1st Edition

Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice

By Wendy Godek, Gabriela Kütting Copyright 2026
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice employs the concept of coloniality to examine the relationship between global environmental governance and environmental justice. Global environmental governance is perceived to be the natural solution for global environmental problems; however, its liberal emphasis reproduces... Read more

Introduction

 

Part 1     Conceptual Framework

 

1. Coloniality in Global Environmental Politics

 

2. The Coloniality of Global Environmental Governance

 

3. Coloniality and Environmental Justice

 

Part 2 Case Studies of Extractivism in the Global North and Global South

 

4. Extractivism in an EU Context: Greece, Environmental Justice, and Gold Mining

 

5. Land Grabbing and Extractivism in the Honduran Muskitia

 

Part 3     Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance

 

6. Women and Extractivism

 

7. Coloniality and Multi-Species Justice

 

Conclusion

Biography

Wendy Godek is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Roger Williams University, USA.

Gabriela Kütting is Professor of Global Environmental Politics in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark, USA.