Handbook Of Global Environmental Politics: Edited By Peter Dauvergne

by Dauvergne, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781843764663
• ISBN10: 1843764660
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-05
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Summary

The book s greatest strength is the range and theoretical ambition of its contributions to regime theory, governance, and international cooperation. . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty. D.L. Feldman, Choice The first Handbook of original articles by leading scholars of global environmental politics, this landmark volume maps the latest theoretical and empirical research in this young and growing field. Captured here are the dynamic and energetic debates over concerns for the health of the planet and how they might best be addressed. The introductory chapters explore the intellectual trends and evolving parameters in the field of global environmental politics. They make 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 three broad themes states, governance and security; capitalism, trade and corporations; and knowledge, civil societies and ethics with each section providing a cohesive discussion of current issues. In-depth explorations are given to topics such as: global commons, renewable energy, the effectiveness of environmental cooperation, regulations and corporate standards, trade liberalization and global environmental governance, and science and environmental citizenship. A comprehensive survey of the latest research, the Handbook is a necessary reference for scholars, students and policymakers in the field of global environmental politics.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	ix
List of contributors	x
List of acronyms	xiv
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Global environmental politics: handbook topics and themes	3	(5)
Peter Dauvergne
2 Research in global environmental politics: history and trends	8	(27)
Peter Dauvergne
PART II STATES, GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY
3 Garrett Hardin and tragedies of global commons	35	(16)
Marvin S. Soroos
4 Studying the global commons: governance without politics?	51	(13)
John Vogler
5 Globalization and environmental protection on the high seas	64	(14)
Elizabeth R. DeSombre
6 Renewable energy and international politics	78	(17)
Ian H. Rowlands
7 Effectiveness, capacity development and international environmental cooperation	95	(16)
Stacy D. VanDeveer
8 Why environmental politics looks different from the South	111	(16)
Adil Najam
9 Man, the state and nature: rethinking environmental security	127	(22)
Richard A. Matthew
10 Filthy rich, not dirt poor! How nature nurtures civil violence	149	(21)
Indra de Soysa
11 Why is there no unified theory of environmental governance?	170	(17)
Oran R. Young
PART III CAPITALISM, TRADE AND CORPORATIONS
12 Towards a political economy of global environmental governance	187	(15)
Peter Newell
13 Environmental governance...or government? The international politics of environmental instruments	202	(16)
Andrew Jordan, Rudiger K.W. Wurzel and Anthony R. Zito
14 Environmental regulation, certification and corporate standards: a critique	218	(15)
Ronnie D. Lipschutz
15 Incentives affecting land use decisions of nonindustrial private forest landowners	233	(16)
Abigail M. York, Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom
16 Green political economy and the promise of the social economy	249	(21)
John Barry and Graham Smith
17 Moving the earth: cars and the dynamics of environmental politics	270	(14)
Matthew Paterson
18 Transnational corporations and global environmental governance	284	(14)
Jennifer Clapp
19 Environmental policy and the environmental Kuznets curve: can developing countries escape the detrimental consequences of economic growth?	298	(21)
Matthew A. Cole and Eric Neumayer
20 Trade liberalization and global environmental governance: the potential for conflict	319	(15)
Kate O'Neill and William C.G. Burns
21 The environment, trade and international organizations	334	(14)
J. Samuel Barkin
22 Race to the middle: environmental politics in the Mercosur free trade agreement	348	(17)
Kathryn Hochstetler
PART IV CIVIL SOCIETIES, KNOWLEDGE AND ETHICS
23 Science and environmental citizenship	365	(18)
Sheila Jasanoff
24 Science and international environmental governance	383	(19)
Peter M. Haas
25 Knowledge and global environmental policy	402	(15)
Marc Williams
26 Vulnerability analysis and environmental governance	417	(15)
Marybeth Long Martello
27 Growth and fragmentation in expert networks: the elusive quest for integrated water resources management	432	(39)
Ken Conca
28 After nature: environmental politics in a postmodern age	471	(15)
Paul Wapner
29 Transnational environmental harm, inequity and the cosmopolitan response	486	(16)
Lorraine Elliott
30 Gaia theory: intimations for global environmental politics	502	(17)
Karen Litfin
Index	519