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Sustainable Development Law
Principles, Practices, and Prospects

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and Ashfaq Khalfan

Price: £34.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927671-4
Publication date: 25 November 2004
490 pages, 2 line illus., 234x156 mm

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'an essential read for anyone interested in the state of the global society' - Dr. Duncan French, University of Sheffield
'a stimulating and timely contribution to a vital debate' - D J Hughes, Environmental Law and Management, 17.5

Description

Provides an important new law and policy perspective to address conflicts and overlaps between social, environmental, and economic law
Comprehensive surveys of current developments including analysis of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development
Cutting-edge agendas for future research on sustainable development
Clearly structured with case studies and sources of further information for use in teaching sustainable development law

This text provides an important new law and policy perspective to address conflicts and overlaps between social, environmental, and economic law. It is clearly structured with case studies and sources of further information for use in teaching sustainable development law.

Readership: Scholars and students of public international law related to environment, development, human rights, trade and investment law, social and economic issues and politics, Policy Makers (Government Officials, Inter-Governmental Organisations, Non-Governmental Organisations), practitioners who serve these clients.

Contents

Introduction

Part I: The Foundations

1. Origins of Sustainable Development

2. Sustainable Development, Policy, and International Law

3. Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development

Part II: The Principles

4. The Principle of Integration and Interrelationship in Relation to Social, Economic, and Environmental Objectives

5. The Duty of states to Ensure Sustainable Use of Natural Resources

6. The Principle of Equity and the Eradication of Poverty

7. The Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities

8. Precaution regarding Human Health, Natural Resources, and Ecosystems

9. The Principle of Public Participation and Access to Information and Justice

10. The Principle of Good Governance

Part III: The Practices

11. Case Studies of Integrated Instruments in IDSL

Case Study I: Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIAs)

Case Study II: Regional Integration Agreements (RIAs)

Case Study III: Compliance-building in ISDL

Case Study IV: Rights-based approaches in ISDL

Part IV: The Prospects

12. Sustainable International Trade, Investment, and Competition Law

13. Sustainable International Climate Change and Vulnerability law

14. Sustainable International Human Rights and Poverty Law

15. Sustainable International Biodiversity Law

16. Sustainable International Natural Resources Law

17. Crosscutting Issues

18. Sustainable Development Governance: International Institutional Architecture

Part IV:

Authors, editors, and contributors

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and
Ashfaq Khalfan, Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Sustainability
Environmental economics
Management of land & natural resources
Development economics
Environment law
Conservation of the environment
Pollution & threats to the environment
Environmental impact analysis

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Sustainable Development LawPrinciples, Practices, and Prospects

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Principles, Practices, and Prospects