Sustainable development in international and national law
Subtitle: what did the Brundtland report do to legal thinking and legal development, and where can we go from here?
By: edited by Hans Christian Bugge & Christina Voigt.
Contributors: Bugge, Hans Christian.; Voigt, Christina.; Norges forskningsråd.
Series: Avosetta series -- 8
Publisher: Europa Law Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Groningen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 591
ISBN-13: 9789076871844
Subjects: Our common future -- Congresses.; Environmental law -- Congresses.; Environmental law -- Congresses.; Environmental law -- Congresses.; Sustainable development -- Law and legislation -- Congresses.; Environmental law, International -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: What did the Brundtland report do to legal thinking and legal development, and where can we go from here?
Notes: "... based on the seminar 'Sustainable development in international and national law' held at Vettre, Norway, in May 2007"--P. v.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: 1987-2007 : 'Our common future' revisited / Hans Christian Bugge; value: A fundament and two pillars : the concept of sustainable development 20 years after the Brundtland report / Gerd Winter; value: Theory for sustainable development : towards or against? / Staffan Westerlund; value: Sustainability and a new concept of liberty / Felix Ekardt; value: Sustainable development in international law / Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger; value: Between process and substance : sustainable development in the jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals / Alan Boyle; value: Development - the neglected dimension in the post-Rio international law of sustainable development / Nico Schrijver; value: The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities as contributing to sustainable development through multilateral environmental agreements / Tuula Kolari; value: Sustainable development in world trade law : a short history / Markus W. Gehring; value: Any steps towards sustainability in international investment agreements? A study of BITs of Nordic countries and the US-Chile free trade agreement concerning the potential to conflict with health and environmental measures / Åsa Romson; value: Transparency, participation and accountability in international economic dispute settlement : a sustainable development perspective / Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder; value: Corporate environmental accountability as a means for intragenerational equity : 'hidden' environmental impacts in the North-South counflict / Katinka Jesse and Marie-José van der Heijden; value: Sustainable development in EC law / Ludwig Krämer; value: Sustainable development and EU waste law / Nicolas de Sadeleer; value: EC legislation on public procurement and sustainable development / Ari Ekroos; value: Bioenergy as integration of the sustainable development principle in energy policy : the particular case of EC biomass regulation / Catherine Banet.; value: Sustainable development : an operational principle? Lessons from the Spanish experience on intensive urban growth / Angel-Manuel Moreno; value: A sustainable criminal law : criminal law for sustainability / Eva Westerlund; value: Sustainable development within the climate change regime / Massimiliano Montini; value: Climate change and the mandate of sustainable development : observations from a legal perspective / Christina Voigt; value: Balancing exploitation and protection of the Dutch North Sea : the Dutch struggle with the need for wind energy at sea and a legal framework for the protection of the marine environment / Kars de Graaf.