Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah

Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009354080
• Artikelnr.: 72465378

Autorenporträt

Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; and previously was a United Nations-Nippon Foundation Fellow at the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations Secretariat. His doctoral research was awarded the Allard Law Dissertation Prize by the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Sustainable Development
2. The Logic of Sustainable Development
3. Sustainable Development and the Paradox of Legal Universalism
4. Problematising the Normative Trajectory of Sustainable Development in Africa
5. Sustainable Development and the Turn to African Legal Ontologies
6. Ecocosmologies, Ecolegality and African Environmentalisms as Ecological Law
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.