1st Edition

Law and Sustainable Development After COVID-19

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the realisation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Although efforts towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals are ongoing, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on these efforts: accentuating inequities, as well as absorbing resources. This book addresses this impact, as it takes up the... Read more

Introduction: The Imperative of Law for Sustainable Development in the Post-Covid Era 

Augustine Edobor Arimoro, Ezinne Mirian Igbokwe and Tamaraoudoubra Tom Egbe 

Part 1. Sustainability Through Policy, Finance and Law 

1: Sustainable Fashion Post the Covid-19 Pandemic: Environmental Perspectives 

Alessia Vacca 

2: Financial Inclusion as a Human Right in Nigeria 

Igho L Dabor 

3: Preserving Employee Rights in Pandemic Situations: A Pathway to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 

Akinyemi Akintunde Abibu 

Part 2. Health, Environment and Human Rights 

4:  Legal Discourse in the Light of Post Covid-19 Pandemic: Human Rights, Health and Wellness Management to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals 

Bhupinder Singh 

5: Legal Evaluation of Sustainable Development vis-à-vis Law and Development: Perspectives of Covid-19 

Livinus I. Nwokike 

6: Revising the “Shadow Pandemic”: Sustainable Development Goal No. 5, Gender, Equality and Covid-19 

Dawn Sedman 

Part 3. Trade, Transport and Infrastructure 

7: Sukuk for Sub-Saharan African Infrastructure Post Covid-19 

Augustine Edobor Arimoro, Habibah Musa and Abbah Amsami Elgujja 

8: Financing the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ in the Post Covid-19 Era Towards Sustainability: An Overview of China’s Green Bond Rules 

Meihui Zhang, Chi Zhang, Fenghua Li and Ziyu Liu 

9: Navigating Post Covid-19 Realities: The Changing Landscape of International Carriage of Goods by Sea 

Tamaraoudoubra Tom Egbe 

Part 4. Intellectual Property and Sustainable Technology 

10: Sustainable Fashion and Recycling of Intellectual Property Law Beyond the Covid-19 Era 

Hiroko Onishi 

11: Is the Trips Covid-19 Decision a Mere Re-Echo of the Powers of WTO Member states to Issue Compulsory Licences? 

Ezinne Mirian Igbokwe 

12: Post-Covid 19 Recovery and Sustainable Development: An Insurance Perspective 

Senara Eggleton

Biography

Augustine Edobor Arimoro is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Roehampton Law School, University of Roehampton London, UK.

Ezinne Mirian Igbokwe is Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield School of Law, UK.

Tamaraoudoubra Tom Egbe holds a Lectureship in Law at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom.