Sustainable Development in International Law: An analysis of key enviro-economic instruments, livre ebook

The concept of sustainable development has grown in importance in the last two decades. Its significance is reflected in the number of major international conferences on sustainable development such as the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development and the Rio Conference on Environment and Development that have taken place in this time; the many international environmental agreements purporting to give effect to sustainable development and soft law instruments endorsing the concept enacted over this period; and the large body of literature relating to sustainable development that has emerged.Despite this currency sustainable sustainable development as a legal concept is open to critique on the basis of its indeterminacy. This book attempts to address this indeterminacy: It offers a conceptualisation of sustainable development that, taking into account the intricacies and nuances of current sustainable development discourse, contributes towards making sustainable development a more useful legal tool. The model of sustainable development thus developed is then applied to several key environmental regimes – climate change, biodiversity and the Global Environment Facility – to illustrate its usefulness.Anyone working in the areas of international environmental law, international development law or general international law – whether as practitioners or academics – will benefit from this book.About the editor:Dire Tladi is Professor of international law at the Department of Public Law and the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria. He is also Extraordinary Professor at the Public Law Department of the University of Stellenbosch.