Environmental governance : power and knowledge in a local-global world / edited by Gabriela Kütting and Ronnie D. Lipschutz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : who knew what they did and when did they know it? / Gabriela Kütting and Ronnie D. Lipschutz -- Situating knowledges, spatializing communities, sizing contradictions : the politics of globality, locality and green statism / Timothy W. Luke -- Technical expertise, sustainability, and the politics of specialized knowledge / Andrew Karvonen and Ralf Brand -- The power and death of the sea / Peter Jacques -- Multi-level governance and the politics of scale : the challenge of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment / Christoph Görg and Felix Rauschmayer -- The internationalized state and its functions and modes in the global governance of biodiversity : a neo-Poulantzian interpretation / Ulrich Brand -- Reinventing the future : the global ecovillage movement as a holistic knowledge community / Karen Litfin -- Water for all! The phenomenal rise of transnational knowledge and policy networks / Michael Goldman -- Democratizing environmental expertise about forests and climate / Tim Forsyth -- Global assistance for local environmental movements : capacity-building in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Adam Fagan -- Conclusions : environmental governance, power and knowledge in a local-global world / Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Gabriela Kütting.

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This edited collection makes a highly significant critical contribution to the field of environmental politics. It argues that the international-level, institutionalist approach to global environmental politics has run its course, employed solely by powerful actors in order to orchestrate and manipulate local communities within a continuing hegemonic system. The outstanding international line-up of contributors to this volume explore the real advances that are being made in the areas were the local and global intersect and how power fits into the equation. They explore the relationshi.

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