Transnational sustainability laws / Phillip Paiement.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paiement, Phillip, author.

Series:

Global law series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Law and legislation.

Sustainable development.

Environmental law, International.

Palm oil industry--Law and legislation.

Palm oil industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Transnational standards related to the environmental and social sustainability of production processes are becoming commonplace governance tools in the global economy. This book demonstrates how sustainability standards serve two fundamentally different functions: coordination and regulation. Standards can coordinate like-minded businesses in an industry by demarcating common sustainability commitments to distinguish between sustainable and unsustainable sectors of the industry. Yet, standards can also regulate businesses, requiring them to change production and trade practices to align with the sustainability demands of third-parties, including trading partners, advocacy groups, consumers and other civil society constituencies. These two functions reflect the private and public lenses, respectively, through which legal scholars can assess standards as transnational sustainability laws. With key case studies in forestry standards, palm oil standards, and the ISEAL Alliance, this book demonstrates how socio-legal analyses of transnational rulemaking inform debates about global administrative law and the constitutionalization of the global economy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Nov 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108283694

Access Restriction:

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