Global Environmental Governance

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This edited collection makes a highly significant critical contribution to the field of environmental politics. It argues that the international-level, institutionalist approach to global environmental politics has run its course, employed solely by powerful actors in order to orchestrate and manipulate local communities within a continuing hegemonic system. The outstanding international line-up of contributors to this volume explore the real advances that are being made in the areas were the local and global intersect and how power fits into the equation. They explore the relationship between governance, power and knowledge, using power as the main analytical tool.

The contributors adopt a variety of approaches and perspectives - some starting from the local level and shifting upward to the global, and some using a global perspective that narrows down to the local. Some chapters explore specific case studies and others employ a more conceptual framework - but all of them bring a new dimension to the relationship between power and knowledge in environmental governance. Power here is explored in all its guises - from relational to structural power.

An important and timely exploration of a topic at the forefront of global debate, "Environmental Governance" is essential reading for all students of global environmental politics, international political economy and international relations.

Contents

1. Introduction Part 1: Power, knowledge and environmental governance from a conceptual perspective 2. Situating Knowledges, Spatializing Communities, and Sizing Contradictions: The Challenge of Globality and Locality in Environmental Governance Tim Luke 3. Ecological expertise Ralf Brand & Andy Karvonen 4. Power, knowledge and ocean governance from a historical perspective Peter Jacques Part 2: From the local to the global 5. Multi-level-governance and the question of scale -- the concept of Landscape Governance Christoph Gorg & Felix Rauschmayer 6. The Internationalized State: Functions and Modes of Regulation of Genetic Resources Uli Brand 7. Ecological Praxis: The Global Ecovillage Movement and the Scientific Ontology of Interbeing Karen Litfin Part 3: From the global to the local 8. Water for All! The Power of the World Bank and its Transnational Policy Networks Michael Goldman 9. Global Institutions and Environmental Change: moving beyond land-use-cover-change Tim Forsyth 10. Global Assistance for Local Environmental Movements: The Politics of Capacity-Building in Bosnia-Herzegovina Adam Fagan 11. Conclusions

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Rutgers-Newark University, USA University of California, Santa Cruz, USA