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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Griffith University, 2020) issued under title: Legal responses to human-wildlife conflict: individual autonomy vs ecological vulnerability.
List of contents
1. The Broken Human-Wildlife Relationship; 2. The Human-Wildlife Relationship: An Ecofeminist Approach to Vulnerability Theory; 3. Friends in the Wild? The Problem of Human-Wildlife Conflict and its Governance; 4. Friends in Law?: the Critical Complexities of International Wildlife Law; 5. Human-Dingo Conflict on K'Gari-Fraser Island; 6. Human-Elephant Conflict in Northern Botswana; 7. Pandemic Vulnerability and Resilience; Wildlife and COVID-19; 8. Conclusion.
About the author
Katie Woolaston is an award-winning writer, inter-disciplinary researcher, lawyer and senior lecturer in the QUT Law School. She works in the fields of wildlife law and conservation conflicts. She was an expert on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) panel concerning Biodiversity and Pandemics, is an Associate Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, and is a Board Member of Australia's National Environmental Law Association.
Summary
This book is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and wildlife, and how it is shaped by law. The book's accessible legal explanations will make it valuable to wildlife managers, applied social ecologists, as well as feminist and vulnerability scholars and those who study alternative means of governance.
Foreword
This book offers novel theoretical responses to the question of how laws and institutions shape the human-wildlife relationship.
