Governance, Good Governance, Earth System Governance... and International Law

Susana Camargo Vieira 

Universidade de Itaúna, School of Law
August 22, 2013

Polish Yearbook of International Law, vol. 32 (2012), pp. 111-127 
Abstract:      
This article is about concepts, circumstances, the impact of technology upon life, the emergence of new problems which bring new challenges to our peoples and our planet in our pursuit of sustainable development. New challenges call for new solutions and different ways of using already existing resources, tools and mechanisms. So we revisit and compare bibliography through time; recall the work (and product of) of several ILA International Committees on the subject and especially its New Delhi Declaration of Principles of International Law as Relating to Sustainable Development; turn to new initiatives, namely, the Earth System Governance Project and Future Earth. And conclude on the urgency of bridging “hard” and “social” sciences in the quest for these solutions, given the holistic character of the problem, if we expect them to be democratic and sustainable – bearing in mind, always, that politics creates and law consolidates.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 23

Keywords: sustainable development, ILA, International Law Association, principles of international law, Earth System Governance, governance

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