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"The De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance explores the difficult and challenging issues confronting society and the environment, in the contexts of unprecedented climate change, bio-diversity loss and the global pandemic. In this seminal text exploring a wide range of topics, and in the devastating wake of COVID-19, scholars and practitioners analyse the effectiveness of current and proposed actions to build a sustainable future, and the public and private finance necessary to prevent an impending planetary catastrophe. The first section of the handbook introduces readers to the origins and evolution of sustainable development. An examination of public and private finance follows in the next two sections, presented from the perspectives of authors from both 'developed' and 'developing' countries. Climate change, one of the largest sectors of finance for sustainable development, is investigated in detail, as is the new and emerging development frontier, the 'blue' economy of the world's oceans. Suitable for students, policymakers and the public at large, the handbook highlights the lessons learned and points the way forward for sustainable development and finance in the wake of the global pandemic, and the challenges to come." --

Introduction : origins and evolution of earth system law / Timothy Cadman -- Dimensions and definitions, signposts and silos in earth system law / Andrea C. Simonelli, Margot Hurlbert and Timothy Cadman -- Earth system law in the age of humanity / Walter F. Baber -- International relations and the analytical foundations of earth system law / Mike Angstadt -- An earth system science-based perspective : a foundational feature of earth system law / Edgar Fernández Fernández -- The ESL framework : re-visioning in the age of transformation and the Anthropocene / Margot Hurlbert -- Rights of nature as an expression of earth system law / Alice Bleby -- The ethical place of the non-human world in earth system law : pathways of transformation / Rosalind Warner -- Legitimacy and the role of law for social and ecological resilience / Brita Bohman -- Climate (im)mobilities in migration governance and law: integrating an earth systems perspective / Andrea C. Simonelli -- The earth system, the orbit, and international law : the cosmolegal proposal / Elena Cirkovic -- Integrating the Mexican Water Law into the earth system law perspective / Gabriel Lopez Porras -- A framework of earth system justice in the earth system's legal context / Maciej Nyka -- Common interest, concern or heritage? The commons as a structural support for an earth system law / Paulo Magalhães -- Conclusion : plotting the course of earth system law on the precipice of the Anthropocene / Margot Hurlbert, Andrea C. Simonelli and Timothy Cadman.

AbstractConservation biologists and environmental economists popularized ecosystem services as a governance concept in the 1990s. The concept, it was hoped, would valorize biodiversity conservation to place it on a level playing field with the economic concerns of the world's finance ministers and private sector. Has this valorization promise been realized within the international community? We examine this question by interrogating a constructed dataset of 272 international activities undertaken by international actors (e.g. non‐governmental organizations, inter‐governmental organizations, and other international organizations) that invoke or use the ecosystem services concept. We find that ecosystem service practice is dominated by capacity‐building not the valuation of nature. This suggests that the international community is not extensively using the concept to value nature in order to inform governance decisions. We posit that budget and management pressures facing international organizations along with priorities of countries help explain the dominance of capacity‐building. But we also suggest that a deeper understanding of the concept of ecosystem services – particularly its implied programme of action – is necessary to account for its unfulfilled promise to date. We close with implications from this study for broader work on global environmental governance.