The Environment Has No Standing in Environmental Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20413636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jay Wysocki (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-38 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization & Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1086-0266 • E-ISSN: 1552-7417 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1086026611436215 |
| OpenAlex | W2109199008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 43 |
For most of human history the natural environment stood separate from man: indifferent and alien, to be overcome, exploited, or managed. This article draws on the legal concept of standing and the nonlegal concept of voice to argue that nature no longer has standing as an “other” within the global environmental governance framework. Reviews of the transition toward “sustainable development” in environmentalism and also the post–Cold War global environmental governance framework are offered to support this point. Freed of the role that nature plays to ground humanity in space, sustainability now frames mankind only in temporal terms that are developmental but, without reference to context, irrational. The implications that nature has no standing are applied as alternative perspective on Blühdorn’s arguments for a “politics of unsustainability.”
Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental governance · Environmental movement · Environmentalism · Humanity · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Environmental law and policy · History · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Sustainable Development
Modern Environmentalism
Governance for sustainable development
Stakeholder Theory
A cognitive dissonance interpretation of consistencies and inconsistencies in environmentally responsible behavior
Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources
Governance without Government
The Politics of Unsustainability
Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory
Conservation And The Gospel Of Efficiency
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
The rise of governance and the risks of failure
Ecological modernisation theory in debate
Squaring the circle? Some thoughts on the idea of sustainable development
The Response to Industrialism 1885-1914
Sustainable development
Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy
From Woodcraft to ‘Leave No Trace’
Global Governance and Climate Change
Revitalizing Global Environmental Governance for Climate Change
The Emerging Structure of International Politics
The Long Peace
Global ecology
The meaning of sustainable development
The People Paradox
The New Governance
Rational Irrationality and Simulation in Environmental Politics
Sustainability and sustainable development
The Primordial Stakeholder
Sustaining the unsustainable
The Post-ecologist condition
Our common future
The Real New World Order
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |