The Business Of Global Environmental Governance

The Business of Global Environmental Governance

By LEVY L. DAVID , NEWELL J. PETER (Editor)

ISBN 9780262122702

Pages 360

Year 2004

Edition 1

Publisher MIT PRESS

Subject ENVIRONMENT

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Description

The Business of Global Environmental Governance takes a political economy approach to understanding the role of business in global environmental politics. The book's contributors—from a range of disciplines including international political economy, management, and political science—view the evolution of international environmental governance as a dynamic interplay of economic structures, business strategies, and political processes. By providing comparative insights to the responses of business to major international environmental issues, the book illuminates the ways business activity shapes and is shaped by global environmental policies. It moves beyond the usual emphasis on state actors and formal regimes, instead focusing on empirical and theoretical contributions that examine the reciprocal relationship between corporate strategy and international environmental governance. After developing a theoretical framework for understanding the role of business in environmental governance, the book provides empirical studies of business strategies across a range of cases, from formal regimes to combat climate change and ozone depletion to more informal and private regimes for tropical logging and the ISO 14000 environmental management standards. These case studies demonstrate the key roles of business, markets, and private actors in shaping international environmental institutions and constructing new forms of governance.

About Author(s)

David L. Levy is Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research examines the intersection of business strategy and politics in the development of international governance, and he has published widely on the topic. Recently, he has studied the response of multinational corporations in the oil and automobile industries to the emerging greenhouse gas regime, and is currently examining prospects for the renewable energy industry in Massachusetts. He is also the Slovenian translator of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Peter J. Newell is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely on the political economy of the environment, including the books Climate for Change (2000), The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy (2000), co-authored with Wyn Grant and Duncan Matthews, Development and the Challenge of Globalisation (2002), co-edited with Shirin M. Rai and Andrew Scott. He curre

Content

Series Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors 1 Introduction: The Business of Global Environmental Governance I Conceptual Frameworks 2 Business and International Environmental Governance: The State of the Art 3 A Neo-Gramscian Approach to Business in International Environmental Politics: An Interdisciplinary, Multilevel Framework II Business Strategies in international Environmental 4 Business and the Evolution of the Climate Regime: The Dynamics of Corporate Strategies 5 The Business of Ozone Layer Protection: Corporate Power in Regime Evolution 6 The Genetic Engineering Revolution in Agriculture and Food: Strategies of the “Biotech Bloc” III Business Influence: Regional Dimensions 7 The Environmental Challenge to Loggers in The Asia-Pacific: Corporate Practices in Informal Regimes of Governance 8 Environmental and Business Lobbying Alliances in Europe: Learning From Washington? IV The Privatization of Governance: Business and Civil Society 9 The Privatization of Global Environmental Governance: ISO 14000 and the Developing World 10 Privatizing Governance, Practicing Triage: Securitization of Insurance Risks and the Politics of Global Warming 11 The New Water Paradigm: The Privatization of Governance and the Instrumentalization of the State 12 Challenging the Global Environment Governance of Toxics: Social Movement Agency and Global Civil Society 13 Business and International Governance: Conclusions and Implications

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