Globalisation, Environment and Social Justice
Globalisation, Environment and Social Justice

Author: Manish K. Verma

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-07-06

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0429849702

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This volume provides a comprehensive account of the connections between globalisation, environment and social justice. It examines varied dimensions of environmental sustainability; the adverse impact of globalisation on environment and its consequences for poverty, unemployment and displacement; the impacts on marginalised sections such as scheduled castes and tribes and women; and policy frameworks for ensuring environmental sustainability and social justice. The chapters build on detailed case studies from different parts of the world and deal with critical environmental issues such as global emissions, climate change, sustainable development, green politics, species protection, water governance, waste management, food production and governance besides education, inclusivity and human rights. Presenting a range of topics alongside new perspectives and discourses, this interdisciplinary book will be useful to students and researchers of political studies, sociology and environmental studies as well as policymakers and those working in the government and civil society organisations.

Globalisation and the Quest for Social and Environmental Justice
Globalisation and the Quest for Social and Environmental Justice

Author: Shawkat Alam

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415499101

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The book is an exploration of the intricate nexus that emerges as a result of globalisation, inextricably linking together issues of international law, human rights, environmental law and international trade law. Bringing together a number of experts in the field, the book focuses on the areas of social justice and environmental justice, and explores the links that exists between the two and the effect of globalisation on these areas.

Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders
Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders

Author: JoAnn Carmin

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780262015516

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Economic inequalities across the world often show up in the form of environmental damage inflicted directly, or more often indirectly, by developed countries on their developing neighbours. This volume draws on case studies to demonstrate spatial connections between consumption & environmental quality.

Rethinking Globalization
Rethinking Globalization

Author: Bill Bigelow

Publisher: Rethinking Schools

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0942961285

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Rethinking Globalization offers an extensive collection of readings and source material on critical global issues.

Global Civil Society 2011
Global Civil Society 2011

Author: Hakan Seckinelgin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0230272010

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This book combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority.

The Long Decade
The Long Decade

Author: David Jenkins

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0199368341

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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 precipitated significant legal changes over the ensuing ten years, a "long decade" that saw both domestic and international legal systems evolve in reaction to the seemingly permanent threat of international terrorism. At the same time, globalization produced worldwide insecurity that weakened the nation-state's ability to monopolize violence and assure safety for its people. The Long Decade: How 9/11 Changed the Law contains contributions by international legal scholars who critically reflect on how the terrorist attacks of 9/11 precipitated these legal changes. This book examines how the uncertainties of the "long decade" made fear a political and legal force, challenged national constitutional orders, altered fundamental assumptions about the rule of law, and ultimately raised questions about how democracy and human rights can cope with competing security pressures, while considering the complex process of crafting anti-terrorism measures.

Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - Volume II
Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - Volume II

Author: Sorcha MacLeod

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2006-11-06

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1847312888

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This book - one in the four-volume set, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - focuses on the role of corporations in an increasingly globalised world. Against the backcloth of perceived abuse of corporate power - alleged violations of human rights, degradation of the environment, abuse of labour, Enron-style financial scandals, and the like - the chapters in this collection examine the nature and function of the corporation as well as the way in which we should understand corporate governance and the power of transnational corporations. Central to the question is the issue of accountability, as well as the questions of social and environmental responsibility - here the authors ask whether corporations should be more accountable relative to the broader public interest, and suggest that public law approaches to accountability may offer a way forward. Consideration is also given to the most appropriate regulatory locus (local, regional, or international) and the most effective form of response to the deficit in corporate responsibility and the abuse of corporate power. For example, are transnational corporations most effectively regulated internationally (e.g., by the United Nations), regionally (e.g., by the EU or NAFTA) or locally (e.g., through stringent reporting requirements and implementation of triple bottom line standards)?

Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - Volume I
Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - Volume I

Author: Douglas Lewis

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2006-02-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1847312586

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This book - one in the four-volume set, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - focuses on the international and regional organisations that represent the key players in the evolving global order. The papers in this collection seek to map the real world of global governance - exploring who governs and how, what the leading international and regional organisations claim to do and what they actually do - as well as assessing the gap between the ideal of constitutionalised global governance and the actuality of governance under globalisation. The contributors discuss what it would mean for global governance to aspire to Rule of Law standards of transparency, accountability and participation together with categorical respect for human rights. In this collection, the perspective of modern public lawyers is systematically applied to the governance deficit associated with globalisation and to its institutional correction in pursuit of a legitimate regime of global governance.

Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - Volume IV
Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - Volume IV

Author: Roger Brownsword

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2005-01-10

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1847310230

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This book - one in the four-volume set, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - focuses on human rights in the context of 'globalisation' together with the principle of 'respect for human rights and human dignity' viewed as one of the foundational commitments of a legitimate scheme of global governance. The first part of the book deals with the ways in which 'globalisation' impacts on established commitments to respect human rights. When human rights are set against, or alongside, potentially competing priorities, such as 'security' or 'economy' how well do they fare? Does it make any difference whether human rights commitments are expressed in dedicated free-standing instruments or incorporated as side-constraints (or 'collaterally') in larger multi-functional instruments? In this light, does it make sense to view a trade-centred community such as the EU as a prospective regional model for human rights? The second part of the book debates the coherence of a global order committed to respect for human rights and human dignity as one of its founding principles. If 'globalisation' aspires to export and spread respect for human rights, the thrust of the papers in this volume is that it could do better, that legitimate global governance demands that it does a great deal better, and that lawyers face a considerable challenge in developing a coherent jurisprudence of fundamental values as the basis for a just global order.

Locating Nature
Locating Nature

Author: Usha Natarajan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09-29

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 1108753531

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For those troubled by environmental harm on a global scale and its deeply unequal effects, this book explains how international law structures ecological degradation and environmental injustice while claiming to protect the environment. It identifies how central legal concepts such as sovereignty, jurisdiction, territory, development, environment, labour and human rights make inaccurate and unsustainable assumptions about the natural world and systemically reproduce environmental degradation and injustice. To avert socioecological crises, we must not only unpack but radically rework our understandings of nature and its relationship with law. We propose more sustainable and equitable ways to remake law's relationship with nature by drawing on diverse disciplines and sociocultural traditions that have been marginalized within international law. Influenced by Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), postcolonialism and decoloniality, and inspired by Indigenous knowledges, cosmology, mythology and storytelling, this book lays the groundwork for an epistemological shift in the way humans conceptualize the relationship between law and nature.