Sustainable Development Goals

Law, Theory and Implementation

Duncan French, Louis J. Kotzé (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2018
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78643-875-1 (ISBN)

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Building on the previously established Millennium Development Goals, which ran from 2000-2015, the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide the UN with a roadmap for development until 2030. This topical book explores the associated legal and normative implications of these SDGs, which in themselves are not legally binding.

The 17 goals and 169 targets of the SDGs cover areas as crucial as poverty reduction, climate change, clean water and access to justice. Combining both thematic and goal-specific analysis, expert contributors establish the relevance not just of international law, but also of a broader range of normative frameworks including constitutional norms, domestic regulatory law and human rights. Connecting the SDGs to wider debates in international law and politics, this book ultimately demonstrates that law has an important constitutive and instrumental role to play in both implemention and analysis.

The first of its kind to offer a specific focus on the relationship between law and the SDGs, this much-needed book will prove invaluable for scholars in the field of international sustainable development. Its insightful observations will also provide food for thought for both related international organizations and national government officials.

Contributors include: S. Adelman, H. Aust, M. Barnard, L. Collins, N. Cooper, A. du Plessis, D. French, L. Kotzé, G. Long, O. McIntyre , K. Morrow, N. Sánchez Castillo-Winckels, W. Scholtz, N. Soininen

Edited by Duncan French, Pro Vice Chancellor of the College of Social Science and Professor of International Law, University of Lincoln, UK and Louis J. Kotzé, Research Professor, North-West University, South Africa and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law, University of Lincoln, UK

Contents:

1. Introduction
Duncan French and Louis J. Kotzé

PART I GENERAL THEMES
2. The Sustainable Development Goals, Anthropocentrism and Neoliberalism
Sam Adelman

3. The Sustainable Development Goals: An Existential Critique Alongside Three New-millennial Analytical Paradigms
Louis J. Kotzé

4. Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights: Challenges and Opportunities
Lynda M. Collins

5. Underpinning Commitments of the Sustainable Development goals: Indivisibility, universality, leaving no one behind
Graham Long

6. How the Sustainable Development Goals Promote a New Conception of Ocean Commons Governance
Nadia Sánchez Castillo-Winckels

PART II A SELECTIVE ANALYSIS OF PARTICULAR GOALS
7. Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals
Karen Morrow

8. International Water Law and SDG 6: Mutually Reinforcing Paradigms
Owen McIntyre

9. Good Urban Governance as a Global Aspiration: On the Potential and Limits of SDG 11
Helmut Philipp Aust and Anél du Plessis

10. The Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals: ‘We are on a Road to Nowhere’
Werner Scholtz and Michelle Barnard

11. Torn by (un)certainty – Can There be Peace Between Rule of Law and Other Sustainable Development Goals?
Niko Soininen

12. SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals - Cooperation within the Context of a Voluntarist Framework
Nathan Cooper and Duncan French

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2018
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	1-78643-875-5 / 1786438755
ISBN-13	978-1-78643-875-1 / 9781786438751
Zustand	Neuware