Global Environmental Governance: Global Environmental Governance
About the Book Series
Global Environmental Governance addresses the new generation of twenty-first century environmental problems and the challenges they pose for management and governance at the local, national, and global levels. Centered on the relationships among environmental change, economic forces, and political governance, the series explores the role of international institutions and instruments, national and sub-federal governments, private sector firms, scientists, and civil society, and provides a comprehensive body of progressive analyses on one of the world's most contentious international issues.
Moving Health Sovereignty in Africa: Disease, Governance, Climate Change
1st Edition
By Andrew F. Cooper, John J. Kirton, Hany Besada
September 29, 2014
Today’s era of intense globalization has unleashed dynamic movements of people, pathogens, and pests that overwhelm the static territorial jurisdictions on which the governance provided by sovereign states and their formal intergovernmental institutions is based. This world of movement calls for ...
Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World
1st Edition
By Dries Lesage, Thijs Van de Graaf
March 28, 2010
Multipolar governance permits a number of important states to have significantly more economic and political clout than others, but among them there is hardly any hierarchy. The new energy challenge, with its intricate socio-economic, ecological and international-political considerations, is a ...
Environmental Skepticism: Ecology, Power and Public Life
1st Edition
By Peter J. Jacques
March 28, 2009
'Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, especially global ones, are inauthentic. Peter Jacques describes, both empirically and historically, ...
Innovation in Global Health Governance: Critical Cases
1st Edition
By Andrew F. Cooper
March 28, 2009
Analyzing twenty-first century innovations in global health governance, this volume addresses questions of pandemics, essential medicines and disease eradication through detailed case studies of critical and rapidly spreading infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and SARS and 'lifestyle' illnesses ...
Governing Agrobiodiversity: Plant Genetics and Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Regine Andersen
July 28, 2008
Plant genetic diversity is crucial to the breeding of food crops and is therefore a central precondition for food security. Diverse genetic resources provide the genetic traits required to deal with crop pests and diseases, as well as changing climate conditions. Plant genetic diversity is also ...
The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power, Knowledge, Norms, Discourses
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary E. Pettenger
July 28, 2007
Individuals, international organizations and states are calling for the world to confront climate change. Efforts such as the Kyoto Protocol have produced intractable disputes and are deemed inadequate. This volume adopts two constructivist perspectives - norm-centred and discourse - to explore the...
Governing Global Health: Challenge, Response, Innovation
1st Edition
By Andrew Cooper, John Kirton
May 08, 2007
Recently global health issues have leapt to the forefront of the international agenda and are now an everyday concern around the world. The war for global health is clearly being lost on many fronts and the massive body count is mounting fast. Re-emerging diseases such as polio and tuberculosis, ...
Bilateral Ecopolitics: Continuity and Change in Canadian-American Environmental Relations
1st Edition
By Philippe Le Prestre, Peter Stoett
August 28, 2006
The context in which environmental policy decision-making occurs has changed, resulting from widening environmental problems, increased demands from groups and citizens, continuing pressure on the continent's resources and normative shifts. The complexity of current issues is related to an even ...