Description
Economic, technological, social and environmental transformations are affecting all humanity, and decisions taken today will impact the quality of life for all future generations. This volume surveys current commitments to sustainable development, analysing innovative policies, practices and procedures to promote respect for intergenerational justice. Expert contributors provide serious scholarly and practical discussions of the theoretical, institutional, and legal considerations inherent in intergenerational justice at local, national, regional and global scales. They investigate treaty commitments related to intergenerational equity, explore linkages between regimes, and offer insights from diverse experiences of national future generations' institutions. This volume should be read by lawyers, academics, policy-makers, business and civil society leaders interested in the economy, society, the environment, sustainable development, climate change, and other law, policy and practices impacting all generations.
Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The theoretical framework for international legal principles of intergenerational equity and implementation through national institutions; Part I. Introduction to Treaty Law on Intergenerational Justice and Codifying Sustainability: 3. International treaty law and policy for future generations; 4. Intergenerational justice under international treaty law: the obligations of the state to future generations; 5. The use of international human rights norms to implement international solidarity; Part II. Key Challenges in Domestic Implementation of Intergenerational Justice: 6. Future generations as a counterweight; 7. Future generations institutions to implement international obligations towards future generations; Part III. Law and Policy Innovations for Inter-Generational Justice: 8. Sustainability in European constitutional; 9. The principle of intergenerational solidarity in reshaping constitutional rights and obligations: an example from Portugal; 10. Time to think: sustainable development, future generations and the individual; 11. Claims and petitions regarding environment preservation for future generations; 12. Reasons and means of public participation; 13. Giving the voice of the future a word in the present; 14. Unsustainability as an economic problem; 15. Intergenerational equity and the European constitution; 16. Scientific uncertainty as a key obstacle to efficient legal protection of the environmental interests of future generations; 17. Transformative knowledge and solutions in sustainability governance; Part IV. Implementing Sustainability through National Institutions – Case Studies: 18. Institutions for a sustainable future: the former Israeli commission for future generations; 19. Norway – Norwegian ombudsman for children; 20. Institutions for a sustainable future: the german parliamentary advisory council on sustainable development; 21. Power over coming generations – committee for the future in the eduskunta, the parliament of Finland; 22. Welsh commissioner for sustainable futures; 23. Parliamentary commissioner for the environment, New Zealand; 24. Canadian commissioner of the environment and sustainable development; 25. Intergenerational justice in colombian governance & peace accords; 26. Indigenous peoples and inter-generational equity in Mexico; 27. Legal innovations for inter-generational justice in sustainable landscapes management of democratic republic of Congo; 28. Local indigenous planning instruments for intergenerational equity in ahousaht traditional territories of Canada; 29. A comparative analysis of model institutisons: diversity in reaching common goals; 30. Comparing progress in inter-generational governance; 31. International institutions for future generations and democratic legitimacy; Part V. Regional Trends in Intergenerational Justice: 32. A European human rights perspective on national sustainable development institutions; 33. Embedding intergenerational justice across government: regional trends in Africa; 34. Intergenerational equity, justice, and modern treaties between first nations communities and Canada; 35. Institutions for future generations in Asia; Part VI. Future Trends: 36. Equity across generations in implementing international law on water; 37. Intergenerational justice in the Paris agreement on climate change; 38. The four-branches model of government – representing future generations; 39. Intergenerational equity in sustainable development treaty implementation.
