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1. The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance

   Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability

   Edited by Jacob Park, Ken Conca, Matthias Finger

   Series: Environmental Politics

   More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, Our Common Future, we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. The failed 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development showed the need for a new approach to globalization and sustainability....

   Published March 30th 2008 by Routledge
2. Limits to Privatization

   How to Avoid Too Much of a Good Thing - A Report to the Club of Rome

   By Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker, Matthias Finger, Marianne Beisheim

   Edited by Oran R. Young

   Limits to Privatization is the first thorough audit of privatizations from around the world. It outlines the historical emergence of globalization and liberalization, and from analyses of over 50 case studies of best- and worst-case experiences of privatization, it provides guidance for policy and...

   Published April 30th 2006 by Routledge
3. Water Privatisation

   Trans-National Corporations and the Re-regulation of the Water Industry

   By Jeremy Allouche, Matthias Finger

   Setting the scene with a thorough introduction to water resource issues, Water Privatisation critically examines the new role played by Trans-National Corporations in managing and distributing water worldwide.Written from an organisational and institutional perspective, the authors propose new...

   Published October 17th 2001 by CRC Press
4. The Earth Brokers

   Power, Politics and World Development

   By Pratap Chatterjee, Matthias Finger

   Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed ... Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got away with what they always wanted ... the Summit has ensured increased domination by those who...

   Published September 28th 1994 by Routledge
5. Environmental NGOs in World Politics

   Linking the Local and the Global

   By Matthias Finger, Thomas Princen

   At a time when states are reactive, at best, to the global ecological crisis and when economic globalization seems to be significantly contributing to the acceleration of that crisis, environmental non-governmental orgainisations (NGOs) are proliferating. This book explains the key role of NGOs in...

   Published September 14th 1994 by Routledge