Economic Globalisation and Ecological Localization: Socio-Legal PerspectivesISBN: 978-1-4051-9293-4
Paperback
168 pages
March 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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This special issue explores the interrelationship between global
economic interests and local ecological interests, and its
implications in law. Along this axis, it seeks to examine not only
the capacity of global forces to subjugate local interests in
responding to territorially confined threats, but also the extent
to which solutions to global environmental problems may depend on
local action. It analyses the impact of globalization on legal
structures and their ability to accommodate local concerns, and
considers whether globalization, and the elimination of national
borders, actually offers an opportunity to reassert the power of
local and regional governance. Its essays include:
- Environmental Governance: Reconnecting the Global and Local
- Free Trade: What is it Good For? Globalization, Deregulation, and ‘Public Opinion’
- Modern Interpretations of Sustainable Development
- Environmental Justice Imperatives for an Era of Climate Change
- (Re)Connecting the Global and Local: Europe’s Regional Seas
- Framing the Local and the Global in the Anti-Nuclear Movement: Law and the Politics of Place
- Globalizing Regulation: Reaching Beyond the Borders of Chemical Safety
- The Globalization and Re-localization of Material Flows: Four Phases of Food Regulation
- The New Collaborative Environmental Governance: The Localization of Regulation
Contributors: Stuart Bell, Laurence Etherington, Neil Gunningham, Veerle Heyvaert, Chris Hilson, Robert Lee, Terry Marsden, Emily Reid, Andrea Ross, Mark Stallworthy, Jenny Steele, Elen Stokes