Yaffa Epstein

A legal-ecological understanding of Favourable Conservation Status for species in Europe

Epstein, Yaffa; Vicente López-Bao, José; Chapron, Guillaume

Part of Conservation Letters, p. 81-88, 2016

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Favourable Conservation Status for Species: Examining the Habitats Directive’s Key Concept through a Case Study of the Swedish Wolf

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Journal of environmental law, p. 221-244, 2016

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The Habitats Directive and Bern Convention: Synergy and Dysfunction in Public International and EU Law

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, p. 139-174, 2014

Polulation Based Species Management across Legal Boundaries: The Bern Convention, Habitats Directive and the Gray Wolf in Scandinavia

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, p. 589-614, 2013

The Wild Has No Words: Environmental NGOs Empowered to Speak for Protected Species as Swedish Courts Apply EU and International Environmental Law

Epstein, Yaffa; Darpö, Jan

Part of Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law, p. 250-261, 2013

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Encountering Rivers and Robots as Legal Subjects in Four Acts: Law/Critical Theory/Speculative Fiction

de Vries, Katja; Epstein, Yaffa; Goriunova, Olga; Van Dijk, Niels

Part of Posthuman convergencies, Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Implementing the Green Energy Transition in a UNESCO World Heritage City: A Case Study of Visby, Sweden

Bhati, Harsh Vardhan; Geijer, Mia; Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law, p. 271-324, 2025

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Naturens rättigheter

Epstein, Yaffa

Makadam Förlag, 2025

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The Rights of Nature and Environmental Law: A Developing Relationship

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of A Research Agenda for Environmental Law, Edward Elgar, 2025

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Foreword

Platvoet, Veerle; Pitkänen, Iris; Epstein, Yaffa

Part of The Global Journal of Animal Law, p. 1-8, 2024

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Implementing the Green Energy Transition in a UNESCO World Heritage City: A Case Study of Visby, Sweden

Bhati, Harsh Vardhan; Geijer, Mia; Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law, p. 271-324, 2025

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Foreword

Platvoet, Veerle; Pitkänen, Iris; Epstein, Yaffa

Part of The Global Journal of Animal Law, p. 1-8, 2024

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Naturens skydd för sin egen skull i svensk rätt

Gardelli, Caroline; Epstein, Yaffa; Zetterberg, Charlotta

Part of Retfærd, p. 61-76, 2024

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Most EU Residents Support Rights of Nature Laws

Epstein, Yaffa; López‐Bao, José Vicente; Bruskotter, Jeremy

Part of Nordisk miljörättslig tidskrift, p. 123-135, 2024

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Protection of Biocultural Heritage in the Anthropocene: Towards Reconciling Natural, Cultural, Tangible and Intangible Heritage

Bhati, Harsh Vardhan; Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Journal of environmental law, p. 353-375, 2023

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Animals and Nature as Rights Holders in the European Union

Epstein, Yaffa; Bernet Kempers, Eva

Part of Modern law review, p. 1336-1357, 2023

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European Commission may gut wolf protection

Chapron, Guillaume; Epstein, Yaffa; Ouro-Ortmark, Mar; Helmius, Lovisa et al.

Part of Science, p. 275-275, 2023

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Allocation of Institutional Responsibility for Climate Change Mitigation: Judicial Application of Constitutional Environmental Provisions in the European Climate Cases Arctic Oil, Neubauer, and l’Affaire du siècle

Hellner, Agnes; Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Journal of environmental law, p. 207-227, 2023

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What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU

Epstein, Yaffa; Chapron, Guillaume; Verheggen, François

Part of Ambio, p. 1764-1771, 2022

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Mainstreaming the Ambition, Coherence, and Comprehensiveness of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Into Conservation Policy

Carroll, Carlos; Rohlf, Daniel J.; Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022

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EU Court to rule on banned pesticide use

Epstein, Yaffa; Chapron, Guillaume; Verheggen, François

Part of Science, p. 290-290, 2021

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A positivist approach to rights of nature in the European Union

Epstein, Yaffa; Schoukens, Hendrik

Part of Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, p. 205-227, 2021

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Non-governmental Enforcement of EU Environmental Law: A Stakeholder Action for Wolf Protection in Finland

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, p. 1-12, 2020

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Biodiversity Protection: An Environmental Issue? On Sweden’s Implementation of EU Species Protection Laws in Environmental and Sectoral Legislation

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Nordisk miljörättslig tidskrift, p. 69-82, 2019

When is it legal to hunt strictly protected species in the European Union?

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Conservation Science and Practice, 2019

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A Rights Revolution for Nature: Introduction of Legal Rights for Nature Could Protect Natural Systems from Destruction

Chapron, Guillaume; Epstein, Yaffa; López‐Bao, José Vicente

Part of Science, p. 1392-1393, 2019

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EU Court: Science must justify future hunting

Epstein, Yaffa; López-Bao, José Vicente; Trouwborst, Arie; Chapron, Guillaume

Part of Science, p. 961-961, 2019

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Adversarial Legalism and Biodiversity Protection in the United States and the European Union

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Transnational Environmental Law, p. 491-513, 2018

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The Hunting of Strictly Protected Species: The Tapiola Case and the Limits of Derogation under Article 16 of the Habitats Directive

Epstein, Yaffa; Chapron, Guillaume

Part of European Energy and Environmental Law Review, p. 78-87, 2018

Don’t let triage put a gloss on extinctions

Chapron, Guillaume; Epstein, Yaffa; López-Bao, José Vicente

Part of Nature, p. 300-300, 2018

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Bolster Legal Boundaries to Stay within Planetary Boundaries

Chapron, Guillaume; Epstein, Yaffa; Trouwborst, Arie; Vicente López-Bao, José

Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017

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International Wildlife Law: Understanding and Enhancing Its Role in Conservation

Trouwborst, Arie; Blackmore, Andrew; Boitani, Luigi; Bowman, Michael et al.

Part of BioScience, p. 784-790, 2017

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Europe’s biodiversity avoids fatal setback

Trouwborst, Arie; Chapron, Guillaume; Fleurke, Floor; Epstein, Yaffa et al.

Part of Science, p. 140-140, 2017

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Killing Wolves to Save Them? Legal Responses to 'Tolerance Hunting' in the European Union and United States

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, p. 19-29, 2017

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A legal-ecological understanding of Favourable Conservation Status for species in Europe

Epstein, Yaffa; Vicente López-Bao, José; Chapron, Guillaume

Part of Conservation Letters, p. 81-88, 2016

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Favourable Conservation Status for Species: Examining the Habitats Directive’s Key Concept through a Case Study of the Swedish Wolf

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Journal of environmental law, p. 221-244, 2016

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Thrown to the Wolves: Sweden Once Again Flouts EU Standards on Species Protection and Access to Justice

Darpö, Jan; Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Nordisk miljörättslig tidskrift, p. 7-20, 2015

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The Habitats Directive and Bern Convention: Synergy and Dysfunction in Public International and EU Law

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, p. 139-174, 2014

Polulation Based Species Management across Legal Boundaries: The Bern Convention, Habitats Directive and the Gray Wolf in Scandinavia

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, p. 589-614, 2013

The Wild Has No Words: Environmental NGOs Empowered to Speak for Protected Species as Swedish Courts Apply EU and International Environmental Law

Epstein, Yaffa; Darpö, Jan

Part of Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law, p. 250-261, 2013

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Science and the legal rights of nature

Epstein, Yaffa; Ellison, Aaron M.; Echeverría, Hugo; Abbott, Jessica K.

Part of Science, 2023

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A conceptual framework for understanding illegal killing of large carnivores

Carter, Neil; López-Bao, José Vicente; Bruskotter, Jeremy; Gore, Meredith et al.

Part of Ambio, p. 251-264, 2017

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Naturens rättigheter

Epstein, Yaffa

Makadam Förlag, 2025

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Encountering Rivers and Robots as Legal Subjects in Four Acts: Law/Critical Theory/Speculative Fiction

de Vries, Katja; Epstein, Yaffa; Goriunova, Olga; Van Dijk, Niels

Part of Posthuman convergencies, Edinburgh University Press, 2025

The Rights of Nature and Environmental Law: A Developing Relationship

Epstein, Yaffa

Part of A Research Agenda for Environmental Law, Edward Elgar, 2025

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Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon: Connecting the Environmental Rights of Future Generations and the Rights of Nature

Epstein, Yaffa; Echeverría, Hugo

Part of Les grands arrêts inspirants du droit de l'environnement, p. 15-29, Larcier, 2024

Strict protection of species in the EU: Controversies and trends

Epstein, Yaffa; López‐Bao, José Vicente; Chapron, Guillaume

Part of Nature Law and Policy in Europe, p. 201-213, Routledge, 2023

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Under Fire From All Directions: Swedish Wolf Managmement Hunting Scrutinized by Brussels and at Home

Darpö, Jan; Epstein, Yaffa

Part of The Habitats Directive in its EU environmental law context, p. 348-372, Routledge, 2014

The Big Bad EU? Species Protection and European Federalism: A Case Study of Wolf Conservation and Contestation in Sweden

Epstein, Yaffa

2017

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Governing Ecologies: Species Protection in Overlapping and Contiguous Legal Regimes

Epstein, Yaffa

2013

Dispens från förbud att skada naturen

Zetterberg, Charlotta; Chapron, Guillaume; Christiernsson, Anna; Epstein, Yaffa et al.

2021

Approaches to Access: Ideas and Practices for Facilitating Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in the Areas of the Loser Pays Principle, Legal Aid, and Criteria for Injunctions

Epstein, Yaffa

2011

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Access to Justice: Remedies: Article 9.4 of the Aarhus Convention and the requirement for adequate and effective remedies, including injunctive relief

Epstein, Yaffa

2011

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