Sustainability and law: general and specific aspects

The book discusses sustainability and law in a multifaceted way. Together, sustainability and law are an emerging challenge for research and science. This volume contributes through an interdisciplinary concept to its further exploration. The contributions explore this exciting domain with innovative ideas and replicable approaches. It combines a variety of authors, from both the public and the private sectors, and thereby guarantees a broad view that enshrines the more theoretical arguments from the academic side as well as stronger practical applicable perspectives. The book provides space for thoughtful expansions of established theories as well as the hopeful emergence of innovative ideas. Moreover, the combination of three to five contributions into the eleven parts respectively aims toward a compression of like minded thoughts. This should lead to an intensification of exchange of viewpoints from different angles on a similar theme. Readers therefore also have the opportunity to concentrate on single chapters, but receive comprised knowledge and a variety of thoughts for new ideas on a particular theme.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Main Objectives -- 2 Main Themes -- 3 Structure -- 4 Issues Assessed Within the Thirty-Four Chapters -- 4.1 Issues Related to General Aspects -- 4.2 Issues Related to Specific Aspects -- References -- Part I: General Aspects: Basics of a Sustainable Development Law -- Sustainable Development Law in (Only) One World: Challenges and Perspectives for Governance and Governments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Framework and Methodology -- 3 Findings and Discussions -- 3.1 Substantial Inter-national and Intra-national Fine-Tuning

3.2 Organizations and ``Policy/Instrument Mixes ́́ -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Designing Law for Sustainability -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Historical and Theoretical Roots of Sustainability -- 3 The Ecological Core of Sustainability -- 4 Why Regulation for Sustainability Is Needed? -- 5 How to Design a Regulatory System for Sustainability? -- 5.1 Beyond Reductionism -- 5.2 Beyond Anthropocentrism -- 5.3 Beyond Positivism -- 5.4 Beyond Short-Termism -- 5.5 Beyond Deregulation -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- The Laws of Sustainable Development -- 1 Introduction

2 The Principle of Sustainable Development …