Environmental Democracy At The Global Level

Author : Giulia Parola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788376560144

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Environmental Democracy at the Global Level: by Giulia Parola Pdf

Giulia Parola’s Environmental Democracy at the Global Level: Rights and Duties for a New Citizenship can be seen as a manifesto that is both traditional and revolutionary at the same time. It calls for the construction of a new civilisation centred on the environment, while drawing on the traditional notions of democratic government. It adopts an approach that is focused on the power of individuals rather than governments, as ways to protect and improve the environment. It proposes that environmental rights and ecological duties are self-evident and inalienable, and should be treated as the cornerstones of a new democracy. Parola’s book is a thought provoking and intriguing work that will be of interest to scholars of environmental studies as well as to legal practitioners and non-specialists. Giulia Parola has studied Environmental Law at the University of Torino, at the University of René Descartes in Paris, (where she obtained PhD in Public Law) and at the University of Iceland ( LLM in Natural Resources Law and International Environmental Law). In 2011, she was appointed by the University of Laval (Canada, Quebec) as a researcher and a lecturer in Environmental Law.

Author : Michael Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136548253

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Environmental Democracy by Michael Mason Pdf

Through a wide range of case studies, Mason reveals just how sensitive we all must be to styles of power, vulnerability and resilience in any democratic transition to sustainability. This is a fine book.' Timothy O'Riordan, Professor of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, and Associate Director, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment. Civic self-determination and ecological sustainability are widely accepted as two of the most important public goals. This book explains how they can be combined. Using vivid and telling case studies from around the world, it shows how liberal rights can include both ecological and social conditions for collective decision-making - environmentalist goals and social justice can be achieved together. Integrating theory and original case studies, the book makes a very significant contribution to the fundamentals of how environmental democracy can be advanced at all levels. Cogently argued and engaged, Environmental Democracy provides a superb teaching text and a source of ideas and persuasive arguments for the politically and environmentally engaged. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in politics, policy studies, environmental studies, geography and social science.

Author : B. Gleeson,N. Low
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333977620

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Govering for the Environment by B. Gleeson,N. Low Pdf

Governing for the Environment explores one of the dimensions of the value-knowledge system needed in any movement towards humane governance for the planet: the ecological sustainability and integrity of the Earth's environment. The book begins from the premise that whilst environmental knowledge and values have developed rapidly, their development must not overwhelm consideration of other core 'humane' values: peace, social justice, and human rights. The book's contributors explore a variety of ethical issues that must inform future global regulation of the Earth's environment.

Author : Romy Escher,Melanie Walter-Rogg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030380540

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Environmental Performance in Democracies and Autocracies by Romy Escher,Melanie Walter-Rogg Pdf

There are considerable differences in environmental performance and outcomes across both democracies and autocracies, but there is little understanding of how levels of democracy and autocracy influence environmental performance. This book examines whether analysing the effects of individual democratic features separately can contribute to a better understanding of cross-national variance in environmental performance. The authors show that levels of social equality in particular, as well as the strength of local and regional democracy, contribute significantly to explaining cross-national variation in environmental performance. On the other hand, a high level of political corruption affects a country’s ability to adopt and implement environmental policies effectively. In exploring the inter-relationship between democratic qualities, political corruption, and environmental performance, this book presents policymakers and political theorists with a clear picture of which aspects of democratic societies are most conducive to producing a better environment.

Author : Walter F. Baber,Robert V. Bartlett
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780262028738

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Consensus and Global Environmental Governance by Walter F. Baber,Robert V. Bartlett Pdf

Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett.

Author : R. S. Deese
Publisher : Springer
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319983073

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Climate Change and the Future of Democracy by R. S. Deese Pdf

This book will survey past and present efforts to democratize international institutions, and will advance the argument that a new degree of transparency and accountability on a global scale is necessary to address the threat of climate change. The volume will analyse how global governance could become more democratic and consequently more responsive to the challenge of climate change. As economic globalization has accelerated since 1945, international institutions have done a remarkable job in facilitating global communication and commerce but have been far less effective in protecting the global commons.

Author : Jan Wouters,Antoon Braeckman,Matthias Lievens,Emilie Bécault
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781781952627

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Global Governance and Democracy by Jan Wouters,Antoon Braeckman,Matthias Lievens,Emilie Bécault Pdf

Globalization needs effective global governance. The important question of whether this governance can also become democratic is, however, the subject of a political and academic debate that began only recently. This multidisciplinary book aims to move this conversation forward by drawing insights from international relations, political theory, international law and international political economy. Focusing on global environmental, economic, security and human rights governance, it sheds new light on the democratic deficit of existing global governance structures, and proposes a number of tools to overcome it.

Author : Robert Paehlke
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0262661888

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Democracy's Dilemma by Robert Paehlke Pdf

A call for a balancing of economic, environmental, and social concerns in the age of global economic integration.

Author : Björn-Ola Linnér,Victoria Wibeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108487474

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Sustainability Transformations Across Societies by Björn-Ola Linnér,Victoria Wibeck Pdf

A comparison of how societal actors in different geographical, political and cultural contexts understand agents and drivers of sustainability transformations.

Author : Joseph Foti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1569736871

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Voice and Choice by Joseph Foti Pdf

Author : Giulia Parola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 8376560611

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Europe in Green by Giulia Parola Pdf

The book is a cornerstone in the studies aimed at introducing a new form of democracy not just at a global level, through international environmental law, but also at local one, by regional and national regulation, to manage global and local ecological problems. In the light of the results pointed out in Parola's book (Environmental democracy at Global Level. Rights and duties for a new citizenship), this second work examines environmental democracy at a local level by referring to EU law. The European Union, as the only global region with the official objective of simultaneously promoting economic development, social cohesion and environmental protection is here used as an example for analyzing how the region has found (and is still developing) a range of solutions to various environmental issues. The book sheds new light on the transformation of Europe into a Green Europe.

Author : Torbjörn Tännsjö
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0748634991

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Global Democracy by Torbjörn Tännsjö Pdf

Presents the arguments for the establishment of a world government to answer pressing global issues such as war, global injustices and environmental problems.

Author : Sheila Jasanoff,Marybeth Martello
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262600595

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Earthly Politics by Sheila Jasanoff,Marybeth Martello Pdf

Globalization today is as much a problem for international harmony as it is a necessary condition of living together on our planet. Increasing interconnectedness in ecology, economy, technology, and politics has brought nations and societies into even closer contact, creating acute demands for cooperation. Earthly Politics argues that in the coming decades global governance will have to accommodate differences even as it obliterates distance, and will have to respect many aspects of the local while developing institutions that transcend localism. This book analyzes a variety of environmental-governance approaches that balance the local and the global in order to encourage new, more flexible frameworks of global governance. On the theoretical level, it draws on insights from the field of science and technology studies to enrich our understanding of environmental-development politics. On the pragmatic level, it discusses the design of institutions and processes to address problems of environmental governance that increasingly refuse to remain within national boundaries. The cases in the book display the crucial relationship between knowledge and power—the links between the ways we understand environmental problems and the ways we manage them—and illustrate the different paths by which knowledge-power formations are arrived at, contested, defended, or set aside. By examining how local and global actors ranging from the World Bank to the Makah tribe in the Pacific Northwest respond to the contradictions of globalization, the authors identify some of the conditions for creating more effective engagement between the global and the local in environmental governance.

Author : Cécilia Claeys,Marie Jacqué
Publisher : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9052018553

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Environmental Democracy Facing Uncertainty by Cécilia Claeys,Marie Jacqué Pdf

This collective work provides a reflexive reading of environmental democracy as a new method of governance of the contemporary ecological issues that declining biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development present. The authors examine the links between the environment and democracy by questioning the status of actors, the manner of their involvement, the various ways of mobilising knowledge and the mechanisms of dialogue and decision-making based on study cases observed in different national contexts (Italy, France, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Canada and Brazil). This international approach sheds light on the means of appropriation of environmental democracy on a local level and its ability to promote universal characteristics or to standardise the connection to the environment and politics. The originality of this work comes, among other things, from its transversality, associating texts with differing theoretical outlooks and methodology in an innovative way. Through this perspective on-going processes of redefining environmental problems are revealed via the prisms of risks and uncertainty, thus assigning them a new role in aiding decision-making in a sociology that is in turn critical and committed.

Author : Jean-Frederic Morin,Amandine Orsini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136777042

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Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance by Jean-Frederic Morin,Amandine Orsini Pdf

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent environmental issues to be addressed. This book is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the main pieces of the global environmental governance puzzle. The book is comprised of 101 entries, each defining a central concept in global environmental governance, presenting its historical evolution, introducing related debates and including key bibliographical references and further reading. The entries combine analytical rigour with empirical description. The book: offers cutting edge analysis of the state of global environmental governance, raises an up-to-date debate on global governance for sustainable development, gives an in-depth exploration of current international architecture of global environmental governance, examines the interaction between environmental politics and other fields of governance such as trade, development and security, elaborates a critical review of the recent literature in global environmental governance. This unique work synthesizes writing from an internationally diverse range of well-known experts in the field of global environmental governance. Innovative thinking and high-profile expertise come together to create a volume that is accessible to students, scholars and practitioners alike.