Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed. This book is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the main pieces of the global environmental governance puzzle.
Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance synthesizes writing from an internationally diverse range of well-known experts. Each entry defines a central concept in global environmental governance, presents its historical evolution and related debates, and includes key bibliographical references. This new edition takes stock of several recent developments in global environmental politics including the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the UN Global Pact for the Environment attempt in 2017, and the 2018 Oceans Plastics Charter. More precisely, this book:
offers cutting-edge analysis of the state of global environmental governance;
presents an up-to-date debate on sustainable development at the global level;
gives an in-depth exploration of current architecture of global environmental governance;
examines the interaction between environmental politics and other policy fields such as trade, development, and security;
provides a critical review of the recent global environmental governance literature.
Innovative thinking and high-profile expertise come together to create a volume that is accessible to students, scholars, and practitioners alike.

Jean-Frédéric Morin is Full Professor at the Political Science Department of the Université Laval (Québec City, Canada) and chair holder of the Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy. Amandine Orsini is Professor of International Relations at the Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles, Belgium.

Adaptation; Agro-Ecology; Aid; Antarctic Treaty system; Anthropocene; Arctic Council; Assessments; Audits; Biodiversity Regime; Biosafety; Boundary Organizations; Business and Corporations; Carrying Capacities Paradigm; CITES; Cities; Climate Change Regime; Common but Differenciated Responsabilities; Common Heritage of Humanity; Complex Systems; Compliance and Implementation; Conservation and Preservation; Corporate Social Responsibility; Critical Political Economy; Deep Ecology; Degrowth; Desertification Convention; Disasters; Dispute Resolution Mechanisms; Dumping; Ecocentrism; Ecofeminism; Ecological Modernization; Ecosystem Services (payments for); Effectiveness; Emerging Countries; Energy Transition; Environmental Justice; Epistemic Communities; Fisheries Governance; Gaia Theory; Geoengineering; Global Deliberative Democracy; Global Environment Facility; Global Environmental Governance Studies; Global Pact for the Environment; Global Public Good; Grassroots Movements; Green Democracy; Green Economy; Hazardous Wastes Regime; High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development; Human and Environmental Rights; Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities; Influential Individuals; Institutional Interactions; International Whaling Commission; Investment Protection; Kuznets Curve (environmental); Labeling and certification; Liability; Liberal Environmentalism; Litigation; Markets; Migrants; Military Conflicts; Minimata Convention; Negotiating Coalitions; Nongovernemental Organizations; Nonregimes; Ocean Plastics Charter; Ocean Protection; Orbital Space Debris; Ozone regime; Participation; Partnerships; Polycentricity; Policy Diffusion; Polluter Pays Principle; Population Sustainability; Post-Environmentalism; Precautionary Principle; Preventive Action Principle; Principle of Non-Regression; Private Regimes; REDD+; Regimes; Regional Governance; Reporting; Risk Society; Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent in Trade; Scale; Scarcity and Conflicts; Scenarios; Science; Secretariats; Security; Shaming; Sovereignty; Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; Summit Diplomacy; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals; Sustainable Finance; Taxation; Technology Transfer; Thermoeconomics; Tragedy of the Commons; Transboundary Air Pollution Regime; Transboundary Water Regime; Transgovernmental Networks; Transnational Crime; Transparency; Treaty Design; Treaty Negotiations; UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; United Nations Environment Programme; Wetlands Convention; World Bank; World Environment Organization; World Trade Organization