Attentive students of international wildlife law and policy will have noted that the Birds and Habitats Directives of the European Union (EU) have lost a great deal of their former luster. Not too very long ago, when Simon Lyster was compiling the first compendium of international wildlife law,...

According to the prototype-matching model of decision making decisions are based on available alternatives which are compared with the activated prototype in the respective context. The similarity of alternatives to the prototype determines preferences and decision making. The most fundamental...