Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance

Jean-Frederic Morin, Amandine Orsini

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781136777110
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Économie
• Subtopic: Économie du développement

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent environmental issues to be addressed. This book is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the main pieces of the global environmental governance puzzle.

The book is comprised of 101 entries, each defining a central concept in global environmental governance, presenting its historical evolution, introducing related debates and including key bibliographical references and further reading. The entries combine analytical rigour with empirical description. The book:

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• offers cutting edge analysis of the state of global environmental governance,

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• raises an up-to-date debate on global governance for sustainable development,

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• gives an in-depth exploration of current international architecture of global environmental governance,

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• examines the interaction between environmental politics and other fields of governance such as trade, development and security,

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• elaborates a critical review of the recent literature in global environmental governance.

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This unique work synthesizes writing from an internationally diverse range of well-known experts in the field of global environmental governance. Innovative thinking and high-profile expertise come together to create a volume that is accessible to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

INDEX

Aarhus Convention xvi, 39, 89, 144, 225; see also information (access to), justice

Aarhus Protocol see heavy metals

aboriginal peoples see indigenous peoples

access and benefit sharing xvi, 13–14, 67, 196; see also genetic resources

accountability 17, 44, 89, 117, 136, 147, 149 165, 234

acid rain 70, 171, 207, 215

adaptation 1–2, 27, 54, 65–67, 71, 97, 115, 127, 182, 205, 209

advocacy networks 70; see also nongovernmental organizations, social movements

Africa 25, 49, 92, 114–115, 127, 150, 183; see also African Group, African Union

African Group 115–116, 132; see also Africa, African Union

African Union 198, 238; see also Africa, African Group

agency 148, 154, 159, 171, 174, 189, 190, 197, 223

Agenda 21 xvi, 29–30, 144, 202

Agreement on Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures 161–162

agriculture 3, 40, 50, 95, 97, 111, 115, 149, 165; see also farmers, Food and Agriculture Organization

aid 2–5, 52, 105, 131, 144; see also International Aid Transparency Initiative, Millennium Development Goals, Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

air pollution see transboundary air pollution regime

Alliance of Small Island St...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface: 101 shades of green in a pink jacket
• List of abbreviations
• Timeline of selected international environmental agreements
• Adaptation
• Biodiversity regime
• Carrying capacities paradigm
• Deep ecology
• Ecocentrism
• Fisheries governance
• Gaia theory
• Hazardous Chemicals Convention
• Indigenous peoples and local communities
• Justice
• Kuznets curve (environmental)
• Labeling and certification
• Markets
• Negotiating coalitions
• Ozone regime
• Participation
• REDD
• Scale
• Taxation
• United Nations Environment Programme
• Wetlands Convention
• Index