Achieving Biodiversity Protection in Megadiverse Countries

Paul Martin is the Director of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law at the University of New England in Australia, and a member of the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. He has conducted extensive research on the implementation of biodiversity protection a number of countries.Marcia Dieguez Leuzinger is an Environmental Law Professor at Brasilia University Centre – UniCEUB, and a State Attorney for Parana. She has undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees in Sustainable Development from Brasilia University – UnB and leads the Environmental Law and Sustainable Development Research Group at UniCEUB.Solange Teles Da Silva is a Law Professor at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. She graduated in Law at Sao Paulo University and has a PhD in Environmental Law at Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne University. She has a CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship in Brazil, and is the Leader of the Research Group on Law and Sustainable Development. She is actively involved in the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.Gabriel Leuzinger Coutinho is an electrical engineer with an MBA in Project Management from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and an MSc in Sustainability Policy and Management from the University of Brasília (UnB). He is currently a PhD student at UnB's Center for Sustainable Development, and is a coordinator of the environmental law and sustainable development research group at UniCEUB.

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsForewordPrefaceList of acronyms and abbreviations1: The issues, methods and evidence2: Controlling the biodiversity impacts of agriculture3: Biodiversity risk management in mining 4: Creating and managing marine protected areas5: Social justice and the management of protected areas6: Low impact recreational use and biodiversity protection7: Partnered governance of biodiversity8: Biodiversity intelligence from satellites 9: The challenge of using drones10: Funding biodiversity conservation11: Governing the governance system12: Strategies to improve outcomesAppendix A: Legislation listAppendix B: International materialAppendix C: CasesIndex