Global Environmental Politics in a Turbulent Era

Edited by Peter Dauvergne, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and Leah Shipton, Doctoral Student of International Relations, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Contents:INTRODUCTION1 Understanding environmental politics in a turbulent era 1Leah Shipton and Peter DauvergnePART I THE NATURE AND BREADTH OF GLOBALENVIRONMENTAL TURBULENCE2 Turbulence, converging crises, and environmental justice 13David Schlosberg3 Plastic turbulence: illusions of containment, clean-up, andcontrol, and the emergent promise of diverse economies 25Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Jacob Hasselbalch, and Johannes Stripple4 Rights, resilience, and water in turbulent times 37Ekta Patel and Erika Weinthal5 Promoting environmental rights in turbulent times: LatinAmerica and the Escazú Agreement 49Hayley Stevenson6 Compound urban crises in global environmental politics 62Marielle Papin, Linda Westman, Rachel Macrorie, AhmadShoaib Azizi, Michael Dede, Julie Greenwalt, IbinaboJohnson, and Barbara Summers7 Extractive industries and mineral resources: turbulence all around 75Stacy D. VanDeveer, Hyeyoon Park, Yixian Sun, andMichele M. BetsillPART II ACTORS AS AGENTS OF TURBULENCE ORTRANSFORMATION8 People power, disruption, and survival 91Peter J. Jacques9 State sovereignty, turbulence, and environmental disastersin global environmental politics 103Susan Park10 How philanthropic foundations fuel transformations andwith what consequences for sustainable food systems 116Agni KalfagianniPART III PATHWAYS TO GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITYIN A TURBULENT ERA11 Thinking gender in times of crisis: reflecting on gender,turbulence, and global environmental politics 130Nicole Detraz12 Is technological turbulence sustainable? 142Leslie Paul Thiele13 Beyond islands of sustainability? Opportunities andchallenges of jurisdictional approaches in tropical forestgovernance 156Philip Schleifer14 Advancing global environmental politics research throughsystems-oriented analysis 169Henrik Selin15 Turbulence and transition to healthy governance 184D.G. Webster, Mark Axelrod, and Semra A. Aytur16 Ratcheting-up through competition: global environmentalgovernance in the era of rising geopolitical tensionsbetween China and the West 197Yixian Sun and Chuyu LiuCONCLUSION17 Navigating turbulence for sustainability 211Leah Shipton and Peter DauvergneIndex 224

‘A genuinely novel take on the broad nature of global environmental politics is a rare thing, but Dauvergne and Shipton have succeeded with gusto. Deploying the concept of turbulence – the sense of constant churn, multiple intersecting crises that never resolve but transform, disrupting lives in myriad ways – to great effect, this book provides an overarching framework for understanding how we might pursue sustainability in this context. It also details this in relation to a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar cases alike. All that is solid may be melting into air, but Dauvergne and Shipton help us guide our way through the turbulence.’