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Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance Ethics, Sustainable Development and International Co-Operation

By Chukwumerije Okereke Copyright 2008

242 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

This book is an ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, providing a detailed and structured account of the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that currently characterize it. With specific focus on three environmental regimes, the volume explores the way various notions of justice feature both implicitly and... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part one: Setting the scene

2. Environmental Regimes: Medium for International Distributive Justice

3. Ideas of Justice and Global Environmental Sustainability

Part II Empirical Analysis of Three Regime Texts

4. Managing a Global Commons: The United Nations Law of the Sea

5. The Global Waste Management Regime: The Basel Convention

6. Protecting the Global Atmosphere: The United Nations Framework Convention on the Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Part III Exposition and Normative Critique of Dominant Approaches

7. Establishing the Core Ideas of Justice in the three MEAs

8. A Critique of the Dominant Ideas of Justice in Relation to Sustainable Development

9. Global Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance

10. Conclusion

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Biography

Chukwumerije Okereke is a Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, UK.

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