Sustainable development in international law making and trade : international food governance and trade in agriculture / Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi.
The concept of sustainable development has become a fundamental discourse in international decision making. To enable pragmatic sustainable development governance, legally coherent, mutually supportive multilateral treaties are both necessary and important. This timely book provides an accessible in...
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[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Boxes; Foreword Thomas Cottier; Foreword Olivier De Schutter; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of international law; Introduction and overview; PART I The foundations of sustainable development; 1. History of the concept of sustainable development; 2. Conceptual and institutional approaches towards sustainable development; PART II Sustainable development in international law; 3. International sustainable development law: A new branch of law; 4. Notion of legal coherence in the context of sustainable development.
- 5. Status of the principle of sustainable development in international lawPART III Trade in agriculture assessed for coherence; 6. The legal foundations of the assessment; 7. Legal principle of sustainable development applied to the Agreement on Agriculture; Bibliography; Index.