Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered

... starkly shows why we need to be concerned about the legitimacy and effectiveness of traditional state entities, laws, and processes dealing with global environmental issues. -International Social Science Review ... the book presents a useful synthesis of contemporary trends in the global governance system and provides recommendations for policy and future research. -International Environmental Agreements ... the book offers a synthetic but comprehensive look at the development of global environmental governance, expanding on the spoils of the conceptual juridical tools built during the twentieth century but which are no longer sufficiently refined to address problems that have emerged within the contemporary global arena. -International Environmental Agreements ... this book provides an excellent summary of a collaborative, long-term study and should provide new material for debates on the use of science, the role of neoliberalism, and the relevance of power in international environmental negotiations. -Review of Policy Research

Frank Biermann is Research Professor of Global Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and the author of Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene (MIT Press). Philipp Pattberg is Associate Professor of Transnational Governance in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University. Steinar Andresen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway. Aarti Gupta is Associate Professor in the Environmental Policy Group of the Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Bernd Siebenhu ner is Professor of Ecological Economics at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. Wallenberg Research Fellow Department of Political Science Lund University Box 52 SE 221 00 Lund Sweden Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the coeditor of Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press). Frank Biermann is Research Professor of Global Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and the author of Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene (MIT Press). Philipp Pattberg is Associate Professor of Transnational Governance in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University.