Le développement durable en droit international: Essai sur les incidences juridiques d’une norme évolutive
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 3292
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bruylant
- ISBN
- 9782802752066
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 18 - Law
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Data collection, analysis and developing the argument of this monograph took over 6 years. It required gathering and analysing thousands of legal documents located in a variety of different databases, for which no comprehensive repository exists. Theoretically, the book situates the significance of sustainable development at the heart of international legal theory, taking understanding beyond the traditional environmental law literature. It is written over 9 chapters, each of which could have each been published as journal articles, and which build the sustained, original argument of the book.
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The wide dissemination of sustainable development in international law has generated considerable academic interest. However, because of the evasive and flexible content of the notion, academic commentary has often struggled to ascertain sustainable development’s legal nature and has reduced its significance to that of an interpretative tool. This book demonstrates that beyond its significant hermeneutical functions, sustainable development primarily purports to regulate state conduct by laying down an objective to strive for in hundreds of treaties. It lays down not an absolute but a relative obligation to achieve sustainable development, through the adoption of a range of (increasingly) defined measures.
