Handbook of global environmental politics [electronic resource] /
Dauvergne, Peter.
Credo Reference (Firm)
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub.,
2012
The second edition of this Handbook contains new and original articles as well as six essential updates by leading scholars of global environmental politics. This landmark book maps the latest theoretical and empirical research in this energetic and growing field. Captured here are the pioneering and lively debates over concerns for the health of the planet and how they might best be addressed.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Previous ed.: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part I Introduction. Research trends in global environmental politics / Peter Dauvergne --
Part II States and cooperation. When regimes backfire : institutional expectations and environmental deadlock / J. Samuel Barkin -- Changing issue structure to avoid free riders : protecting the ocean environment / Elizabeth R. DeSombre -- International environmental regimes as decision machines / Thomas Gehring -- Climate regime design, the global warming potential, and climate risk management / Tora Skodvin -- The politics of persuasion : UN climate change negotiations / Radoslav Dimitrov -- Do we need more global sustainability conferences? / Steinar Andresen -- Changing North-South challenges in global environmental politics / Joyeeta Gupta -- Environment, conflict, and peacebuilding / Richard Matthew -- The comfortable lie? Another look at natural resource scarcity and armed conflict / Indra de Soysa --
Part III Global goverance. Legitimacy problems and responses in global environmental governance / Steven Bernstein -- International organizations and global environmental governance : toward structural reform / Frank Biermann -- Studying the global commons : governance without politics? / John Vogler -- Long-term environmental policy : definition-origin-response options / Detlef F. Sprinz -- Global environmental politics and governance : a networks and flows perspective / Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren -- Global multilevel governance and the management of hazardous chemicals / Henrik Selin -- Governing climate change : the challenge of mitigating and adapting in a warming world / Tim Rayner and Andrew Jordan -- Climate governance experiments / Matthew J. Hoffmann -- Global cities and the politics of climate change / Harriet Bulkeley and Heike Schroeder -- 
Part IV The political economy of governance. The political ecology of globalization / Peter Newell -- Exploring global governance from a critical global political economy perspective / Gabriela K�utting -- Nonstate actors in global environmental governance / Matthias Finger and David Svarin -- The effectiveness of private environmental governance / Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni -- Private actors and strategies in global environmental governance : the role of information disclosure / David L. Levy -- Business power, business conflict : a neo-pluralist perspective on international environmental politics / Robert Falkner -- Impacts of nonstate governance : lessons from the certification of marine fisheries / Lars H. Gulbrandsen -- Evaluating World Bank environmental performance / Tamar Gutner -- Greening development finance : cases from the World Bank Group / Susan Park -- Moving the earth : cars and the dynamics of environmental politics / Matthew Paterson -- Trade-environment politics : the emerging role of regional trade agreements / Sikina Jinnah --
Part V Knowledge and ethic. Environmental human rights : greening "the dignity and worth of the human person" / Ken Conca -- Thinking like a planet : Gaian politics and the transformation of the world food system / Karen Litfin -- After nature : environmental politics in a postmodern age / Paul Wapner -- Knowledge, power and global environmental policy / Marc Williams -- The global politics of geoengineering / David Humphreys -- A sustainability ethic / Thomas Princen -- The sustainability debate : deja vu all over again? / Ronnie D. Lipschutz -- Transnational environmental harm, inequity and the cosmopolitan response / Lorraine Elliott -- Democracy and global environmental politics / Karin Bäckstrand -- Ecological citizenship revisited / Andrew Dobson.
The second edition of this Handbook contains new and original articles as well as six essential updates by leading scholars of global environmental politics. This landmark book maps the latest theoretical and empirical research in this energetic and growing field. Captured here are the pioneering and lively debates over concerns for the health of the planet and how they might best be addressed.
Description based on title page of print version.
Environmental policy.

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