La problematica de la degradaci6n ambiental ha llegado a niveles extremos, esto ha hecho que se busquen alternativas para la defensa del medio ambiente. Una de esas alternativas es el desarrollo sostenible, termino acuñado en el informe Burtland y que define la necesidad de conseguir el desarrollo actual sin perjudicar el desarrollo de las futuras generaciones. Muchos paises tratan de llevar adelante politicas con la finalidad de conseguir un desarrollo sustentable o sostenible; sin embargo, los logros que podria obtener un solo país por la defensa del medio ambiente tendria una eficacia mínima si comparamos con los tremendos problemas ambientales que soporta nuestro planeta; es necesaria la accion colectiva de la comunidad internacional en su conjunto para tratar de conseguir una solución satisfactoria.

La Conferencia, tambi n conocida como la Cumbre de R o, fue un escaparate de la lucha entre diversos intereses mundiales, este libro conjunta el pensamiento de distintos expertos sobre varios de los temas cubiertos en la Conferencia en torno a la situaci n del desarrollo sustentable en Am rica Latina y en especial en M xico.

"Articles from a seminar organized in Colombia in preparation for the 1992 Rio Earth Summit discuss global and national environmental issues and policies. Interesting analyses of the growing importance of environmental issues within global international relations. Followed by studies of environmental policies of the US, Venezuela, the Andean Group, and in Amazonia. Particularly valuable is the final section that contains Colombia's official proposal for environmental policies, critical analysis of official positions, and the agenda for the Rio summit"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

By examining Trump's verbal techniques, this book illuminates how he employs words to power his presidency whilst scandalizing the world.

This book increases the visibility, clarity and understanding of ecological law. Ecological law is emerging as a field of law founded on systems thinking and the need to integrate ecological limits, such as planetary boundaries, into law. Presenting new thinking in the field, this book focuses on problem areas of contemporary law including environmental law, property law, trusts, legal theory and First Nations law and explains how ecological law provides solutions. Written by ecological law experts, it does this by 1) providing an overview of shortcomings of environmental law and other areas of contemporary law, 2) presenting specific examples of these shortcomings, 3) explaining what ecological law is and how it provides solutions to the shortcomings of contemporary law, and 4) showing how society can overcome some key challenges in the transition to ecological law. Drawing on a diverse range of case study examples including Indigenous law, ecological restoration and mining, this volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers of environmental and ecological law and governance, political science, environmental ethics and ecological and degrowth economics.

A study of the environmental performance of big business. It examines: corporate self-regulation; environmental reporting; voluntary codes of conduct; complementary approaches (including governmental regulatory ones); and the role of citizens' movements/NGOs in holding business to account.

In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA. Understanding the implications of creating legal rights for rivers is an urgent challenge for both water resource management and environmental law. Giving rivers legal rights means the law can see rivers as legal persons, thus creating new legal rights which can then be enforced. When rivers are legally people, does that encourage collaboration and partnership between humans and rivers, or establish rivers as another competitor for scarce resources? To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers (EWMs). These organisations have legal personality, and have been active in water resource management for over two decades. EWMs operate by acquiring water rights from irrigators in rivers where there is insufficient water to maintain ecological health. EWMs can compete with farmers for access to water, but they can also strengthen collaboration between traditionally divergent users of the aquatic environment, such as environmentalists, recreational fishers, hunters, farmers, and hydropower. This book explores how EWMs use the opportunities created by giving nature legal rights, such as the ability to participate in markets, enter contracts, hold property, and enforce those rights in court. However, examination of the EWMs unearths a crucial and unexpected paradox: giving legal rights to nature may increase its legal power, but in doing so it can weaken community support for protecting the environment in the first place. The book develops a new conceptual framework to identify the multiple constructions of the environment in law, and how these constructions can interact to generate these unexpected outcomes. It explores EWMs in the USA and Australia as examples, and assesses the implications of creating legal rights for rivers for water governance. Lessons from the EWMs, as well as early lessons from the new ‘river persons,’ show how to use the law to improve river protection and how to begin to mitigate the problems of the paradox.