Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies (LITES). LITES is an International Book Series published by SPRINGER - First Director MONTEDURO, Massimo - Other Directors DI BENEDETTO, Saverio; ISONI, Alessandro - http://www.springer.com/series/15038?detailsPage=free

The ‘Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies’ (LITES) is a double blind peer reviewed Book Series published by SPRINGER. All information is available on Springer's official website: http://www.springer.com/series/15038 ; http://www.springer.com/series/15038?detailsPage=free . LITES is an international Book Series based on the assumption that the process of dialogue and cultural integration between law, life and earth sciences, and social and human sciences should be strengthened and updated, by relying on transdisciplinary research platforms such as agroecology, environmental studies, environmental science, and sustainability science. According to the new paradigm of social-ecological systems (SES), the concept of the environment is conceived as a complex system of relationships between ecological and social factors, including the cultural and economic ones. The primary purpose of law, in this conceptual framework, is to preside over the durability of the essential conditions for the survival of the social-ecological systems and the protection of life at all scales (of individuals, societies, ecosystems). LITES Book Series aims to explore the relationships between legal and environmental sciences according to a transdisciplinary perspective. On the one hand, natural and social environmental sciences need to integrate the point of view of law: this entails to study the complexities of SES in the light of normative and institutional variables, with the lens of categories such as rights, duties, powers, responsibilities, and procedural safeguards. On the other hand, law is called upon to review its own internal geometries, confronting them with the holistic approach toward sustainability in the scientific debate. Accordingly, law should address the need of changing the approach that so far has led to both hypertrophy and disarticulation when regulating closely linked matters such as the environment, agriculture, forestry, landscape and cultural heritage, energy, and food. LITES Book Series is addressed to a wide international and interdisciplinary readership, targeting academic researchers and scholars, experts and practitioner lawyers, public administrations, judges, and law-makers. Its volume editors and contributing authors have different backgrounds and come from all over the world in order to provide a forum for discussion and normative analysis about new legal frontiers of human-environment interactions across disciplinary barriers. Since LITES Book Series was founded in 2015, 73 professors and researchers agreed to join the Advisory Board and the Editorial Board, and 25 different countries of the world, distributed throughout all five continents, are currently represented in the two Boards. They are: Australia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States. The composition of the Advisory Board and the Editorial Board is fully transdisciplinary and covers several fields of investigation (along with a number of different legal disciplines, also ecology, agroecology, geobotany, rural sociology, environmental anthropology, landscape architecture, environmental and food history, literature and food studies, and so on), in order to make possible to compare different points of view, by including them into a common polyocular framework of research. These features make LITES Book Series one of a kind. The Members of the Advisory Board are: Marcos ALMEIDA CERREDA, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Hugo Fjelsted ALRØE, International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, Denmark; Miguel ALTIERI, University of California, Berkeley, United States; Diana BALMORI, Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), United States; Egon BOCKMANN MOREIRA, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil; Nerina BOSCHIERO, University of Milan, Italy; Michael CARDWELL, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Eloisa CRISTIANI, Scuola Sant’Anna of Pisa, Italy; Francesco DI DONATO, University "Parthenope" of Naples, Italy; Stéphane DOUMBÉ-BILLÉ, University of Lyon 3, France; Qun DU, Wuhan University, China; Francesca FARIOLI, Italian Association for Sustainability Science (IASS), Italy; Júlio César GARCIA, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Brazil; Stefano GREGO, European Society for New Methods in Agricultural Research (ESNA); University of Tuscia, Italy; Ines HÄRTEL, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; Ellen HEY, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Carole HERMON, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France; Otto HOSPES, Wageningen University, the Netherlands; Narong JAIHARN, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand; Antonio JANNARELLI, University “Aldo Moro” of Bari, Italy; André JANSSEN, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany; Patricia KAMERI-MBOTE, University of Nairobi, Kenya; Kheng Lian KOH, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Parviz KOOHAFKAN, World Agricultural Heritage Foundation (WAHF), Iran; Hansjörg KÜSTER, University of Hannover, Germany; Richard LASTER, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Cecilia LEONG-SALOBIR, University of Wollongong, Australia; Sebastian LOHSSE, University of Münster, Germany; Rowena MAGUIRE, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; Stelio MANGIAMELI, University of Teramo, Italy; Wanda MASTOR, University Toulouse 1 Capitole, France; Gabriel MICHANEK, Uppsala University, Sweden; Massimo MONTELEONE, University of Foggia, Italy; Elisa MORGERA, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Egon NOE, Aarhus University, Denmark; Roland NORER, University of Lucerne, Switzerland; Matthieu POUMARÈDE, University Toulouse 1 Capitole, France; Michel PRIEUR, University of Limoges, France; Oliver RUPPEL, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Francesco SINDICO, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom; Catherine TUCKER, University of Florida, United States; Enrique ULATE CHACÓN, University of Costa Rica; Hitoshi USHIJIMA, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan; Christina VOIGT, University of Oslo, Norway; Alexander WEZEL, ISARA-Lyon, France; Doris WITT, University of Iowa, United States. The Members of the Editorial Board are: Mariagrazia ALABRESE, Scuola Sant’Anna of Pisa, Italy; Marta BOTTI CAPELLARI, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Brazil; Marco BROCCA, University of Salento, Italy; Pierangelo BUONGIORNO, University of Salento, Italy; Rosa CALDERAZZI, University “Aldo Moro” of Bari, Italy; Mononita Kundu DAS, National Law University in Jodhpur, India; Elizabeth DOOLEY, Ecological Institute, Berlin, Germany; Anja EIKERMANN, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany; Yanti FRISTIKAWATI, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Indonesia; Brian JACK, Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom; Séverin JEAN, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France; Hope JOHNSON, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; Serenella LUCHENA, University of Salento, Italy; Belén OLMOS GIUPPONI, University of Stirling, United Kingdom; Francesco Paolo PATTI, University of Roma Tre, Italy; Maurizia PIERRI, University of Salento, Italy; Edoardo Carlo RAFFIOTTA, University of Bologna, Italy; Daria RATSIBORINSKAYA, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Francesca ROMANIN JACUR, University of Milan, Italy; Umberto RONGA, University of Naples Federico II, Italy; Elisa RUOZZI, University of Turin, Italy; Diana SANTIAGO IGLESIAS, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Sonia SCOGNAMIGLIO CESTARO, University "Parthenope" of Naples, Italy; Giuliana STRAMBI, Institute of International and Comparative Agricultural Law, Florence, Italy; János Ede SZILÁGYI, University of Miskolc, Hungary; Sara TOMMASI, University of Salento, Italy; Michele TROISI, University of Salento, Italy.