The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability

by Park; Jacob

• ISBN13: 9780415449199
• ISBN10: 0415449197
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134059812
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

More than three decades ago the seminal Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment took place, in 1992 the Earth Summit took place and continued via Rio to Johannesburg, yet still we have failed to secure the basis for providing the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. Taking a critical perspective, rooted in political economy, regulation theory, and post-sovereign international relations theory, this book seeks to answer these questions concerning the governance of sustainability in a globalizing world economy. The book offers a comprehensive framework on globalization and governance to examine what institutional mechanisms and arrangements will enable us to achieve sustainable environmental governance. Global Environmental Governance Examines the current global institutions and the cracks and failures in the framework of global environmentalgovernance. Addresses the problematic relationship between sustainability and globalization. Explores areas of development and environment that have not seen the processes of institutionalization. Examines the marketization of environmental policymaking; stakeholder politics and environmental policymaking.; socio-economic justice; the political origins of sustainable consumption; transnational actors and multi-level global governance. This book will be of will of interest and importance to students and researchers of political science, international studies, political economy and environmental studies.

Table of Contents

The death of Rio environmentalism	p. 1
Sustainability and globalization: a theoretical perspective	p. 13
Which governance for sustainable development? An organizational and institutional perspective	p. 34
A global political economy of textiles: from the global to the local and back again	p. 58
The marketization of global environmental governance: manifestations and implications	p. 77
Between market and justice: the socio-ecological challenge	p. 96
Sustainable consumption? legitimation, regulation, and environmental governance	p. 110
Transnational transformations: from government-centric interstate regimes to cross-sectoral multi-level networks of global governance	p. 132
"Stakeholders" and the politics of environmental policymaking	p. 163
Rethinking authority, territory, and knowledge: transnational socio-ecological controversies and global environmental governance	p. 193
Index	p. 208
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