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The Law of the Future and the Future of Law: Volume II
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In June of this year, the world convened in the Rio+20 Conference to tackle huge global environmental challenges, and the leaders of the G20 met in Los Cabos, Mexico to deal with the global economic crisis. What can these events tell us about the future? An obvious conclusion is that there continue to be global challenges for which global approaches are clearly needed. We also see different approaches to these challenges. Rio+20 was a conference under the auspices of the United Nations (UN), a formally structured international organisation. Los Cabos was host to the meeting of an informal leaders network; reviews of both conferences were generally of ‘the glass is half empty’ type. Not enough real progress, not enough real change. Looking deeper, however, the two events also re- veal an ‘iceberg’ effect with most media reviews focussing on the top of the iceberg (the States and leaders that met). Underneath that top, however, a huge swathe of non-State Parties met, interacted, committed, and participated. This lower part of the iceberg is more difficult to see and understand, and is more chaotic. What does jump at you, however, is that there is a lot of organisation of interconnectedness around challenges happening in smaller, more local networks. Both events also show the inter- connectedness of things: the conclusions of both conferences do not only relate to ‘the environment’ and ‘the economy’, but include many other areas and challenges, such as social exclusion, rule of law, equality, and so on.
2nd Edition
978-82-93081-80-7
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The Law of the Future and the Future of Law: Volume II
Management
English
Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
2012
USA
1-528
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