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Rethinking private authority

Green, Jessica F

2013,2014,2015

Overview

Rethinking Private Authorityexamines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, Green shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years, largely in the area of treaty implementation. This contrasts with entrepreneurial authority, where most private environmental rules have been created in the past two decades. Green traces how this dynamic and fast-growing form of private authority is becoming increasingly common in areas ranging from organic food to green building practices to sustainable tourism. She persuasively argues that the configuration of state preferences and the existing institutional landscape are paramount to explaining why private authority emerges and assumes the form that it does. In-depth cases on climate change provide evidence for her arguments. Groundbreaking in scope,Rethinking Private Authoritydemonstrates that authority in world politics is diffused across multiple levels and diverse actors, and it offers a more complete picture of how private actors are helping to shape our response to today's most pressing environmental problems

• Publisher: Princeton University Press,Princeton Univ. Press
• Subject: Accountability / Accounting / Adviser / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics / Business enterprises / Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects / Carbon accounting / Carbon Disclosure Project / Carbon footprint / Carbon offset / Chicago Climate Exchange / CITES / Clean Development Mechanism / Climate change / Climate governance / Commodity / Corporate social responsibility / Corporations / Corporations -- Environmental aspects / Credibility / Delegated authority / Economics / Emissions trading / Entrepreneurship / Environmental aspects / Environmental Economics / Environmental issue / Environmental law / Environmental law, International / Environmental Policy / Environmental policy -- International cooperation / Environmental protection / Environmentally friendly / Explanation / First-mover advantage / Forest Stewardship Council / Forestry / Global Environmental Politics / Global Governance / Globalization / Governance / Green building / Greenhouse gas / Guideline / Implementation / Industrial management / Industrial management -- Environmental aspects / Institution / Institutional investor / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / International cooperation / International organization / International Organization for Standardization / International Relations / Internationale Umweltpolitik / Internationale umweltpolitische Zusammenarbeit / Internationaler Umweltschutz / Internationales Umweltrecht / Klimaschutz / Legitimacy (political) / Luftreinhaltung / Measurement / Multilateral environmental agreement / Multinational corporation / Negotiation / Ngos (Non-Governmental Organizations) / Nichtregierungsorganisation / Non-governmental organization / Non-governmental organizations / Non-state actor / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / General / POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General / Power of the purse / Private sector / Privatunternehmen / Privatwirtschaft / Public Policy / Public-private sector cooperation / Reduzierung/Rückgang / Regime / Regulation / Requirement / Sovereignty / Standardization / State actor / Status und Rolle / Supply (economics) / Sustainability / Sustainable development / Sustainable tourism / The Climate Registry / Third-party verification / Transaction cost / Treaty / Treibhausgase / United Nations Environment Programme / United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change / United States Environmental Protection Agency / Wealth / World Business Council for Sustainable Development / World Trade Organization / Öffentlich-private Partnerschaft
• ISBN: 9780691157597, 0691157588, 9780691157580, 0691157596, 1400848660, 9781400848669