Handbook of global environmental politics / edited by Peter Dauvergne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Credo Reference (Firm)

Dauvergne, Peter.

Series:

Elgar original reference.

Elgar original reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The second edition of this Handbook contains new and original articles as well as six essential updates by leading scholars of global environmental politics. This landmark book maps the latest theoretical and empirical research in this energetic and growing field. Captured here are the pioneering and lively debates over concerns for the health of the planet and how they might best be addressed.

Contents:

Part I Introduction. Research trends in global environmental politics / Peter Dauvergne

Part II States and cooperation. When regimes backfire : institutional expectations and environmental deadlock / J. Samuel Barkin

Changing issue structure to avoid free riders : protecting the ocean environment / Elizabeth R. DeSombre

International environmental regimes as decision machines / Thomas Gehring

Climate regime design, the global warming potential, and climate risk management / Tora Skodvin

The politics of persuasion : UN climate change negotiations / Radoslav Dimitrov

Do we need more global sustainability conferences? / Steinar Andresen

Changing North-South challenges in global environmental politics / Joyeeta Gupta

Environment, conflict, and peacebuilding / Richard Matthew

The comfortable lie? Another look at natural resource scarcity and armed conflict / Indra de Soysa

Part III Global goverance. Legitimacy problems and responses in global environmental governance / Steven Bernstein

International organizations and global environmental governance : toward structural reform / Frank Biermann

Studying the global commons : governance without politics? / John Vogler

Long-term environmental policy : definition-origin-response options / Detlef F. Sprinz

Global environmental politics and governance : a networks and flows perspective / Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren

Global multilevel governance and the management of hazardous chemicals / Henrik Selin

Governing climate change : the challenge of mitigating and adapting in a warming world / Tim Rayner and Andrew Jordan

Climate governance experiments / Matthew J. Hoffmann

Global cities and the politics of climate change / Harriet Bulkeley and Heike Schroeder

Part IV The political economy of governance. The political ecology of globalization / Peter Newell

Exploring global governance from a critical global political economy perspective / Gabriela K�utting

Nonstate actors in global environmental governance / Matthias Finger and David Svarin

The effectiveness of private environmental governance / Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni

Private actors and strategies in global environmental governance : the role of information disclosure / David L. Levy

Business power, business conflict : a neo-pluralist perspective on international environmental politics / Robert Falkner

Impacts of nonstate governance : lessons from the certification of marine fisheries / Lars H. Gulbrandsen

Evaluating World Bank environmental performance / Tamar Gutner

Greening development finance : cases from the World Bank Group / Susan Park

Moving the earth : cars and the dynamics of environmental politics / Matthew Paterson

Trade-environment politics : the emerging role of regional trade agreements / Sikina Jinnah

Part V Knowledge and ethic. Environmental human rights : greening "the dignity and worth of the human person" / Ken Conca

Thinking like a planet : Gaian politics and the transformation of the world food system / Karen Litfin

After nature : environmental politics in a postmodern age / Paul Wapner

Knowledge, power and global environmental policy / Marc Williams

The global politics of geoengineering / David Humphreys

A sustainability ethic / Thomas Princen

The sustainability debate : deja vu all over again? / Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Transnational environmental harm, inequity and the cosmopolitan response / Lorraine Elliott

Democracy and global environmental politics / Karin Bäckstrand

Ecological citizenship revisited / Andrew Dobson.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 2005.

Description based on title page of print version.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78268-135-3

1-283-52317-5

1-84980-941-0

OCLC:

794664082