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Transnational standards related to the environmental and social sustainability of production processes are becoming commonplace governance tools in the global economy. This book demonstrates how sustainability standards serve two fundamentally different functions: coordination and regulation. Standards can coordinate like-minded businesses in an industry by demarcating common sustainability commitments to distinguish between sustainable and unsustainable sectors of the industry. Yet, standards can also regulate businesses, requiring them to change production and trade practices to align with the sustainability demands of third-parties, including trading partners, advocacy groups, consumers and other civil society constituencies. These two functions reflect the private and public lenses, respectively, through which legal scholars can assess standards as transnational sustainability laws. With key case studies in forestry standards, palm oil standards, and the ISEAL Alliance, this book demonstrates how socio-legal analyses of transnational rulemaking inform debates about global administrative law and the constitutionalization of the global economy.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139781108417914
eBay Product ID (ePID)25046653304
Product Key Features
Number of Pages358 Pages
Publication NameTransnational Sustainability Laws
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLaw
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
AuthorPhillip Paiement
SeriesGlobal Law Series
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight620 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPhillip Paiement