This book is a novel, sophisticated, broad ranging and insightful
study of the idea of global environmental governance but from a
legal dimension and perspective. While recognizing that concepts
and ideas used to describe governance are generally abstract, vague
and slippery, this project brings clarity to the field by being
theoretically informed, contextually sensitive and pragmatically
circumscribed. Its conclusions and arguments open up a field of
inquiry that has to be genuinely interdisciplinary and in that
sense has great potential to contribute to a better understanding
of environmental themes and issues. This book is destined to become
a landmark for legal academics who will write about environmental
governance in that its concern is with the global governance of
nature rather than a text that uses the environment as a pretext
for understanding governance. It is well written, easy and
enjoyable to read and while it traverses through diverse bodies of
literature it manages to effectively communicate with a variety of
scholarly communities.' - Afshin Akhtarkhavari, Griffith Law
School, Australia'Fourth generation global environmental regulation
attempts to address the complex realities of an interconnected
environment, global environmental problems and collective
regulatory responses. It merits conceptual clarity. Louis Kotze
reveals the legal contours and content of global environmental
governance by chipping away such parts of the conceptual marble
block as are not needed. For the environmental lawyer, it is a
welcome - and much needed - process of elimination. This book
provides a toolkit for lawyers to engage critically with the
extra-legal concept of environmental governance. Its scrutiny and
careful analysis contribute meaningfully to the environmental
discourse.' - Christine Voigt, University of Oslo, Norway 'Global
Environmental Governance is a truly important book. Drawing on a
multitude of disciplines, award-winning environmental law Professor
Louis Kotze masterfully explains the emerging concept of 'global
environmental governance' and its elements of globalism,
environmental law, regulation, and governance theory. He makes a
compelling case that the world has outgrown the 'sustainability'
model and moved toward this more all-encompassing approach to
environmental regulation. This admirable book makes global
environmental governance theory understandable and pertinent so
environmental leaders, lawyers, and regulators can engage
comfortably with this new vision for an ecologically and
economically healthy world.' - George (Rock) Pring, University of
Denver Sturm College of Law, US This timely book brings much-needed
clarity to the concept of 'environmental governance' as manifested
in the global regulatory domain. The author argues that despite
being used as a fashionable term by many - including economists,
political scientists, environmentalists and, increasingly, lawyers
- its theoretical contours and conceptual content remain unclear,
incoherent, and inconsistent. In addressing this problem, the book
begins by describing globalization as a general context of
governance. It comprehensively interrogates and clarifies both the
governance and global governance concepts, and then explains
aspects and components of global environmental governance. Finally
it investigates the role of law in global environmental governance.
Providing a much-needed definition of environmental governance and
global environmental governance, this comprehensive study will
appeal to academics and researchers, post-graduate and
under-graduate students, intergovernmental organizations such as
UNEP, WTO, IUCN, as well as governments and governmental agencies
involved with environmental regulation.
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