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Sustainability and Law

General and Specific Aspects

  • Addresses sustainability and law in a multi-faceted and multi-authored manner
  • Provides the latest scientific evidence and ideas, also related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Intensifies knowledge gains through a comprised approach of several contributions per thematic chapter

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Daniela Rupo, Lara Tarquinio, Volker Mauerhofer
    Pages 1-11
  3. General Aspects: Basics of a Sustainable Development Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Designing Law for Sustainability

      • Massimiliano Montini
      Pages 33-48
    3. The Laws of Sustainable Development

      • Geert van Calster
      Pages 49-64
    4. Resilience: Is Sustainability Dead?

      • Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
      Pages 87-100
  4. General Aspects: Overconsumption, Rebound Effects, Degrowth and Planetary Boundaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
  5. General Aspects: Corporate Responsibility Practices & Product Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
  6. General Aspects: Corporate Social Responsibility & Reporting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
    2. Political Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of Companies. Evidence from Novo Nordisk

      • Stefanía Carolina Posadas, Lara Tarquinio, Michele A. Rea
      Pages 239-255
    3. Non-financial Performance Indicators: The Power of Measures to Operationalize the Law

      • Domenico Raucci, Lara Tarquinio, Daniela Rupo, Salvatore Loprevite
      Pages 275-291

About this book

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 opportunityto concentrate on single chapters, but receive comprised knowledge and a variety of thoughts for new ideas on a particular theme.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Ecotechnology and Sustainable Building Engineering Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden

    Volker Mauerhofer

  • Department of Economics, University of Messina (Italy), Messina, Italy

    Daniela Rupo

  • Department of Economic Studies, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Lara Tarquinio

About the editors

Volker Mauerhofer is Professor and Chair in Environmental Science (Specialization in Social Science) at Mid Sweden University (Östersund/Sweden). He is a multidisciplinary scholar with academic background in Environmental Laws, Ecological Economics and Natural Sciences. Professor Mauerhofer has been working in academia & practice since more than 20 years alongside all three dimensions of sustainable development. He is holding several executive memberships of global scientific networks as well as visiting research positions and performed from the UN-level to the very local level.

Lara Tarquinio is Associate Professor of Business Administration and Accounting at the Department of Economic Studies-G. d'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara (Italy). Her main research interests are focused on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Carbon Accounting and Disclosure, Sustainability Reporting and Assurance, Business model. She is author of several books and papers published with national and international editors on the topics mentioned above.

Daniela Rupo, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Business Administration and Accounting at the Department of Economics, University of Messina, Italy. Her teaching assignments range from financial accounting in private and public sector to business valuation. She has participated and is currently working on various national and international research projects about: human capital, intangible assets and business valuation, corporate social responsibility and sustainability  reporting, integrated reporting, accounting and governance in the public sector. She is an author of a number of journal papers and books. She is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Auditor.


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