Ecological Vulnerability

The Law and Governance of Human–Wildlife Relationships

Katie Woolaston

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781316511992
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009063425
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Environmental Law
• Index: Law

Humans are responsible for biodiversity loss in many related and sometimes conflicting ways. Human-wildlife conflict, commonly defined as any negative interaction between people and wildlife, is a primary contributor to wildlife extinction and a manifestation of the destructive relationship that people have with wildlife. The author presents this 'wicked' problem in a social and legal context and demonstrates that legal institutions structurally deny human-wildlife conflict, while exacerbating conflict, promoting values consistent with individual autonomy, and ignoring the interconnected vulnerabilities shared by human and non-human species alike. It is the use of international and state law that sheds light on existing conflicts, including dingo conflict on K'Gari-Fraser Island in Australia, elephant conflict in Northern Botswana, and the global wildlife trade contributing to COVID-19. This book presents a critical analysis of human-wildlife conflict and its governance, to guide lawyers, scientists and conservations alike in the transformation of the management of human-wildlife conflict.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 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
• Index