Law, Ecology, and the Management of Complex Systems

This book addresses the role of law in the adaptive management of socioecological systems.

Tiina Paloniitty is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Eric Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science and Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland.

1. Setting the Scene of Law, Ecology and Complexity of the Agricultural Runoff Dilemma 2. The First Three Faces: The Nitrates Directive, the Cap and the Strategy 3. Adapting (to) the Management 4. To Frame Water 5. Adaptivity and Law in Jurisprudential Analysis 6. Conclusions