Overview
Brings the field of legal scholarship up to speed on the conceptualisation of sustainable consumption
Guides legal scholars and practitioners, judges, law students and social scientists through the new and promising field of sustainable consumption and the law
Captures cultural diversity in a single volume by assembling a large group of scholars from across the globe to share their expertise and perspectives
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Consumer Law and Sustainable Consumption
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Traditional Legal Disciplines and Sustainable Consumption
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Packaging and (Eco-)Labelling: Beyond the Information Paradigm
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Sector-Specific Approaches I: Transnational and International Law
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About this book
The chapters identify how traditional legal disciplines (e.g. constitutional law, consumer law, public procurement, international public law), sector-related regulation (e.g. energy, water, waste), and legal rules in specific areas (e.g. eco-labelling and packing) engage with the concept of sustainable consumption. A number of the contributions describe this relationship by isolating a national legal system, while others approach it from the vantage point of legal pluralism, exploring the conflicts and convergences of rules between multiple international treaties (or guidelines) and those between the rules of international and transnational law (or both) vis-à-vis national legal systems.
While sustainable consumption is recognised as an important field of interdisciplinary research linking virtually all social science disciplines, legal scholarship, in contrast, has neglected the importance of the field of sustainable consumption to the law. This book fills the gap.
Reviews
Jorge E. Viñuales, Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy, University of Cambridge
“(…) This book with its broad scope that reaches beyond the core of consumer law and environmental law that engages into the political and economic dimension of sustainability, fills a huge gap in the academic literature. Those who are writing blurbs tend to use a kind of standard formula ‘this is a must read for everybody working in the field’. Sustainable consumption: the right to a health environment goes beyond. The book formulates a political agenda on the law we need to realise sustainable consumption. In 1962 John F. Kennedy famously coined the formula ‘consumers we are all’. The consumer rights he advocated and which form still the core of consumer policy programmes around the world, must be complemented by consumer responsibilities. There is no unlimited right to consumption at the costs of the planet. It is not by coincidence that the initiative to the current book stems from the global south. The contributions provide for a broad array of proposals of what could be done here and now and on what kind of law we need for achieving a different economy and a different society.
Hans-W. Micklitz, Professor of Economic Law, European University Institute
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lucila de Almeida, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Finland; and European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence School of Regulation, Italy
Luciane Klein Vieira, University of the Rio dos Sinos Valley (UNISINOS), Faculty of Law, Brazil; and University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law, Argentina
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Consumption
Book Subtitle: The Right to a Healthy Environment
Editors: Alberto do Amaral Junior, Lucila de Almeida, Luciane Klein Vieira
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16985-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16984-8Published: 01 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16987-9Published: 01 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16985-5Published: 21 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 500
Number of Illustrations: 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Environmental Law, Sustainability Management, Development and Sustainability, Sustainable Development, International Economic Law, Trade Law, Environmental Economics