Fyock, Claiton (2022) What Might Degrowth Mean for International Economic Law? A Necessary Alternative to the (un)Sustainable Development Paradigm. Asian Journal of International Law, 12 (12). pp. 40-62. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s2044251322000030
Fyock, Claiton (2022) What Might Degrowth Mean for International Economic Law? A Necessary Alternative to the (un)Sustainable Development Paradigm. Asian Journal of International Law, 12 (12). pp. 40-62. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s2044251322000030
Fyock, Claiton (2022) What Might Degrowth Mean for International Economic Law? A Necessary Alternative to the (un)Sustainable Development Paradigm. Asian Journal of International Law, 12 (12). pp. 40-62. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s2044251322000030
Abstract
This article examines the implications for a change in framework from sustainable development to degrowth in the environmental and social discourse of International Economic Law (I.Econ.L.). It argues that the framework of sustainable development accommodates the Global North's inaction in assuaging environmental degradation and alleviating global inequality by remaining embedded in a capitalist, growth-oriented political economy. Degrowth would provide a strategy to move past such an impasse by encouraging actors to grapple with the role growth plays in the rationale behind I.Econ.L. Degrowth advocates a planned economic contraction to reconcile human's relationship with the environment. This project serves as the first effort to link ideas of degrowth with I.Econ.L. and seeks to identify some of the areas in I.Econ.L.'s scholarship where degrowth would serve as an alternative to sustainable development and what such an alternative would mean for the norms in the different areas of I.Econ.L.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | International Economic Law; Law of Development; Environmental Law |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Essex Law School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2022 12:43 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 21:29 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/33663 |
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