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Remarks by Don Anton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Don Anton
Don Anton*
Affiliation:
Australian National University College of Law
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Twenty Years After the Rio Earth Summit: What Is the Agenda for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development?
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 106 , 2012 , pp. 95 - 98
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 Barbara Ward & René Dubos, Only One Earth: the Care and Maintenance of A Small Planet, at xii (1972).

2 This characterization is drawn from the expression “secret beating heart of international law” used by Sundhya Pahuja in a faculty seminar presented at the Australian National University in March 2012.

3 Maurice Strong, Where on Earth Are weGoing? 124 (2001).

4 Founex Report on Development and Environment, para. 1.7 (1971).

5 World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future 43 (1987)Google Scholar.

6 Gro Harlem Brundtland, James Marshall Memorial Lecture (Oct. 19, 1987) (“Sustainable development itself—the overriding political concept of the Commission—is, in fact, a new concept for economic growth”) (copy on file with author).

7 G.A. Res. 44/228, op. para. 6 (Dec. 22, 1989).

8 Sand, Peter H., Unced and the Development of International Environmental Law, 3 Y.B. Int’l Envtl. L. 3, 17 (1993)Google Scholar.

9 Pallemaerts, Marc, International Environmental Law from Stockholm to Rio: Back to the Future?, in Greening International Law 14 (Sands, Philippe ed., 1993)Google Scholar.

10 United Nations Environment Programme, Global Environment Outlook: Environment for Development—GEO4 at 37 (2007), at http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4.asp.

11 Thompson, Elizabeth, Revolution at Rio, Our Planet 6 (Feb. 2012)Google Scholar, available at http://www.unep.org/pdf/op_feb_2012/OP-EN-FEB-2012.pdf.

12 Thanks to Di Otto for provoking me to think further about complexity here.

13 Jenks, C. Wilfred, Idealism in International Law, in Essays on International Law 39 (Nawaz, M.K. ed., 1976)Google Scholar.