This 2007 book surveys the global experience to date in implementing land-use policies that move us further along the sustainable development continuum. The international community has long recognized the need to ensure ongoing and future development is conducted sustainably. While high-level commitments towards sustainable development such as those included in the Rio and Johannesburg Declarations are politically important, they are irrelevant if they are not translated into reality on the ground. This book includes chapters that discuss the challenges of implementing sustainable land-use...

This book presents a global perspective on biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of sustainable cultures. Contributions have been collected from scholars in every region of the world, and addresses issues from the international, regional, country-specific perspectives. Themes covered include the history and major government structures in this area; prerequisites to biodiversity conservation; biosecurity; and access to and sharing of benefits from components of biodiversity and their economic value.

This book collects land use laws from countries on each continent that attempt to achieve sustainable development. Due to the startling evidence of global deterioriation and the long-term trends in land use, the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development was signed in 2002. In the laws collected in this volume, the reader can witness the evolution of national legal systems as they respond to the challenge of sustainable development. This volume illuminates the great flexibility and power of the law as a vehicle for change. Laws contained in this compendium are mechanisms competent to...

This book presents a global perspective on biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of sustainable cultures. Contributions have been collected from scholars in every region of the world, and addresses issues from the international, regional, country-specific perspectives. Themes covered include the history and major government structures in this area; prerequisites to biodiversity conservation; biosecurity; and access to and sharing of benefits from components of biodiversity and their economic value.

In November 2003, the Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) of IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) launched a new scholarly network of environmental law faculties and professors: the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. The IUCN Academy, a consortium of specialized research centers in university law faculties worldwide, constitutes a learned society examining how law advances a just society that values and conserves nature. As part of the Academy's mandate, a significant topic of interregional research will be identified each year and the results...

This volume is a companion to The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development (Cambridge, 2004). Here, the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law assembles, for the first time, a volume of legal instruments which can be recognized as constituting the core of the law of energy for sustainable development. Like its companion work, this volume will be an essential reference for all professionals involved in environmental and energy research.

This 2007 book surveys the global experience to date in implementing land-use policies that move us further along the sustainable development continuum. The international community has long recognized the need to ensure ongoing and future development is conducted sustainably. While high-level commitments towards sustainable development such as those included in the Rio and Johannesburg Declarations are politically important, they are irrelevant if they are not translated into reality on the ground. This book includes chapters that discuss the challenges of implementing sustainable land-use...