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The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development.
Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex and former Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy. He is associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics, and sits on the editorial board of Global Environmental Change and the Journal of Environment and Development. He is the author and co-author of eight books (including Globalization and the Environment), more than 40 journal articles, and 40 book chapters on topics relating to globalization and the environment.
J. Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, where he was Director of the Center for Environmental Studies. A Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Roberts has written 11 books and over 70 articles on climate change and global environmental politics. He was recently appointed to the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academy of Sciences.
Editors’ Introduction: The Globalization and Environment Debate 1J. Timmons Roberts and Peter Newell
Part I Going Global 21
Introduction 23
1 The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? (2007) 27Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill
2 Address at the Closing Ceremony of the Eighth and Final Meeting of the World Commission on Environment and Development and the Tokyo Declaration (1987) 43Gro Harlem Brundtland
3 Foxes in Charge of the Chickens (1993) 51Nicholas Hildyard
4 Can the Environment Survive the Global Economy? (1997) 63Edward Goldsmith
5 Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy (2002) 77Arthur P. J. Mol
6 Environment and Globalization: Five Propositions (2010) 94Adil Najam, David Runnalls, and Mark Halle
Part II The Nature of Globalization – Cases and Trends in Globalization 109
Introduction 111
7 The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital (1997) 117Robert Costanza, Ralph d’Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O’Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Marjan Van den Belt, and Paul Sutton
8 Sustainability and Markets: On the Neoclassical Model of Environmental Economics (1997) 134Michael Jacobs
9 Crafting the Next Generation of Market-Based Environmental Tools (1997) 148Jeremy B. Hockenstein, Robert N. Stavins, and Bradley W. Whitehead
10 Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism: The New Trade in Greenhouse Gases (2004) 162Heidi Bachram
11 The Business of Sustainable Development (1992) 177Stephen Schmidheney
12 The “Commons” versus the “Commodity”: Alter-globalization, Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (2007) 187Karen Bakker
Part III Explaining the Relationship between Globalization and the Environment 211
Introduction 213
13 Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change (2011) 219Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne
14 Introduction to World Development Report, 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Global Economy (2003) 233World Bank
15 The Political Ecology of Globalization (2012) 247Peter Newell
16 Institutions for the Earth: Promoting International Environmental Protection (1992) 262Marc A. Levy, Peter M. Haas, and Robert O. Keohane
Part IV Governing Globalization and the Environment 279
Introduction 281
17 Trading Up and Governing Across: Transnational Governance and Environmental Protection (1997) 285David Vogel
18 The WTO and the Undermining of Global Environmental Governance (2000) 294Ken Conca
19 Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links (2003) 299Robert Falkner
20 Managing Multinationals: The Governance of Investment for the Environment (2001) 309Peter Newell
21 Reforming Global Environmental Governance: The Case for a United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO) (2012) 323Frank Biermann
Part V Can Globalization be Greened? 333
Introduction 335
22 Whose Common Future: Reclaiming the Commons (1994) 341The Ecologist
23 Resisting ‘Globalisation-from-above’ Through ‘Globalisation-from-below’ (1997) 362Richard Falk
24 Picking the Wrong Fight: Why Attacks on the World Trade Organization Pose the Real Threat to National Environmental and Public Health Protection (2005) 371Alasdair R. Young
25 What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (2010) 379Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster
26 Pathways of Human Development and Carbon Emissions Embodied in Trade (2012) 396Julia K. Steinberger, J. Timmons Roberts, Glen P. Peters, and Giovanni Baiocchi
27 Introduction to Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication (2012) 406United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
28 Critique of the Green Economy: Toward Social and Environmental Equity (2012) 422Barbara Unmüßig, Wolfgang Sachs, and Thomas Fatheuer
Index 439
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