Globalization’s limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
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in: Environmental Politics, Jahrgang 25, Nr. 1, 02.01.2016, S. 136-159.
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T1 - Globalization’s limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
AU - Lenschow, Andrea
AU - Newig, Jens
AU - Challies, Ed
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/1/2
Y1 - 2016/1/2
N2 - Globalization entails increased interdependence and interconnectivities among distal regions and social-ecological systems. This global interregional connectedness – telecoupling – gives rise to specific sustainability challenges, which require new governance solutions. Moving beyond ‘scaling- up’ governance to address global environmental problems, and exploring the implications of telecoupling for state-led environmental governance, ways the state can effectively address telecoupled environmental issues both within and beyond national borders are addressed, drawing on the example of soy trade between Brazil and Germany. This builds on recent contributions to the literature on governance of interregional ecological challenges to elaborate potential policy and governance options, ranging from classical bilateral, multilateral, and international agreements, to information-based, economic, and hybrid governance modes. While telecoupled environmental problems create governance challenges related to scale, knowledge gaps, coordination, and state capacity, the state has an important role to play. To explore this further, interdisciplinary inquiry is required that includes but moves beyond the state.
AB - Globalization entails increased interdependence and interconnectivities among distal regions and social-ecological systems. This global interregional connectedness – telecoupling – gives rise to specific sustainability challenges, which require new governance solutions. Moving beyond ‘scaling- up’ governance to address global environmental problems, and exploring the implications of telecoupling for state-led environmental governance, ways the state can effectively address telecoupled environmental issues both within and beyond national borders are addressed, drawing on the example of soy trade between Brazil and Germany. This builds on recent contributions to the literature on governance of interregional ecological challenges to elaborate potential policy and governance options, ranging from classical bilateral, multilateral, and international agreements, to information-based, economic, and hybrid governance modes. While telecoupled environmental problems create governance challenges related to scale, knowledge gaps, coordination, and state capacity, the state has an important role to play. To explore this further, interdisciplinary inquiry is required that includes but moves beyond the state.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
KW - interregional connectedness
KW - sustainability governance
KW - teleconnections
KW - telecoupled systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84946491409&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09644016.2015.1074384
DO - 10.1080/09644016.2015.1074384
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 25
SP - 136
EP - 159
JO - Environmental Politics
JF - Environmental Politics
SN - 0964-4016
IS - 1
ER -