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This course examines contemporary international environmental problems from the angle of global governance. The major themes to be addressed include (1) how individuals and groups shape local-global dynamics of international environmental politics; (2) how economic, political, and social processes at multiple domains shape global environmental changes; and (3) the challenges of international environmental governance and the possible state/international policy formulations to address the challenges. The course aims at combining theory and practice in the study of international environmental governance in various issue areas such as overpopulation, pollution, energy use, climate change, and environmental security.
This book focuses on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. The book maps out an original typology of four contrasting worldviews of environmental change—those of market liberals, institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, and social greens—and uses them as a framework to examine the links between the global political economy and ecological change. This typology provides a common language for students, instructors, and scholars to discuss the issues across the classical social science divisions.
This book takes a political economy approach to understanding the role of business in global environmental politics. Part One examines recent theoretical developments, reviews debates, and constructs a neo-Gramscian conceptual framework. Part Two analyzes place firms and corporate strategy centrally in their analysis of international environmental governance. Part Three examines the business influence from regional dimensions. Part Four highlights the various mechanisms by which private actors establish private regimes of governance, and points to some problematic implications regarding participation in governance processes and the distribution of costs and benefits. The book concludes with themes, insights, and experiences from the sectors, issues, and regions explored in previous chapters.
This is a collection of essays commenting on the interdisciplinary field of trade and the environment, aimed at understanding the relationship between international trade in a globalizing world and its effects on the natural environment. Divided into three sections- trade and environmental quality, trade and environmental politics, and trade and environmental policy, the book provides in-depth case studies of nations and regions in addition to broader overviews of the field, including the United States, the European Union, China, India, and Mexico as well as East Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
