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Shaping the Law for Global Crises: Thoughts About the Role the Law Could Play to Come to Grips with the Major Challenges of Our Time (Legal Perspectives for Global Challenges) - Softcover

Spier, Jaap

 
9789490947439: Shaping the Law for Global Crises: Thoughts About the Role the Law Could Play to Come to Grips with the Major Challenges of Our Time (Legal Perspectives for Global Challenges)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9490947431 ISBN 13: 9789490947439
Publisher: Eleven International Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

In the course of the last one hundred years, quite a lot has been achieved especially in the "Western" world. Life standards have risen considerably. All kind of serious diseases belong to the past. People get older than ever before; the progress of technology has proven beneficial to mankind. Primarily the "developed" countries have gained a lot from all this, although these developments have also had spin-off effects on the "developing" countries. For example, extreme poverty has been eradicated to quite some extent. The BRICS-countries have become new economic powers in the world. Despite all these advances, the world still faces many threats and challenges. This book aims to provide thoughts about the role the law could possibly play to ward off man-made crises. The focus will be on global threats which are, unless checked in due time, going to stir the world at large. What follows tries to provide stepping stones for shaping the law to cope with the major challenges of our time, such as climate change, sustainable development and the eradication of poverty.

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About the Author

Jaap Spier is an Advocate-General in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands and ahonorary professor at the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands).

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In the course of the last one hundred years, quite a lot has been achieved especially in the "Western" world. Life standards have risen considerably. All kind of serious diseases belong to the past. People get older than ever before; the progress of technology has proven beneficial to mankind. Primarily the "developed" countries have gained a lot from all this, although these developments have also had spin-off effects on the "developing" countries. For example, extreme poverty has been eradicated to quite some extent. The BRICS-countries have become new economic powers in the world. Despite all these advances, the world still faces many threats and challenges. This book aims to provide thoughts about the role the law could possibly play to ward off man-made crises. The focus will be on global threats which are, unless checked in due time, going to stir the world at large. What follows tries to provide stepping stones for shaping the law to cope with the major challenges of our time, such as climate change, sustainable development and the eradication of poverty.

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Publisher
Eleven International Publishing
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9490947431
ISBN 13 
9789490947439
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
252