Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered

by Biermann, Frank; Pattberg, Philipp

• ISBN13: 9780262517706
• ISBN10: 0262517701
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-06
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

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 Biography

Frank Biermann is Professor of Political Science and of Environmental Policy at VU University Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Earth System Governance at Lund University, Sweden. Philipp Pattberg is Associate Professor of Transnational Governance in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
List of Acronyms	p. xv
Global Environmental Governance Revisited	p. 1
The New Actors	p. 25
International Bureaucracies	p. 27
Global Corporations	p. 45
Science Networks	p. 69
The New Mechanisms	p. 95
Transnational Environmental Regimes	p. 97
Transnational Public-Private Partnerships	p. 123
Transnational Governance Experiments	p. 149
The New Interlinkages and Fragmentations	p. 173
Horizontal Institutional Interlinkages	p. 175
International-Domestic Linkages and Policy Convergen	p. 199
Regional Governance Arrangements	p. 219
The Changing Role of the State	p. 237
Conclusions	p. 265
Glossary	p. 281
Contributors	p. 285
Index	p. 293
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