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SEMINAR: OI Seminar Series - Erika Techera

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Title: Can Law Protect Sharks? Enhancing legal frameworks for the conservation and management of sharks

Abstract: Sharks are threatened by a range of activities including fishing and tourism as well as environmental impacts such as habitat loss and pollution. Addressing these challenges must necessarily involve a number of fields and disciplines. Law is one essential component and has a critical role to play in achieving effective conservation and management of sharks. Over the last decade or so the international community has taken significant steps to protect shark species and address the threats to them through the adoption and implementation of international laws, plans and programmes. Simultaneously, national governments and local communities have also responded. Nevertheless, the conservation status of many shark species continues to deteriorate. While the reasons for this decline are complex and varied, regulatory fragmentation is one contributing factor. Laws have developed within both the natural resource management area (eg fisheries regulation) as well as the field of environmental law (eg species protection and habitat conservation). Furthermore, legal approaches are divided between, and in some cases duplicated at, different levels of governance including international, regional, national and local jurisdictions. Whilst multi-faceted approaches are needed, fragmented legal systems can lead to gaps and duplications as well as overlapping regimes which in turn result in conflicts. Coherent and comprehensive legal strategies are critical to ensure improved biodiversity outcomes and to complement the efforts of all stakeholders. This paper will firstly highlight the current fragmented legal regime across several areas of law and at different levels of governance and secondly outline possible strategies to overcome this challenge and enhance shark protection in the future.

Bio: Dr Erika Techera is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at UWA and a member of the Oceans Institute. She is an environmental lawyer whose research interests focus on international and comparative environmental law. She has researched and published in a number of different areas including legal frameworks for the protection of sharks, regulatory aspects of shark fishing and finning, the regulation of shark-based eco-tourism and more broadly the governance of marine protected areas and marine species protection. Her other research interests include cultural heritage law (in particular the safeguarding of intangible and underwater cultural heritage) and indigenous peoples and the law (focusing on the Pacific Island states). Erika joined UWA in January 2012 having previously worked at Macquarie University in Sydney. Prior to that Erika practiced as a barrister in New South Wales.
Speaker(s) Dr Erika Techera
Location OI Seminar Series
Contact <[email protected]> 6488 8116
Start Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:30
End Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:30
Submitted by Lauren White <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:19
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