Environmental governance : power and knowledge in a local-global world / / edited by Gabriela Kutting and Ronnie D. Lipschutz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465395403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2009
• ISBN: 1-283-58974-5; 9786613902191; 0-203-88010-2; 1-135-97029-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KuttingGabriela <1967->; LipschutzRonnie D
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetti: Environmental policy; Environmental policy - International cooperation; Environmental education; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Environmental Governance: Power and knowledge in a local-global world; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Introduction: Who knew and when did they know it?; PART I Power, knowledge and environmental governance from a conceptual perspective; 2 Situating knowledges, spatializing communities, sizing contradictions: The politics of globality, locality and green statism; 3 Technical expertise, sustainability, and the politics of specialized knowledge; 4 The power and death of the sea; PART II From the local to the global; 5 Multi-level governance and the politics of scale: The challenge of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment6 The internationalized state and its functions and modes in the global governance of biodiversity: A neo-Poulantzian interpretation; 7 Reinventing the future: The global ecovillage movement as a holistic knowledge community; PART III From the global to the local; 8 Water for all!: The phenomenal rise of transnational knowledge and policy networks; 9 Democratizing ; environmental expertise about forests and climate; 10 Global assistance for local environmental movements: Capacity-building in Bosnia-Herzegovina11 Conclusions: Environmental governance, power and knowledge in a local-global world; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited collection makes a highly significant critical contribution to the field of environmental politics. It argues that the international-level, institutionalist approach to global environmental politics has run its course, employed solely by powerful actors in order to orchestrate and manipulate local communities within a continuing hegemonic system.The outstanding international line-up of contributors to this volume explore the real advances that are being made in the areas were the local and global intersect and how power fits into the equation. They explore the relationshi