Global Environmental Governance in the Information Age

Global Environmental Governance in the Information Age
Author: Jérôme Duberry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-04-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351613537

This book examines the impact of current and emerging digital technologies on global environmental governance, and in particular on environmental civil society organizations. Technological innovations are constantly emerging: internet and social media platforms, blockchains, big data, and artificial intelligence are some of the most common or promising digital technologies of our times. Through case studies and the analysis of concrete applications of digital technologies, this book shows how these digital technologies can be deployed to support global environmental governance, and in particular a multi-stakeholder approach to the protection of the environment. It provides an overview of the diverse uses of these digital technologies by civil society organizations (CSOs) in global environmental governance. In this fast-changing context, the capacity of environmental CSOs to manage and benefit from digital technologies, and to produce and distribute information, can strengthen their participation in global environmental governance. Their key roles, including advocacy, monitoring, knowledge production, fundraising, nudging individual behaviors, and project implementation, greatly benefit from the use of these technologies. By examining some of the most-utilized current digital technologies and presenting some of the most prominent emerging ones, this book aims to illustrate how active civil society organizations operate, and how ICTs support some of their roles, and therefore their participation in global environmental governance. This book will appeal to scholars and students of environmental studies and politics, global governance, political sociology, geography and communication studies along with policy makers and communication specialists from the environmental community.

Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics

Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics
Author: Victor Galaz
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-04-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1781955557

We live on an increasingly human-dominated planet. Our impact on the Earth has become so huge that researchers now suggest that it merits its own geological epoch - the 'Anthropocene' - the age of humans. Combining theory development and case s

Cyber War and Peace

Cyber War and Peace
Author: Scott J. Shackelford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108427731

The frontiers are the future of humanity. Peacefully and sustainably managing them is critical to both security and prosperity in the twenty-first century.

Beyond Politics

Beyond Politics
Author: Michael P. Vandenbergh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2017-12-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131685664X

Private sector action provides one of the most promising opportunities to reduce the risks of climate change, buying time while governments move slowly or even oppose climate mitigation. Starting with the insight that much of the resistance to climate mitigation is grounded in concern about the role of government, this books draws on law, policy, social science, and climate science to demonstrate how private initiatives are already bypassing government inaction in the US and around the globe. It makes a persuasive case that private governance can reduce global carbon emissions by a billion tons per year over the next decade. Combining an examination of the growth of private climate initiatives over the last decade, a theory of why private actors are motivated to reduce emissions, and a review of viable next steps, this book speaks to scholars, business and advocacy group managers, philanthropists, policymakers, and anyone interested in climate change.

Transparency in Global Environmental Governance

Transparency in Global Environmental Governance
Author: Aarti Gupta
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0262027410

Transparency is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world. It is often assumed to result in more accountable and effective governance. The 'transparency turn' in global environmental governance in particular is evident in a wide range of international agreements, voluntary disclosure initiatives, and public-private partnerships. This is the first book to scrutinise this transparency turn critically, and to investigate whether it is a broadly transformative force or plays a more limited, instrumental role.

Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance

Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance
Author: Sofie Bouteligier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0415537517

As a result of global dynamics--the increasing interconnection of people and places--innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our increasingly global and increasingly urban world. Through analysis of transnational municipal networks, such as Metropolis and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Sofie Bouteligier's innovative study examines theories of the network society and global cities from a global ecology perspective. Through direct observation and interviews and using two types of city networks that have been treated separately in the literature, she discovers the structure and logic pertaining to office networks of environmental non-governmental organizations and environmental consultancy firms. In doing so she incisively demonstrates the ways in which cities fulfill the role of strategic sites of global environmental governance, concentrating knowledge, infrastructure, and institutions vital to the function of transnational actors.

Global Governance in the Age of the Anthropocene

Global Governance in the Age of the Anthropocene
Author: Markus Fraundorfer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2022-02-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9783030881559

Why has global governance largely failed to effectively tackle some of the most pressing global environmental challenges of our time? What are the obstacles to effective global and planetary problem-solving? And which solutions and responses have global governance actors come up with to confront these challenges? This textbook teases out the tragic entanglements between dominant global governance dynamics and the global environmental challenges of the Anthropocene, showing how international and global cooperation mechanisms that evolved over the last two hundred years are deeply implicated in exacerbating many of today’s global environmental challenges. The book focuses on several global environmental challenges which are intrinsically interconnected, threatening to destabilise the entire Earth-system with serious consequences for human societies across the world. These global environmental challenges include infectious disease outbreaks, global food production processes, the pollution of freshwater resources, energy consumption patterns, deforestation and CO2 emissions. At the same time, the book also presents several alternative governance examples based on more democratic, citizen-based and holistic approaches to the global climate crisis, which point the way towards a new understanding of global governance in the age of the Anthropocene. This textbook is for undergraduate and postgraduate students of global governance, environmental politics and international relations.

Global Environmental Governance

Global Environmental Governance
Author: Adil Najam
Publisher: International Institute for Sustainable Development = Institut international du développement durable
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2006
Genre: Environmental economics
ISBN: 9781895536911

Advances in International Environmental Politics

Advances in International Environmental Politics
Author: M. Betsill
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2014-07-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137338970

This book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics. It demonstrates how the field of international environmental politics has evolved and identifies key questions, topics and approaches to guide future research.

International Environmental Governance

International Environmental Governance
Author: Niko Urho
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2019-02-20
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9289360801

A plethora of environmental problems are ravaging the planet and its inhabitants. How well do existing structures convene governments to address these challenges? What is the role of science and civil society in this context? And, does international cooperation properly support countries with limited capacities? This report seeks to respond to these questions, based on an analysis of actions taken to renew international environmental governance to fulfill commitments made at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in 2012. This report outlines possibilities to strengthen the UN Environment Programme and to enhance synergies among global environmental conventions to ensure that international environmental governance continues evolving and improving to secure human well-being and planetary health.