Globalization today is as much a problem for international
harmony as it is a necessary condition of living together on our
planet. Increasing interconnectedness in ecology, economy,
technology, and politics has brought nations and societies into
ever closer contact, creating acute demands for cooperation.
Earthly Politics argues that in the coming decades global
governance will have to accommodate differences even as it
obliterates distance, and will have to respect many aspects of the
local while developing institutions that transcend localism.This
book analyzes a variety of environmental-governance approaches that
balance the local and the global in order to encourage new, more
flexible frameworks of global governance. On the theoretical level,
it draws on insights from the field of science and technology
studies to enrich our understanding of environmental-development
politics. On the pragmatic level, it discusses the design of
institutions and processes to address problems of environmental
governance that increasingly refuse to remain within national
boundaries.The cases in the book display the crucial relationship
between knowledge and power--the links between the ways we
understand environmental problems and the ways we manage them--and
illustrate the different paths by which knowledge-power formations
are arrived at, contested, defended, or set aside. By examining how
local and global actors ranging from the World Bank to the Makah
tribe in the Pacific Northwest respond to the contradictions of
globalization, the authors identify some of the conditions for
creating more effective engagement between the global and the local
in environmental governance.
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