Transnational sustainability laws

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The work Transnational sustainability laws represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Transnational sustainability laws

Statement of responsibility

Phillip Paiement

Creator

• Paiement, Phillip

Author

• Paiement, Phillip

Subject

• Environmental law, International
• Palm oil industry -- Law and legislation
• Sustainable development -- Law and legislation

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Global Law Series

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

K3585

LC item number

.P35 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Global law series