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,...

The Russian Federation has a unique and highly developed system of especially protected nature reserves and is in many respects a pioneer in reali-sing the concept "from islands to eco-nets" (SOBOLEV et al. 1995; OSTERGREN and SHVARTS 1998; SITTLER et al. 2000). The nucleus of the ecological network in...

The recent increase in scholarly and other professional interest in environmental policy in China is quite remarkable. It is almost as remarkable as the persistent inability of that literature, despite the generally high quality, impressive disciplinary range, and diverse national origins of the...