Download This PaperSustainability and Global Environmental Constitutionalism
New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism (United Nations Environment Programme, May 2017)
Widener University Delaware Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 17-10
12 Pages Posted: 20 Jun 2017
Date Written: May 2017
Abstract
At first blush, the relationship between sustainability and environmental constitutionalism seems strained if not strange. Environmental sustainability represents a there-and-then perspective that promotes the idea that present lives in being should consume natural resources at a rate and in a way so as to preserve comparable opportunities for future generations; in other words, the Native American proverb that “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors: we borrow it from our children.”
Keywords: Sustainability, Environmental Law, Environmental Constitutionalism, Constitutional Law
JEL Classification: K32
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