Description:
This important volume steps beyond conventional legal approaches to sustainability to provide fresh insights into perhaps one of the most critical global challenges of our time.
Offering analysis of sustainability at land and sea alongside trade, labour and corporate governance perspectives, this book articulates important debates about the role of law. From impacts on local societies to domestic sustainable development policies and major international goals, it considers multiple jurisdictional levels.
With original, interdisciplinary research from experts in their legal fields, this is a rounded assessment of the complex interplay of law and sustainability--both as it is now and as it should be in the future.
Brief description: Margherita Pieraccini is Reader in Law at the University of Bristol. Her research is socio-legal and focuses on nature conservation law, marine policy and commons.
Review Quotes: "Amidst rising spending on public procurement and growing evidence of serious failures in service provision by profit-oriented, often highly-financialized, private providers, Nina Boeger's innovative, thoughtful and timely book explores some of the ways in which alternative, more inclusive, less financially oriented providers might be integrated into, and used to improve, the provision of public services. In challenging the idea that the choice is a simple one between provision by private or state-owned companies, the book serves the important purpose of highlighting not merely the need for experimentation but the wide range of institutional possibility". Paddy Ireland, University of Bristol