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Global Governance and the Environment

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‘Global governance’ has become a key term of the discourse on world politics at the dawn of the twenty-first century. While an internet search conducted in 1997 revealed only 3418 references to ‘global governance’ and in January 2004 less than 90,000, in August 2004 the World Wide Web listed 184,000 pages that mentioned the term. Global governance became a rallying call for policy advocates who hail it as panacea for the evils of globalization; a global menace for opponents who fear it as the universal hegemony of the many by the powerful few; and an analytical concept that has given rise to much discussion among scholars of international relations, including the successful launch of the journal Global Governance in 1995.

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Biermann, F. (2006). Global Governance and the Environment. In: Betsill, M.M., Hochstetler, K., Stevis, D. (eds) Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230518391_9

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