Cambridge University Press Book Series
To mark the 10-year anniversary of the Earth System Governance Project, Cambridge University Press has published a series of books that present the main research findings and synthesis volumes from the Project. The series is edited by Frank Biermann, Utrecht University. Please contact the editor directly if you wish to discuss a book project.
More information about this series, including links to all published books, is here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/earth-and-environmental-sciences/earth-system-governance
The Politics and Governance of Decarbonization: The Interplay between State and Non-State Actors in Sweden
This book examines how, and under what conditions, states – in collaboration with non-state actors – can govern a societal…
Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making
Global environmental negotiations have become central sites for studying the interaction between politics, power, and environmental degradation. This book challenges…
Climate Refugees: Global, Local and Critical Approaches
The last few years have witnessed a flurry of activity in global governance and international lawseeking to address the protection…
The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Governance Through Global Goals?
Written by an international team of over sixty experts and drawing on over three thousand scientific studies, this is the…
Transforming Biodiversity Governance
Edited by Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Marcel T. J. Kok, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Representation and Rights of the Environment
Attending to the ‘Cry of the Earth’ requires a critical appraisal of how we conceive our relationship with the environment,…
Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance
Deliberative democracy is well-suited to the challenges of governing in the Anthropocene. But deliberative democratic practices are only suited to…
Adaptiveness: Changing Earth System Governance
Rapid and transformational actions are ever more urgently needed to achieve a just, resilient, and ecologically sustainable global society, as…
Architectures of Earth System Governance: Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation
International institutions are prevalent in world politics. More than a thousand multilateral treaties are in place just to protect the…
