Envisioning Our Environmental Future

Stockholm+50 and Beyond

Editors

Desai, B.H.

Publication date

# of pages

272

Cover

Softcover

ISBN print

978-1-64368-318-8

ISBN online

978-1-64368-319-5
This Book Contains A Subject Index

Description

With the Stockholm+50 Conference, held on 2-3 June 2022, the global movement to protect the environment has reached a 50 year milestone. The first UN Conference on the Human Environment, also held in Stockholm, from 5-16 June 1972, proved to be the watershed in addressing this problem, and as the world assembles once more in the Swedish capital it is time to think aloud and look ahead. In his address in 1972, the then Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme said: “The decisive question is in which direction we will develop...there is no individual future, neither for people nor for nations.” The only other head of government to attend in 1972, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, highlighted the development as “one of the primary means of improving the environment of living, of providing food, water, sanitation and shelter, of making the deserts green and mountains habitable” and drew attention to the wisdom of the Atharva Veda: What of thee I dig out; Let that quickly grow over; Let me not hit thy vitals or thy heart."

As we look back over 50 years, we need to assess what has gone wrong in the trajectory travelled so far and look ahead to the future of our environment at this juncture and beyond. As a scholarly journal for global decision-makers, Environmental Policy and Law (EPL) has sought to envision what lies ahead in the 21st century by inviting outstanding scholarly works from around the world. The 22 articles which resulted from this invitation are presented in this book, Envisioning Our Environmental Future: Stockholm+50 and Beyond, which is organised in three parts: Testing Times; Global Ideas; and Sectoral Ideas. The book is a sequel to Our Earth Matters (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2021).

About the Editor: Bharat H. Desai is Professor of International Law and Jawaharlal Nehru Chair in International Environmental Law at the Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is Editor-in-Chief of the global journals Environmental Policy and Law (Amsterdam: IOS Press) and Yearbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Prof. Desai’s ideas and proposals are reflected in his published books and in journals of international repute.

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This book is a culmination of the Road to Stockholm+50 and Beyond special section of EPL, which featured in the free webinar where the editor and many of the book's authors undertook cutting-edge ideational reflections to probe the topics covered in this important publication. For details, to watch the webinar recording, and to read an extract of the Foreword, go here

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