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

More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, Our Common Future, we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. The failed 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development showed the need for a new approach to globalization and sustainability. Taking a critical perspective, rooted in political economy, regulation theory, and post-sovereign international relations, this book explores questions concerning the governance of environmental sustainability in a globalizing economy. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book offers a comprehensive framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability, and examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance. It: considers current failures in the framework of global environmental governance addresses the problematic relationship between sustainability and globalization explores controversies of development and environment that have led to new processes of institution building examines the marketization of environmental policy-making; stakeholder politics and environmental policy-making; socio-economic justice; the political origins of sustainable consumption; the role of transnational actors; and processes of multi-level global governance. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political science, international studies, political economy and environmental studies.

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 Environmental Governance.
• 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.

More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, "Our Common Future", we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. The failed 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development showed the need for a new approach to globalization and sustainability. Taking a critical perspective, rooted in political economy, regulation theory, and post-sovereign international relations, this book explores questions concerning the governance of environmental sustainability in a globalizing economy. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book offers a comprehensive framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability, and examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance. The book considers current failures in the framework of global environmental governance. It addresses the problematic relationship between sustainability and globalization. It explores controversies of development and environment that have led to new processes of institution building. It examines the marketization of environmental policymaking; stakeholder politics and environmental policymaking; socio-economic justice; the political origins of sustainable consumption; the role of transnational actors; and processes of multi-level global governance. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political science, international studies, political economy and environmental studies Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Contributors......Page 10 1 The death of Rio environmentalism: Jacob Park, Matthias Finger, and Ken Conca......Page 14 2 Sustainability and globalization: A theoretical perspective Ulrich Brand and Christoph Go ̈rg......Page 26 3 Which governance for sustainable development?: An organizational and institutional perspective......Page 47 4 A global political economy of textiles: From the global to the local and back again......Page 71 5 The marketization of global environmental governance: Manifestations and implications......Page 90 6 Between market and justice: The socio-ecological challenge......Page 109 7 Sustainable consumption?: Legitimation, regulation, and environmental governance......Page 123 8 Transnational transformations: From government-centric interstate regimes to cross-sectoral multi-level networks of global governance......Page 145 9 "Stakeholders" and the politics of environmental policymaking......Page 176 10 Rethinking authority, territory, and knowledge: Transnational socio-ecological controversies and global environmental governance......Page 206 Index......Page 221 Taking a critical perspective andaproviding a comprehensive framework on globalization and governance, this book examines what institutional mechanisms and arrangements will enableapeople to achieve sustainable environmental governance. Taking a critical perspective and providing a comprehensive framework on globalization and governance, this book examines what institutional mechanisms and arrangements will enable people to achieve sustainable environmental governance