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    A hard instrument goes soft: the implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity's current trajectory

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    Authors
    Harrop, Stuart R.
    Pritchard, Diana J.
    Issue Date
    2011
    
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    Abstract
    The relentless loss of biological diversity, which will have a direct impact on human society and degrade ecosystem buffers against the extremes of climate perturbation, requires a strong global governance response. Of the numerous international legal instruments relating to the protection of nature, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is the most comprehensive. This paper examines its current emphasis on global biodiversity targets to extend our understanding of its trajectory, and its evolving nature as an instrument of global governance. We review CBD documents, and early examinations of its emergent character, in the context of the distinction between hard and soft law approaches, and combine analysis on the issue of targets from the literature on development, climate change and conservation biology. We emphasise that the CBD, created as a hard law instrument with a framework character, had the clear facility to develop subsidiary hard law instruments in the form of protocols but has not significantly followed this route.
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    Harrop, S.R. & Pritchard, D.J. (2011) 'A hard instrument goes soft: The implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity's current trajectory', Global Environmental Change, 21(2), pp.474-480
    Publisher
    Elsevier
    Journal
    Global Environmental Change
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/301889
    DOI
    10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.01.014
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    http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S095937801100015X
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    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0959-3780
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.01.014
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