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Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring your attention to this newly released book that tackles equity issues in sustainable development, international cooperation and environmental governance.  See below for further details.

Kind regards,

Bettina Wittneben, PhD
Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL
www.erim.eur.nl/scr

Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance
Ethics, Sustainable Development and International Co-operation
Chukwumerije Okereke, University of East Anglia, UK

Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

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 explicitly in the design of global environmental policies. In so doing, the dominant conceptions of justice that underpin key global environmental policies are identified and criticised on the basis of their compatibility with the normative essence of global sustainable development.

It will appeal to students and scholars of politics, philosophy, international relations, geography and law.

Selected Contents: 1. Introduction  Part 1: Setting the Scene  2. Environmental Regimes: Medium for International Distributive Justice  3. Ideas of Justice and Global Environmental Sustainability  Part 2: 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 3: 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

August 2007: 234x156: 256pp
Hb: 978-0-415-41230-8: £65.00