Environmental Governance through Partnerships : A Discourse Theoretical Study

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mert, Aysem.

Mert, Ayðsem, Author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

New Horizons in Environmental Politics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--International cooperation.

Sustainable development.

Environmental policy.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Other Title:

New Horizons in Environmental Politics Series

Environment governance through transnational partnerships

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transnational partnerships have become mainstream across levels and issues of environmental governance, following their endorsement by the UN in 2002. Despite apparent success, their desirability as a way of governing human interactions with the planet's ecosystems has not yet been properly investigated. In this revelatory book Aysem Mert combines post-structuralist discourse theory and ecocriticism to analyse three discourses that have been rooted into the logic of partnerships: privatisation of governance, sustainable development and democratic participation. Ultimately, Mert argues that the

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; PART I Setting the scene; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodological reflections: studying change within continuity; 3. Theoretical reflections: discourses and institutions after Nature; 4. Partnerships as sedimented discourses: the emergence of Type-II outcomes; PART II Analyzing the mediating discourses; 5. Partnerships and the discourse of privatization; 6. Partnerships and the discourse of sustainable development; 7. Partnerships and the discourse of participation; 8. Conclusions; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-78254-005-9