The Environment After Rio
Author | : Luigi Campiglio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Environmental law, International |
ISBN | : 9781853332753 |
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Author | : Luigi Campiglio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Environmental law, International |
ISBN | : 9781853332753 |
Author | : Jorge E. Viñuales |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 831 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0191510424 |
The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result. The 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was an emphatic attempt to address this issue, setting down 27 key principles for the international community to follow. These principles define the rights of people to sustainable development, and the responsibilities of states to safeguard the common environment. The Rio Declaration established that long term economic progress required a connection to environmental protection. It was designed as an authoritative and comprehensive statement of the principles of sustainable development law, an instrument to take stock of the past international and domestic practice, a guide for the design of new multilateral environmental regimes, and as a reference for litigation. This commentary provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the principles of the Declaration, written by over thirty inter-disciplinary contributors, including both leading practitioners and academics. Each principle is analysed in light of its origins and rationale. The book investigates each principle's travaux préparatoires setting out the main points of controversy and the position of different countries or groups. It analyses the scope and dimensions of each principle, providing an in-depth understanding of its legal effects, including whether it can be relied before a domestic or international court. It also assesses the impact of the principles on subsequent soft law and treaty development, as well as domestic and international jurisprudence. The authors demonstrate the ways in which the principles interact with each other, and finally provide a detailed analysis of the shortcomings and future potential of each principle. This book will be of vital importance to practitioners, scholars, and students of international environomental law and sustainable development.
Author | : Alistair Rieu-Clarke |
Publisher | : IWA Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2005-11-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1843390752 |
Implementing the goal of sustainable development has long been heralded as the means by which the needs of both present and future generations can be met. However, finding a long-term balance between economic, social and environmental interests, the basic tenet of sustainable development, has proved largely illusive in practice. This book shows that while a number of legal frameworks to help promote the goal of sustainable development have been proposed at the international level they fail to fully capture the essence of sustainable development and international law's capacity to support its implementation. The book offers a critical analysis of past attempts to develop legal frameworks for promoting sustainable development at the international level, and advocates for a fresh approach based on lessons learnt from the law of international watercourses. The book is divided into four sections. The first section includes an overview of the topic area and an understanding of international law. In section two the book explores the meaning of sustainable development and considers the term's relationship with international law. A detailed analysis of how the law of international watercourses seeks to reconcile competing economic, social and environmental interests is carried out in section three. The book concludes with a section advocating the need for a fresh approach to international law and sustainable development and offering the foundations for this approach based on lessons learnt from the law of international watercourses.
Author | : Jamie Benidickson |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2011-08-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1781002991 |
It demonstrates that a great deal has been achieved in the field of environmental law since the 1990s. However, the extraordinary environmental crises facing humanity in the 21st century indicate a continuing urgent need for the generation of robus
Author | : Shawkat Alam |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2015-09-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107055695 |
Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.
Author | : Dire Tladi |
Publisher | : PULP |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Environmental law, International |
ISBN | : 0958509794 |
Author | : Ranee K. L. Panjabi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
The first comprehensive examination of the Rio Earth Summit's accomplishments and failures, exploring in detail the political and economic conflicts that arose between developed and developing nations.
Author | : R. Schwarze |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9401720479 |
International climate change policy can be broadly divided into two periods: A first period, where a broad consensus was reached to tackle the risk of global warming in a coordinated global effort, and a second period, where this consensus was finally framed into a concrete policy. The first period started at the "Earth Summit" of Rio de Janeiro in 1992, where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was opened for signature. The UNFCCC was subsequently signed and ratified by 174 countries, making it one of the most accepted international rd treaties ever. The second period was initiated at the 3 Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the UNFCCC in Kyoto in 1997, which produced the Kyoto Protocol (KP). Till now, eighty-four countries have signed the Kyoto Protocol, but only twelve ratified it. A major reason for this slow ratification is that most operational details of the Kyoto Protocol were not decided in Kyoto but deferred to following conferences. This deferral of the details, while probably appropriate to initially reach an agreement, is a major stepping stone for a speedy ratification of the protocol. National policy makers and their constituencies, who would ultimately bear the cost of Kyoto, are generally not prepared to ratify a treaty that could mean anything, from an unsustainable strict regime of international control of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to an "L-regime" ofloopholes, or from a pure market-based international carbon trading to a regime of huge international carbon tax funds.
Author | : Duncan French |
Publisher | : Juris Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
It is now generally accepted that sustainable development has become a central objective of the international community. This text examines the politics and history of the term, before moving on to analyse relevant principles of international law in this context.
Author | : Nico J. Schrijver |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008-12-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9047444469 |
Also available as an e-book In a relatively short time the concept of “sustainable development” has become firmly established in the field of international law. The World Commission on Environment and Development concisely defined sustainable development as follows: “development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. This definition takes into account the needs of both the present and future generations as well as the capacity of the earth and its natural resources which by clear implication should not be depleted by a small group of people (in industrialized countries). The aim of this book is threefold : to review the genesis and to clarify the meaning of the concept of sustainable development, as well as to assess its status within public international law. Furthermore, it examines the legal principles that have emerged in the pursuit of sustainable development. Lastly, it assesses to what extent the actual evolution of law demonstrates the balance and integration with all pertinent fields of international law as urged by the Rio, Johannesburg, and World Summit documents. This is the second volume in the Hague Academy of International Law Pocket Book series; it contains the text of the course given at the Hague Academy by Professor Schrijver.