Books in the Global Environmental Governance series

The material resources all come from nature, yet ecology is usually underappreciated in international relations as a source of power. This title examines the political implications and processes of environmental skepticism in the context of critical international relations theory and global ecological justice propositions.

This volume addresses the ideational and policy-oriented challenges of Africa's health governance due to voluntary and involuntary cross-border migration of people and diseases in a growing 'mobile Africa'.

This study explores how the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) actually works on the ground affecting corporate climate strategies. It covers general sector responses as well as systematic comparative studies of companies across the sectors.

Examines the coordination of renewable energy policies in the European Union using a theoretical approach to explain national policy making. The author asks, why are national support instruments for electricity from renewable energy sources converging, even though the harmonisation of these frameworks at the European level has failed?

Examines how the EU functions when it participates in international environmental negotiations. In particular, this book looks at the internal EU decision-making process with regard to international negotiations that lead to multilateral environmental agreements. It is aimed at a readership interested in EU politics and decision-making.

Examines the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signed in 1994. This work studies the linkages between land degradation and poverty, the role of civil society and good governance in implementing the UNCCD and the various approaches to fighting desertification. It synthesises the main strengths and weaknesses of the UNCCD.

In recent years, the debate on the establishment of a new international agency on environmental protection has gained substantial momentum. This book presents a balanced selection of articles of the leading participants in this debate, including both major supporters and opponents of creating a WEO.

Environmental and energy policies have become significant in European and North American politics. This book uses case studies that embrace climate change, product standards, chemical regulations, renewable energy policies, food safety and genetically-modified organisms to examine areas of conflict and cooperation in transatlantic relationship.

Global environmental politics has been determined by a strong increase of global governance systems in the past few decades. This study draws a causal connection between the activities of non-state actors and legitimacy. It also includes chapters that explore whether the prime hypothesis can be verified.

In this book, which is unique in its scope, diversity and the wealth of information it contains, contributors from a variety of academic disciplines tackle an issue of enduring importance to the protection of biodiversity and enhance our understanding of humanity's capacity to reconcile its various aspirations and halt the destructive path upon which it is set.

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.

Presents a study of the global challenges and responses to the issues of global health, as well as the roles of central institutions such as the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization and the G8. This book is suitable for health practitioners and clinicians seeking a context for their front-line care provision.

Addresses questions of pandemics, essential medicines and disease eradication through detailed case studies of a range of issues providing coverage of critical and rapidly spreading infectious diseases and 'lifestyle' illnesses such as SARS, Polio Plus and tobacco control all of which are at the centre of the global health challenge.

Offers an introduction to the relevance of food security. This book provides an understanding of how international regimes affect the management of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in developing countries.

Studies the new dimensions of resource conflict between Canada and the United States, accounting for the emergence of new bilateral environmental issues and detailing how trade liberalization has fostered both disputes and policy convergence. This work also examines the shifts in America towards a unilateral foreign policy.

Notwithstanding international treaties and conventions, species continue to vanish. These essays reflect the ten-year period over which the key convention on preserving biodiversity has been fully operational and largely ineffective.

Adopts two constructivist perspectives, norm-centred and discourse, to explore social construction of climate change. This book offers an understanding of why efforts to mitigate climate change have failed. It aims to provide academics and policy makers with an understanding of this important topic.

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. This book investigates the relationship between the emergence of a multipolar world order and the enormous challenges of global energy governance that the world is facing.