Regulating Transnational Sustainability Regimes

Author : Enrico Partiti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 1108931200

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Regulating Transnational Sustainability Regimes by Enrico Partiti Pdf

"Through their labels and logos competing for the interest of consumers, voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) are a visible feature in supermarkets and shops. With a few exceptions such as the European Union (EU) Ecolabel and some national equivalents, most of these schemes are set up by private actors such as nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), producer organisations and even single corporations establishing social and environmental requirements for their suppliers. The emergence of VSS is traditionally associated with the establishment of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and the rise of transnational civil society movements pressuring apparel brands over the labour conditions of their suppliers. The difficulty in reaching global agreement between States in remedying the 'tragedy of the commons', in particular depletion of natural resources and transboundary pollution, in combination with the jurisdictional limits of unilateral conduct, has led private actors to intervene in the regulation of social and environmental externalities connected to global production. The need to protect a reputation from scandal and NGO pressure, and to avoid liability and comply with applicable provisions, as well as creating new markets, have been equally strong contributing factors. Since the early 1990s the proliferation of schemes in sectors spanning agriculture to fisheries, and biofuels to jewellery has been unstoppable. From bird-friendly coffee production to acceptable working conditions in the garment sector, very few sustainability and corporate responsibility-related issues are not addressed by private standards. The most comprehensive database identifies 463 standards operating in 199 countries and in 25 sectors.4 Most of these standards are private, and the focus of this book will be limited to those"--

Author : Enrico Partiti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108837576

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Regulating Transnational Sustainability Regimes by Enrico Partiti Pdf

The first legal study of voluntary sustainability standards under both European Union and World Trade Organization law.

Author : Phillip Paiement
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417914

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Transnational Sustainability Laws by Phillip Paiement Pdf

This book examines how voluntary sustainability standards can be used to both regulate and coordinate producers in industries.

Author : Christian Tietje,Alan Brouder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004181564

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Handbook of Transnational Economic Governance Regimes by Christian Tietje,Alan Brouder Pdf

This Handbook builds on recent attempts to understand new and evolving patterns of global governance by identifying, describing, and analysing more than 80 of the most significant actors in the regulation and administration of contemporary transnational economic affairs.

Author : Stepan Wood,Rebecca Schmidt,Errol Meidinger,Burkard Eberlein,Kenneth W. Abbott
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788114738

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Transnational Business Governance Interactions by Stepan Wood,Rebecca Schmidt,Errol Meidinger,Burkard Eberlein,Kenneth W. Abbott Pdf

From agriculture to sport and from climate change to indigenous rights, transnational regulatory regimes and actors are multiplying and interacting with poorly understood effects. This interdisciplinary book investigates whether, how and by whom transnational business governance interactions (TBGIs) can be harnessed to improve the quality of transnational regulation and advance the interests of marginalized actors.

Author : Veerle Heyvaert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108415743

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Transnational Environmental Regulation and Governance by Veerle Heyvaert Pdf

A guide to the meaning of environmental regulation in an era of transnational cooperation for sustainability.

Author : Evaristus Oshionebo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780802099402

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Regulating Transnational Corporations in Domestic and International Regimes by Evaristus Oshionebo Pdf

This study explores the range of strategies for regulating the social and environmental practices of TNCs in Africa's extractive industries.

Author : Eva van der Zee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030958022

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Sustainability Labels in the Shadow of the Law by Eva van der Zee Pdf

This book describes and examines three EU legal frameworks (EU competition law, EU consumer law, and EU fundamental rights law) that may affect the extent to which consumers purchase more sustainably. In doing so, this book goes beyond a rationalist understanding of the interpretation and application of EU law. Rational approaches have severely impacted the interpretation and application of EU law. Practice shows, however, that the implications of using a noncritical application of rationalist approaches in the interpretation and application of EU competition law, EU consumer law, and EU fundamental rights law to sustainability labels may have an inhibiting effect on sustainable consumption. The book offers remedies to overcome this inhibitive effect by critically applying insights from cognitive science and behavioral economics in the legal interpretation and application of EU law.

Author : Shawkat Alam,Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan,Jona Razzaque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317535881

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International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability by Shawkat Alam,Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan,Jona Razzaque Pdf

International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability provides a clear and concise insight into the relationship between the institutions that govern foreign investment, sustainable development and the rules and regulations that administer natural resources. In this book, several leading experts explore different perspectives in how investment and natural resources come together to achieve sustainable development in developing countries with examples from water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mineral, agriculture, and carbon trading. Despite varying perspectives, it is clear that several themes are central in considering the linkages between natural resources, investment and sustainability. Specifically, transparency, good governance and citizen empowerment are vital conditions which encourage positive social, economic and environmental outcomes for developing countries. In addition, this book provides new insights into key concepts which underpin international law, including sovereign rights and state responsibility principles. It is clear from this book that in the attempt to reconcile these concepts and principles from separate legal regimes, complex policy questions emerge whereby it is difficult to attain mutually beneficial or succinct outcomes. This book explores how countries prioritise their policy objectives to achieve their notion of sustainable natural resource use, which is strongly influenced by power imbalances that inform North–South cooperation, as well as South–South cooperation in the international investment regime. This book will be of great interest to students, academics and researchers of international environmental law, international human rights law, international investment law and international economic law. This book may also be of relevance to environmentalists, policy-makers, NGOs, and investors working in the natural resources field.

Author : Achim Lang,Hannah Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319072395

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Business and Sustainability by Achim Lang,Hannah Murphy Pdf

Demands for sustainability policies have set new challenges for business both on the individual firm level and on the level of organized business interests. This edited volume brings together economic, social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of sustainability that comprise different challenges for business processes and activities. The aim is to develop an overarching framework to the study of sustainability and business and to advance an interdisciplinary analytical perspective. The book establishes a balanced account that equally represents business as problem causers as well as problem solvers, and therefore responds to the urgent need to investigate the intersection between sustainability issues and business participation.

Author : Jonas Ebbesson,Ellen Hey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108850360

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law: Volume 1 by Jonas Ebbesson,Ellen Hey Pdf

In 2015, the United Nations established seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that aimed 'to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all' by 2030. The chapters within this collection address each of these SDGs, considering how they relate to one another and international law, and what institutions could aid their implementation. Development has been a contentious topic since the decolonization period after World War II, and issues surrounding sustainable development are necessarily impacted by the multifaceted relationship between the Global South and Global North. Confronting the context and challenge of sustainable development, this collection outlines how the international economic system problematizes the attainment of the SDGs. Introducing a novel, cosmopolitan approach, this book offers new ways of understanding sustainable development and suggests potential solutions so that we might finally achieve it.

Author : Karin Buhmann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786431653

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Changing Sustainability Norms through Communication Processes by Karin Buhmann Pdf

This book traces the development of the Business & Human Rights (BHR) regime that has so far culminated with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It first surveys the argumentation and negotiation strategies that led to agreement on key elements of the BHR regime despite a range conflicting interests across stakeholders from public, private and not-for-profit organisations. It then maps out pro-active regulatory strategies and public-private regulation for promoting responsible business conduct, offering insights for civil society, public regulators, business managers, academics and others. The book will assist engaged parties in structuring their arguments within negotiation processes with a view to enhancing their influence on change in business organisations in support of sustainability and new norms of conduct.

Author : A. Claire Cutler,Thomas Dietz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315409566

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The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract by A. Claire Cutler,Thomas Dietz Pdf

Outsourcing state functions and the limits of existing regulatory regimes -- Contract as transnational regulatory governance -- The emergence of a transnational private regime for the regulation of PMSCs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 14. Conclusion: Empire through contract: A private international law perspective -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Self-constituting regimes: Private international law's libertarian view of contract -- Possible antidotes: From the undiscovered DNA of contract law to new global forms of legal pluralism -- Notes -- References -- Index

Author : Konrad von Moltke,International Institute for Sustainable Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Commercial policy
ISBN : UCSD:31822023582299

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International Environmental Management, Trade Regimes and Sustainability by Konrad von Moltke,International Institute for Sustainable Development Pdf

Author : Peer Zumbansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197547434

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The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law by Peer Zumbansen Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law offers a unique and unparalleled treatment and presentation in the field of Transnational Law that has become one of the most intriguing and innovative developments in legal doctrine, scholarship, theory, and practice today. This in itself constitutes an ambitious editorial project, not only within law and legal doctrine, but also with regard to an increasing interest in an interdisciplinary engagement of law with social sciences - including sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, and political theory. Closely tied into the substantive transformation that many legal fields are undergoing is the observation that many of these developments are driven by changes in an increasingly global legal practice today. The concept then, of 'transnational law' aims at capturing the distinctly border- crossing nature even of those legal fields which had for the longest been time been seen as having merely 'domestic' relevance. This shift also requires a conscious effort among law school classroom instructors, casebook authors, and curriculum reformers to adapt their teaching content to these circumstances. As the authors of this Handbook make clear, this adaptation requires a close dialogue between a scholarly investigation into the transnational 'concept of law' and the challenges faced by practicing lawyers, be that as solicitor, in-house counsel, as judges, or as bureaucrats in a globalized regulatory and socio-economic environment. While the main thrust is on the transnationalization of legal doctrine and legal theory, with a considerable contribution from and engagement with social sciences, the Handbook features numerous reflections on the relationship between transnational law and legal practice.