Crisis of Global Environmental Governance

<p>More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report <em>Our Common Future</em> 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.</p> <p></p> <p>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: </p> <ul> <li>considers current failures in the framework of global environmental governance</li> <li>addresses the problematic relationship between sustainability and globalization</li> <li>explores controversies of development and environment that have led to new processes of institution building</li> <li>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. </li> <p></p></ul> <p></p> <p>This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political science international studies political economy and environmental studies.</p>