[Posted by: Carmel McNamara, IOS Press]

Amsterdam, NL – Following on from the Environmental Policy and Law (EPL) special section entitled Stockholm+50 and Beyond, all the contributions have now been collated and published in a unique and limited-edition book. EPL's Editor-in-Chief Bharat H. Desai, PhD, has curated the content to include many cutting-edge ideational reflections. The book is entitled Envisioning Our Environmental Future and you can order your copy now, with an option to purchase your print copy at 20% discount!

Click to discover all about Stockholm+50 and Beyond (journal section, book, and webinar)

With the Stockholm+50 Conference, held on 2–3 June 2022, the global movement to protect the environment has reached a 50 year milestone. The first UN Conference on the Human Environment, also held in Stockholm, from 5–16 June 1972, proved to be the watershed in addressing this problem, and as the world assembles once more in the Swedish capital it is time to think aloud and look ahead. In his address in 1972, the then Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme said: “The decisive question is in which direction we will develop…there is no individual future, neither for people nor for nations.” The only other head of government to attend in 1972, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, highlighted the development as “one of the primary means of improving the environment of living, of providing food, water, sanitation and shelter, of making the deserts green and mountains habitable” and drew attention to the wisdom of the Atharva Veda: “What of thee I dig out; Let that quickly grow over; Let me not hit thy vitals or thy heart."

Dr. Desai notes: “As we look back over 50 years, we need to assess what has gone wrong in the trajectory travelled so far and look ahead to the future of our environment at this juncture and beyond. As a scholarly journal for global decision-makers, EPL has sought to envision what lies ahead in the 21st century by inviting outstanding scholarly works from around the world.”

Background

These important contributions to the environmental landscape – covering the important theme in this new book Envisioning Our Environmental Future – are co-published in a limited-edition volume, as a standalone book that is being released on this special occasion by IOS Press. The content probes global environmental regulatory approaches and institutional effectiveness, and explores cutting-edge ideational solutions for our shared triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. The 22 contributions are organized in three parts: Testing Times; Global Ideas; and Sectoral Ideas.