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This important volume steps beyond conventional legal approaches to sustainability to provide fresh insights into perhaps one of the most critical global challenges of our time.
Offering analysis of sustainability at land and sea alongside trade, labour and corporate governance perspectives, this book articulates important debates about the role of law. From impacts on local societies to domestic sustainable development policies and major international goals, it considers multiple jurisdictional levels.
With original, interdisciplinary research from experts in their legal fields, this is a rounded assessment of the complex interplay of law and sustainability—both as it is now and as it should be in the future.
This unique study of social harm offers a systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm.
The book evaluates three interconnected justice-related approaches to environmental harm: environmental justice (humans), ecological justice (the environment) and species justice (non-human animals). It provides a critical assessment of environmental harm by interrogating key concepts and exploring how activists and social movements engage in the pursuit of justice. It concludes by describing the tensions between the different approaches and the importance of developing an eco-justice framework that to some extent can reconcile these differences.
Using empirical evidence built on theoretical foundations with examples and illustrations from many national contexts, ‘Environmental harm’ will be of interest to students and academics in criminology, sociology, law, geography, environmental studies, philosophy and social policy all over the world.
Human population growth is a serious biospheric problem yet is largely overlooked. Because of the neglect of demography, environmental policies — while well-intentioned – are unlikely to succeed.
This book gives a concise review of world fertility rates and population growth, and offers a valuable summary of studies of the impact of over-population on the biosphere. In addition, the book explains key demographic variables to consider when formulating law and government policy relevant to childbearing, and it summarizes findings of social science research – findings that contradict popular assumptions about the impact of government interventions addressing the frequency of childbearing and immigration.
human interests and persons. Intra-generational justice prompted by sustainability concerns has encouraged acknowledgement of the differences between developing and developed countries and the need for redistribution; but could as easily lead us to consider the extremes of wealth within states which operate in a myriad of ways (around, for example, class, gender, race, culture, sexuality, age and disability). A more inclusive identification of the Anthropos explains the significance of proceduralisation of sustainability-based decision making and the importance of
growth’. This is to involve promoting youth employment and women’s ‘economic empowerment’, although it seems accepted that the latter need not entail access to formal employment. Three out of the four ILO core labour standards receive explicit attention in the main body of SDG 8 targets. As regards discrimination, target 8.5 mentions ‘full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value’. Non-discrimination is also addressed in SDG 5 on gender equality and
with discrimination and efforts to ensure that no particular community (especially those featuring people of colour and from low incomes) is subject to disproportionate environmental disadvantage. Research in this area has demonstrated not only inequalities related to race and class, but also factors such as gender, disability and immigration status (Agyeman and Carmin, 2011). There are many different categories of vulnerable groups throughout the world, and notably indigenous peoples and traditional cultures have been especially prone to bearing the brunt of
