Governing for the environment : global problems, ethics, and democracy / edited by Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gleeson, Brendan, 1964-

Low, Nicholas.

Series:

Global issues (Thomson Learning)

Global issues series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Environmental justice.

Physical Description:

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

"Governing for the Environment" explores one of the dimensions of the value-knowledge system needed in any movement towards humane governance for the planet: the ecological sustainability and integrity of the Earth's environment. The book begins from the premise that while environmental knowledge and values have developed rapidly, their development must not overwhelm consideration of other core 'humane' values: peace, social justice, and human rights. The book's contributors explore a variety of ethical issues that must inform future global regulation of the Earth's environment.

Contents:

1 The Challenge of Ethical Environmental Governance / Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson 1

Part I Environmental Issues, Ethical Dilemmas 27

2 Towards Sustainability / Joachim Spangenberg 29

3 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Beyond Monitoring? / Elizabeth Edmondson 44

4 The International Politics of Declining Forests / Minna Jokela 61

5 Maximizing Justice for Environmental Refugees: a Transnational Institution on Behalf of the Deterritorialized / Adrianna Semmens 72

6 Environmental Accountability and Transnational Corporations / David Humphreys 88

Part II Towards a Global Ethics 103

7 Towards An Environmentalist Grand Narrative / Arran Gare 105

8 Human Rights and the Environment: Redefining Fundamental Principles? / Klaus Bosselmann 118

9 Planetary Citizenship: the Definition and Defence of an Ideal / Janna Thompson 135

10 An Ecological Ethics for the Present: Three Approaches to the Central Question / James Tully 147

11 Environmental Ethics and the Obsolescence of Existing Political Institutions / Peter Laslett 165

Part III Humane Government for the Environment 181

12 Environmental Justice and Global Democracy / Wouter Achterberg 183

13 The Politics of Cosmopolitical Democracy / Daniele Archibugi 196

14 An International Court of the Environment / Amedeo Postiglione 211

15 Humane Governance and the Environment: Overcoming Neo-Liberalism / Richard Falk 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index.

ISBN:

0333793722

OCLC:

44045606