Development without Destruction: The UN and Global Resource Management (United Nations Intellectual History Project Series) - Softcover

Schrijver, Nico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253221978 ISBN 13: 9780253221971

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Since 1945, the UN has been actively engaged in conceptualizing strategies for both economic development and a sustainable environment. From a broad historical perspective, Development without Destruction sketches the role played by organizations and individuals in the UN system in developing and consolidating principles of international law and international governance with respect to natural resource management. Nico Schrijver highlights the UN's efforts to generate and implement strategies to resolve tensions between economic development and environmental protection, conservation and exploitation, sovereignty and internationalism, and armed conflict and peaceful access to natural resources. Schrijver's thorough analysis is an indispensable guide to management of the critical environmental issues on today's global agenda.

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About the Author

Nico Schrijver holds the Chair of International Law and is Academic Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. He is author of The Evolution of Sustainable Development in International Law: Inception, Meaning, and Status and Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253221978
• ISBN 13: 9780253221971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328