ABSTRACT

This multidisciplinary volume presents a refreshing new approach to environmental values in the global age. it investigates the challenges that globalization poses to traditional environmental values in general as well as in politics and international governance.
Divided into five parts, the book investigates how environmental values could be reconceived in a globalizing world.

Part I explores contemporary environmental values and their implications for a globalizing world.
Part II examines the development of Western and Eastern environmental values
Part III discusses contemporary environmental politics
Part IV examines how values inform environmental governance and how governance solutions influence which values are realised
Part V concludes the volume with two different views of the prospects of environmental values in a globalising world.

This study will be of great interest to students and researchers studying the environment in philosophy, political science, international relations, international environment law, environmental studies and development studies.

part |14 pages

Introduction

part |65 pages

Environmental values and the nation state

chapter |21 pages

Globalisation and the environment

Endgame or a ‘new Renaissance'? 1

chapter |15 pages

The enchantments and disenchantments of nature

Implications for consumption in a globalised world

chapter |14 pages

Relational resonance with nature

The Confucian vision 1

part |59 pages

Globalisation, values and environmental politics

chapter |21 pages

Reconceiving environmental justice

Global movements and political theories 1

chapter |17 pages

Environmental values in a globalising world

The case of China 1

part |71 pages

Environmental Governance and Values

chapter |16 pages

Interdependence, pluralism and globalisation

Implications for environmental governance 1

chapter |20 pages

The climate change regime

De jure and de facto commitment to sustainable development 1

part |33 pages

Conclusions

chapter |10 pages

Environmental values in the globalising world

Grounds for cautious optimism