Frank Biermann

Thomas Hickmann

Carole-Anne Sénit

The first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations launched in 2015. Written by a team of over sixty experts and drawing on over 3000 scientific studies, this volume is a key resource for policymakers, activists and scholars of sustainable development.

Transforming Governance Through Global Goals?

The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals

In the past few years, numerous authors have highlighted the emergence of transnational climate initiatives, such as city networks, private certification schemes, and business self-regulation in the policy domain of climate change. While these transnational governance arrangements can surely contribute to solving the problem of climate change, their development by different types of sub- and non-state actors does not imply a weakening of the intergovernmental level. On the contrary, many transnational climate initiatives use the international climate regime as a point of reference and have adopted various rules and procedures from international agreements. Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance puts forward this argument and expands upon it, using case studies which suggest that the effective operation of transnational climate initiatives strongly relies on the existence of an international regulatory framework created by nation-states. Thus, this book emphasizes the centrality of the intergovernmental process clustered around the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and underscores that multilateral treaty-making continues to be more important than many scholars and policy-makers suppose. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of global environmental politics, climate change and sustainable development.

How transnational climate initiatives relate to the international climate regime

Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance

Markus Lederer

In dieser Festschrift für Harald Fuhr behandeln Weggefährtinnen und Weggefährten unterschiedlicher beruflicher Stationen eine große Bandbreite an Themen aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive in drei Feldern: 1 Unter der Überschrift "Entwicklung und Verwaltung" sind Beiträge gefasst, die sich wie Harald Fuhr mit der Frage auseinandersetzen, wie Entwicklung gefördert sowie Ungerechtigkeiten behoben werden und Verwaltungen auf lokaler, nationaler und globaler Ebene dazu beitragen können. 2 Unter die Überschrift "Umwelt und Klima" sind Beiträge geordnet, die sich gemeinsam mit Harald Fuhr oder in gegenseitiger Inspiration der Frage widmen, wie regionalen und globalen Umweltveränderungen begegnet oder entgegengewirkt werden kann. 3 Unter die dritte und letzte Überschrift "Praxis" ist schließlich eine Reihe von Praxisbezügen summiert - Harald Fuhrs mehr oder weniger heimliches Steckenpferd in seiner langjährigen Arbeit als Wissenschaftler und Professor für Internationale Politik. Mit Beiträgen von Thomas Hickmann, Markus Lederer, Malcolm H. Dunn, Joseph P. Ganahl, Sabine Kuhlmann, Heribert Dieter, Werner Jann, Wolfgang Merkel, Kilian Lüders, Nina Reiners, Tanja Börzel, Thomas Risse, Guillermo Navarro, Alonso Villalobos, Victor Milla, Hartmut Elsenhans, Thurid Hustedt, Markus Seyfried, Andrea Iro, Urvaksh D. Patel, Kristine Kern, Detlef F. Sprinz, Shradha Shreejaya, Devi K.V. Prasad, Charlotte Streck, Sebastian Wienges, Hendrikje Reich, Sven Egbers, Ursula Stiegler, Thomas Gebhardt, Andreas Obser, Christoph Reichard, Dieter Wagner, Ibrahin Amhed Leon Tellez

Sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Entwicklung, Verwaltung, Umwelt und Klima

Leidenschaft und Augenmaß

Sabine Weiland

Philipp Pattberg

Lena Partzsch

Anthropocene has become an environmental buzzword. It denotes a new geological epoch that is human?dominated. As mounting scientific evidence reveals, humankind has fundamentally altered atmospheric, geological, hydrological, biospheric, and other Earth system processes to an extent that the risk of an irreversible system change emerges. Human societies must therefore change direction and navigate away from critical tipping points in the various ecosystems of our planet. This hypothesis has kicked off a debate not only on the geoscientific definition of the Anthropocene era, but increasingly also in the social sciences. However, the specific contribution of the social sciences disciplines and in particular that of political science still needs to be fully established. This edited volume analyzes, from a political science perspective, the wider social dynamics underlying the ecological and geological changes, as well as their implications for governance and politics in the Anthropocene. The focus is on two questions: (1) What is the contribution of political science to the Anthropocene debate, e.g. in terms of identified problems, answers, and solutions? (2) What are the conceptual and practical implications of the Anthropocene debate for the discipline of political science? Overall, this book contributes to the Anthropocene debate by providing novel theoretical and conceptual accounts of the Anthropocene, engaging with contemporary politics and policy-making in the Anthropocene, and offering a critical reflection on the Anthropocene debate as such. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, global environmental politics and governance, and sustainable development.

Thomas Hickmann

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