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Ecological Sustainability and the Law: The European Green Deal and the New Frontiers of Sustainability book cover

1st Edition

Ecological Sustainability and the Law The European Green Deal and the New Frontiers of Sustainability

Edited By Edoardo Chiti, Andrea Giorgi Copyright 2025
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the emergence of ecological sustainability as a new EU policy and legal objective, distinct and autonomous from sustainable development. It argues that sustainability can no longer be conflated into sustainable development only, but should rather be represented as a plural construction, in which ecological sustainability coexists next to sustainable development. While the... Read more

Foreword
Edoardo Chiti and Andrea Giorgi

Introduction: Sustainability in Transition
Edoardo Chiti and Andrea Giorgi

Part 1: The Agri-Food Transition

1. Sustainability in the Agri-Food Sector: The Tortuous Path of Common Agriculture Policy towards a Food System Approach
Enrico Mezzacapo and Antonio Manzoni

2. The New Common Agricultural Policy Approach Towards the Livestock Sector and Food Waste. Lying at Which Point of the Sustainability Continuum?
Roberto Talenti and Giulia Corsini

Part 2: The Energy Transition

3. The Quest for a Sustainable Energy Transition: The Case of Bioenergy
Matteo Greco

4. Reshaping Administrative Proceedings and Discretion for a Fast-Forwarded Energy Transition
Emmalucia Virardi

5. Energy Transition and Sustainability before Courts: The Evolution of the Case-Law of Italian Administrative Courts
Michele Di Vita

6. Powering the Smart City: Sustainable Energy in the New Smart City
Georgious Christou

Part 3: The Ecological Transition

7. From Natura to Nature Restoration. The Ecological Objective of the Green Deal at the Legal Litmus Test
Michela Biscosi

8. Nature Restoration Law: Reshaping Sustainable Development?
Licinia Pascucci

9. Serving Sustainability through Criminal Law: The Italian Case
Antonio Taurelli

Part 4: The Digital Transition

10. Data-Driven Ecosystems: Competition Law as a Way to Link Sustainability and Digitalisation
Emanuele Fazio

11. Sustainable Smart Cities
Beatrice Baldini

Part 5: The Economic Transition

12. Towards a Green Deal-Oriented Intellectual Property Law? Tackling Remedies against Abuses
Camilla Signoretta

13. Sustainable Finance and Biodiversity Protection
Luisa Nenci

14. Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Something New under the Sun?
Federica Montanaro

15. ‘Sustainable Profit’? The Green Deal Economic Transition between Criminal Law and Corporate Social Responsibility
Stefano Porfido

Biography

Edoardo Chiti is Professor of Administrative Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. He is on the editorial board of a number of academic journals and a member of various public law societies.

Andrea Giorgi is a Ph.D. Candidate in Administrative Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. He has been a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford.

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