely arguments in favour of wildlife's inherent worth and proposes a progressive development of the law in response to its needs and interests. Taking into account recent trends in bioethics and conservation, these critical discussions of wildlife welfare have dramatic implications for the future of sustainable development and sustainable use. The book challenges assumptions by taking a perspective which decentres the needs of humans and instead emphasises the growing need to protect wildlife with compassion and care. This book will prove invaluable to both students and scholars of environmental law, animal law and international law more widely. It will also appeal to policymakers, legal scholars and NGOs dealing with the imminent needs of the earth's wildlife. Contributors include: D. Bilchitz, M. Bowman, S. Riley, J. Schaffner, W. Scholtz, K. Sykes, S. White

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Author:   Werner Scholtz
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781788113939


ISBN 10:   1788113934
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   31 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: 1. Introduction Werner Scholtz 2. Value, wild animals and law Joan E. Schaffner 3. Animals, humans and the international legal order: towards an integrated bioethical perspective Michael Bowman 4. Wildlife law and animal welfare: competing interests and ethics Sophie Riley 5. Shifting Norms in Wild Animal Protection and Effective Regulatory Design Steven White 6. Why conservation and sustainability require protection for the interests of animals David Bilchitz 7. Trading rhinoceros horn for the sake of conservation: dehorning the dilemma through a legal analysis of the emergence of animal welfare Werner Scholtz 8. WTO Law, the Environment and Animal Welfare Katie Sykes Index

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'This book does two things very well. It demonstrates that the ethical imperative of treating non-human creatures with respect makes a better conceptual fit with the international legal order's basic tenets than is often assumed. At the same time, it starkly exposes the challenge of ensuring that attention for the welfare of individual animals does not impede the effectiveness of current policies for the conservation, recovery and sustainable use of healthy wildlife populations and ecosystems.' -- Arie Trouwborst, Tilburg University, the Netherlands


`This book does two things very well. It demonstrates that the ethical imperative of treating non-human creatures with respect makes a better conceptual fit with the international legal order's basic tenets than is often assumed. At the same time, it starkly exposes the challenge of ensuring that attention for the welfare of individual animals does not impede the effectiveness of current policies for the conservation, recovery and sustainable use of healthy wildlife populations and ecosystems.' -- Arie Trouwborst, Tilburg University, the Netherlands


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Edited by Werner Scholtz, Professor of Global Environmental Law, Head of School, Southampton Law School, University of Southampton, UK

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