Industrial mass production on the basis of cheap raw material and fossil fuels, which has evolved as the economic Leitbild of the 20th century has reached its critical limits. The environmental impacts of fossil fuels are threatening both the environment and further economic development. Changes...

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...

Global environmental governance is necessarily multi-actor, multi-sectoral and multi-level. The Rio model of governance has so far provided an adequate answer. It is the only model that takes into account the highly complex actor configuration. A reform could therefore remain essentially...

This volume is a collection of recent studies by scholars from the Environmental Policy Research Centre at the Freie Universität Berlin. It provides an overview on research on recent trends in ecological modernisation, the role of pioneer countries in international policy development and the...