The Globalization and Environment Reader

• Autore: Newell Pete
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2016; ©2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.7
• Soggetto topico: Environmental policy--International cooperation
• Altri autori: RobertsJ. Timmons
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction: The Globalization and Environment Debate -- Introduction -- Sustaining Development or "Sustainable Development"? -- From Rio to Rio: The Rise of the Green Economy -- Production, Labor, and the Environment -- Globalizing Consumption -- Outline of the Book -- Note -- References -- Part I Going Global -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 1 The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? (2007) -- Introduction -- Pre-Anthropocene Events -- The Industrial Era (ca. 1800-1945): Stage 1 of the Anthropocene -- The Great Acceleration (1945-ca. 2015): Stage 2 of the Anthropocene -- Stewards of the Earth System? (ca. 2015-?): Stage 3 of the Anthropocene -- References -- Chapter 2 Address at the Closing Ceremony of the Eighth and Final Meeting of the World Commission on Environment and Development and the Tokyo Declaration (1987) -- World Commission on Environment and Development -- Chapter 3 Foxes in Charge of the Chickens (1993) -- The Earth Summit debacle -- Conflicting Interests, Differing Perceptions -- The Threat of Environmentalism -- The Threat of Economic Contraction -- Containing Challenges -- Capturing the Debate -- UNCED's Prescriptions: Further Enclosure -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Can the Environment Survive the Global Economy? (1997) -- Creating Consumers -- Production for Export -- Increased Transport -- The Environmental Effects of Increased Competition -- Competition and Environmental Disaster -- Deregulation -- Free-Trade Zones -- The Environmental Effects of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) -- Cross-Deregulation -- Harmonizing Standards -- References -- Chapter 5 Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy (2002) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ecological Modernization Theory. ; 3. Challenging Ecological Modernization: Globalization and AntiGlobalization -- 4. Ecological Modernization and Neo-Marxism -- 5. Taming the Treadmill of Global Capitalism: Political Modernization -- 6. Taming the Treadmill of Global Capitalism: Economic Dynamics -- 7. Taming the Treadmill of Global Capitalism: Global Civil Society -- 8. Conclusions: Ecological Modernization Perspectives in an Era of Globalization -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Environment and Globalization: Five Propositions (2010) -- The Five Propositions -- Avenues for Action: What Can We Do? -- Part II The Nature of Globalization - Cases and Trends in Globalization -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 7 The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital (1997) -- Ecosystem Function and Ecosystem Services -- Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services -- Valuation of Ecosystem Services -- Valuation Methods -- Ecoystem Values, Markets and GNP -- Global Land Use and Land Cover -- Synthesis -- Source of Error, Limitations and Caveats -- Total Global Value of Ecosystem Services -- Discussion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Sustainability and Markets: On the Neoclassical Model of Environmental Economics (1997) -- Sustainability and Collectivity -- The Scale of the Sustainability Objective -- Neoclassical Environmental Economics -- Markets and the Concept of Sustainability -- Markets and Structural Change -- Markets and Instruments -- Markets, Planning and the State -- Chapter 9 Crafting the Next Generation of Market‐Based Environmental Tools (1997) -- Market-Based Policy Instruments -- Limited Experience -- Mixed Performance -- The Next Generation -- Chapter 10 Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism: The New Trade in Greenhouse Gases (2004) -- Introduction -- What is Emissions Trading? -- Climate Fraud -- Monitoring the Monitors -- Carbon Colonialism -- Might Makes Right. ; The 1992 Rio Earth Summit and Climate Change -- The Role of Corporations -- Co-opting NGOs -- The Impact of the World Trade Organization on Emissions Trading -- Environmental Justice -- The Alternative -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 11 The Business of Sustainable Development (1992) -- Sustainable Development -- The Growth Controversy -- The Business Challenge -- "Eco-efficiency" -- The Challenge of Time -- Shaping the Future -- Chapter 12 The "Commons" versus the "Commodity": Alter-globalization, Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (2007) -- Prologue -- Introduction: The Triumph of Market Environmentalism? -- Neoliberal Reforms and Resource Management: Clarifying the Debate -- Debating Neoliberalization: Anti-privatization Campaigns and the "Human Right to Water" -- Alter-globalization and the Commons -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part III Explaining the Relationship between Globalization and the Environment -- Introduction -- Chapter 13 Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change (2011) -- Four Environmental Worldviews -- Market Liberals -- Institutionalists -- Bioenvironmentalists -- Social Greens -- Conclusion -- Chapter 14 Introduction to World Development Report, 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Global Economy (2003) -- Achievements and Challenges -- Notes -- Chapter 15 The Political Ecology of Globalization (2012) -- Which Globalization? -- Which Political Ecology? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 Institutions for the Earth: Promoting International Environmental Protection (1992) -- International Environmental Institutions -- Enhancing the Contractual Environment -- Increasing National Capacity -- Advice to the New Secretary General -- Move from Principles to Rules -- Build National Capacity -- Contemporary Greenhouse-gas Negotiations. ; Sovereignty -- Notes -- Part IV Governing Globalization and the Environment -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 17 Trading Up and Governing Across: Transnational Governance and Environmental Protection (1997) -- The Impact of Economic Interdependence -- The Costs of Compliance -- Exporting Production Standards -- The Limits of Market Pressures -- Chapter 18 The WTO and the Undermining of Global Environmental Governance (2000) -- The Green Critique of the WTO -- The Race to a Polluted Bottom -- Commodifying the Commons -- Conclusion -- Chapter 19 Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links (2003) -- Supplanting, or Complementing, State Authority? -- Chapter 20 Managing Multinationals: The Governance of Investment for the Environment (2001) -- Introduction: The Regulation of TNCs and the Environment -- Power without Responsibility? The Limits of Existing Regulation -- Civil Regulation: From Confrontation to Collaboration -- Litigation against TNCs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 21 Reforming Global Environmental Governance: The Case for a United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO) (2012) -- World Politics in the Anthropocene -- Forty Years of Debate on a World Environment Organization -- Three Models of a World Environment Organization -- Rio Plus 2012: The Case for Getting Serious about a United Nations Environment Organization -- Summing Up -- Part V Can Globalization be Greened? -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 22 Whose Common Future: Reclaiming the Commons (1994) -- I. The Commons -- II. Development as Enclosure -- III. The Encompassing Web -- IV. Reclaiming the Commons -- V. A Concluding Remark -- Notes -- Chapter 23 Resisting 'Globalisation-from-above' Through 'Globalisation-from-below' (1997) -- I. A Normative Assessment of Globalisation. ; II. The New Politics of Resistance in an Era of Globalisation -- Notes -- Chapter 24 Picking the Wrong Fight: Why Attacks on the World Trade Organization Pose the Real Threat to National Environmental and Public Health Protection (2005) -- Why the Concerns? (or What's New about the WTO?) -- Environmental and Public Health Complaints in Context -- Conclusions -- Chapter 25 What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (2010) -- Characteristics of Capitalism in Conflict with the Environment -- Proposals for the Ecological Reformation of Capitalism -- What Can Be Done Now? -- Another Economic System Is Not Just Possible - lt's Essential -- Notes -- Chapter 26 Pathways of Human Development and Carbon Emissions Embodied in Trade (2012) -- References -- Chapter 27 Introduction to Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication (2012) -- Setting the Stage for a Green Economy Transition -- Notes -- Chapter 28 Critique of the Green Economy: Toward Social and Environmental Equity (2012) -- Blueprint For an Economy of Moderation -- Social Commons as an Economic Factor -- Index -- EULA.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Globalization and Environment Reader
• ISBN: 9781118964118; 9781118964149
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808701503321
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