Synopses & Reviews
Governing for the Environment explores one of the dimensions of the value-knowledge system needed in any movement towards humane governance for the planet: the ecological sustainability and integrity of the Earth's environment. The book begins from the premise that while environmental knowledge and values have developed rapidly, their development must not overwhelm consideration of other core 'humane' values: peace, social justice, and human rights. The book's contributors explore a variety of ethical issues that must inform future global regulation of the Earth's environment.
Review
...an excellent prologue to a much needed discourse on global environmental governance,...policy, and ethics.
-Ethics and International Affairs
About the Author
Brendan Gleeson is Deputy Director of the Urban Frontiers Program, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Nicholas Low is Associate Professor in environmental planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
Table of Contents
Global Capitalism, Ethics and Governance-- N. Low & B. Gleeson *
Part I: Environmental Issues, Ethical Dilemmas * Towards Sustainability--J. Spangenberg * The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Beyond Monitoring--E. Edmondson * The International Politics of Declining Forests--M. Jokela * Maximizing Justice for Environmental Refugees: A Transnational Institution on Behalf of the Deterritorialized--A. Semmens * Environmental Accountability and Transnational Corporations--D. Humphreys *
Part II: Towards A Global Ethics * An Environmentalist Grand Narrative--A. Gare * Human Rights and the Environment: Redefining Fundamental Principles?--K. Bosselman * Planetary Citizenship, Definition and Defense of an Ideal-- J. Thompson * An Ethics of Care for the Environment in Conditions of Conflict--J. Tully * Environmental Ethics and the Obsolescence of Existing Political Institutions--P. Laslett *
Part III: Humane Government For The Environment * Environmental Justice and Global Democracy-- W. Achterberg * Cosmopolitan Democracy--D. Archibugi * An International Court of the Environment--A. Postiglione * Humane Governance and the Environment--R. Falk