Sustainable consumption : the right to a healthy environment
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Cham : Springer, 2020
[Florence School of Regulation]; [FSR Global]
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AMARAL JUNIOR, Alberto, DE ALMEIDA, Lucila, KLEIN VIEIRA, Luciane (editor/s), Sustainable consumption : the right to a healthy environment, Cham : Springer, 2020, [Florence School of Regulation], [FSR Global] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/65646
Abstract
This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how. Bringing together legal scholars from the Global South and the Global North, it examines these questions in the context of national, transnational and international law, within single and plural legal systems, and across a range of sector-specific issue areas. 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.
Table of Contents
1. An Introduction to Sustainable Consumption and the Law, Alberto do Amaral Junior, Lucila de Almeida,and Luciane Klein Vieira
-- Part I. Consumer Law and Sustainable Consumption
2. International and Transnational Consumer Law on SustainableConsumption, Mateja Durovic and Franciszek Lech
3. Sustainable Consumption and Obsolescence of Consumer Products, Thierry Bourgoignie
4. The Shift from Consumer Protection to Consumer Empowerment
and the Consequences for Sustainable Consumption, Patrícia Galindo da Fonseca
5. Sustainable Consumption and Brazilian Consumer Behaviour, Diógenes Faria de Carvalho and Vitor Hugo Do Amaral Ferreira
-- Part II. Traditional Legal Disciplines and Sustainable Consumption
6. The Role of Sustainable Consumption and Disaster Law in Climate Risk Management, Délton W. de Carvalho and Fernanda D. L. Damacena
7. Sustainable Public Procurement in Brazil, Teresa Villac and Maria Cecília Loschiavo dos Santos
8. The Preventive Function and Sustainable Consumption: A Creative Challenge for Attorneys, Claudia Lujan Oviedo
9. Taking Care of Business: Engaging Dialogue on Solutions to Unsustainable Commercial Practices, Sergio Sebastián Barocelli
10. Consumer Law and Sustainability: The Work of the United Nations, Ana Cândida Muniz Cipriano
11. International Trade in Environmental Goods and Services and Sustainable Production and Consumption, Guilherme José Pastana de Figueiredo
-- Part III. Packaging and (Eco-)Labelling: Beyond the Information Paradigm
12. Regulating Green Marketing Claims in the United States, James P. Nehf
13. Collective Valuation of the Common Good Through Consumption: What Is (Un)Lawful in Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labelling of Non-Food Products?, Suvi Sankari
14. The Importance of Labelling Food Items: Information, Food Security and Sustainable Consumption, Fabiana D’Andrea Ramos and Tatiana Cardoso Squeff
15. Tobacco Packaging As a Contribution for Promotion of a Healthy Environment in Brazil, Luís Renato Vedovato and Cristiane G. F. Vianna
-- Part IV. Sector-Specific Approaches I: Transnational and International Law
16. The International Regulation of Living Modified Organisms, Alberto do Amaral Junior and Luciane Klein Vieira
17. The Effects of International Agreements on Water Security: A Critical Study of the EU and MERCOSUR Approaches, Kleverton Melo de Carvalho and Clara María Minaverry
18. Sustainable Water Consumption, Foreign Direct Investment and the Human Right to Water, Andreia Costa Vieira
19. Building Upon Sustainable Consumption and Production for Food and Apparel, Rodrigo Carvalho de Abreu Lima and Josiane Godoy Lima
20. Supermarkets and Private Standards of Sustainability: The Responsibility to Protect Without Protectionism, Tiago Matsuoka Megale
-- Part V. Sector-Specific Approaches II: National Law
21. Reasonable Credit in Canada: An Attempt to Avoid OverIndebtedness, Marc Lacoursière
22. Homes or iPhones? Diversion of Social Security Funds to Relieve Consumption-Fuelled Household Debt in Brazil, Maria Paula Bertran
23. Auction Design to Procure Energy Efficiency Measures as Distributed Energy Resources, Tiago de Barros Correia, Gabriel Moreira Pinto,and Vitor Hugo da Silva Oliveira
24. Consumer Law, Sustainable Energy Consumption and Mini- and Microgrid Decentralized Generation in Brazil, Claudia Lima Marques and Matheus Linck Bassani
25. Planned Obsolescence Resulting from Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Waste Rights and Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy, Cláudio José Franzolin
26. Potential Legal Avenues for Managing the Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology, Wilson Engelmann, Haide Maria Hupffer, and Raquel Von Hohendorff
27. Looking Back to Look Forward: A Future Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption, Law and Development, Alberto do Amaral Junior, Lucila de Almeida, and Luciane Klein Vieira
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Published: 6 January 2020