Sustainable Consumption: The Right To A Healthy Environment

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This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how. Bringing together legal scholars from the Global South and the Global North, it examines these questions in the context of national, transnational and international law, within single and plural legal systems, and across a range of sector-specific issue areas. The chapters identify how traditional legal disciplines (e.g. constitutional law, consumer law, public procurement, international public law), sector-related regulation (e.g. energy, water, waste), and legal rules in specific areas (e.g. eco-labelling and packing) engage with the concept of sustainable consumption. A number of the contributions describe this relationship by isolating a national legal system, while others approach it from the vantage point of legal pluralism, exploring the conflicts and convergences of rules between multiple international treaties (or guidelines) and those between the rules of international and transnational law (or both) vis-à-vis national legal systems. While sustainable consumption is recognised as an important field of interdisciplinary research linking virtually all social science disciplines, legal scholarship, in contrast, has neglected the importance of the field of sustainable consumption to the law. This book fills the gap. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix An Introduction to Sustainable Consumption and the Law (Alberto do Amaral Junior, Lucila de Almeida, Luciane Klein Vieira)....Pages 1-9 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 International and Transnational Consumer Law on Sustainable Consumption (Mateja Durovic, Franciszek Lech)....Pages 13-25 Sustainable Consumption and Obsolescence of Consumer Products (Thierry Bourgoignie)....Pages 27-47 The Shift from Consumer Protection to Consumer Empowerment and the Consequences for Sustainable Consumption (Patrícia Galindo da Fonseca)....Pages 49-61 Sustainable Consumption and Brazilian Consumer Behaviour (Diógenes Faria de Carvalho, Vitor Hugo Do Amaral Ferreira)....Pages 63-75 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 The Role of Sustainable Consumption and Disaster Law in Climate Risk Management (Délton W. de Carvalho, Fernanda D. L. Damacena)....Pages 79-103 Sustainable Public Procurement in Brazil (Teresa Villac, Maria Cecília Loschiavo dos Santos)....Pages 105-118 The Preventive Function and Sustainable Consumption: A Creative Challenge for Attorneys (Claudia Lujan Oviedo)....Pages 119-135 Taking Care of Business: Engaging Dialogue on Solutions to Unsustainable Commercial Practices (Sergio Sebastián Barocelli)....Pages 137-152 Consumer Law and Sustainability: The Work of the United Nations (Ana Cândida Muniz Cipriano)....Pages 153-165 International Trade in Environmental Goods and Services and Sustainable Production and Consumption (Guilherme José Pastana de Figueiredo)....Pages 167-185 Front Matter ....Pages 187-187 Regulating Green Marketing Claims in the United States (James P. Nehf)....Pages 189-206 Collective Valuation of the Common Good Through Consumption: What Is (Un)Lawful in Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labelling of Non-Food Products? (Suvi Sankari)....Pages 207-227 The Importance of Labelling Food Items: Information, Food Security and Sustainable Consumption (Fabiana D’Andrea Ramos, Tatiana Cardoso Squeff)....Pages 229-247 Tobacco Packaging As a Contribution for Promotion of a Healthy Environment in Brazil (Luís Renato Vedovato, Cristiane G. F. Vianna)....Pages 249-265 Front Matter ....Pages 267-267 The International Regulation of Living Modified Organisms (Alberto do Amaral Junior, Luciane Klein Vieira)....Pages 269-284 The Effects of International Agreements on Water Security: A Critical Study of the EU and MERCOSUR Approaches (Kleverton Melo de Carvalho, Clara María Minaverry)....Pages 285-305 Sustainable Water Consumption, Foreign Direct Investment and the Human Right to Water (Andreia Costa Vieira)....Pages 307-329 Building Upon Sustainable Consumption and Production for Food and Apparel (Rodrigo Carvalho de Abreu Lima, Josiane Godoy Lima)....Pages 331-350 Supermarkets and Private Standards of Sustainability: The Responsibility to Protect Without Protectionism (Tiago Matsuoka Megale)....Pages 351-371 Front Matter ....Pages 373-373 Reasonable Credit in Canada: An Attempt to Avoid Over-Indebtedness (Marc Lacoursière)....Pages 375-394 Homes or iPhones? Diversion of Social Security Funds to Relieve Consumption-Fuelled Household Debt in Brazil (Maria Paula Bertran)....Pages 395-407 Auction Design to Procure Energy Efficiency Measures as Distributed Energy Resources (Tiago de Barros Correia, Gabriel Moreira Pinto, Vitor Hugo da Silva Oliveira)....Pages 409-442 Consumer Law, Sustainable Energy Consumption and Mini- and Microgrid Decentralized Generation in Brazil (Claudia Lima Marques, Matheus Linck Bassani)....Pages 443-462 Planned Obsolescence Resulting from Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Waste Rights and Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy (Cláudio José Franzolin)....Pages 463-477 Potential Legal Avenues for Managing the Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology (Wilson Engelmann, Haide Maria Hupffer, Raquel Von Hohendorff)....Pages 479-494 Looking Back to Look Forward: A Future Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption, Law and Development (Alberto do Amaral Junior, Lucila de Almeida, Luciane Klein Vieira)....Pages 495-500