Global environmental governance : law and regulation for the 21st century / Louis Kotzé.

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2012.

1 online resource (xiii, 344 pages).

New horizons in environmental and energy law.
Elgaronline.

This timely book brings much-needed clarity to the concept of 'environmental governance' as manifested in the global regulatory domain. The author argues that despite being used as a fashionable term by many--including economists, political scientists, environmentalists and, increasingly, lawyers--its theoretical contours and conceptual content remain unclear, incoherent, and inconsistent. In addressing this problem, the book begins by describing globalization as a general context of governance. It comprehensively interrogates and clarifies both the governance and global governance concepts, and then explains aspects and components of global environmental governance. Finally it investigates the role of law in global environmental governance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English

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