Research Catalog

Title

Natural resources and sustainable development : international economic law perspectives / edited by Celine Tan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK ; Julio Faundez, Professor (Emeritus), School of Law, University of Warwick, UK.

Publication

• Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tan, Celine
• Faúndez, Julio

Description

xi, 330 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"The centrality of natural resources to global economic growth has placed the debate over their ownership and control at the forefront of legal, territorial and political disputes. Combining both legal and policy expertise with academic and practitioner perspectives this book considers the dimensions of natural resource governance at a time when disputes over their use grow more acute. Focusing on the law, regulation and governance of natural resources, this ... work examines in detail the conflicts and contradictions arising at the intersection between international economic law, sustainable development and other areas of international law, most notably human rights law and environmental law. Exploring the views of different stakeholder groups in the natural resources sectors, key chapters consider whether their differing interests and concerns are adequately addressed under national and international law."--

Subject

• Economic development projects > Law and legislation
• Environmental law, International
• International finance > Law and legislation
• Sustainable development > Law and legislation
• Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht
• Nachhaltigkeit
• Natürliche Ressourcen
• International economic law
• Sustainable development
• Environmental protection
• Natural resources
• Environnement > Droit
• Développement durable > Droit

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Celine Tan and Julio Faundez -- Investment treaties, natural resources and regulatory space : technical issues and political choice in international investment law / Lorenzo Cotula -- Risky business : political risk insurance and the law and governance of natural resources / Celine Tan -- The extractive industries transparency initiative in Africa : overcoming the resource curse and promoting sustainable development / Emma Wilson and James Van Alstine -- BITs, state regulation and business-related human rights violations in water and sanitation services -- Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Liber Martâin, Liber and Juan Justo -- Away from the spotlight : foreign investment in the Afghan extractive sector and the state's duty to protect the right to water / Daria Davitti -- The governance of natural resources in Latin America : the commodities consensus and the policy space conundrum / Julio Faundez -- Transferring wealth, developing poverty / Christiana Ochoa -- Situating the Amazon in world politics / Manuela Picq -- Tropical forests, climate change and green governmentality / Sam Adelman -- The role of law in the economy and in regulating natural resources and environmental protection in China / John McEldowney -- Natural resources and global value chains : what role for the WTO? / Fiona Smith -- Sustainable chemical regulation in a global environment / Sharron McEldowney -- Litigation against multinational oil companies in their home state jurisdictions : an alternative legal response to pollution damage in foreign jurisdictions / David Ong -- The public interest in international investment arbitration on natural resources / Claire Buggenhoudt.

ISBN

• 9781783478378
• 1783478373
• 9781789901030
• 1789901030
• 9781783478385 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017936561

OCLC

• ocn973478364
• 973478364
• SCSB-8805286

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library