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1 online resource (xix, 500 pages) : illustrations |
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An Introduction to Sustainable Consumption and the Law / Alberto do Amaral Junior, Lucila de Almeida, and Luciane Klein Vieira -- International and Transnational Consumer Law on Sustainable Consumption / Mateja Durovic and Franciszek Lech -- Sustainable Consumption and Obsolescence of Consumer Products / Thierry Bourgoignie -- he Shift from Consumer Protection to Consumer Empowerment and the Consequences for Sustainable Consumption / Patrícia Galindo Fonseca -- Sustainable Consumption and Brazilian Consumer Behaviour / Diógenes Faria de Carvalho and Vitor Hugo do Amaral Ferreira -- The Role of Sustainable Consumption and Disaster Law in Climate Risk Management / Délton W. de Carvalho and Fernanda D. L. Damacena -- Sustainable Public Procurement in Brazil / Teresa Villac and Maria Cecília Loschiavo dos Santos -- The Preventive Function and Sustainable Consumption: A Creative Challenge for Attorneys / Claudia Lujan Oviedo -- Taking Care of Business: Engaging Dialogue on Solutions to Unsustainable Commercial Practices / Sergio Sebastián Barocelli -- Consumer Law and Sustainability: The Work of the United Nations / Ana Cândida Muniz Cipriano -- International Trade in Environmental Goods and Services and Sustainable Production and Consumption / Guilherme José Pastana Figueiredo -- Regulating Green Marketing Claims in the United States / James P. Nehf -- Collective Valuation of the Common Good Through Consumption: What Is (Un)Lawful in Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labelling of Non-Food Products? / Suvi Sankari -- The Importance of Labelling Food Items: Information, Food Security and Sustainable Consumption / Fabiana D'Andrea Ramos and Tatiana Cardoso Squeff -- Tobacco Packaging As a Contribution for Promotion of a Healthy Environment in Brazil / Luís Renato Vedovato and Cristiane G. F. Vianna -- |
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The International Regulation of Living Modified Organisms / Alberto do Amaral Junior and Luciane Klein Vieira -- 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 -- Sustainable Water Consumption, Foreign Direct Investment and the Human Right to Water / Andreia Costa Vieira -- Building Upon Sustainable Consumption and Production for Food and Apparel / Rodrigo arvalho de Abreu Lima and Josiane Godoy Lima -- Supermarkets and Private Standards of Sustainability: The Responsibility to Protect Without Protectionism / Tiago Matsuoka Megale -- Reasonable Credit in Canada: An Attempt to Avoid Over-Indebtedness / Marc Lacoursière -- Homes or iPhones? Diversion of Social Security Funds to Relieve Consumption-Fuelled Household Debt in Brazil / Maria Paula Bertran -- Auction Design to Procure Energy Efficiency Measures as Distributed Energy Resources / Tiago Barros Correia, Gabriel Moreira Pinto, and Vitor Hugo da Silva Oliveira -- Consumer Law, Sustainable Energy Consumption and Mini- and Microgrid Decentralized Generation in Brazil / Claudia Lima Marques and Matheus Linck Bassani -- Planned Obsolescence Resulting from Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Waste Rights and Brazil's National Solid Waste Policy / Cláudio José Franzolin -- Potential Legal Avenues for Managing the Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology / Wilson Engelmann, Haide Maria Hupffer, and Raquel Von Hohendorff -- 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 |
| Summary |
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--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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 31, 2019) |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects
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Sustainability.
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Environmental law.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects
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Environmental law
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Sustainability
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Amaral Júnior, Alberto do, editor, contributor.
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Almeida, Lucila de, editor, contributor.
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Klein Vieira, Luciane, editor, contributor.
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| ISBN |
3030169855 |
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9783030169855 |
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