Earthly Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earthly Politics write by Sheila Jasanoff. This book was released on 2004-03-19. Earthly Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Globalization today is as much a problem for international harmony as it is a necessary condition of living together on our planet. Increasing interconnectedness in ecology, economy, technology, and politics has brought nations and societies into even closer contact, creating acute demands for cooperation. Earthly Politics argues that in the coming decades global governance will have to accommodate differences even as it obliterates distance, and will have to respect many aspects of the local while developing institutions that transcend localism. This book analyzes a variety of environmental-governance approaches that balance the local and the global in order to encourage new, more flexible frameworks of global governance. On the theoretical level, it draws on insights from the field of science and technology studies to enrich our understanding of environmental-development politics. On the pragmatic level, it discusses the design of institutions and processes to address problems of environmental governance that increasingly refuse to remain within national boundaries. The cases in the book display the crucial relationship between knowledge and power—the links between the ways we understand environmental problems and the ways we manage them—and illustrate the different paths by which knowledge-power formations are arrived at, contested, defended, or set aside. By examining how local and global actors ranging from the World Bank to the Makah tribe in the Pacific Northwest respond to the contradictions of globalization, the authors identify some of the conditions for creating more effective engagement between the global and the local in environmental governance.
Governance, Politics and the Environment
Governance, Politics and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governance, Politics and the Environment write by Maria Francesch-Huidobro. This book was released on 2008-07-09. Governance, Politics and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past two decades, research on environmental issues in East and Southeast Asian countries has mainly focused on existing institutional mechanisms of environmental management, the establishment of new environmental management structures, the introduction of incentives to improve natural capital and foster environmental protection, and the culture of environmental or "green" groups. Virtually no rigorous research has been directed into the nature and significance of the existing relationship between government and civil society in individual country studies, with specific reference to the environmental policy sector, or into how this relationship may be evolving. This book explores this connection in Singapore, and what causes it to evolve, through three case narratives. Its rationale is to address this gap in the literature from a "governance theory" perspective that focuses on state adaptation to the external environment and new forms of coordination and collaboration between government and civil society to tackle new societal problems. The application of the "governance theory" approach to specific case studies is itself a topic that deserves much greater study than what it has so far received.
Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance
Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance write by Ronnie D. Lipschutz. This book was released on 1996-11-01. Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What will it take to protect the global environment? In this book, Ronnie D. Lipschutz argues that neither world government nor green economics can do the job. Governmental regulations often are resisted by those whose behavior they are intended to change, and markets—even green ones—look to profits more than to protection. What will be needed, Lipschutz believes, is not global management but political action through community- and place-based organizations and projects. People acting together locally can have a cumulative impact on environmental quality that is significant, long lasting, and widespread. The comparative case studies of environmental activism in Northern California, Hungary, and Indonesia (the latter written by Judith Mayer) illustrate one of the central premises of this book: that local action is linked increasingly to globe-spanning networks of knowledge and practice, in what Lipschutz calls global civil society. The result is a system of governance that is both local and global, to which states and international organizations are turning increasingly for help and advice.
Governance for the Environment
Governance for the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governance for the Environment write by Magali A. Delmas. This book was released on 2009-08-06. Governance for the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We live in an era of human-dominated ecosystems in which the demand for environmental governance is rising rapidly. At the same time, confidence in the capacity of governments to meet this demand is waning. How can we address the resultant governance deficit and achieve sustainable development? This book brings together perspectives from economics, management, and political science in order to identify innovative approaches to governance and bring them to bear on environmental issues. The authors' analysis of important cases demonstrates how governance systems need to fit their specific setting and how effective policies can be developed without relying exclusively on government. They argue that the future of environmental policies lies in coordinated systems that simultaneously engage actors located in the public sector, the private sector, and civil society. Governance for the Environment draws attention to cutting-edge questions for practitioners and analysts interested in environmental governance.
Politics and the Environment
Politics and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics and the Environment write by James Connelly. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Politics and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This textbook is at the forefront of its field and is an invaluable resource for undergraduates studying politics and environment studies. The most comprehensive book on the subject, this new edition has been expanded and revised.
