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Rethinking private authority : agents and entrepreneurs in global environmental governance /

"Rethinking Private Authority examines 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Jessica F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Environmental policy > International cooperation.
Public-private sector cooperation.
Non-governmental organizations.
Environmental law, International.
Industrial management > Environmental aspects.
Corporations > Environmental aspects.
Business enterprises > Environmental aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
Umweltpolitik.
Internationales Umweltrecht.
Internationale Kooperation.
Global Governance.
Public Private Partnership.
Nichtstaatliche Organisation.
Wirtschaftskooperation.
Politische Steuerung.
Table of Contents:
  • A theory of private authority
  • Agents of the state : a century of delegation in international environmental law
  • Governors of the market : the evolution of entrepreneurial authority
  • Atmospheric police : delegated authority in the clean development mechanism
  • Atmospheric accountants : entrepreneurial authority and the greenhouse gas protocol.