On the proposals: 1. World Environment Organization: How would this be different than UNEP (and a few parts of UNESCO, like the IOC)? 2. UN Sustainable Development Council: How would this be different than the UN Commission on Sustainable Development? 3. Etc.--sound nice but how would one really implement them?
It seems to me it is not lack of information that is the problem‹it is a lack of commitment to action. Is the author really asking for a world government with some teeth. Fine idea, but there have been a good number of debates on that, and it is not at all clear that, across the board, having one world government with authority would lead to a better world than a multiparty world having many voices‹there is just no assurance that the right kind of leader would lead the world government. Now, he may address all of this, so I should read the book, but to my mind, the abstract does not sound as if it is really giving enough attention to the underlying and fundamental questions. Best, Mike On 11/2/14 1:05 PM, "Andrew Lockley" <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/publication/biermann-frank-earth-system-g > overnance > > Earth System Governance > > Author(s):Biermann, Frank. > > Earth System Governance. World Politics in the Anthropocene.Cambridge, MA: MIT > Press. 2014. > > Humans are no longer spectators who need to adapt to their natural > environment. Our impact on the earth has caused changes that are outside the > range of natural variability and are equivalent to such major geological > disruptions as ice ages. Some scientists argue that we have entered a new > epoch in planetary history: the Anthropocene. In such an era of planet-wide > transformation, we need a new model for planet-wide environmental politics. In > this book, Frank Biermann proposes ³earth system² governance as just such a > new paradigm.Biermann offers both analytical and normative perspectives. He > provides detailed analysis of global environmental politics in terms of five > dimensions of effective governance: agency, particularly agency beyond that of > state actors; architecture of governance, from local to global levels; > accountability and legitimacy; equitable allocation of resources; and > adaptiveness of governance systems. Biermann goes on to offer a wide range of > policy proposals for future environmental governance and a revitalized United > Nations, including the establishment of a World Environment Organization and a > UN Sustainable Development Council, new mechanisms for strengthened > representation of civil society and scientists in global decision making, > innovative systems of qualified majority voting in multilateral negotiations, > and novel institutions to protect those impacted by global change. Drawing on > ten years of research, Biermann formulates earth system governance as an > empirical reality and a political necessity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
