Multilevel Governance of Global Environmental Change

Multilevel Governance of Global Environmental Change

Perspectives from Science, Sociology and the Law

Gerd Winter (editor)

1 Introduction 1

gerd winter

part i Earth system analysis 35

2 Dimensions and mechanisms of global climate change 37

peter lemke

3 Global climate change: what can we learn from the past? 67

stefan rahmstorf

part i i Society and institutions of global

environmental change 77

4 The social embeddedness of global environmental

governance 79

karl-werner brand and fritz reusswig

5 Globalising a green civil society: in search of

conceptual clarity 106

asher alkoby

part i i i Self-regulation of industry and the law 147

6 Private authority, global governance, and the law 149

martin herberg

7 Responsibility of transnational corporations in international

environmental law: three perspectives 179

andre nollkaemper

8 Transboundary corporate responsibility in environmental matters:

fragments and foundations for a future framework 200

jonas ebbesson

part iv The potential of the state 225

9 The diffusion of environmental policy innovations 227

kerstin tews

10 Process-related measures and global environmental

governance 254

christian tietje

11 The impact of the USA on regime formation

and implementation 275

thomas giegerich

12 Transnational bureaucracy networks: a resource of global

environmental governance? 305

michael warning

part v The potential of world regions 331

13 The EU: a regional model? 333

ludwig kr ¨amer

14 Transition and governance: the case of

post-communist states 358

stephen stec, alexios antypas, and

tamara steger

part vi Formation and implementation of

international regimes 385

15 Multilateral environmental agreements and the compliance

continuum 387

jutta brunnee

16 On clustering international environmental agreements 409

konrad von moltke

17 Institutions, knowledge, and change: findings from the

quantitative study of environmental regimes 430

helmut breitmeier

part vi i Improving the instruments of

global governance 453

18 Regulatory competition and developing countries and the challenge

for compliance push and pull measures 455

joyeeta gupta

19 Policy instrument innovation in the European Union: a realistic

model for international environmental governance? 470

andrew jordan, r ¨udiger k. w. wurzel, and

anthony r. zito

20 Financial instruments and cooperation in implementing

international agreements for the global environment 493

charlotte streck

part vi i i Fundamental concepts of institutionalising

common concern 517

21 Global environmental change and the nation state:

sovereignty bounded? 519

peter h. sand

22 Whose environment? Concepts of commonality in international

environmental law 539

michael bothe

23 Globalising environmental liability: the interplay of national and

international law 559

a. e. boyle

24 The legal nature of environmental principles in international, EU,

and exemplary national law 587

gerd winter