Altvater, SusanneDooley, ElizabethRoberts, Ennid2024-06-162024-06-162015https://doi.org/10.60810/openumwelt-6708https://openumwelt.de/handle/123456789/7851The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a "land degradation neutral worldŁ. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a "land degradation neutral worldŁ. Secondly, the legal study investigates whether and how, at national level, effective instruments could be put in place as international obligations.<BR>Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”. Secondly, the legal study investigates whether and how, at national level, effective instruments could be put in place as international obligations.124 Seitengerhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/SchadensvorsorgeReinigungPlanungErosionVerunreinigungenNachhaltige BewirtschaftungBodenbeobachtungland degradationneutral worldsoil threatsinternational lawsoil erosionsoil contaminationsoil salinisationsoil monitoringGermanyUSABrazilMonographieBoden | FlächeSoil | Land