The notion of global governance is widely studied in academia and increasingly relevant to politics and policy making. Yet many of its fundamental elements remain unclear in both theory and practice. This book offers a fresh perspective by analyzing global governance in terms of three major trends, as exemplified by developments in global sustainability governance: the emergence of nonstate actors; new mechanisms of transnational cooperation; and increasingly segmented and overlapping layers of

First Author: Biermann, Frank; Pattberg, Philipp H.
Attributed to:  Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy funded by ESRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered (2012)

Page Reference: 199-218

ISBN: 9780262017664