Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development: Horizontal and Sectorial Policy Issues

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Circulation of the Model of Sustainable Development: Tracing the Path in a Comparative Law Perspective....Pages 13-33
3-D Sustainability and Its Contribution to Governance Assessment in Legal Terms: Examples and Perspectives....Pages 35-56
Sustainability—A Long, Hard Road....Pages 57-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Environmental Sustainability as a Human Right....Pages 81-94
Ensuring Access to Safe Drinking Water as an Imperative of Sustainable Development....Pages 95-108
Ensuring a Sustainable Future Through Recognizing and Protecting Indigenous Ecological Knowledge....Pages 109-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Framing New Environmental Cultures for Sustainability. Communication and Sensemaking in Three Intractable Multiparty Conflicts in the EbreBiosfera, Spain....Pages 127-149
An Empirical Investigation of Supportive Legal Frameworks for Social Enterprises in Belgium: A Cross-Sectoral Comparison of Case Studies Concerning Social Enterprises in the Social Housing, Finance and Energy Sector....Pages 151-185
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Judicial Control Over Acts of Administrative Omission: Environmental Rule of Law and Recent Case Law in Japan....Pages 189-202
Examining the Resilience of Public Participation Structures for Sustainable Mining in the Philippines....Pages 203-231
Public Participation and Constitutional Impediments to Sustainable Development in Nigeria....Pages 233-247
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A Global Conceptual Framework for Categorizing Environmental Change Based on Property Rights and Compensation....Pages 251-270
Prioritising the Environment in Sustainable Development: Lessons from Australian Environmental Impact Assessment....Pages 271-288
Reframing Sustainability in Taiwan: Legal Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 289-301
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A Legal Butterfly Effect: Unexpected Twists and Turns of the Law in Costa Rica’s Payment for Ecosystem Services Program....Pages 305-325
From River Basins to Landscapes—Holistic Legal Constructs and Their Differentiation....Pages 327-346
Coherence Issues Between Climate, Energy and Water in the Case of European Hydropower: Can We Have It All?....Pages 347-370
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Generating Renewable Energy for the Material Realization of Sustainable Development: What Do We Need from Multilateral Cooperation, the Climate Change and the International Trade Regimes?....Pages 373-387
The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard and the Revocation of Feed in Tariffs—Foreign Renewable Energy Investments in Crisis-Struck Spain....Pages 389-422
Front Matter....Pages 371-371
Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Sustainability into Policymaking, Planning and Implementation of Renewable Energy Projects—The New Zealand Model....Pages 423-448
Tackling Climate Change Through the Elimination of Trade Barriers for Low-Carbon Goods: Multilateral, Plurilateral and Regional Approaches....Pages 449-468
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Environmental Integration in China’s Eco-city Development—From an Institutional Perspective....Pages 471-495
Identifying the Interaction Between Landfill Taxes and NIMBY. A Simulation for Flanders (Belgium) Using a Dynamic Optimization Model....Pages 497-509
Pressing Forward—Developments in the Transition Towards Sustainable Materials Management in EU Environmental Law....Pages 511-532
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Sustainable Development: New Thoughts, New Policy, New Law?....Pages 535-548
Sustainable Development of the Oceans: Closing the Gaps in the International Legal Framework....Pages 549-564
Knowledge in Sustainable Resource Management in Australia....Pages 565-581
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The Sustainable Use of Biodiversity and Its Implications in Agriculture: The Agroforestry Case in the Brazilian Legal Framework....Pages 585-606
Next Generation Rural Natural Resource Governance: A Careful Diagnosis....Pages 607-628
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Conclusions....Pages 631-640
Back Matter....Pages 641-647