Environmental Governance

by Hempel, Lamont C.

• ISBN13: 9781559634489
• ISBN10: 1559634480
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

InEnvironmental Governance, Lamont C. Hempel considers the nature of global environmental change and the institutional responses needed to manage it. While environmental problems are increasingly transboundary in scope and significance, governance remains sharply fragmented and territorial. For political institutions to cope successfully with growing biospheric crises, they must become "glocal" in design and operation -- some of the environmental authority presently invested in sovereign states must be redistributed to both supranational entities and local communities.Using political theory, applied policy analysis, and case studies, Hempel explains how major and sustainable improvements in the quality of life will require significant but achievable innovations. Changes such as "green" technologies, human population stabilization, full social cost pricing, the elimination of absolute poverty, and the widespread adoption of ecologically based values and ecologically compatible lifestyles will all be necessary in the coming decades. But without a redesign and strengthening of local, regional, and transnational political institutions and policies, such developments are not likely to flourish.While thoroughly grounded in political science,Environmental Governanceis multidisciplinary in design, drawing on concepts and tools from ecology, economics, law, business, sociology, philosophy, public health, and international relations theory.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Between Two Centuries	1	(28)
Designing the Future	5	(6)
Dangerous Experiments	11	(8)
Redefining Freedom	19	(2)
A Thematic Roadmap	21	(8)
Earth Summit or Abyss?	29	(22)
The Spectacle of 1992	30	(1)
An Agenda for Century 21	31	(2)
Treaty Making	33	(2)
The Retarding Lead	35	(2)
The North-South Divide	37	(2)
Sustainable Development	39	(3)
Assessing the Summit's Success	42	(3)
The Cairo Conference	45	(3)
Conclusion	48	(3)
Causes of Environmental Destruction	51	(39)
Framing the Problem	52	(6)
Environmental Driving Forces	58	(7)
Core Values	65	(5)
Amplifiers	70	(5)
Consumptive Behavior	75	(7)
Political Economy	82	(4)
Conclusion	86	(4)
Global Warming: The Changing Climate in Science and Poltics	90	(29)
Greenhouse Science	92	(3)
Tracing the Human Causes	95	(7)
Converting Science into Policy	102	(11)
International Cooperation	113	(3)
Conclusion	116	(3)
The Environmental Policy-Making Process	119	(31)
A Policy Process Heuristic	120	(3)
International Policy Making	123	(1)
Constructing a Model	124	(23)
Conclusion	147	(3)
Political Ecology	150	(29)
Glocalization	152	(2)
The Political Ecosystem	154	(2)
Whither the Nation-State?	156	(3)
Prospects for Supranational Governance	159	(17)
Conclusion	176	(3)
Political Economy	179	(27)
Trade and Environment	180	(10)
The Role of the Corporation	190	(4)
Designing Green Markets	194	(9)
Conclusion	203	(3)
An Ethical Framework for Glocal Action	206	(20)
Common Heritage	209	(4)
Common Equity	213	(4)
Common Security	217	(2)
Deliberative Democracy	219	(4)
Conclusion	223	(3)
Cornucopians, Catastrophists, and Optimizers	226	(23)
The Risks of Progress	227	(2)
Contrasting Visions	229	(6)
Roots and Wings	235	(4)
Revisioning	239	(3)
Earthkeeping: The Politics of a Sustainable Future	242	(3)
Conclusion	245	(4)
References	249	(22)
Suggested Reading	271	(6)
Index	277