Multilevel governance of global environmental change : perspectives from science, sociology and the law / edited by Gerd Winter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winter, Gerd, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 630 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 2006, this collection is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research project involving scholars in the fields of international and comparative environmental law, the sociology and politics of global governance, and the scientific study of global climate change. Earth system analysis as developed by the natural sciences is transferred to the analysis of institutions of global environmental change. Rather than one overarching supranational organisation, a system of 'multilevel' institutions is advocated. The book examines the proper role of industrial self-regulation, of horizontal transfer of national policies, of regional integration, and of improved coordination between international environmental organisations, as well as basic principles for sustainable use of resources. Addressing both academics and politicians, this book will stimulate the debate about the means of improving global governance.

Contents:

Dimensions and mechanisms of global climate change / Peter Lemke

Global climate change / Stefan Rahmstorf

Social embeddedness of global environmental governance / Karl-Werner Brand and Fritz Reusswig

Globalizing a green civil society / Asher Alkoby

Private authority, global governance, and the law / Martin Herberg

Responsibility of transnational corporations in international environmental law / Andrþe Nollkaemper

Transboundary corporate responsibility in environmental matters / Jonas Ebbesson

Diffusion of environmental policy innovations / Kerstin Tews

Process related measures and global environmental governance / Christian Tietje

Impact of the U.S.A. on regime formation and implementation / Thomas Giegerich

Transnational bureaucracy networks, a resource of global environmental governance? / Michael Warning

EU / Ludwig Kraemer

Transition and governance / Stephen Stec, Alexios Antypas and Tamara Steger

Multilateral environmental agreements and the compliance continuum / Jutta Brunnþee

On clustering international environmental agreements / Konrad von Moltke

Institutions, knowledge and change / Helmut Breitmeier

Regulatory competition and developing countries and the challenge for compliance-push and pull measures / Joyeeta Gupta

Policy instrument innovation in the european union / Andrew Jordan, Rudiger K.W. Wurzel and Anthony R. Zito

Financial instruments and cooperation in implementing international agreements for the global environment / Charlotte Streck

Global environmental change and the nation state / Peter H. Sand

Whose environment? / Michael Bothe

Globalising environmental liability / A.E. Boyle

Legal nature of environmental principles in international, EU and exemplary national law / Gerd Winter.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-139-81038-3

1-107-19606-X

1-107-31657-X

1-107-32196-4

1-107-31753-3

1-107-31842-4

1-299-39965-7

1-107-31559-X

0-511-88997-6

0-511-72088-2