The Formulation and Evolution of Sustainable Development Law : Conflicts and Adjustment between Environmental Regime and Market Mechanism

本研究以“可持续发展法”作为保护全球环境的法律概念，回顾了20世纪80年代以来作为保护环境基本原则的“可持续发展”概念的发展历程。结果发现，在联合国和大多数多边环境协定的行动中，可持续发展被视为协调环境保护与经济发展的概念。此外，调查还指出了这一概念的扩展，以整合环境、经济和社会发展要素。另一方面，随着市场机制在许多环境保护制度中的引入，这一概念的法律含义显然变得更加模糊。

This research was subject to "sustainable development law" as legal concept to protect global environment, and a survey was made of the process of development on the notion of "sustainable development", which had been supported as the fundamental principle to protect the environment since 1980s. As the result, it was found that sustainable development was regarded as the concept to reconcile environmental protection with economic development in the actions of the UN and most multilateral environmental agreements. In addition, the survey pointed toward expansion in this concept to integrate environmental, economic and social elements of development. On the other hand, it was clear that legal meaning of this concept became more ambiguous by the introduction of market mechanism into many regimes of the environmental protection.