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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ScienceDirect Message Center <val...@prod.sciencedirect.com> Subject: ScienceDirect Alert: Global Environmental Change, Vol. 21, Iss. 3, August 2011 [image: SciVerse Home] <http://www.sciverse.com> [image: ScienceDirect® Home] <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science> New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect [image: Global Environmental Change]<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6020-2011-999789996-3400747> Global Environmental Change <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09593780> Volume 21, Issue 3<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6020-2011-999789996-3400747>, Pages 771-1152 (August 2011) *Symposium on Social Theory and the Environment in the New World (dis)Order* Edited by David Sonnenfeld and Arthur Mol * Special Issue: Symposium on Social Theory and the Environment in the New World (dis)Order* * Special Issue Editorial* 2. *Social theory and the environment in the new world (dis)order<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDVIALERTHTML&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VFV-52P3GNV-5&md5=4482b5eab9af2f8fca0d5069e40a470a&graphAbs=y> * *Pages 771-775* David A. Sonnenfeld, Arthur P.J. Mol * Special Issue Papers* 3. *Multipolarity and the new world (dis)order: US hegemonic decline and the fragmentation of the global climate regime<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDVIALERTHTML&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VFV-52SSRW5-1&md5=32867a526dc29926eed21666543dd524&graphAbs=y> * Original Research Article *Pages 776-784* J. Timmons Roberts Highlights ► Copenhagen made clear that the climate negotiations are deadlocked due to deep divisions and restructuring in the global economic system. ► The United States resists any obligations to reduce emissions because it fears job loss to China and India. ► The Group of 77 developing countries is fragmenting into many new negotiating blocs. ► Old alignments based on solidarity, responsibility and capability and new ones based on vulnerability to climate risks must be understood and addressed to advance the negotiations. 4. *China's ascent and Africa's environment<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDVIALERTHTML&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VFV-52P3GNV-4&md5=bcbf67b87982efb530e8bfc474eddc78&graphAbs=y> * Original Research Article *Pages 785-794* Arthur P.J. Mol Highlights ► China is sourcing developing countries for natural resources. ► China increasingly includes sustainability considerations in its foreign operations. ► This growing environmental sensitivity reflects China's domestic operations. ► Thus World System Theory is in need of reformulation. 5. *Governing through disorder: Neoliberal environmental governance and social theory<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDVIALERTHTML&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VFV-52P3GNV-3&md5=dbfc03ed8953601ebe1b1dc8bee4fc7a&graphAbs=y> * Original Research Article *Pages 795-803* Luigi Pellizzoni Highlights ► Neoliberalism revolutionises social organization vis-à-vis its biophysical underpinnings. ► Its hallmark is government through, rather than despite, uncertainty or disorder. ► Biotechnology patenting and the financialisation of climate and weather provide major examples of neoliberal environmental governance. ► The combination of post-and hyper-modernist traits is troublesome for social theory. ► Social theory has to confront the entrepreneurial agent that represents the theoretical engine of neoliberalism. 6. *Food system sustainability: Questions of environmental governance in the new world (dis)order<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDVIALERTHTML&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VFV-52VG279-1&md5=d374b0b2be4806bdfaba2f75d4d6d1a2&graphAbs=y> * Original Research Article *Pages 804-812* Philip McMichael Highlights ► Multi-functionality and food sovereignty are complementary, in stabilizing bio-diverse farming to protect eco-systems, provide rural jobs and local markets. ► The EU uses ‘multifunctionality’ as a form of ‘environmental governance’ to legitimize an agro-export subsidy structure. ► ‘Food sovereignty’ poses an epistemic challenge to environmental governance and the artificial pricing of environmental processes. 7. *Theories of practices: Agency, technology, and culture: Exploring the relevance of practice theories for the governance of sustainable consumption practices in the new world-order<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDVIALERTHTML&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VFV-52P0M6C-1&md5=24c306a59bcfc0c0d2369b5100c42637&graphAbs=y> * Original Research Article *Pages 813-822* Gert Spaargaren Highlights ► Sustainable Consumption Policies are much needed but ill conceived so far. ► Practice theories offer an alternative for individualist and systemic paradigms. ► Practice theories are strong in conceptualizing agency – structure relations. ► Second generation practice theories deal with objects in a non-determinist way. ► The cultural dimension of practices can be analyzed by using Collins’ IR-theory. 8. *Delegating, not returning, to the biosphere: How to use the multi-scalar and ecological properties of cities<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDVIALERTHTML&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VFV-52V852W-1&md5=e5098f3faf46e7edddd0489f0986f3c6&graphAbs=y> * Original Research Article *Pages 823-834* Saskia Sassen, Natan Dotan Highlights ► Delegating back to the biosphere frames an analytics that can take us beyond an emphasis on mitigation and adaptation, today's two dominant approaches. ► Central to this analytics is minimizing rupture, today's dominant mode of human transaction with the biosphere. ► One key component of delegation uses scientific knowledge and pertinent technologies to amplify the biosphere's capacities, e.g. using a reactor to amplify the capacity of algae to clean up a toxic water body. ► A second key component aims at mobilizing the multi-scalar and ecological properties of cities to take the work of delegating to a more complex plane. * * -- David A. SONNENFELD, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology and Environmental Policy Department of Environmental Studies 106 Marshall Hall State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) 1 Forestry Drive Syracuse, NY 13210–2787 USA tel. +1.315.470.4931/ 6636 fax +1.315.470.6915 e-mail: ds...@esf.edu Homepage: http://www.esf.edu/es/sonnenfeld/
