Environmental Governance: Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World Book

List of Illustrations ix

List of contributors x

Acknowledgments xi

List of abbreviations and acronyms xii

1 Introduction: who knew and when did they know it? Gabriela K&uumlet;tting Ronnie D. Lipschutz 1

Part I Power, knowledge and environmental governance from a conceptual perspective 11

2 Situating knowledges, spatializing communities, sizing contradictions: the politics of globality, locality and green statism Timothy W. Luke 13

3 Technical expertise, sustainability, and the politics of specialized knowledge Andrew Karvonen Ralf Brand 38

4 The power and death of the sea Peter Jacques 60

Part II From the local to the global 79

5 Multi-level governance and the politics of scale: the challenge of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Christoph G&oumlet;rg Felix Rauschmayer 81

6 The internationalized state and its functions and modes in the global governance of biodiversity: a neo-Poulantzian interpretation Ulrich Brand 100

7 Reinventing the future: the global ecovillage movement as a holistic knowledge community Karen Litfin 124

Part III From the global to the local 143

8 Water for all! The phenomenal rise of transnational knowledge and policy networks Michael Goldman 145

9 Democratizing environmental expertise about forests and climate Tim Forsyth 170

10 Global assistance for local environmental movements: capacity-building in Bosnia-Herzegovina Adam Fagan 186

11 Conclusions: environmental governance, power and knowledge in a local-global world Ronnie D. Lipschutz Gabriela K&uumlet;tting 206

Index 217