Rethinking Private Authority : Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance / Jessica F. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Jessica F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business enterprises--Environmental aspects.

Corporations--Environmental aspects.

Environmental law, International.

Environmental policy--International cooperation.

Industrial management--Environmental aspects.

Non-governmental organizations.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Environmental policy.

Public-private sector cooperation--Environmental aspects.

Non-governmental organizations--Environmental aspects.

Environmental law, International--Environmental aspects.

Industrial management.

Corporations.

Business enterprises.

Local Subjects:

Business enterprises--Environmental aspects.

Corporations--Environmental aspects.

Environmental law, International.

Environmental policy--International cooperation.

Industrial management--Environmental aspects.

Non-governmental organizations.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, Green shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years, largely in the area of treaty implementation. This contrasts with entrepreneurial authority, where most private environmental rules have been created in the past two decades. Green traces how this dynamic and fast-growing form of private authority is becoming increasingly common in areas ranging from organic food to green building practices to sustainable tourism. She persuasively argues that the configuration of state preferences and the existing institutional landscape are paramount to explaining why private authority emerges and assumes the form that it does. In-depth cases on climate change provide evidence for her arguments. Groundbreaking in scope, Rethinking Private Authority demonstrates that authority in world politics is diffused across multiple levels and diverse actors, and it offers a more complete picture of how private actors are helping to shape our response to today's most pressing environmental problems.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Introduction

Chapter One. A Theory of Private Authority

Chapter Two. Agents of the State: A Century of Delegation in International Environmental Law

Chapter Three. Governors of the Market: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Authority

Chapter Four. Atmospheric Police: Delegated Authority in the Clean Development Mechanism

Chapter Five. Atmospheric Accountants: Entrepreneurial. Authority and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol

Chapter 6. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400848669

1400848660

OCLC:

863157875