Handbook of global environmental politics

Author(s)

• Dauvergne, Peter

Bibliographic Information

Handbook of global environmental politics

edited by Paul Dauvergne

Edward Elgar, c2012

2nd ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The second edition of this Handbook contains more than 30 new and original articles as well as six essential updates by leading scholars of global environmental politics. This landmark book maps the latest theoretical and empirical research in this energetic and growing field. Captured here are the pioneering and lively debates over concerns for the health of the planet and how they might best be addressed. The introduction explores the intellectual trends and evolving parameters in the field of global environmental politics. It makes a case for an expansive definition of the field, one that embraces an interdisciplinary literature on the connections between global politics and environmental change. The remaining chapters are divided into four broad themes - states and cooperation; global governance; the political economy of governance; and knowledge and ethics - with each section covering key emerging issues. In-depth explorations are given to topics such as climate change, multinational corporations, international agreements and UN organizations, regulations and business standards, trade and international finance, multilevel and transnational governance, and ecological citizenship. Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Second Edition is a comprehensive review of the field and offers cutting-edge ideas for further research. As such, scholars, students and policy makers will find themselves looking to it for many years to come. Contributors: S. Andresen, K. Backstrand, J.S. Barkin, S. Bernstein, F. Biermann, H. Bulkeley, K. Conca, P. Dauvergne, I. de Soysa, E.R. DeSombre, R. Dimitrov, A. Dobson, L. Elliott, R. Falkner, M. Finger, D. Fuchs, T. Gehring, L.H. Gulbrandsen, J. Gupta, T. Gutner, M.J. Hoffmann, D. Humphreys, S. Jinnah, A. Jordan, A. Kalfagianni, G. Kutting, D.L. Levy, R.D. Lipschutz, K. Litfin, R. Matthew, A.P.J. Mol, P. Newell, S. Park, M. Paterson, T. Princen, T. Rayner, H. Schroeder, H. Selin, T. Skodvin, G. Spaargaren, D.F. Sprinz, D. Svarin, J. Vogler, P. Wapner, M. Williams

Table of Contents

Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Research Trends in Global Environmental Politics Peter Dauvergne PART II: STATES AND COOPERATION 2. When Regimes Backfire: Institutional Expectations and Environmental Deadlock J. Samuel Barkin 3. Changing Issue Structure to Avoid Free Riders: Protecting the Ocean Environment Elizabeth R. DeSombre 4. International Environmental Regimes as Decision Machines Thomas Gehring 5. Climate Regime Design, the Global Warming Potential, and Climate Risk Management Tora Skodvin 6. The Politics of Persuasion: UN Climate Change Negotiations Radoslav Dimitrov 7. Do We Need More Global Sustainability Conferences? Steinar Andresen 8. Changing North-South Challenges in Global Environmental Politics Joyeeta Gupta 9. Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Richard Matthew 10. The Comfortable Lie? Another Look at Natural Resource Scarcity and Armed Conflict Indra de Soysa PART III: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 11. Legitimacy Problems and Responses in Global Environmental Governance Steven Bernstein 12. International Organizations and Global Environmental Governance: Toward Structural Reform Frank Biermann 13. Studying the Global Commons: Governance without Politics? John Vogler 14. Long-term Environmental Policy: Definition-Origin-Response Options Detlef F. Sprinz 15. Global Environmental Politics and Governance: A Networks and Flows Perspective Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren 16. Global Multilevel Governance and the Management of Hazardous Chemicals Henrik Selin 17. Governing Climate Change: The Challenge of Mitigating and Adapting in a Warming World Tim Rayner and Andrew Jordan 18. Climate Governance Experiments Matthew J. Hoffmann 19. Global Cities and the Politics of Climate Change Harriet Bulkeley and Heike Schroeder PART IV: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GOVERNANCE 20. The Political Ecology of Globalization Peter Newell 21. Exploring Global Governance from a Critical Global Political Economy Perspective Gabriela Kutting 22. Nonstate Actors in Global Environmental Governance Matthias Finger and David Svarin 23. The Effectiveness of Private Environmental Governance Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni 24. Private Actors and Strategies in Global Environmental Governance: The Role of Information Disclosure David L. Levy 25. Business Power, Business Conflict: A Neo-pluralist Perspective on International Environmental Politics Robert Falkner 26. Impacts of Nonstate Governance: Lessons from the Certification of Marine Fisheries Lars H. Gulbrandsen 27. Evaluating World Bank Environmental Performance Tamar Gutner 28. Greening Development Finance: Cases from the World Bank Group Susan Park 29. Moving the Earth: Cars and the Dynamics of Environmental Politics Matthew Paterson 30. Trade-Environment Politics: The Emerging Role of Regional Trade Agreements Sikina Jinnah PART V: KNOWLEDGE AND ETHICS 31. Environmental Human Rights: Greening "the Dignity and Worth of the Human Person" Ken Conca 32. Thinking like a Planet: Gaian Politics and the Transformation of the World Food System Karen Litfin 33. After Nature: Environmental Politics in a Postmodern Age Paul Wapner 34. Knowledge, Power and Global Environmental Policy Marc Williams 35. The Global Politics of Geoengineering David Humphreys 36. A Sustainability Ethic Thomas Princen 37. The Sustainability Debate: Deja Vu All Over Again? Ronnie D. Lipschutz 38. Transnational Environmental Harm, Inequity and the Cosmopolitan Response Lorraine Elliott 39. Democracy and Global Environmental Politics Karin Backstrand 40. Ecological Citizenship Revisited Andrew Dobson Index

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Details

• NCID: BB09375648
• ISBN:
  • 9781849809405
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cheltenham
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 541 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GE
  • DC23 : 333.72
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Environmental policy