The Environment In Global Sustainability Governance

Author : Lena Partzsch
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529228014

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The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance by Lena Partzsch Pdf

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book focuses on the political tensions between the environmental objectives and socio-economic aspects of sustainable development. The collection provides an introduction to interlinkages, synergies and trade-offs between the ‘green’ and other goals, such as gender equality and economic growth. It also considers related goals on cities and partnerships as crucial for implementing environmentally sound sustainability. Identifying governance failures and responsibilities, it advocates for a shift towards cooperative economics and politics for the common good.

Author : Frank Biermann,Philipp Pattberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262304771

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Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered by Frank Biermann,Philipp Pattberg Pdf

An examination of three major trends in global governance, exemplified by developments in transnational environmental rule-setting. The notion of global governance is widely studied in academia and increasingly relevant to politics and policy making. Yet many of its fundamental elements remain unclear in both theory and practice. This book offers a fresh perspective by analyzing global governance in terms of three major trends, as exemplified by developments in global sustainability governance: the emergence of nonstate actors; new mechanisms of transnational cooperation; and increasingly segmented and overlapping layers of authority. The book, which is the synthesis of a ten-year “Global Governance Project” carried out by thirteen leading European research institutions, first examines new nonstate actors, focusing on international bureaucracies, global corporations, and transnational networks of scientists; then investigates novel mechanisms of global governance, particularly transnational environmental regimes, public-private partnerships, and market-based arrangements; and, finally, looks at fragmentation of authority, both vertically among supranational, international, national, and subnational layers, and horizontally among different parallel rule-making systems. The implications, potential, and realities of global environmental governance are defining questions for our generation. This book distills key insights from the past and outlines the most important research challenges for the future.

Author : Lena Partzsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1412028173

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The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance by Lena Partzsch Pdf

Author : Agni Kalfagianni,Doris Fuchs,Anders Hayden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351691291

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Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance by Agni Kalfagianni,Doris Fuchs,Anders Hayden Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that offer a more normative, critical, and transformatively aspirational view on global sustainability governance. In this landmark text, an international group of acclaimed scholars provides an overview of key analytical and normative perspectives, material and ideational structural barriers to sustainability transformation, and transformative strategies. Drawing on pivotal new and contemporary research, the volume highlights aspects to be considered and blind spots to be avoided when trying to understand and implement global sustainability governance. In this context, the authors of this book debunk many myths about all-too optimistic accounts of progress towards a sustainability transition. Simultaneously, they suggest approaches that have the potential for real sustainability transformation and systemic change, while acknowledging existing hurdles. The wide-ranging chapters in the collection are organised into four key parts: • Part 1: Conceptual lenses • Part 2: Ethics, principles, and debates • Part 3: Key challenges • Part 4: Transformative approaches This handbook will serve as an important resource for academics and practitioners working in the fields of sustainability governance and environmental politics.

Author : Jean-Frederic Morin,Amandine Orsini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

Author : Lydia Andler,Steffen Behrle
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262012744

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Managers of Global Change by Lydia Andler,Steffen Behrle Pdf

This title is an examination of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in global environmental governance. After a discussion of theoretical context, reaserch design, and empiral methodology, the book presents nine in-depth case studies of bureaucracies.

Author : Frank Biermann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262322935

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Earth System Governance by Frank Biermann Pdf

A new model for effective global environmental governance in an era of human-caused planetary transformation and disruption. Humans are no longer spectators who need to adapt to their natural environment. Our impact on the earth has caused changes that are outside the range of natural variability and are equivalent to such major geological disruptions as ice ages. Some scientists argue that we have entered a new epoch in planetary history: the Anthropocene. In such an era of planet-wide transformation, we need a new model for planet-wide environmental politics. In this book, Frank Biermann proposes “earth system” governance as just such a new paradigm. Biermann offers both analytical and normative perspectives. He provides detailed analysis of global environmental politics in terms of five dimensions of effective governance: agency, particularly agency beyond that of state actors; architecture of governance, from local to global levels; accountability and legitimacy; equitable allocation of resources; and adaptiveness of governance systems. Biermann goes on to offer a wide range of policy proposals for future environmental governance and a revitalized United Nations, including the establishment of a World Environment Organization and a UN Sustainable Development Council, new mechanisms for strengthened representation of civil society and scientists in global decision making, innovative systems of qualified majority voting in multilateral negotiations, and novel institutions to protect those impacted by global change. Drawing on ten years of research, Biermann formulates earth system governance as an empirical reality and a political necessity.

Author : James Gustave Speth And Peter M. Haas
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131709221

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Global Environmental Governance by James Gustave Speth And Peter M. Haas Pdf

Global Environmental Governance examines ten major environmental threats- climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification, freshwater degradation and shortages, decline of marine fisheries, toxic pollutants, and excess nitrogen-and explores how they can be addressed through treaties, governance regimes, and new forms of international cooperation. It also critically examines the serious shortcomings of current efforts and the underlying reasons for the persistence of disturbing trends. This book presents key concepts in international law and regime formation in simple, accessible language, and describes the current institutional landscape, les-sons learned, and new directions need-ed in international governance.

Author : Magali A. Delmas,Oran R. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521519380

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Governance for the Environment by Magali A. Delmas,Oran R. Young Pdf

At the same time, confidence in the capacity of governments to meet this demand is waning.

Author : Richard E. Saunier,Richard Albert Meganck
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849770996

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Dictionary and Introduction to Global Environmental Governance by Richard E. Saunier,Richard Albert Meganck Pdf

This unique dictionary and introduction to Global Environmental Governance (GEG), written and compiled by two veterans of the international stage, provides a compilation of over 5000 terms, organizations and acronyms, drawn from hundreds of official sources. An introductory essay frames the major issues in GEG and outlines the pitfalls of talking past one another when discussing the most critical of issues facing the planet. It challenges those who are concerned with the management of our planet and its inhabitants to understand and accept a vocabulary common to the often-opposing objectives sought in the many GEG instruments.The result is a practical tool that should find a central place on the desk of anyone involved in environmental management, development or sustainability issues anywhere in the world, including the United Nations, government policy makers, NGOs and other stakeholder groups, the business community, and students and professionals.

Author : Jacob Park,Ken Conca,Matthias Finger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134059829

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The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance by Jacob Park,Ken Conca,Matthias Finger Pdf

More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, Our Common Future, we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. The failed 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development showed the need for a new approach to globalization and sustainability. Taking a critical perspective, rooted in political economy, regulation theory, and post-sovereign international relations, this book explores questions concerning the governance of environmental sustainability in a globalizing economy. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book offers a comprehensive framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability, and examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance. It: considers current failures in the framework of global environmental governance addresses the problematic relationship between sustainability and globalization explores controversies of development and environment that have led to new processes of institution building examines the marketization of environmental policy-making; stakeholder politics and environmental policy-making; socio-economic justice; the political origins of sustainable consumption; the role of transnational actors; and processes of multi-level global governance. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political science, international studies, political economy and environmental studies.

Author : David Crowther,Shahla Seifi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811563706

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Governance and Sustainability by David Crowther,Shahla Seifi Pdf

This book explores the concepts of sustainability and governance in relation to the governance of corporations – hence the ubiquity of the term corporate governance – and other bodies. It examines how these concepts are regularly used by politicians and by the media. The two concepts are however largely treated as being separate and discrete, and given equal coverage. The argument in this book is that the two concepts are inter-related and that good governance is a prerequisite for sustainability. The focus of the book therefore is different from most, as it seeks to integrate these two important issues. The approach used in this book is based on the tradition of the Social Responsibility Research Network – a worldwide body of scholars that, over its 20-year history, has sought to broaden the discourse and to treat all research as inter-related and business-relevant. The book examines diverse aspects of the changes to corporate and institutional behaviour that have recently manifested by focusing on these two aspects of sustainable development. Thus, the authors explore engagement and partnership between organisations, in order to consider the extent to which the focus has changed so much that we need to think about new approaches to our understanding of sustainability and differing effects in practice. The international mix of authors makes this an original contribution, sharing some of the best ideas from around the world.

Author : Chukwumerije Okereke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134126880

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Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance by Chukwumerije Okereke Pdf

An ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, this book detailes the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that currently characterize it.

Author : Professor John J. Kirton,Professor Peter I Hajnal
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409495710

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Sustainability, Civil Society and International Governance by Professor John J. Kirton,Professor Peter I Hajnal Pdf

How can civil society and global governors come together in new ways to improve links among trade, environmental and social values? In this important and wide-ranging volume, an unparalleled array of contributors examines the many new processes of civil society engagement that have been introduced at the local, regional and global levels. Assessing what more can be done to strengthen the productive partnerships between civil society and global governance, the book draws on the extensive inventory of existing practices and community-based alternatives to demonstrate how particular mechanisms for civil society participation in global governance have enhanced or impeded the specific economic, environmental and political outcomes that many seek to achieve.

Author : Louis Meuleman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642280092

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Transgovernance by Louis Meuleman Pdf

‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on sustainable development contribute to a knowledge democracy? How can concepts such as second modernity, reflexivity, configuration theory, (meta)governance theory and cultural theory contribute to a ‘transgovernance’ approach which goes beyond mainstream sustainability governance? This volume presents contributions from various angles: international relations, governance and metagovernance theory, (environmental) economics and innovation science. It offers challenging insights regarding institutions and transformation processes, and on the paradigms behind contemporary sustainability governance.This book gives the sustainability governance debate a new context. It transforms classical questions into new options for societal decision making and identifies starting points and strategies towards effective governance of transitions to sustainability.