Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability

Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability
Author: Marta Santos Silva
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Conflict of laws
ISBN: 9781032662022

"The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability reflects on how the law can help tackle the current environmental challenges and make our societies more resilient to future crises. Sustainability has been high on the political agenda since the approval of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and the EU Green Deal in 2019. The Green Agenda aims at making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, but humanity persists in an ecological overshoot that puts at risk the survival of species, including that of our own. Drawing together a selection of leading thinkers in the field, this Handbook provides a curated overview of the most recent and relevant discussions for private lawyers related to environmental and sustainability concerns. The authors delve into case study examples from twenty countries in Europe and beyond and discuss a wide range of issues including new property law and consumer law paradigms, the use of legal tech for promoting sustainable property management, strategies for fighting planned obsolescence, eco-design, the servitisation economy, advances on corporate climate litigation and mandated green private sludges. Overall, the volume is designed to empower new generations of legal scholars to take an active role in the transition to a more sustainable future. It will also assist policymakers in producing better policy, through pinpointing the main legal issues that need to be addressed and offering a comparative overview of legal solutions and best practices. Divided into six key parts and overseen by a team of internationally recognised expert Editors, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, private lawyers and policymakers who wish to have a comprehensive, fundamental overview of how environmental sustainability concerns reflect on private law"--

Sustainability and Law

Sustainability and Law
Author: Volker Mauerhofer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 756
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030426300

The book discusses sustainability and law in a multifaceted way. Together, sustainability and law are an emerging challenge for research and science. This volume contributes through an interdisciplinary concept to its further exploration. The contributions explore this exciting domain with innovative ideas and replicable approaches. It combines a variety of authors, from both the public and the private sectors, and thereby guarantees a broad view that enshrines the more theoretical arguments from the academic side as well as stronger practical applicable perspectives. The book provides space for thoughtful expansions of established theories as well as the hopeful emergence of innovative ideas. Moreover, the combination of three to five contributions into the eleven parts respectively aims toward a compression of like minded thoughts. This should lead to an intensification of exchange of viewpoints from different angles on a similar theme. Readers therefore also have the opportunity to concentrate on single chapters, but receive comprised knowledge and a variety of thoughts for new ideas on a particular theme.

Sustainability and Private Law

Sustainability and Private Law
Author: Bram Akkermans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789462369863

Table of Contents:01 Introduction; 02 Law and Sustainability; 03 Preliminary Reflections on Paradigms, Ownership, and Ecology; 04 Sustainable Property Law - Towards a Revaluation of Our System; 05 Moving Beyond Boundaries in the Pursuit of Sustainable Property Law; 06 Environmental Liability as a Tool to Promote Sustainability; 07 Tort Law and Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions; 08 Company Law is Bananas; 09 Sustainability and Optional Regimes - A Legislative Means of Empowering Private Individuals in the Development of Socially Beneficial Activities?; 010 Conclusion: Private Law on Sustainability.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law
Author: Emma Lees
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1316
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198790953

This Handbook brings together the foremost authorities from around the world to provide the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law. It examines in detail the methodological foundations of the discipline as well as the substance of environmental law across countries.

The Role of Law in Governing Sustainability

The Role of Law in Governing Sustainability
Author: Volker Mauerhofer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2021-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000375684

This book explores how public and private actors can interrelate to achieve also by means of law a sustainable development which is beneficial for the environment, society and the economy. The Role of Law in Governing Sustainability assesses the structure, functions and perspectives of law in the wider governance frameworks of sustainable development. It provides latest and in-depth insights from each of the three dimensions of sustainable development and the relations among them. Latest political developments on global and regional level related to the environmental, social and the economic dimensions are provided as well as in-depth case studies. Thereby the book explores how international and national laws and governance can help us move towards a more sustainable future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law, global governance and sustainable development.

Property Rights and Sustainability

Property Rights and Sustainability
Author: David Grinlinton
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2011-04-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004182640

This book offers a unique and thought provoking exploration of how property concepts can be substantially reshaped to meet ecological challenges. It takes the discussion beyond its traditional parameters and offers new insights into conceptualizing and justifying property systems, in an age of ecological consequences.

Law and Sustainability

Law and Sustainability
Author: Koen Byttebier
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2022-06-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030926206

This book deals with some aspects of the future shape of the socio-economic order which would be founded on sustainability principles and the role of law therein, instead of on the prevailing capitalist economic order. The volume elaborates in particular on how innovation, a crucial aspect of free-market capitalism and its laws which constitute the current socio-economic order, could result in a more sustainable economy which, in turn, could lead to a more sustainable society. Moreover, the book analyses current developments in financial and economic law and evaluates their perks, risks and sustainability levels. The book contains no less than 11 chapters in which a variety of experts share their state-of-the-art insights regarding specific domains of socio-economic life. As such, the book deals with topics that are at present fully under debate in societies, such as student credit and the dangers it entails, cryptocurrencies and how the law tries to regulate this basically private law instrument, groups of companies under Belgian (company) law, a proposal for improving the international monetary system, and seeds and intellectual property rights, besides various other similar themes. The book forms the latest volume of the book series Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values, and fully complies with the series’ goal of critically examining the legal methods and mechanisms that shape the global free markets and proposing alternatives to them. The book will hereby prove a valuable instrument for all researchers investigating these matters, besides policymakers and their advisers as well as all lawyers active in the field of economic law who look for a new perspective on the subject matters dealt with.

Environmental Law and Economics

Environmental Law and Economics
Author: Klaus Mathis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3319509322

This anthology discusses important issues surrounding environmental law and economics and provides an in-depth analysis of its use in legislation, regulation and legal adjudication from a neoclassical and behavioural law and economics perspective. Environmental issues raise a vast range of legal questions: to what extent is it justifiable to rely on markets and continued technological innovation, especially as it relates to present exploitation of scarce resources? Or is it necessary for the state to intervene? Regulatory instruments are available to create and maintain a more sustainable society: command and control regulations, restraints, Pigovian taxes, emission certificates, nudging policies, etc. If regulation in a certain legal field is necessary, which policies and methods will most effectively spur sustainable consumption and production in order to protect the environment while mitigating any potential negative impact on economic development? Since the related problems are often caused by scarcity of resources, economic analysis of law can offer remarkable insights for their resolution. Part I underlines the foundations of environmental law and economics. Part II analyses the effectiveness of economic instruments and regulations in environmental law. Part III is dedicated to the problems of climate change. Finally, Part IV focuses on tort and criminal law. The twenty-one chapters in this volume deliver insights into the multifaceted debate surrounding the use of economic instruments in environmental regulation in Europe.

The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development

The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development
Author: Peter Orebech
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521859255

For many nations, a key challenge is how to achieve sustainable development without a return to centralized planning. Using case studies from Greenland, Hawaii and northern Norway, this 2006 book examines whether 'bottom-up' systems such as customary law can play a critical role in achieving viable systems for managing natural resources. Customary law consists of underlying social norms that may become the acknowledged law of the land. The key to determining whether a custom constitutes customary law is whether the public acts as if the observance of the custom is legally obligated. While the use of customary law does not always produce sustainability, the study of customary methods of resource management can produce valuable insights into methods of managing resources in a sustainable way.

Company Law and Sustainability

Company Law and Sustainability
Author: Beate Sjåfjell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2015-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107043271

This book advances an innovative, multi-jurisdictional argument for the necessity of company law reform to reorient companies towards environmental sustainability.