Saving Biodiversity at the Crossroads of the Americas

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 199, 2008

47 Pages Posted: 4 Dec 2009

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Colin Crawford

University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

Date Written: 2008

Abstract

This article (produced following the December 2007 Study Space workshop in Panama City, Panama) examines the status of the so-called "reverted areas" in Panama, meaning the lands that reverted to the Panamanian nation when it assumed control over the Panama Canal. The reverted areas are biological hot spots and until were relatively untouched while under US military control. New development pressures threaten their biological and environmental integrity, however. The article therefore looks at international and domestic legal instruments that might be used to assure their long-term biological integrity and environmental health.

Keywords: protected areas, biodiversity, Latin America, Panama, international envionmental

Suggested Citation

Crawford, Colin, Saving Biodiversity at the Crossroads of the Americas (2008). Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 199, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1517912

Colin Crawford (Contact Author)

University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law ( email )

Wilson W. Wyatt Hall
Louisville, KY 40292
United States

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