Sustainable development in international law making and trade : international food governance and trade in agriculture / Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Attorney at Law and Senior Lecturer, World Trade Institute and Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland.
2015
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Title
Sustainable development in international law making and trade : international food governance and trade in agriculture / Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Attorney at Law and Senior Lecturer, World Trade Institute and Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Published
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]
Call Number
K3585 .B874 2015
ISBN
9781784717261 (cased)
1784717266 (hbk.)
9781784717278 (eBook)
1784717274 (ebook)
1784717266 (hbk.)
9781784717278 (eBook)
1784717274 (ebook)
Description
xxvi, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)930876934
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-409) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of figures
viii
List of boxes
ix
Foreword
x
Foreword Olivier De Schutter / Thomas Cottier
xii
Acknowledgements / Thomas Cottier
xviii
Table of cases / Thomas Cottier
xx
Table of international law / Thomas Cottier
xxii
Introduction and overview / Thomas Cottier
1
Part I The Foundations Of Sustainable Development / Thomas Cottier
1.
History of the concept of sustainable development / Thomas Cottier
9
1.1.
Sectorial approaches towards development: From 1960 to 1990 / Thomas Cottier
10
1.2.
Reconciliation by the concept of sustainable development / Thomas Cottier
21
1.3.
search for a pathway of interaction / Thomas Cottier
28
1.4.
new Millennium: Focus on implementation / Thomas Cottier
37
1.5.
In conclusion / Thomas Cottier
52
2.
Conceptual and institutional approaches towards sustainable development / Thomas Cottier
53
2.1.
Multi-dimensional concept of sustainable development / Thomas Cottier
54
2.2.
Capital stock model of the World Bank / Thomas Cottier
60
2.3.
Context-based approach towards sustainable development / Thomas Cottier
64
2.4.
People-centred perspective: Amartya Sen's concept of sustainable human development / Thomas Cottier
65
2.5.
Economic dimension under scrutiny / Thomas Cottier
68
2.6.
National sustainable development strategies and the example of Switzerland / Thomas Cottier
81
2.7.
Coherent and inclusive policy making by the OECD / Thomas Cottier
85
2.8.
Informed decision making and the role of impact assessments / Thomas Cottier
86
2.9.
In conclusion / Thomas Cottier
95
Conclusion of Part I / Thomas Cottier
97
Part II Sustainable Development In International Law / Thomas Cottier
3.
International sustainable development law: A new branch of law / Thomas Cottier
101
3.1.
Adoption of sustainable development into treaty law: Different nonnative meaning from case to case / Thomas Cottier
102
3.2.
Reference to sustainable development in international jurisprudence: An elusive concept? / Thomas Cottier
103
3.3.
Academia in search of contours / Thomas Cottier
120
3.4.
Legal principle of sustainable development: A normative framework / Thomas Cottier
134
3.5.
Policy framework for sustainable, coherent decision making / Thomas Cottier
153
3.6.
In conclusion / Thomas Cottier
156
4.
Notion of legal coherence in the context of sustainable development / Thomas Cottier
158
4.1.
Different notions of legal coherence / Thomas Cottier
158
4.2.
Examples of coherent (optimal) options? Legal coherence as regulatory fabric / Thomas Cottier
167
4.3.
'Coherence making': Some additional elements of inclusive decision making / Thomas Cottier
177
4.4.
In conclusion / Thomas Cottier
185
5.
Status of the principle of sustainable development in international law / Thomas Cottier
187
5.1.
Adoption into treaty law / Thomas Cottier
187
5.2.
Customary law? / Thomas Cottier
189
5.3.
General principle of international law? / Thomas Cottier
192
5.4.
In conclusion / Thomas Cottier
193
Conclusion of Part II / Thomas Cottier
194
Part III Trade In Agriculture Assessed For Coherence / Thomas Cottier
6.
legal foundations of the assessment / Thomas Cottier
197
6.1.
Reasons for a sustainability assessment: Patterns of the global food system / Thomas Cottier
198
6.2.
Limitations of the sustainability assessment to the AoA / Thomas Cottier
200
6.3.
WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) / Thomas Cottier
202
6.4.
constitutional principles of the WTO / Thomas Cottier
208
6.5.
Sustainability assessment out of thin air? Preambles, negotiation clause and Doha Declaration / Thomas Cottier
228
6.6.
In conclusion / Thomas Cottier
248
7.
Legal principle of sustainable development applied to the Agreement on Agriculture / Thomas Cottier
250
7.1.
AoA and the duty to include: The horizontal principles and standards / Thomas Cottier
250
7.2.
AoA and the duty to include: The vertical principles and standards / Thomas Cottier
304
7.3.
Indicators for empirical assessment: The way forward / Thomas Cottier
305
7.4.
AoA and the Duty to Structure and Weigh: Some Entry Points for Further Reflection / Thomas Cottier
331
7.5.
AoA and the Duty to Balance and Reconcile: Developing Optimal Options / Thomas Cottier
332
Conclusion of Chapter 7 and Part III: The optimal option must be 'somewhere in-between' / Thomas Cottier
355
Concluding remarks / Thomas Cottier
362
Bibliography / Thomas Cottier
364
Index / Thomas Cottier
411