8 Principle 4
Virginie Barral, Pierre-Marie Dupuy
From: The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: A Commentary
Edited By: Jorge E. Viñuales
- Subject(s):
- Sustainable development
This chapter analyses the rationale, travaux préparatoires, conceptual scope, and normative and jurisprudential influence of Principle 4 of the Rio Declaration. Principle 4 is one of the main expressions of sustainable development within the Declaration, and it takes the specific form of integration of environmental considerations in the formulation of policies.