Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance
About the Book Series
Global environmental governance has been a prime concern of policy-makers since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Yet, despite more than 1000 multi-lateral environmental treaties coming into force over the past 50 years and numerous transnational initiatives to mitigate global change, human-induced environmental degradation is reaching alarming levels. Scientists see compelling evidence that the entire earth system now operates well outside safe boundaries and that a number of critical planetary boundaries have already been crossed. Human societies must change course and steer away from critical tipping points that might lead to earth system breakdown, while ensuring sustainable livelihoods for all. The urgent challenge from a social science perspective is how to organize the co-evolution of societies and their surrounding environment, in other words, how to develop effective, equitable and transformative governance solutions for today’s global problems.
Against this background, the Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance series delivers cutting-edge research on the most vibrant and relevant themes within the academic field of global environmental governance. In more detail, the areas of interest of global environmental governance research constitute:
The overall institutional and organizational structure of Global Environmental Governance
- The core actors, their interests and motives
- New governance instruments and approaches, including public-private partnerships; market-based governance
- Questions of governance effectiveness, democratic legitimacy, accountability and transparency in/of Global Environmental Governance
- Normative underpinnings and implications of Global Environmental Governance, including considerations of equity, access, fairness and justice
- Adapting the overall global governance landscape to new challenges, including ecological and social tipping points, taking into account the need for seep and systemic change
- Methodological questions on how to better integrate governance research and the more quantitative modelling and scenario communities
Philipp Pattberg is professor of transnational environmental governance, head of the Environmental Policy Analysis department, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU Amsterdam, and director of the interdisciplinary Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI).
Agni Kalfagianni is full professor of management of international social challenges at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Multilateral Environmental Agreements in Global Governance: Organisational Dynamics and Authority Expansion
1st Edition
By Linda Maria Spielmann
April 29, 2025
This book proposes a conceptualisation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements as a form of International Organisations, exploring the ways in which they have expanded over time by discussing the nuances of authority in global governance. Multilateral Environmental Agreements are the key type of ...
Corporate Environmental Accountability in Nigeria: A Global, National and Regional Study in the Age of Globalization
1st Edition
By Felix Moses Edoho
January 30, 2025
This book examines the imperative role of global environmental governance, and the need to incorporate corporate environmental accountability and mechanisms for enforcement, to effectively address the global environmental crisis. The author, Felix Moses Edoho, Sr., examines the issues at the ...
Controlling International Shipping and Aviation Emissions: Governing the Global Climate Crisis
1st Edition
By David A. Deese
November 28, 2024
This book assesses the extent to which two specialized UN agencies – the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal – have been able to regulate environmental pollution in the global commons. Since the Kyoto Protocol and...
Climate Change and the Endurance of Democracy
1st Edition
By Daniel Lindvall
November 26, 2024
This book explores the challenges climate change poses to the endurance of democracy, situating this theme within the context of the decline in global freedom documented since the early 21st century. It discusses how disaster events have historically affected human reasoning and agency and how the ...
The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Hickmann, Lena Partzsch, Philipp Pattberg, Sabine Weiland
May 07, 2020
Anthropocene has become an environmental buzzword. It denotes a new geological epoch that is human‐dominated. As mounting scientific evidence reveals, humankind has fundamentally altered atmospheric, geological, hydrological, biospheric, and other Earth system processes to an extent that the risk ...
Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics: International Relations and the Earth
1st Edition
Edited
By Olaf Corry, Hayley Stevenson
August 02, 2017
How can a divided world share a single planet? As the environment rises ever higher on the global agenda, the discipline of International Relations (IR) is engaging in more varied and transformative ways than ever before to overcome environmental challenges. Focusing in particular on the key ...
Environmental Politics and Governance in the Anthropocene: Institutions and legitimacy in a complex world
1st Edition
Edited
By Philipp Pattberg, Fariborz Zelli
June 30, 2017
The term Anthropocene denotes a new geological epoch characterized by the unprecedented impact of human activities on the Earth’s ecosystems. While the natural sciences have advanced their understanding of the drivers and processes of global change considerably over the last two decades, the social...
Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance: How transnational climate initiatives relate to the international climate regime
1st Edition
By Thomas Hickmann
June 16, 2017
In the past few years, numerous authors have highlighted the emergence of transnational climate initiatives, such as city networks, private certification schemes, and business self-regulation in the policy domain of climate change. While these transnational governance arrangements can surely ...
How Effective Negotiation Management Promotes Multilateral Cooperation: The power of process in climate, trade, and biosafety negotiations
1st Edition
By Kai Monheim
September 12, 2016
Multilateral negotiations on worldwide challenges have grown in importance with rising global interdependence. Yet, they have recently proven slow to address these challenges successfully. This book discusses the questions which have arisen from the highly varying results of recent ...
Global Governance of Genetic Resources: Access and Benefit Sharing after the Nagoya Protocol
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Oberthür, G. Rosendal
October 12, 2015
This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010’s Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD’s initial 1992 framework of global ABS governance established the objective of sharing the ...
Improving Global Environmental Governance: Best Practices for Architecture and Agency
1st Edition
Edited
By Norichika Kanie, Steinar Andresen, Peter M. Haas
May 21, 2015
The experience of environmental governance is approached in Improving Global Environmental Governance from the unique perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors, which are areas of emerging importance. The chapters look at existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs...