Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation (eBook, ePUB)

Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions
Redaktion: Segger, Marie-Claire Cordonier

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Economic, technological, social and environmental transformations are affecting all humanity, and decisions taken today will impact the quality of life for all future generations. This volume surveys current commitments to sustainable development, analysing innovative policies, practices and procedures to promote respect for intergenerational justice. Expert contributors provide serious scholarly and practical discussions of the theoretical, institutional, and legal considerations inherent in intergenerational justice at local, national, regional and global scales. They investigate treaty commitments related to intergenerational equity, explore linkages between regimes, and offer insights from diverse experiences of national future generations' institutions. This volume should be read by lawyers, academics, policy-makers, business and civil society leaders interested in the economy, society, the environment, sustainable development, climate change, and other law, policy and practices impacting all generations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108851442
• Artikelnr.: 66183423

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The theoretical framework for international
legal principles of intergenerational equity and implementation through
national institutions; Part I. Introduction to Treaty Law on
Intergenerational Justice and Codifying Sustainability: 3. International
treaty law and policy for future generations; 4. Intergenerational justice
under international treaty law: the obligations of the state to future
generations; 5. The use of international human rights norms to implement
international solidarity; Part II. Key Challenges in Domestic
Implementation of Intergenerational Justice: 6. Future generations as a
counterweight; 7. Future generations institutions to implement
international obligations towards future generations; Part III. Law and
Policy Innovations for Inter-Generational Justice: 8. Sustainability in
European constitutional; 9. The principle of intergenerational solidarity
in reshaping constitutional rights and obligations: an example from
Portugal; 10. Time to think: sustainable development, future generations
and the individual; 11. Claims and petitions regarding environment
preservation for future generations; 12. Reasons and means of public
participation; 13. Giving the voice of the future a word in the present;
14. Unsustainability as an economic problem; 15. Intergenerational equity
and the European constitution; 16. Scientific uncertainty as a key obstacle
to efficient legal protection of the environmental interests of future
generations; 17. Transformative knowledge and solutions in sustainability
governance; Part IV. Implementing Sustainability through National
Institutions - Case Studies: 18. Institutions for a sustainable future: the
former Israeli commission for future generations; 19. Norway - Norwegian
ombudsman for children; 20. Institutions for a sustainable future: the
german parliamentary advisory council on sustainable development; 21. Power
over coming generations - committee for the future in the eduskunta, the
parliament of Finland; 22. Welsh commissioner for sustainable futures; 23.
Parliamentary commissioner for the environment, New Zealand; 24. Canadian
commissioner of the environment and sustainable development; 25.
Intergenerational justice in colombian governance & peace accords; 26.
Indigenous peoples and inter-generational equity in Mexico; 27. Legal
innovations for inter-generational justice in sustainable landscapes
management of democratic republic of Congo; 28. Local indigenous planning
instruments for intergenerational equity in ahousaht traditional
territories of Canada; 29. A comparative analysis of model institutisons:
diversity in reaching common goals; 30. Comparing progress in
inter-generational governance; 31. International institutions for future
generations and democratic legitimacy; Part V. Regional Trends in
Intergenerational Justice: 32. A European human rights perspective on
national sustainable development institutions; 33. Embedding
intergenerational justice across government: regional trends in Africa; 34.
Intergenerational equity, justice, and modern treaties between first
nations communities and Canada; 35. Institutions for future generations in
Asia; Part VI. Future Trends: 36. Equity across generations in implementing
international law on water; 37. Intergenerational justice in the Paris
agreement on climate change; 38. The four-branches model of government -
representing future generations; 39. Intergenerational equity in
sustainable development treaty implementation.