Global environmental governance : law and regulation for the 21st century / Louis J. Kotze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kotzé, Louis J.

Series:

New horizons in environmental and energy law.

New horizons in environmental and energy law series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Environmental protection--International cooperation.

Environmental protection.

Environmental law--International cooperation.

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This timely book brings much-needed clarity to the concept of 'environmental governance' as manifested in the global regulatory domain. The author argues that despite being used as a fashionable term by many - including economists, political scientists, environmentalists and, increasingly, lawyers - its theoretical contours and conceptual content remain unclear, incoherent, and inconsistent. In addressing this problem, the book begins by describing globalization as a general context of governance. It comprehensively interrogates and clarifies both the governance and global governance concepts,

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The contemporary context of globalization; 3. Framing governance; 4. Global governance; 5. Law and governance; 6. In search of (global) environmental governance; 7. Mapping the definitional field of global environmental governance; 8. Law and global environmental governance; 9. Reconstructing global environmental governance; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-91319-4

1-78100-253-3

OCLC:

823726133