Sustainable Consumption: The Right to a Healthy Environment

An Introduction to Sustainable Consumption and the Law.- Part I.- Consumer Law and Sustainable Consumption.- International and Transnational Consumer Law on Sustainable Consumption.- Sustainable Consumption and Obsolescence of Consumer Products.- The Shift from Consumer Protection to Consumer Empowerment and the Consequences for Sustainable Consumption.- Sustainable Consumption and Brazilian Consumer Behaviour.- Part II.- Traditional Legal Disciplines and Sustainable Consumption.- The Role of Sustainable Consumption and Disaster Law in Climate Risk Management.- Sustainable Public Procurement in Brazil.- The Preventive Function and Sustainable Consumption: A Creative Challenge for Attorneys.- Taking Care of Business: Engaging Dialogue on Solutions to Unsustainable Commercial Practices.- Consumer Law and Sustainability: The Work of the United Nations.- International Trade in Environmental Goods and Services and Sustainable Production and Consumption.- Part III.- Packaging and (Eco-)Labelling: Beyond the Information Paradigm.- Regulating Green Marketing Claims in the United States.- Collective Valuation of the Common Good Through Consumption: What Is (Un)Lawful in Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labelling of Non-Food Products?.- The Importance of Labelling Food Items: Information, Food Security and Sustainable Consumption.- Tobacco Packaging As a Contribution for Promotion of a Healthy Environment in Brazil.- Part IV.- Sector-Specific Approaches I: Transnational and International Law.- The International Regulation of Living Modified Organisms.- The Effects of International Agreements on Water Security: A Critical Study of the EU and MERCOSUR Approaches.- Sustainable Water Consumption, Foreign Direct Investment and the Human Right to Water.- Building Upon Sustainable Consumption and Production for Food and Apparel.- Supermarkets and Private Standards of Sustainability: The Responsibility to Protect Without Protectionism.- Part V.- Sector-Specific Approaches II: National Law.- Reasonable Credit in Canada: An Attempt to Avoid Over-Indebtedness.- Homes or iPhones? Diversion of Social Security Funds to Relieve Consumption-Fuelled Household Debt in Brazil.- Auction Design to Procure Energy Efficiency Measures as Distributed Energy Resources.- Consumer Law, Sustainable Energy Consumption and Mini- and Microgrid Decentralized Generation in Brazil.- Planned Obsolescence Resulting from Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Waste Rights and Brazil's National Solid Waste Policy.- Potential Legal Avenues for Managing the Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology.- Looking Back to Look Forward: A Future Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption, Law and Development.