Civil Society Organisations, Governance and the Caribbean Community

Sustainability in forest and society despite “overmaturity” and “lack of regeneration” (essay) This essay compares efforts to move towards sustainability in the forests with those in the care for the elderly in Switzerland, and tries to draw conclusions which may promote sustainability. It is wrong, for forests and human populations, to talk of “overmaturity”, as this assumes the primacy of economic reasoning. To guarantee sustainability, the balance between all aspects is crucial. To attain true sustainability, we need binding guidelines and the “right” scale of implementation programme. Civil society organisations have been working for decades – often longer than the state itself – to improve sustainability. In many different areas, good cooperation and effective distribution of tasks between these institutions can be observed. This is important, among other things, because the ever greater speed of technical progress may overwhelm the adaptive capacity of both forests and people, which would influence sustainability in a negative way.

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Approaching Rio 20: A Survey of Positions and Expectations of Civil Society Organisations in Six European Countries on the Green Economy

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2023026 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Holger Baer ◽

Klaus Jacob ◽

Stefan Werland

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

European Countries ◽

Green Economy ◽

Civil Society Organisations

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The Caribbean Court of Justice

10.1093/oso/9780198795582.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Salvatore Caserta ◽

Mikael Rask Madsen

Keyword(s):

Privy Council ◽

Criminal Cases ◽

Community Law ◽

Caribbean Community ◽

Court Of Justice ◽

Sociopolitical Context ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Caribbean Court Of Justice ◽

Criminal Matters ◽

Court Of Appeal

This chapter analyzes the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the creation of which was regarded as the culmination of the Caribbean’s long and protracted process toward independence from its former colonizers. Formally, the CCJ was instantaneously empowered to hear cases involving Caribbean Community law (Community law). The CCJ was also empowered to replace the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in London—a last court of appeal for civil and criminal cases from the Caribbean and the most visible remnant of the British Empire’s former rule. The CCJ’s unique double jurisdiction—original over Community law and appellate over other civil and criminal matters—underscores the complex sociopolitical context and transformation of which it is a part. Ultimately, the CCJ’s growing authority has increasingly made the Court the institutional intersection for the convergence of these two different paths toward establishing the Caribbean as a legally integrated regional unity.

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