Global Civil Society & Global Environmental Governance: The Politics of Nature from Place to Planet (Suny Series in International Environmental Policy ... Environmental Policy and Theory) - Softcover

Lipschutz, Ronnie D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791431185 ISBN 13: 9780791431184

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1996

Synopsis

Explores the growing role of global civil society and local environmental activism in the management and protection of the environment worldwide.

What will it take to protect the global environment? In this book, Ronnie D. Lipschutz argues that neither world government nor green economics can do the job. Governmental regulations often are resisted by those whose behavior they are intended to change, and markets―even green ones―look to profits more than to protection. What will be needed, Lipschutz believes, is not global management but political action through community- and place-based organizations and projects. People acting together locally can have a cumulative impact on environmental quality that is significant, long lasting, and widespread.

The comparative case studies of environmental activism in Northern California, Hungary, and Indonesia (the latter written by Judith Mayer) illustrate one of the central premises of this book: that local action is linked increasingly to globe-spanning networks of knowledge and practice, in what Lipschutz calls global civil society. The result is a system of governance that is both local and global, to which states and international organizations are turning increasingly for help and advice.

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From the Back Cover:

What will it take to protect the global environment? In this book, Ronnie D. Lipschutz argues that neither world government nor green economies can do the job. Governmental regulations often are resisted by those whose behavior they are intended to change, and markets - even green ones - look to profits more than to protection. What will be needed, Lipschutz believes, is not global management but political action through community- and place-based organizations and projects. People acting together locally can have a cumulative impact on environmental quality that is significant, long lasting, and widespread.

About the Author:

Thomas W. Busch is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is the author of The Power of Consciousness and the Force of Circumstance in Sartre's Philosophy. Shaun Gallagher is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0791431185
• ISBN 13: 9780791431184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380