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  • The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Transforming Governance Through Global Goals?

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit ...
    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 ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • Earth System Governance

    World Politics in the Anthropocene

    by Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A new model for effective global environmental governance in an era of human-caused planetary transformation and disruption.Humans are no longer spectators who need to adapt to their natural environment. Our impact on the earth has caused changes that are outside the range of natural variability and are equivalent to such major geological disruptions as ice ages. Some scientists argue that we have ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A World Environment Organization

    Solution or Threat for Effective International Environmental Governance?

    by Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Global Environmental Governance
    In recent years, the debate on the establishment of a new international agency on environmental protection - a 'World Environment Organization' - has gained substantial momentum. Several countries, including France and Germany, as well as a number of leading experts and senior international civil servants have openly supported the creation of such a new international organization. However, a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Architectures of Earth System Governance

    Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Rakhyun E. Kim ...
    International institutions are prevalent in world politics. More than a thousand multilateral treaties are in place just to protect the environment alone, and there are many more. And yet, it is also clear that these institutions do not operate in a void but are enmeshed in larger, highly complex webs of governance arrangements. This compelling book conceptualises these broader structures as the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Edited by Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Eva Lövbrand ...
    Coined barely two decades ago, the Anthropocene has become one of the most influential and controversial terms in environmental policy. Yet it remains an ambivalent and contested formulation, giving rise to a multitude of unexpected, and often uncomfortable, conversations. This book traces in detail a broad variety of such 'Anthropocene encounters': in science, philosophy and literary fiction. It ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhüner, Anna Schreyögg ...
    Series series Environmental Politics
    This book provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance. Whilst a growing body of literature considers global governance in a number of policy areas, this volume delivers one of the first comprehensive accounts of international organizations in relation to environmental policy.Providing the reader with key insights within this area of global ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012

    Architecture, Agency and Adaptation

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Philipp Pattberg, Fariborz Zelli ...
    An assessment of policy options for future global climate governance, written by a team of leading experts from the European Union and developing countries. Global climate governance is at a crossroads. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was merely a first step, and its core commitments expire in 2012. This book addresses three questions which will be central to any new climate agreement. What is the most ... Read more

    $59.09 USD

  • Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

    An A-Z Guide

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Yi hyun Kang, Carole-Anne Sénit, Yixian Sun ...
    Series series A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability
    This book provides a highly accessible and user-friendly overview of the essential concepts and terms related to the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.With the first decade of the 15-year timespan of the 2030 Agenda now past, the SDGs show limited progress and several goals are even regressing. It is imperative that SDG implementation is accelerated until 2030 ... Read more

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    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

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  • Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development

    by David Lewis ...
    Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime ... Read more

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  • Democratizing Global Climate Governance

    by Hayley Stevenson, John S. Dryzek ...
    Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated and experienced internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action depends crucially ... Read more

    $30.39 USD