It’s Time to Get Serious—Why Legislation Is Needed to Make Sustainable Development a Reality in the UK.doc
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It’s Time to Get Serious—Why Legislation Is Needed to Make Sustainable Development a Reality in the UK
Sustainability2010, 2, 1101-1127; doi:10.3390/su2041101
OPEN ACCESS
sustainability
ISSN 2071-1050
/journal/sustainability
Article
It’s Time to Get Serious—Why Legislation Is Needed to Make
Sustainable Development a Reality in the UK
Andrea Ross
School of Law, University of Dundee, Scrymegeour Building, Dundee, DD1 4HN, UK;
E-Mail: a.p.ross@dundee.ac.uk; Tel.: +44-1382-385070; Fax: +44-1382-386737.
Received: 15 March 2010 / Accepted: 30 March 2010 / Published: 22 April 2010
Abstract: On paper, the United Kingdom (UK) has the architecture in place to actually start
delivering sustainable development. The current UK-wide framework for sustainable
development and the individual strategies made under it are all relatively modern and
progressive in considering environmental limits and long-term effects. This framework,
however, lacks a legislative foundation in the UK. Moreover, these strategies are not
delivering in the three areas considered vital for the proper implementation of sustainable
development—improving understanding, providing a comprehensive framework to integrate
potentially conflicting priorities and providing an operational toolkit. This article argues that
over and above its symbolic and educational value, specific legislation setting out the state’s
approach to sustainable development should impose mandatory obligations on policy and
decision makers, with meaningful consequences both inside and outside the courtroom.
Using examples from Wales, Canada and Scotland, it explores three legislative models to
support the implementation of sustainable development that would be suitable in the UK
and its devolved administrations, and the legislative provisions necessary for their delivery.
This article emphasises the benefits of procedural obligations, both by themselves and in
support of more substantive obligations, along with the possibility that certain appropriately
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