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%T You Can't Eat Biodiversity: Agency and Irrational Norms in European Aquatic Environmental Law %A O'Higgins, Tim G. %J Challenges in Sustainability %N 1 %P 43-51 %V 5 %D 2017 %K ecosystem services %@ 2297-6477 %U http://www.librelloph.com/challengesinsustainability/article/view/cis-5.1.43 %X Policies of the European Union cover a range of social, environmental and economic aspirations and the current environmental directives and laws have evolved from a suite of norms which have changed over time. These may be characterised loosely according to 'Three Ps': Practical, those taking an anthropocentric approach; Pure, those taking an ecocentric approach and Popular, those appealing to the general public. In this paper I use these three perspectives as a tool to analyse the complexity and identify contradictions in European aquatic environmental legislation. Some trade-offs between development and conservation are identified and used to characterise the potential qualities of more successful agency to achieve environmental goals in the governance of European aquatic environments. %C CHE %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info