The Globalization and Environment Reader

The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting–edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development. Offers a comprehensive collection of nearly 30 classic and cutting–edge readings spanning a broad range of perspectives within this increasingly important field Addresses the question of whether economic globalization is the prime cause of the destruction of the global environment or if some forms of globalization could help to address global environmental problems Features carefully edited extracts selected both for their importance and their accessibility Covers a variety of topics such as the marketization of nature, debates about managing and governing the relationship between globalization and the environment, and discussions about whether or not globalization should be greened Systematically captures the breadth and diversity of the field without assuming prior knowledge Offers a timely and necessary insight into the future of our fragile planet in the 21st century INDICE: Editors Introduction: The Globalization and Environment Debate .Part 1: Going Global .Introduction .1. The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? (2007)Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen and John R. McNeill .2. Address at the Closing Ceremony of the Eigth and Final meeting of the World Commission on Environment and Development and the Tokyo Declaration (1987)Gro Harlem Brundtland .3. Foxes in charge of the chickens (1993)Nicholas Hildyard .4. Can the Environment Survive the Global Economy? (1997)Edward Goldsmith .5. Ecological Modernisation and the Global Economy (2002)Arthur P. J. Mol .6. Environment and Globalization: Five propositions (2010)Adil Najam, David Runnalls, and Mark Halle .Part 2: The Nature of Globalization––Cases and Trends in Globalization .Introduction .7. The value of the world s ecosystem services and natural capital (1997)Robert Costanza, Ralph d?Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O?Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Paul Sutton, and Marjan van den Belt .8. Sustainability and markets: On the neoclassical model of environmental economics (1997)Michael Jacobs  .9. Crafting the Next Generation of Market–Based Environmental Tools (1997)Jeremy B. Hockenstein, Robert N. Stavins, and Bradley W. Whitehead .10. Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism: The New Trade in Greenhouse Gases (2004)Heidi Bachram .11. The Business of Sustainable Development (1992)Stephen Schmidheney .12. The Commons Versus the Commodity : Alter–globalization, Anti– privatization, and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (2007)Karen Bakker .Part 3: Explaining the relationship between globalization and the environment .Introduction .13. Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change (2011)Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne .14. Introduction to World Development Report, 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Global Economy (2003)World Bank .15. The Political Ecology of Globalization (2012)Peter Newell .16. Institutions for the Earth: promoting international environmental protection (1992)Marc A. Levy, Peter M. Haas, and Robert O. Keohane .Part 4: Governing Globalization & the environment .Introduction .17. Trading Up and Governing Across: Transnational Governance and Environmental ProtectionDavid Vogel .18. The WTO and the Undermining of Global Environmental Governance (2000)Ken Conca .19. Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links (2003)Robert Falkner .20. Managing Multinationals: The Governance of Investment for the Environment (2001)Peter Newell .21. Reforming Global Environmental Governance: The Case for a United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO) (2012)Frank Biermann .Part 5:  Can globalisation be greened? .Introduction .22. Whose Common Future? Reclaiming the Commons (1994)The Ecologist .23. Resisting ?Globalisation–from–above? through ?Globalisation–from– below? (1997)Richard Falk .24. Picking the Wrong Fight: Why Attacks on the World Trade Organization Pose the Real Threat to National Environmental and Public Health ProtectionAlasdair R. Young .25. What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (2010)Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster .26. Pathways of Human Development and Carbon Emissions Embodied in Trade (2012)Julia K. Steinberger, J. Timmons Roberts, Glen P. Peters, and Giovanni Baiocchi .27. Introduction to Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication (2012)UNEP .28. Critique of the Green Economy: Toward Social and Environmental Equity (2012)Barbara Unmüßig, Wolfgang Sachs, and Thomas Fatheuer .Index

• ISBN: 978-1-118-96413-2
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 10/06/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés