La sostenibilità ecologica e i principi eco-giuridici per la salvaguardia del sistema Terra

What is the meaning of the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development? How can the ideal of ecological sustainability be legally conceived in conformity with the theory of the planetary boundaries? The paper focuses on these topics starting from an analysis of the origins of the term sustainability up to introducing the concept of sustainable development and its failure to halt the loss of biodiversity, the ecological deficit and the anthropogenic climate change. In seeking new tools to deal with these challenges, the paper illustrates the concepts of demodiversity, commons and, in particular, it deepens the contents of some recent legal principles that draw inspiration from ecology, namely the principles of non-regression, resilience, ecological integrity, ecological proportionality, ecological landscape restoration.