Book Review: Kathryn Yusoff’s ‘A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None’ Originally published in The Conservation & Livelihoods Digest, Vol. 1, Iss. 2, pp. 20-22 (here). The Anthropocene — a term that has been coined to describe the new geological epoch. The epoch of humankind, altering the planet as never before in world history. Even though …
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This review was originally published in Review of Environmental, Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL) here. The review of the present volume, Power in Conservation, is probably one of the most challenging reviews I ever wrote. This is not because the book is challenging but rather because the book is one of the most fascinating …
Fathoms. The unit by which depth is measured. 1 fathom = 1,82m = 6 feet. The title of the first book by Australian writer Rebecca Giggs immediately implies a depth of content, a deep-dive into the world in the whale - a book to better understand the order of cetaceans maybe? One might expect a …
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This review was originally published in Polar Record on 2 April 2019 (here). Whales are indeed fascinating animals. Their gigantic size, their cultural and social characteristics, their being mammals living in a marine habitat all make whales and their benign nature “almost a human dream of alien life: approachable, sophisticated and inscrutable” (p. 26). Over …
(This review was originally published in Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law: https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12393) The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has been heralded as one of the most comprehensive and most im- pressive legal instruments ever concluded under the auspices of the United Nations. And indeed, this ‘constitution of …
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which was adopted in 1973 and entered into force two years later, has been hailed as one of the most successful multilateral conservation treaties in the world. This is also because it now has a membership of 183, which is one …
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