Governing Environmental Flows : The Need to Reinvent the Nation State

The management of environmental flows needs new concepts of governance. What is the role of government in this context? And what is the role of the nation state? The fact that environmental flows are typically of global nature leads to the question whether the nation state is still able to fulfill its relevant functions in times of economic and political globalization. Before turning to these main questions, I would like to briefly introduce and discuss the concepts of 'environmental flows' and 'environmental state'