The Long Road to Sustainability:The Past, Present, and Future of Inteational Environmental Law and Policy

by: Alexander Gillespie (Author)

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Publication Date: 1 Feb. 2018

Language: English

Print Length: 294 pages

ISBN-10: 019881951X

ISBN-13: 9780198819516

Book Description

For the last few thousand years, humanity has struggled to achieve sustainable development. Gillespie sees the problem as multi-faceted:a three legged stool of economic, social, and environmental conundrums have stalled the quest for the long term viability of both our species and the ecosystems in which we reside. Gillespie moves from the low life expectancy, excessive deforestation, and wetland drainage of the medieval period, through the species loss, coal buing, free trade, and poor waste management of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to the more recent conces of climate change, unsustainable fisheries, and chemical pollutants. By delivering a comprehensive examination of human survival over the past millennium, Gillespie illustrates that the challenges we face are not new – that we now have the means to counter them, is.

About the Author

Book Description An examination of humanity’s quest for sustainable development over the last millennium
About the Author
Alexander Gillespie is Professor of Inteational Law at the University of Waikato, and Rapporteur for the World Heritage Convention. He is author of several books, and has been awarded a Rotary Inteational Scholarship, Fulbright Fellowship, Rockerfeller Fellowship, and the New Zealand Law Foundation Inteational Research Fellowship. Gillespie has also been the lawyer/expert on a number of inteational delegations and advised the New Zealand govement on multiple matters of inteational conce. Gillespie was the first New Zealander to be named Rapporteur for the World Heritage Convention, involving inteational environmental diplomacy under the auspices of UNESCO. Gillespie has also been engaged in policy formation for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and govemental, commercial, and non-govemental organizations in New Zealand, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Switzerland.

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