Sustainable development : concept, principles, and practice -- The concept of sustainable development : its evolution on the international plane -- Sustainable development : contest and debate of meaning -- Sustainable development : legal context and application -- Precautionary principle -- The polluter pays principle -- Public participation -- The international context of sustainable development -- Sustainable development and general principles of EU law -- Principled-based sustainable development in EU law -- General principles in EU law and sustainable development -- Subsidiarity as a general principle in EU law -- Proportionality as a general principle in EU law -- EU sustainable development in subsidiarity and proportionality : legal procedural impact -- The legal effect of EU principle-based sustainable development -- Sustainability in subsidiarity and proportionality : procedural impact -- The precautionary principle and sustainability in EU environmental protection -- Precautionary approach to environmental protection -- EU environmental protection and precaution - law, policy, and practice -- The polluter pays principle : economic aspects of sustainability the EU -- The polluter pays principle and sustainable development -- The polluter pays and economic regulation in EU law, policy, and practice -- The polluter pays in EU law and policy -- The polluter pays principle and economic regulation in practice -- Transport policy -- Common agricultural policy -- Competition and state aid -- Critical review of polluter pays approaches to policy -- Public participation and access rights in EU law -- Public participation principle and sustainable development -- The Arhus Convention on Public Participation and Social Justice -- Right to information - Pillar I -- Procedural rights - Pillar 2 -- Access to justice - Pillar 3 -- Arhus' access rights in EU law, policy, and practice -- Application of 'access to justice' rights in the EU -- Access to justice case law -- Critical review of access rights approach to EU sustainability policy -- Sustainable development in EU external relations -- Sustainable development as an international issue for the EU -- The EU's presence in the international arena : on climate change -- EU promoting sustainable development -- Sustainable development and key actors on the international stage -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) -- Other key actors' role in sustainable development -- The United States -- China -- Russia -- India -- Brazil