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This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework.
Ecosystem services describe the range of social, ecological, and economic benefits that people obtain from nature. Recognising the role of local communities, and criticizing the very use of the term services, this book draws on arguments for the rights of nature. Against a market approach to nature conservation it thereby transforms the current 'Payments for Ecosystem Services' framework into a unique 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework. With reference to a case study from Sicily, the book develops such a framework as a crucial means through which the environmental role of local communities can be recognised, protected, and fostered.
Employing insights from a range of disciplines, this book will appeal to scholars working in the areas of environmental law, legal theory, political philosophy, human rights, and environmental studies, as well as others with practical concerns in the fields of conservation science and local communities' rights.
List of contents
1: Welcoming Local Communities 2: From Human Rights to the Rights of Nature 3: Nature as a Human Rights Foundation 4: Learning and Unlearning from Payments for Ecosystem Services 5: Rights for Ecosystem Services (RES) 6: A Bluefin Tuna Tale: The Egadi islands, Traditional Traps and the Market 7: From Local Communities to Rights of Nature, and Return
About the author
Giulia Sajeva is Researcher in Political Philosophy at the Department of Cultures and Society, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
Summary
This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative ‘Rights for Ecosystem Services’ framework.
