The business of global environmental governance / edited by David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levy, David L. (David Laurence)

Newell, Peter (Peter John)

Series:

Global environmental accords

Global environmental accord

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Economic aspects.

Environmental policy.

Environmental policy--International cooperation.

Globalization--Environmental aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 360 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]

Summary:

The Business of Global Environmental Governance takes a political economy approach to understanding the role of business in global environmental politics. The book's contributors-from a range of disciplines including international political economy, management, and political science-view the evolution of international environmental governance as a dynamic interplay of economic structures, business strategies, and political processes. By providing comparative insights to the responses of business to major international environmental issues, the book illuminates the ways business activity shapes and is shaped by global environmental policies. It moves beyond the usual emphasis on state actors and formal regimes, instead providing empirical and theoretical contributions that examine the reciprocal relationship between corporate strategy and international environmental governance.

After developing a theoretical framework for understanding the role of business in environmental governance, the book provides empirical studies of business strategies across a range of cases, from formal regimes to combat climate change and ozone depletion to more informal and private regimes for tropical logging and the ISO 14000 environmental management standards. These case studies demonstrate the key roles of business, markets, and private actors in shaping international environmental institutions and constructing new forms of governance.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Business of Global Environmental Governance / David L. Levy, Peter J. Newell 1

I Conceptual Frameworks

2 Business and International Environmental Governance: The State of the Art / Peter J. Newell 21

3 A Neo-Gramscian Approach to Business in International Environmental Politics: An Interdisciplinary, Multilevel Framework / David L. Levy, Peter J. Newell 47

II Business Strategies in International Environmental Governance

4 Business and the Evolution of the Climate Regime: The Dynamics of Corporate Strategies / David L. Levy 73

5 The Business of Ozone Layer Protection: Corporate Power in Regime Evolution / Robert Falkner 105

6 The Genetic Engineering Revolution in Agriculture and Food: Strategies of the "Biotech Bloc" / Peter Andree 135

III Business Influence: Regional Dimensions

7 The Environmental Challenge to Loggers in the Asia-Pacific: Corporate Practices in Informal Regimes of Governance / Peter Dauvergne 169

8 Environmental and Business Lobbying Alhances in Europe: Learning from Washington? / David Coen 197

IV The Privatization of Governance: Business and Civil Society

9 The Privatization of Global Environmental Governance: ISO 14000 and the Developing World / Jennifer Clapp 223

10 Privatizing Governance, Practicing Triage: Securitization of Insurance Risks and the Politics of Global Warming / Sverker C. Jagers, Matthew Paterson, Johannes Stripple 249

11 The New Water Paradigm: The Privatization of Governance and the Instrumentalization of the State / Matthias Finger 275

12 Challenging the Global Environmental Governance of Toxics: Social Movement Agency and Global Civil Society / Lucy H. Ford 305

13 Business and International Environmental Governance: Conclusions and Implications / Peter J. Newell, David L. Levy 329.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262122707

0262621886

OCLC:

55036841