Book review of Rethinking Sustainable Development in terms of justice: Issues of theory, law and governance
| Autor | Simona Fanni |
| Páginas | 1-9 |
REVISTA CATALANA DE DRET AMBIENTAL Vol. IX Núm. 2 (2018): 1 – 9
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[https://doi.org/10.17345/rcda2481]
FELIPE PÉREZ, B., IGLESIAS MÁRQUEZ, D. y MARTÍNEZ HERNÁNDEZ, L., Rethinking
Sustainable Development in Terms of Justice: Issues of Theory, Law and
Governance, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2018, 191
pp.
Rethinking Sustainable Development in Terms of Justice: Issues of Theory, Law
and Governance offers an innovative understanding of the concept of sustainable
development, exploring the concept’s very essence, as well as its strengths and
weaknesses. The book carries out a thorough and articulated analysis of whether
sustainable development can still provide a paradigm that promotes values like
procedural fairness and distributive justice in international environmental law.
In particular, the book pursues the ambitious purpose of rethinking the concept
of sustainable development. It argues for the need to revisit and adapt the
normative, institutional and regulatory paradigms of a wide legal reality—
encompassing various areas of law at different levels that range from
international law and international governance to constitutional law—in order to
promote social fairness and environmental sustainability (p. 3).
More specifically, the book offers a critique of certain instruments and patterns in
the current approach to sustainable development and of how sustainable
development is itself conceived. This critique deconstructs different elements in
the concept of sustainable development in order to disclose the latter’s inherent
shortcomings, which have led to an application and implementation that has often
been inadequate. In this way, the book underscores how practical obstacles often
derive from theoretical flaws in the conception and vision of sustainable
development
From this viewpoint, the book highlights how the language and the rhetoric of
sustainable development itself involves an intrinsic compromise that explains why
it does not always express its full, intended potential in practice. Talking about
“sustainable development” suggests an acceptance of the very capitalistic view
of natural resource management and systems of production that have led to their
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