Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood: Contesting the New Modes of Governance

ISBN-13: 9783319398709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 238 str.

Alejandro Esguerra; Nicole Helmerich; Thomas Risse

Opis

The contributors to this book critically examine the performance of new modes of governance in areas of limited statehood, drawing on a range of in-depth case studies on issues of climate change, biodiversity, and health.

Spis treści

1.    Introduction: Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood. Contesting New Modes of Governance, Alejandro Esguerra, Nicole Helmerich, and Thomas Risse

PART ONE: NEW MODES OF GOVERNANCE AT THE TRANSNATIONAL LEVEL

2.    “A comment that might help us move along”: Brokers in Negotiation Systems, Alejandro Esguerra

3.    Let’s Bargain! Setting Standards of Sustainable Biofuels, Philip Schleifer

PART TWO: SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE IN AREAS OF LIMITED STATEHOOD

4.    Between Global and Local Governance: The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund in China, Sander Chan, Ayşem Mert, and Philipp Pattberg

5.    The State in Private Sustainability Governance: Contestation, Limited Statehood and Forest Certification in Russia, Olga Malets

6.    Governing Health and Safety in the Electronics Industry in Malaysia, Gale Raj-Reichert

7.    Remnants of Hierarchy: The limits on New Modes of Biodiversity Governance in the Dominican Republic, Casey Stevens

8.    Bringing Climate Change Down to Earth: Climate Change Governance from the Bottom Up, Cordula Kropp and Jana Türk

9.    Conclusion, Alejandro Esguerra

O autorze

Alejandro Esguerra is a post-doctoral researcher with the research group ‘Wicked Problems, Contested Administration: Knowledge, Coordination, Strategy’ at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His work is concerned with the role of knowledge in international relations theory, transnational private governance, and epistemic authority in global environmental politics.

Nicole Helmerich is a post-doctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. Her work revolves around the role of business in transnational governance, transnational private regulation, corporate responsibility, transnational workers’ rights, and good corporate governance.

Thomas Risse is Professor of International Relations at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is co-ordinator of the Research Center 700 'Governance of Areas of Limited Statehood' and co-director of the Research College 'Transformative Power of Europe', both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Blurb

The contributors to this book critically examine the performance of new modes of governance in areas of limited statehood, drawing on a range of in-depth case studies on issues of climate change, biodiversity, and health.  The Paris Agreement for Climate Change or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rely on new modes of governance for implementation. New modes of governance such as market-based instruments, public-private partnerships or stakeholder participation initiatives have been praised for playing a pivotal role in effective and legitimate sustainability governance. Yet, do they also deliver in areas of limited statehood? States such as Malaysia or the Dominican Republic partly lack the ability to implement and enforce rules; their domestic sovereignty is limited. Exploring this perspective on governance, the authors demonstrate that areas of limited statehood are not ungoverned or ungovernable spaces. The book elaborates how and under what conditions new modes of governance emerge in areas of limited statehood, and examines their relative effectiveness.