The Right to Development: Sustainable Development and the Practice of Good Governance(3 Chinese Perspectives on Human Rights and Good Governance)

In The Right to Development authors offer a new path for the implementation and protection of the right to development from the new perspective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Instead of emphasizing the economic perspective, this book focuses on how to realize the right to sustainable development by resolution of conflicts among the economy, the environment and society.
Integrating the value analysis into the empirical analysis method, this book expands the scope of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development and strengthens its practical function, extracts Chinese experiences, lessons from South Asia, local knowledge in South Africa and practice in Peru on the implementation of the right to development, and puts forward the idea of building human rights criteria in the South.


Table of Contents:
 Preface   Zhang Wei and Gudmundur Alfredsson  Brief Introduction   Wang Xigen Part 1: General Theory 1 Relationship between the Human Right to Development and Core Elements of the Sustainable Development Goals   Zamir Akram 2 The Right to Development from a Human Rights Approach: Conceptual Bases and Contemporary Challenges   Flavia Piovesan 3 The Development Approach of Human Rights   He Zhipeng 4 The Relationship between Human Rights and Development: An Analysis of Chinese Scholars’ Perspectives and the Practice of the Chinese Government   Zhang Wei and Zhang Aitong Part 2: Environmental Perspective 5 On the Realization of the Right to Development under the Context of Environmental Rights   Zhang Aining 6 Role of Rural Regulations in Environmental Protection and Green Development   Gao Qicai 7 The Development and the Environment: The Conflict and Balance in the View of Human Rights Law   Li Hongbo 8 Legal Research on Carbon Emission Rights from the Perspective of a Right to Development   He Miao Part 3: Empirical Analysis 9 Guidance from the Ground up: Lessons from South Asia for Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals   Sumudu Atapattu and Shyami Puvimanasinghe 10 China’s Theoretical Innovation and Practical Contribution to the Right to Development   Wang Xigen 11 Practices for Realization of the Right to Development and Experience Sharing in Peru   Carlos Alberto Aquino Rodriguez 12 “Ubuntu-ism” as the Arbiter Between Cultural Relativism and Universalism in the Context of the Right to Development   i>Mofihli Teleki 13 The Contribution of the Belt and Road Initiative to the Global Right to Development   Li Erping and Yao Yunsong 14 Basic Principles of the Legal System of the Right to Regional Development   Lyu Ning and Wang Xigen Part 4: Global Order 15 The Declaration on the Right to Development as a First Step towards a Comprehensive Southern Vision on Human Rights   Tom Zwart 16 A Comprehensive and Multidimensional Survey of Law and Development in the 21st Century   Zhu Liyu 17 Implementation of the Right to Development by Optimizing WTO Regulations   Wang Bei  Index

About the Author :
Wang Xigen, Ph.D. (2001), Yangtze Scholar Distinguished Professor, Dean of Law School at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the Ph.D. Supervisor of "2011 Plan of China" - Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization, and Director of the Institute of Human Rights Law at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. He has published about 200 papers and 20 books and participated in the work of drafting the UN criteria on the right to development.