The Globalization and Environment Reader

Arguably, there is no better iconic representation of globalization than a hulking container ship ferrying electronics, cheap toys, clothing, and furniture to the far corners of the globe an image which gives rise to a pair of fundamental questions about today s world: Is economic globalization the prime cause of the destruction of the global environment? And conversely, are new forms of globalization potentially the only ways to address what are now global environmental problems?

The Globalization and Environment Reader features a comprehensive collection of nearly 30 classic and cutting–edge readings that represent a broad range of perspectives within this increasingly important field. Initial readings reveal how the benefits of a massive increase in economic development over the past 60 years are tempered by immense environmental degradation. Further readings explore a variety of themes and issues relating to the nature of globalization (i.e.; how nature is being treated in an increasingly marketized fashion), debates about managing and governing the relationship between globalization and the environment, and broader discussions about the possibilities for globalization to be greened.

Timely and essential, The Globalization and Environment Reader offers important insights into the future of our fragile planet in the globalized world of the 21st century.

Editors Introduction: The Globalization and Environment Debate

Part 1: Going Global

Introduction

1. The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? (2007)
Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen and John R. McNeill

2. Address at the Closing Ceremony of the Eigth and Final meeting of the World Commission on Environment and Development and the Tokyo Declaration (1987)
Gro Harlem Brundtland

3. Foxes in charge of the chickens (1993)
Nicholas Hildyard

4. Can the Environment Survive the Global Economy? (1997)
Edward Goldsmith

5. Ecological Modernisation and the Global Economy (2002)
Arthur P. J. Mol

6. Environment and Globalization: Five propositions (2010)
Adil Najam, David Runnalls, and Mark Halle

Part 2: The Nature of Globalization––Cases and Trends in Globalization

Introduction

7. The value of the world s ecosystem services and natural capital (1997)
Robert Costanza, Ralph d′Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O′Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Paul Sutton, and Marjan van den Belt

8. Sustainability and markets: On the neoclassical model of environmental economics (1997)
Michael Jacobs 

9. Crafting the Next Generation of Market–Based Environmental Tools (1997)
Jeremy B. Hockenstein, Robert N. Stavins, and Bradley W. Whitehead

10. Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism: The New Trade in Greenhouse Gases (2004)
Heidi Bachram

11. The Business of Sustainable Development (1992)
Stephen Schmidheney

12. The Commons Versus the Commodity : Alter–globalization, Anti– privatization, and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (2007)
Karen Bakker

Part 3: Explaining the relationship between globalization and the environment

Introduction

13. Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change (2011)
Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne

14. Introduction to World Development Report, 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Global Economy (2003)
World Bank

15. The Political Ecology of Globalization (2012)
Peter Newell

16. Institutions for the Earth: promoting international environmental protection (1992)
Marc A. Levy, Peter M. Haas, and Robert O. Keohane

Part 4: Governing Globalization & the environment

Introduction

17. Trading Up and Governing Across: Transnational Governance and Environmental Protection
David Vogel

18. The WTO and the Undermining of Global Environmental Governance (2000)
Ken Conca

19. Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links (2003)
Robert Falkner

20. Managing Multinationals: The Governance of Investment for the Environment (2001)
Peter Newell

21. Reforming Global Environmental Governance: The Case for a United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO) (2012)
Frank Biermann

Part 5:  Can globalisation be greened?

Introduction

22. Whose Common Future? Reclaiming the Commons (1994)
The Ecologist

23. Resisting ′Globalisation–from–above′ through ′Globalisation–from– below′ (1997)
Richard Falk

24. Picking the Wrong Fight: Why Attacks on the World Trade Organization Pose the Real Threat to National Environmental and Public Health Protection
Alasdair R. Young

25. What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (2010)
Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster

26. Pathways of Human Development and Carbon Emissions Embodied in Trade (2012)
Julia K. Steinberger, J. Timmons Roberts, Glen P. Peters, and Giovanni Baiocchi

27. Introduction to Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication (2012)
UNEP

28. Critique of the Green Economy: Toward Social and Environmental Equity (2012)
Barbara Unmüßig, Wolfgang Sachs, and Thomas Fatheuer

Index

Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex and former Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy. He is associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics, and sits on the editorial board of Global Environmental Change and the Journal of Environment and Development. He is the author and co–author of eight books (including Globalization and the Environment), more than 40 journal articles, and 40 book chapters on topics relating to globalization and the environment.

J. Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, where he was Director of the Center for Environmental Studies. A Non–Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Roberts has written 11 books and over 70 articles on climate change and global environmental politics. He was recently appointed to the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academy of Sciences.