Global civil society and global environmental governance : the politics of nature from place to planet
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Global civil society and global environmental governance : the politics of nature from place to planet
（SUNY series in international environmental policy and theory）
State University of New York Press, c1996
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Global civil society & global environmental governance
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-348) and index
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Description
What will it take to protect the global environment? In this book, Ronnie D. Lipschutz argues that neither world government nor green economics can do the job. Governmental regulations often are resisted by those whose behavior they are intended to change, and markets—even green ones—look to profits more than to protection. What will be needed, Lipschutz believes, is not global management but political action through community- and place-based organizations and projects. People acting together locally can have a cumulative impact on environmental quality that is significant, long lasting, and widespread.
The comparative case studies of environmental activism in Northern California, Hungary, and Indonesia (the latter written by Judith Mayer) illustrate one of the central premises of this book: that local action is linked increasingly to globe-spanning networks of knowledge and practice, in what Lipschutz calls global civil society. The result is a system of governance that is both local and global, to which states and international organizations are turning increasingly for help and advice.
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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part I: Learning
2. Governing Nature: Global Change, Social Complexity, and Environmental Management
3. Linking the Natural World: Global Civil Society and Social Learning
Part II: The Green World
4. "Guardians of the Forest": Renegotiating Resource Regimes in Northern California
5. Environmentalism in One Country? Global Civil Society and Nature in Hungary
6. Environmental Organizing in Indonesia: The Search for a Newer Order
Part III: What Can Be Thy Place?
7. Who Are We? Why Are We Here? Identity, Place, and Global Environmental Sustainability
8. Closing the Circle: Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance
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Index
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