Responsibility in Environmental Governance

Tobias Gumbert is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science and the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research at the University of Münster, Germany. He works on contemporary issues of environmental politics, particularly in the areas of food policy, waste policy, sustainable consumption, and democratic governance.

• Chapter 1: Responsibility and the Environment – What’s at Stake?.- Chapter 2: Environmental Governance and the Organization of Irresponsibility.- Chapter 3: The Narrow Conception of Responsibility in Environmental Governance.- Chapter 4: Ethics, Justice, and Power: Widening the Meaning(s) of Responsibility.- Chapter 5: Responsibility and Interpretive Research.- Chapter 6: Food Waste Governance – Introduction to the Case Study.- Chapter 7: Tracing the Meanings of Responsibility in Food Waste Gover­nance.- Chapter 8: Contextualizing Responsibilit(ies) in Food Waste Governance.- Chapter 9: Conclusion – Towards Institutions of Forward-Looking Collective Responsibility.