Environmental Governance: Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World

ISBN-13: 9780415777131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 226 str.

Kutting Gabriel

Opis

This edited collection makes a highly significant critical contribution to the field of environmental politics, exploring the relationship between governance, power and knowledge through a variety of approaches and perspectives.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Power, Knowledge and Environmental Governance from a Conceptual Perspective  2. Situating Knowledges, Spatializing Communities, and Sizing Contradictions: The Challenge of Globality and Locality in Environmental Governance Tim Luke  3. Ecological Expertise Ralf Brand and Andy Karvonen  4. Power, Knowledge and Ocean Governance from a Historical Perspective Peter Jacques  Part 2: From the Local to the Global  5. Multi-Level-Governance and the Question of Scale: The Concept of Landscape Governance Christoph Görg and Felix Rauschmayer  6. The Internationalized State: Functions and Modes of Regulation of Genetic Resources Uli Brand  7. Ecological Praxis: The Global Ecovillage Movement and the Scientific Ontology of Interbeing Karen Litfin  Part 3: From the Global to the Local  8. Water for All! The Power of the World Bank and its Transnational Policy Networks Michael Goldman  9. Global Institutions and Environmental Change: Moving beyond Land-Use-Cover-Change Tim Forsyth  10.  Global Assistance for Local Environmental Movements: The Politics of Capacity-Building in Bosnia-Herzegovina Adam Fagan  11. Conclusions

O autorze

Gabriela Kütting is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at Rutgers the State University of New Jersey in Newark. Her research interests lie in the field of global environmental politics and she is the author of ‘Environment, society and International Relations’ (Routledge 2000) and ‘Globalization and environment, greening global political economy’ (SUNY Press 2004).

Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books are The Constitution of Imperium (Paradigm, 2008) and Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics: Regulation for the Rest of Us? (Routledge, 2005).