SPECIAL ISSUE (2024)

Sustainable Legal Infrastructures: Comparative Responses Across Cultures and Systems

edited by Lucia Ruggeri, Lécia Vicente and Sara Zuccarino

 

Sustainable Drug Production and Consumption: Legal
Profiles

by Maria Francesca Lucente

 

The aim of the responsible production and consumption of drugs is to reduce the environmental and social impact and to promote human and environmental development in a sustainable manner. This requires the use of environmentally friendly resources, energy-efficient production processes, and the proper disposal of medicines. There is an urgent need for a cross-sectoral legal approach to the issue, which, while implying a new paradigm of contractual autonomy and a rethinking of the regulation of relations between private individuals, promotes the full protection of fundamental human rights in the long term, in solidarity, and from an intergenerational perspective.

DOI 10.23815/2421-2156.ITALJ           ISSN 2421-2156

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