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Linking the Irish Environment: The aim of the ‘Linking the Irish Environment’ project is to examine how to enable the environment sector across the island of Ireland to cooperate and engage on an all-island and cross-border basis to deal with shared environmental challenges, risks, and opportunities.
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Climate Governance Observatory: What’s the problem? The EU’s decision to commit to achieve climate neutrality in 30 years at the latest transforms the magnitude and complexity of the challenge posed to Europe’s climate architecture.

Dr Andrew Jackson

Background

Assistant Professor of Environmental and Planning Law at University College Dublin; public interest lawyer with practice experience in England and Ireland (further details here)

Areas of interest

Environmental and planning law generally; Climate; Nature conservation; Environmental democracy

Publications and links

Andrew Jackson, Conserving Europe’s Wildlife: Law and Policy of the Natura 2000 Network of Protected Areas (Routledge, 2018). A book on the history and development of EU nature conservation law: Details here

Journal article on water charging in Ireland: Andrew Jackson, Environmental governance challenges in post-Brexit Europe: the case of water charging in Ireland (2016) Australian Environment Review 31(6): 202-209.  

Journal article on the protection of important nature sites that have been proposed for protection to the European Commission but not yet designated: Andrew Jackson, Bund Naturschutz in Bayern revisited: The required standard of protection under the EU’s habitats directive prior to a site’s adoption as a site of community importance (2014) Journal of Environmental Law 26(3): 495-506.

Journal article on conflicts between renewable energy projects and EU protected areas: Andrew Jackson, Renewable energy vs. biodiversity: Policy conflicts and the future of nature conservation (2011) Global Environmental Change 21(4): 1195-1208.  

Contact

andrew.jackson@ucd.ie