Open AccessINTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: SOUTHERN INFLUENCES.
Author(s) -
Fernando Rei
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
veredas do direito
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.197
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2179-8699
pISSN - 1806-3845
DOI - 10.18623/rvd.v15i32.1257
Subject(s) - environmental law , environmental governance , harmony (color) , political science , corporate governance , international law , sustainable development , environmental studies , face (sociological concept) , global governance , sustainability , environmental ethics , engineering ethics , sociology , law and economics , law , social science , economics , management , engineering , ecology , politics , art , philosophy , visual arts , biology
The purpose of this article when it discusses the southern approaches brought to global governance gets mixed with the addressing of the challenges facing the legal science in harmony with the others sciences to deal with the complex environmental issues of the 21st century. Thinking of a successful international environmental regulation is talking about an effort to understand the need for the instrumental law to comply with its role to solve complex issues that are typical of the construction of a sustainable society. The first part of the article consider that the international environmental law has been facing the emerging global environmental issues in an innovating way, incorporating a new form of global environmental governance based on which new players are brought to the discussion and implementation of measures to face environmental problems. After that, the article highlights the southern actions in the role of the scientific expertise and in the environmental paradiplomacy, and evaluates the influence and contributions in the decision making scenario and in the news perspectives of international law. The article concludes that the southern influences suggest a more pragmatic, finalistic international law that is concerned about the results, the achievement of the goals proposed