Legal mechanisms for wetland restoration

Now available. Wetland restoration in its legal context. At the Global Biodiversity Forum 17 preceding the Ramsar COP8 in Valencia, November 2002, Prof Roy Gardner of the Stetson University College of Law in Florida, USA, presented a very-well-received talk on the legal aspects of wetland restoration, especially in the Ramsar context, now supplemented by his comprehensive article in the Catholic University Law Review (Washington, D.C., USA), vol. 52, no. 3 (spring 2003), pages 573-620, entitled "Rehabilitating nature: a comparative review of legal mechanisms that encourage wetland restoration efforts". Prof Gardner's article first discusses the definition of the term "wetland restoration" and then began its analysis with "Restoration incentives in international law" (with a strong emphasis upon Ramsar but with due attention to the CBD, the CMS and its AEWA, and the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, as well as the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol). Following which, he considers "Non-regulatory financial incentives to restore wetlands", then "Non-cash incentives outside of traditional, permit-based regulatory programs" and then "Restoration incentives in regulatory programs", including consideration of 'wetland mitigation banking' in the USA. With as much text in the footnotes as in the article, Prof Gardner's article offers not only a substantial review of the subject but a fine entry-point into the literature as well. Bill Streever (BP Exploration, Alaska), who created the Ramsar mini-Web site on wetland restoration for the Ramsar STRP, has successfully besought Prof Gardner to permit the re-publication of this important Catholic University Law Review article on this Web site in PDF format. Here is the enabling correspondence from Drs Streever and Gardner, and here too is the 2.1MB PDF article itself (you'll need Adobe's free Acrobat PDF Reader in order to view this file).

From: Streever, Bill J [StreevBJ@BP.com]
Sent: 30 September 2003 22:58
To: GBF CHRISTEN Laurence (E-mail); PECK Dwight - Ramsar (E-mail)
Cc: Roy Gardner (E-mail)
Subject: FW: restoration law review article

Dwight and Laurence:

Hope all is well with you. Attached is a pdf of an article that Roy Gardner wrote summarizing some of the information he presented at the GBF forum on wetland restoration. This article will be valuable to at least some of your stakeholders. … He has permissions to repost it, as per the emails below. I strongly encourage you to post this on the Ramsar web site, if you can find room, and perhaps on the IUCN website. At the very least, it would be great to see an announcement about it in the Ramsar forum.

Many thanks for your ongoing efforts. --Bill S.

Bill Streever, Ph.D.
Environmental Studies Leader
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.
P.O. Box 196612
Anchorage, Alaska 99519-6612
Email: streevbj@bp.com http://alaska.bp.com/alaska/environment/envstudies/

Bill,

I hereby grant permission for my article Rehabilitating Nature: A Comparative Review of Legal Mechanisms That Encourage Wetland Restoration Efforts, 52 Cath. Univ. L. Rev. 573 (2003), to be posted on the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Web site. Below please find permission from the Catholic University Law Review as well.

Thanks for all your help!

Best regards, Roy

Royal C. Gardner
Associate Dean and Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandi A. Richardson [mailto:11richardson@cua.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:04 PM
To: Gardner, Royal
Subject: Permission for Internet Posting

Professor Gardner:

I have spoken with our Board and Catholic University Law Review is pleased at your opportunity to gain wider access for your piece. We grant you early permission for posting on the internet.

We will require an express notation if changes to our originally published version occur in the on-line version. If you do redact or change anything, please make a prominent note that the original, unabridged version can be obtained from Catholic University Law Review.

Best of luck with your future works. We would love to see anything new you are working on when it is finished. Thank you for your continued consideration of Catholic Law.

Sincerely,

Brandi A. Richardson

Editor-in-Chief
Catholic University Law Review
Volume 53

"Rehabilitating nature: a comparative review of legal mechanisms that encourage wetland restoration efforts", Catholic University Law Review (Washington, D.C., USA), vol. 52, no. 3 (spring 2003), pages 573-620 (PDF)

For further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail

). Posted 8 October 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.