Transformative Novel Technologies and Global Environmental Governance

"Transformative Novel Technologies are potential gamechangers for confronting climate change, biodiversity loss, and other global environmental crises, but effective governance is essential. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website - Cambridge Core - for details"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Technology and sustainability; 3. Technology and international institutions; 4. Biotechnology; 5. Climate engineering; 6. Mining beyond national jurisdiction; 7. Conclusions and outlook

About the author

Florian Rabitz is a Chief Researcher in the Civil Society and Sustainability Research Group at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. He is a political scientist with more than ten years of experience working on global environmental governance, international institutions, and the technology-environment interface. He is the author of The Global Governance of Genetic Resources (2017, Routledge).

Summary

Transformative Novel Technologies are potential gamechangers for confronting climate change, biodiversity loss, and other global environmental crises, but effective governance is essential. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website - Cambridge Core - for details.

Foreword

Transformative Novel Technologiesare potential gamechangers in confronting environmental crises, but effective governance is essential.

Product details

• Authors: Florian Rabitz, Florian (Kaunas University of Technology Rabitz, Rabitz Florian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009352642
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0935264-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Environmental Economics, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols