In order to finance climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, a diversified taxation scheme is proposed. To find a fair and just distribution of the burden of climate change, a taxation mix of (1) consumption tax, (2) progressive tax and (3) inheritance tax is recommended. Consumption...

In the wake of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 'traditional knowledge' became a recurring theme in global environmental governance. The emergence of traditional knowledge in a governance field marked by global science begs the following question: how is it that a particular set of...

Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather events, high-level climate change diplomacy, special UN days of celebration, and popular media references to impending ecological collapse, most students are not exposed to the detailed presentation and analysis of the international relations and...

This paper is about excessive overuse of resources and about serious environmental impacts, and the need for a global ecological turnaround. Ideas about a social contract for sustainability are being discussed, and examples given of resource decoupling and impact decoupling. Global environmental...

'Victor Galaz opens a new pathway, critically needed, yet breathtaking. In a thoughtful and inspirational manner, he takes on the challenge of how humanity is to navigate the unprecedented scale, speed and complexity of the Anthropocene. The focus is on the interplay between rapid nonlinear...

Unlike rules, international lawyers commonly ignore the potential that environmental principles have to create change in international law and politics. Transnational actors do not easily conform to abstract and open-textured environmental principles because they do not prescribe a specific way...

Part I: Transparency in Broader Context. - 1 A transparency turn in global environmental governance / Aarti Gupta and Michael Mason . - 2 The lost innocence of transparency in environmental politics / Arthur P.J. Mol . - 3 The national context for transparency-based global environmental...