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Global Shifts - Business, Politics, And Deforestation In A Changing World Economy

by Philip Schleifer

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 What global shifts in markets and power mean for the politics and governance of sustainability.In recent years, major shifts in global markets from North to South have created a new geography of trade and consumption, particularly in the agricultural sector. How this shift affects the governance of sustainability, and thus the future of the planet, is the pressing topic Philip Schleifer takes up in this book. The processes of twenty-first-century globalization are fundamentally changing the politics and governance of commodity production, Schleifer argues, with profound implications for the environment in the food-producing countries of the Global South. At the center of Schleifer''s study are Brazil and Indonesia—two key sites of experimentation in new models of global environmental and commodity governance—where palm oil and soy supply chains have seen unprecedented degrees of private environmental governance in recent years. However, instead of transforming these industries, the diffusion of transnational sustainability standards has accompanied a worsening ecological crisis, with mounting evidence of increasingly strong links between deforestation and globalization in twenty-first-century agricultural trade. To uncover the causes of this governance failure, Schleifer develops a multi-level framework for analyzing how contemporary globalization is reconfiguring the political economies of such industries. The result is the first comprehensive analysis of the shift of global agricultural trade to the South and the deepening crisis of commodity-driven deforestation—and a complex and evolving picture of both the risks and opportunities for sustainability presented by this transformative shift.
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Certifying China - The Rise And Limits Of Transnational Sustainability Governance In Emerging Economies

by Yixian Sun

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 A comprehensive study of the growth, potential, and limits of transnational eco-certification in China and the implications for other emerging economies.China has long prioritized economic growth over environmental protection. But in recent years, the country has become a global leader in the fight to save the planet by promoting clean energy, cutting air and water pollution, and developing a system of green finance. In Certifying China, Yixian Sun explores the potential and limits of transnational eco-certification in moving the world''s most populous country toward sustainable consumption and production. He identifies the forces that drive companies from three sectors—seafood, palm oil, and tea—to embrace eco-certification. The success of eco-certification, he says, will depend on the extent to which it wins the support of domestic actors in fast-growing emerging economies.The assumption of eco-certification is that demand along the supply chain can drive businesses to adopt good practices for social, environmental, and economic sustainability by specifying rules for production, third-party verification, and product labeling. Through case studies drawn from extensive fieldwork and mixed methods, Sun traces the processes by which certification programs originating from the Global North were introduced in China and gradually gained traction. He finds that the rise of eco-certification in the Chinese market is mainly driven by state actors, including government-sponsored industry associations, who seek benefits of transnational governance for their own development goals. The book challenges the conventional wisdom that the Chinese state has little interest in supporting transnational governance, offering novel insights into the interaction between state and non-state actors in earth system governance in emerging economies.
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Learning In Governance - Climate Policy Integration In The European Union

by Katharina Rietig

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 An investigation of the role of learning and its impact on policy change, as exemplified in European Union climate policy integration.Although learning is often considered an important factor in effective environmental governance, it is not clear to what extent learning affects decision making and policy outcomes. In this book, Katharina Rietig examines the role of learning—understood as additional knowledge or experience that is taken into account by policymakers—in earth system governance and policy change. She does this by examining learning in European Union climate policy integration, looking in detail at the examples of the Renewable Energy Directive, its controversial biofuels component, and the greening measures in the Common Agricultural Policy.To examine how learning occurs in the policy process, how to differentiate aspects of learning, and under what conditions learning matters for policy outcomes, Rietig introduces the Learning in Governance Framework, applying it to analyze the EU examples. She finds that policy outcomes are affected through leadership of policy entrepreneurs, who use previously acquired knowledge and past experience to achieve outcomes aligned with their deeper beliefs and policy objectives. She concludes that learning does matter in governance as an intervening variable and can affect policy outcomes in combination with dedicated leadership by policy entrepreneurs who act as learning brokers. Bargaining dominates the policymaking process among actors who represent the interests of different organizations. Rietig''s theoretical framework, empirical studies, and nuanced analysis offer a new perspective on the relevance of learning in earth system governance.
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Global Environmental Governance And The Accountability Trap

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 An examination of whether accountability mechanisms in global environmental governance that focus on monitoring and enforcement necessarily lead to better governance and better environmental outcomes.
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Governing Complex Systems - Social Capital For The Anthropocene

by Oran R. Young

238,50€ + 10% CARD

 An exploration of the need for innovative mechanisms of governance in an era when human actions are major drivers of environmental change.
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Dirty Gold - How Activism Transformed The Jewelry Industry

by Michael John Bloomfield

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 The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics.
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New Earth Politics - Essays From The Anthropocene

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 Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental stress.
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Power In A Warming World - The New Global Politics Of Climate Change And The Remaking Of Environmental Inequality

by David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts e Mizan R. Khan

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 "An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable climate outcomes."--
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Post-Treaty Politics - Secretariat Influence In Global Environmental Governance

by Sikina Jinnah

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 An argument that secretariats--the administrative arms of international treaties--are political actors in their own right.
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Transparency In Global Environmental Governance - Critical Perspectives

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 A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role.Transparency—openness, secured through greater availability of information—is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world. The "transparency turn" in global environmental governance in particular is seen in a range of international agreements, voluntary disclosure initiatives, and public-private partnerships. This is the first book to investigate whether transparency in global environmental governance is in fact a broadly transformative force or plays a more limited, instrumental role.After three conceptual, context-setting chapters, the book examines ten specific and diverse instances of "governance by disclosure." These include state-led mandatory disclosure initiatives that rely on such tools as prior informed consent and monitoring, measuring, reporting and verification; and private (or private-public), largely voluntary efforts that include such corporate transparency initiatives as the Carbon Disclosure Project and such certification schemes as the Forest Stewardship Council. The cases, which focus on issue areas including climate change, biodiversity, biotechnology, natural resource exploitation, and chemicals, demonstrate that although transparency is ubiquitous, its effects are limited and often specific to particular contexts. The book explores in what circumstances transparency can offer the possibility of a new emancipatory politics in global environmental governance.
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Disaggregating International Regimes - A New Approach To Evaluation And Comparison

by Olav Schram Stokke

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 A methodology for evaluating and comparing the effectiveness of international regimes is developed and applied to a successful example of such a regime.
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Institutional Dynamics - Emergent Patterns In International Environmental Governance

by Oran R. Young

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 An analysis of patterns of change in international environmental regimes, with five case studies illustrating the patterns identified.
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Governing Through Goals - Sustainable Development Goals As Governance Innovation

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 A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.
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European Climate Leadership In Question - Policies Toward China And India

by Diarmuid Torney

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 An analysis of the European Union's engagement with China and India on climate change policy that sheds light on Europe's claim to international climate leadership.
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Consensus And Global Environmental Governance - Deliberative Democracy In Nature''S Regime

by Robert V. Bartlett e Walter F. Baber

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 An examination of the potential and limitations of deliberative consensus as a way to achieve effective international environmental governance.
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Earth System Governance - World Politics In The Anthropocene

by Frank Biermann

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 A new model for effective global environmental governance in an era of human-caused planetary transformation and disruption.
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Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered

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 An examination of three major trends in global governance, exemplified by developments in transnational environmental rule-setting.The notion of global governance is widely studied in academia and increasingly relevant to politics and policy making. Yet many of its fundamental elements remain unclear in both theory and practice. This book offers a fresh perspective by analyzing global governance in terms of three major trends, as exemplified by developments in global sustainability governance: the emergence of nonstate actors; new mechanisms of transnational cooperation; and increasingly segmented and overlapping layers of authority.The book, which is the synthesis of a ten-year "Global Governance Project" carried out by thirteen leading European research institutions, first examines new nonstate actors, focusing on international bureaucracies, global corporations, and transnational networks of scientists; then investigates novel mechanisms of global governance, particularly transnational environmental regimes, public-private partnerships, and market-based arrangements; and, finally, looks at fragmentation of authority, both vertically among supranational, international, national, and subnational layers, and horizontally among different parallel rule-making systems.The implications, potential, and realities of global environmental governance are defining questions for our generation. This book distills key insights from the past and outlines the most important research challenges for the future.
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Learning In Governance - Climate Policy Integration In The European Union

by Katharina Rietig

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Milk And Honey - Technologies Of Plenty In The Making Of A Holy Land

by Tamar Novick

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Reassembling Scholarly Communications

by Martin Paul Eve

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Global Environmental Governance And The Accountability Trap

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Global Environmental Governance And The Accountability Trap

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 An examination of whether accountability mechanisms in global environmental governance that focus on monitoring and enforcement necessarily lead to better governance and better environmental outcomes.
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Dirty Gold - How Activism Transformed The Jewelry Industry

by Michael John (University Of Bath) Bloomfield

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Beyond The Triple Bottom Line - Eight Steps Toward A Sustainable Business Model

by Francisco (Professor Of Leadership And Sustainability, Imd Business School) Szekely e Zahir (Imd Business School) Dossa

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 A pragmatic new business model for sustainability that outlines eight steps that range from exploring a mission to promoting innovation; with case studies.
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