Govering for the Environment

BRENDAN GLEESON is Deputy Director of the Urban Frontiers Program, University of Western Sydney, Australia. His research interests include the political economy of planning, urban social policy, environmental theory and policy. He is co-author (with Nicholas Low) of Justice, Society and Nature: an Exploration of Political Ecology (1998). This book received the prestigious Harold and Margaret Sprout award in 1999 from the International Studies Association. He has also co-edited two books with Nicholas Low on aspects of urban and environmental policy. - NICHOLAS LOW is Associate Professor in Environmental Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in the fields of urban planning and ecological politics. He is co-author (with Brendan Gleeson) of Justice, Society and Nature: an Exploration of Political Ecology (1998). This book received the prestigious Harold and Margaret Sprout award in 1999 from the International Studies Association .

• List of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Global Capitalism, Ethics and Governance; N.Low & B.Gleeson PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, ETHICAL DILEMMAS Towards Sustainability; J.Spangenberg The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Beyond Monitoring; E.Edmondson The International Politics of Declining Forests; M.Jokela Maximising Justice for Environmental Refugees: A Transnational Institution on Behalf of the Deterritorialised; A.Semmens Environmental Accountability and Transnational Corporations; D.Humphreys PART II: TOWARDS A GLOBAL ETHICS An Environmentalist Grand Narrative; A.Gare Human Rights and the Environment: Redefining Fundamental Principles?; K.Bosselman Planetary Citizenship, Definition and Defence of an Ideal; J.Thompson An Ethics of Care for the Environment in Conditions of Conflict; J.Tully Environmental Ethics and the Obsolescence of Existing Political Institutions; P.Laslett PART III: HUMANE GOVERNMENT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Environmental Justice and Global Democracy; W.Achterberg Cosmopolitan Democracy; D.Archibugi An International Court of the Environment; A.Postiglione Humane Governance and the Environment; R.Falk Index

...an excellent prologue to a much needed discourse on global environmental governance,...policy, and ethics. -Ethics and International Affairs