Legal Perspectives on Sustainability
Edited by Margherita Pieraccini and Tonia Novitz
Published
Mar 18, 2020Page count
256 pagesISBN
978-1529201000Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Mar 18, 2020Page count
256 pagesISBN
978-1529201024Imprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Mar 18, 2020Page count
256 pagesISBN
978-1529201024Imprint
Bristol University Press
Legal Perspectives on Sustainability
This important volume steps beyond conventional legal approaches to sustainability to provide fresh insights into perhaps one of the most critical global challenges of our time.
Offering analysis of sustainability at land and sea alongside trade, labour and corporate governance perspectives, this book articulates important debates about the role of law. From impacts on local societies to domestic sustainable development policies and major international goals, it considers multiple jurisdictional levels.
With original, interdisciplinary research from experts in their legal fields, this is a rounded assessment of the complex interplay of law and sustainability—both as it is now and as it should be in the future.
“Despite its huge importance, public procurement may seem a technical subject, but Nina Boeger successfully brings it to life through her excellent analysis from the viewpoint of sustainable corporate governance.” Tony Prosser, University of Bristol
“Sustainability, though ubiquitous in modern discourse, remains contested in theory and praxis. This collection offers insightful coverage of challenges in operationalising sustainability in principle and in key areas of law.” Karen Morrow, Swansea University
"Amidst rising spending on public procurement and growing evidence of serious failures in service provision by profit-oriented, often highly-financialized, private providers, Nina Boeger's innovative, thoughtful and timely book explores some of the ways in which alternative, more inclusive, less financially oriented providers might be integrated into, and used to improve, the provision of public services. In challenging the idea that the choice is a simple one between provision by private or state-owned companies, the book serves the important purpose of highlighting not merely the need for experimentation but the wide range of institutional possibility". Paddy Ireland, University of Bristol
Margherita Pieraccini is Reader in Law at the University of Bristol. Her research is socio-legal and focuses on nature conservation law, marine policy and commons.
Tonia Novitz is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol. Her research interests focus predominantly on labour law, international and EU trade and the protection of human rights.
Introduction
PART 1: SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH HISTORY
Sustainability and Law: An historical and theoretical overview ~ Margherita Pieraccini and Tonia Novitz
Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: ‘responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making’? ~ Tonia Novitz and Margherita Pieraccini
PART 2: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Accounting for Climate Change: Rethinking the chaotic corporate reporting landscape and its purpose with the UK’s failure as a case study ~ Charlotte Villiers and Georgina Tsagas
Sustainable Corporate Governance: trimming or sowing? ~ Nina Boeger
PART 3: TRADE
The International Trade Regime and SDG 2: Reforming Agricultural Markets for Food Security ~ Clair Gammage
Social Sustainability, Labour and Trade: Forging Connections ~ Tonia Novitz
PART 4: PLACES
Land Ownership, Use and Sustainability in a Pluriverse ~ Chris Willmore
Sustainability and marine conservation law ~ Margherita Pieraccini
