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Anthropocene has become an environmental buzzword. It denotes a new
geological epoch that is human-dominated. As mounting scientific
evidence reveals, humankind has fundamentally altered atmospheric,
geological, hydrological, biospheric, and other Earth system
processes to an extent that the risk of an irreversible system
change emerges. Human societies must therefore change direction and
navigate away from critical tipping points in the various
ecosystems of our planet. This hypothesis has kicked off a debate
not only on the geoscientific definition of the Anthropocene era,
but increasingly also in the social sciences. However, the specific
contribution of the social sciences disciplines and in particular
that of political science still needs to be fully established. This
edited volume analyzes, from a political science perspective, the
wider social dynamics underlying the ecological and geological
changes, as well as their implications for governance and politics
in the Anthropocene. The focus is on two questions: (1) What is the
contribution of political science to the Anthropocene debate, e.g.
in terms of identified problems, answers, and solutions? (2) What
are the conceptual and practical implications of the Anthropocene
debate for the discipline of political science? Overall, this book
contributes to the Anthropocene debate by providing novel
theoretical and conceptual accounts of the Anthropocene, engaging
with contemporary politics and policy-making in the Anthropocene,
and offering a critical reflection on the Anthropocene debate as
such. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars
of political science, global environmental politics and governance,
and sustainable development.
Anthropocene has become an environmental buzzword. It denotes a new
geological epoch that is human-dominated. As mounting scientific
evidence reveals, humankind has fundamentally altered atmospheric,
geological, hydrological, biospheric, and other Earth system
processes to an extent that the risk of an irreversible system
change emerges. Human societies must therefore change direction and
navigate away from critical tipping points in the various
ecosystems of our planet. This hypothesis has kicked off a debate
not only on the geoscientific definition of the Anthropocene era,
but increasingly also in the social sciences. However, the specific
contribution of the social sciences disciplines and in particular
that of political science still needs to be fully established. This
edited volume analyzes, from a political science perspective, the
wider social dynamics underlying the ecological and geological
changes, as well as their implications for governance and politics
in the Anthropocene. The focus is on two questions: (1) What is the
contribution of political science to the Anthropocene debate, e.g.
in terms of identified problems, answers, and solutions? (2) What
are the conceptual and practical implications of the Anthropocene
debate for the discipline of political science? Overall, this book
contributes to the Anthropocene debate by providing novel
theoretical and conceptual accounts of the Anthropocene, engaging
with contemporary politics and policy-making in the Anthropocene,
and offering a critical reflection on the Anthropocene debate as
such. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars
of political science, global environmental politics and governance,
and sustainable development.
In the past few years, numerous authors have highlighted the
emergence of transnational climate initiatives, such as city
networks, private certification schemes, and business
self-regulation in the policy domain of climate change. While these
transnational governance arrangements can surely contribute to
solving the problem of climate change, their development by
different types of sub- and non-state actors does not imply a
weakening of the intergovernmental level. On the contrary, many
transnational climate initiatives use the international climate
regime as a point of reference and have adopted various rules and
procedures from international agreements. Rethinking Authority in
Global Climate Governance puts forward this argument and expands
upon it, using case studies which suggest that the effective
operation of transnational climate initiatives strongly relies on
the existence of an international regulatory framework created by
nation-states. Thus, this book emphasizes the centrality of the
intergovernmental process clustered around the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and underscores
that multilateral treaty-making continues to be more important than
many scholars and policy-makers suppose. This book will be of great
interest to students and scholars of global environmental politics,
climate change and sustainable development.
In the past few years, numerous authors have highlighted the
emergence of transnational climate initiatives, such as city
networks, private certification schemes, and business
self-regulation in the policy domain of climate change. While these
transnational governance arrangements can surely contribute to
solving the problem of climate change, their development by
different types of sub- and non-state actors does not imply a
weakening of the intergovernmental level. On the contrary, many
transnational climate initiatives use the international climate
regime as a point of reference and have adopted various rules and
procedures from international agreements. Rethinking Authority in
Global Climate Governance puts forward this argument and expands
upon it, using case studies which suggest that the effective
operation of transnational climate initiatives strongly relies on
the existence of an international regulatory framework created by
nation-states. Thus, this book emphasizes the centrality of the
intergovernmental process clustered around the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and underscores
that multilateral treaty-making continues to be more important than
many scholars and policy-makers suppose. This book will be of great
interest to students and scholars of global environmental politics,
climate change and sustainable development.
Written by an international team of over sixty experts and drawing
on over three thousand scientific studies, this is the first
comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the
Sustainable Development Goals, which were launched by the United
Nations in 2015. It explores in detail the political steering
effects of the Sustainable Development Goals on the UN system and
the policies of countries in the Global North and Global South; on
institutional integration and policy coherence; and on the
ecological integrity and inclusiveness of sustainability policies
worldwide. This book is a key resource for scholars, policymakers
and activists concerned with the implementation of the Sustainable
Development Goals, and those working in political science,
international relations and environmental studies. It is one of a
series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance
Project. For more publications, see
www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance. This title is also
available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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