Conservation Covenants and Easements

This Element examines examples of how conservation covenants are enabling private landholders to help meet global biodiversity goals.

Private landholders can contribute to protection of natural values using conservation covenants. This Element mentions how covenants help to support global biodiversity goals, and how they address challenges associated with ecosystem restoration and adaptation to climate change. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Conservation covenants and easements are legal mechanisms for private landholders to contribute to long-term protection of natural values. This book furnishes a unique international legal and policy study of how covenants and easements in seven jurisdictions are supporting global biodiversity goals, and it considers how they may address new challenges associated with ecosystem restoration and climate change. It compares laws in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States, countries where these mechanisms are increasingly used to support national and global goals of relevance to Earth System Governance. Through interjurisdictional comparison, the book analyses key themes, including recruitment and retention of landholders into conservation agreements, climate adaptation and compliance. This study also offers practical advice on potential directions for law reform or improved implementation of existing covenants and easements law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.