Royal C. Gardner
Director/Professor
law
Stetson University
United States of America
Biography
Professor Gardner is an internationally recognized expert in wetland law and policy. Recent projects include advising the Government of Oman regarding wetland policy, coauthoring a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of environmental scientists, and creating an interdisciplinary course that facilitates discourse among experienced scientists, policymakers, and students. His research and scholarship focus on U.S. and international wetland legal and policy issues, with an emphasis on biodiversity offsets. He has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
Research Interest
wetland law and policy.
Publications
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Comments on Philip Garone’s The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley (California, 2011), 4 H-Environment Roundtable, Nov. 2014, at 11.
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Mitigation Enforcement, Breach of Contract, and the Law of Unintended Consequences, 37 Nat’l Wetlands Newsl., Mar.–Apr. 2015, at 11.
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State of the World’s Wetlands and Their Services to People: A Compilation of Recent Analyses (Ramsar Sci. & Technical Briefing Note no. 7, Ramsar Convention Secretariat 2015) (translated into Spanish and French) (coÂauthors ten STRP members).
