
Governing Nature and the Making of World Order
Bristol University Press
1st Edition
Published on 24. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
166 pages
978-1-5292-4892-0 (ISBN)
Description
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
How have efforts to govern nature and address urgent global environmental challenges shaped, transformed or undermined processes of world ordering?
Chapters in this book explore how efforts to govern nature have transformed - or are transforming - how we understand and practice world politics. Bringing together a team of contributors from around the world, the book traces this inquiry across diverse international policy fields, from security and peacebuilding through science cooperation and governing ecosystems to the politics of economic growth. Taken together, the book offers a conceptually ambitious and empirically grounded account of how the governance of nature and the making of world order intertwine and calls for a research agenda to attend to the growing impact of this interrelationship.
How have efforts to govern nature and address urgent global environmental challenges shaped, transformed or undermined processes of world ordering?
Chapters in this book explore how efforts to govern nature have transformed - or are transforming - how we understand and practice world politics. Bringing together a team of contributors from around the world, the book traces this inquiry across diverse international policy fields, from security and peacebuilding through science cooperation and governing ecosystems to the politics of economic growth. Taken together, the book offers a conceptually ambitious and empirically grounded account of how the governance of nature and the making of world order intertwine and calls for a research agenda to attend to the growing impact of this interrelationship.
Reviews / Votes
"A bold, theoretically rigorous, and empirically compelling argument for a fourth, post-anthropocentric IR debate that redefines the field amid the planet's ecological crises." Joana Castro Pereira, University of Porto "This innovative volume illuminates how crises of nature are not just environmental issues but crucibles of power and international politics." Olaf Corry, University of LeedsMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen, 5 s/w Abbildungen
2 Tables, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
245 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-4892-0 (9781529248920)
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Elana Wilson Rowe | Paul Beaumont | Lucas de Oliveira Paes
Governing Nature and the Making of World Order
E-Book
06/2025
1st Edition
Bristol University Press
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Persons
Elana Wilson Rowe is Professor at the Norwegian University of the Life Sciences and Adjunct Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Paul Beaumont is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Lucas de Oliveira Paes is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Paul Beaumont is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Lucas de Oliveira Paes is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Editor
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Contributions
The University of Queensland
University of Muenster
Hiroshima University
Queen Mary University of London
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg (FAU)
University of Kassel
Content
1. Nature and Order in World Politics - Paul Beaumont, Lucas de Oliveira Paes and Elana Wilson Rowe
2. Governing Peace and Security in the Anthropocene - Dahlia Simangan
3. The Anthropocene, Climate Change and (Ecological) Security - Matt McDonald
4. Nature's Hierarchies? Ecosystems and Order-Making - Elana Wilson Rowe, Paul Beaumont and Lucas de Oliveira Paes
5. To Unveil Nature's Secrets. International Cooperation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY) - Joanne Yao
6. Outer Space and Sovereignty in Post-Planetary Politics - Katharina Glaab
7. World (Re-)Ordering through Green Growth and Degrowth Futures - Bruna Bosi Moreira and Matthias Kranke
8. Seeing like a Planet: Conclusion and Pathways for International Relations Scholarship - Paul Beaumont, Lucas de Oliveira Paes and Elana Wilson Rowe
2. Governing Peace and Security in the Anthropocene - Dahlia Simangan
3. The Anthropocene, Climate Change and (Ecological) Security - Matt McDonald
4. Nature's Hierarchies? Ecosystems and Order-Making - Elana Wilson Rowe, Paul Beaumont and Lucas de Oliveira Paes
5. To Unveil Nature's Secrets. International Cooperation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY) - Joanne Yao
6. Outer Space and Sovereignty in Post-Planetary Politics - Katharina Glaab
7. World (Re-)Ordering through Green Growth and Degrowth Futures - Bruna Bosi Moreira and Matthias Kranke
8. Seeing like a Planet: Conclusion and Pathways for International Relations Scholarship - Paul Beaumont, Lucas de Oliveira Paes and Elana Wilson Rowe