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The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law
  • Edited by Jonas Ebbesson, Ellen Hey
  • Published online:
    23 September 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022
  • In 2015, the United Nations established seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that aimed 'to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all' by 2030. The chapters within this collection address each of these SDGs, considering how they relate to one another and international law, and what institutions could aid their implementation. Development has been a contentious topic since the decolonization period after World War II, and issues surrounding sustainable development are necessarily impacted by the multifaceted relationship between the Global South and Global North. Confronting the context and challenge of sustainable development, this collection outlines how the international economic system problematizes the attainment of the SDGs. Introducing a novel, cosmopolitan approach, this book offers new ways of understanding sustainable development and suggests potential solutions so that we might finally achieve it.

  • Introduction: The Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 2030, and International Law

  • Edited by Jonas Ebbesson, Stockholms Universitet, Ellen Hey, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law
    Published online:
    23 September 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022, pp 1-49

  • Summary

    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda 2030, and international law interact in multifaceted and complex ways. On the one hand, neither Agenda 2030 nor the SDGs fundamentally question the role of the international economic system, which is entrenched in international law and supportive of activities that do not necessarily further sustainable development. On the other hand, Agenda 2030 aims to transform our world, by evoking a bold cosmopolitan understanding of sustainable development, so that no one is left behind. This cosmopolitan understanding of sustainable development should inspire the application and development of international law, if indeed no one is to be left behind. International law offers ample opportunities for implementing such an approach to sustainable development.

    Keywords

    SDGs, Agenda 2030, sustainable development, cosmopolitan approaches, justice, equity, international economic law, human rights law, international environmental law

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in “The Anthropocene”

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  • Ellen Hey
  • Journal:
    AJIL Unbound / Volume 112 / 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 December 2018, pp. 350-354
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  • This essay considers the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) at a time at which humans are dramatically changing the planet, prompting scientists to suggest that we are living in a new geological epoch: “the Anthropocene.” The Anthropocene, even if an essentially contested concept, prompts reconsideration of our interhuman socioeconomic relations and our understanding of the human-nature interface, both of which come with significant challenges. This essay suggests that the UDHR offers the space for engaging with these challenges, if we adopt an Anthropocene-relevant reading of its provisions. This essay also argues that such a reading of the UDHR, on its own, is unlikely to lead to the adoption of an Anthropocene-relevant reading of other international instruments, international economic instruments in particular. It points to enhanced regime interaction as a way to address this issue.

The Role of ‘Experts' in International and European Decision-Making Processes
  • Advisors, Decision Makers or Irrelevant Actors?
  • Edited by Monika Ambrus, Karin Arts, Ellen Hey, Helena Raulus
  • Published online:
    05 September 2014
    Print publication:
    28 August 2014
  • Experts are increasingly relied on in decision-making processes at international and European levels. Their involvement in those processes, however, is contested. This timely book on the role of 'experts' provides a broad-gauged analysis of the issues raised by their involvement in decision-making processes. The chapters explore three main recurring themes: the rationales for involving experts and ensuing legitimacy problems; the individual and collective dimensions of expert involvement in decision making; and experts and politics and the politics of expertise. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, they theorize the experts' involvement in general and address their role in the policy areas of environment, trade, human rights, migration, financial regulation, and agencification in the European Union.

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