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- Title
Bare Nature. The Biopolitical Logic of the International Regulation of Invasive Alien Species.
- Authors
Lucia, Vito De
- Abstract
There is a general and widespread consensus on the negative impacts of invasive alien species on biological diversity. Invasive alien species are indeed considered a fundamental threat for endemic biological diversity. Their introduction to novel environments is often described, eloquently, as a biological invasion. How is the threat of invasive alien species addressed in international law? This article argues that the international regulation of invasive alien species responds to a biopolitical logic that transforms certain species into 'bare nature', ie a nature that can be unproblematically killed—through eg eradication programmes—in order to protect other species. It is precisely this biopolitical aporia that I endeavour to render visible, whereby in order to protect life (ie biodiversity), law sanctions the killing of (other) life, namely invasive alien species.
- Subjects
INTRODUCED species; INTERNATIONAL environmental law; BIODIVERSITY laws; WILDLIFE conservation laws; ENVIRONMENTAL law; ENVIRONMENTAL regulations; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; LAW
- Publication
Journal of Environmental Law, 2019, Vol 31, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
0952-8873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jel/eqy016