The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance - Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability - - Paperback Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 2008 -

Description

More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, Our Common Future , we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. The failed 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development showed the need for a new approach to globalization and sustainability. Taking a critical perspective, rooted in political economy, regulation theory, and post-sovereign international relations, this book explores questions concerning the governance of environmental sustainability in a globalizing economy. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book offers a comprehensive framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability, and examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance. It: - - considers current failures in the framework of global environmental governance - - addresses the problematic relationship between sustainability and globalization - - explores controversies of development and environment that have led to new processes of institution building - - examines the marketization of environmental policy-making; stakeholder politics and environmental policy-making; socio-economic justice; the political origins of sustainable consumption; the role of transnational actors; and processes of multi-level global governance. - - This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political science, international studies, political economy and environmental studies.