Greening the Globe
World Society and Environmental Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23399459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Hironaka (University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Greening the Globe (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139381833 |
| OpenAlex | W4248932498 |
| Open Library | OL34559302M |
| ISBN | 9781139381833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 102 |
Recent decades have seen a rapid expansion of environmental activity in the world, including the signing of a growing number of environmental treaties and the formation of international organizations like the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Greening the Globe employs world society theory (aka world polity theory or sociological institutionalism) to explore the origins and consequences of international efforts to address environmental problems. Existing scholarship seems paradoxical: case studies frequently criticize treaties and regulatory structures as weak and ineffective, yet statistical studies find improvements in environmental conditions. This book addresses this paradox by articulating a bee-swarm model of social change. International institutions rarely command the power or resources to directly impose social change. Nevertheless, they have recourse via indirect mechanisms: setting agendas, empowering various pro-environmental agents, and propagating new cultural meanings and norms. As a result, world society generates social change even if formal institutional mechanisms and sanctions are weak.
Globe · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Power (physics) · Scholarship · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Environmental policy · Environmental protection · Environmental protection, international cooperation · Environmentalism · Global environmental change · International cooperation · International Relations · Social change
Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State
World Society, World Polity, and the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being, 1990–2011
The ESG Onramp
Coming Out of the Penumbras
How Did Environmental Governance Become Complex? Understanding Mutualism Between Environmental NGOs and International Organizations
Cross-National and Longitudinal Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1965 to 2005
World Society Divided
Can Donors Encourage Authoritarian States to Go Green? Evidence From Vietnamese‒German Development Cooperation
Narratives of Environmentalism in National Laws
Economic Development and the Environment
The Structures of World Society
The Rationalization of “Education for All”
How Global Institutions Matter
Amplified Decoupling in the Global Economy
Pathways to Carbon Pollution
Contradictory governance norms within world society
Neoliberal restructuring of the world polity
Combining world-system and world polity approaches to analyze international environmental governance
Non-governmental organizations, boomerangs, and forest loss
Advancing Global Social Change
The Role of the Nonprofit Sector within the Climate Change Discourse
World society and the natural environment
How do civil society organizations influence climate change politics? Evidence from India, Indonesia, and Finland
State power and diffusion processes in the ratification of global environmental treaties, 1981–2008
Global Scripts in Transnational Legal Orders and Governance
The Catholic Church and International Law
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change
Embedded Countermovements
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States
Contracting development
The Factors that Drive Forestry Export Ties
Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment
From paper institutions to bureaucratic autonomy
The Structure of City Action
Have Repertoire, Will Travel
When ‘no point’ becomes a turning point
Business as usual
Women's participation and challenges to the liberal script
Global Neoliberalism as a Cultural Order and Its Expansive Educational Effects
The changing meaning of saving lives
Individual action, world society, and environmental change
The rise of the social state as a global model
Global and local orientation in organisational actorhood
Introduction
Power asymmetries in global governance for health
Uneven Ambitions
The domestic and global determinants of hunger
Life Chances
NGOs, Ingos, and Environmental Policy Reform, 1970–2010
Conceiving of Contraception
The Effects of High Stakes Educational Testing on Enrollments in an Era of Hyper-Expansion
Contentions over World Culture
Inhibiting or Contributing? How Global Liberal Forces Impact Climate Change Skepticism
Varying Vistas
The Climate Crisis and Export Intensity
Turning Toward the Sun
Social science perspectives on drivers of and responses to global climate change
Temporal trends of environmental concern and potential influencing factors in the United States and China, 1945–2019
Nonviolence beyond the state
Up with ecology, down with economy? The consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation in the global public sphere
The effects of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation, 1970–2018
The harmful effects of primary sector foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries, 2000–2018
Quantifizierung der Weltumwelt. Zur Geschichte einer Kommunikationsform
Animals in world society
Ingo memberships revisited
(In)sufficient institutionalization? Norm articulation in the World Health Organization and infectious disease prevalence across the global South
The missing link
Global corporate responsibility in domestic context
The Long Shadow of Partisan Hostility
International Trade and the Environment
The insufficient imagery of top-down, bottom-up in global movements analysis
Density and Decline in the Founding of International NGOs in the United States
Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse
Ending the Stalemate
The Environmental State
The Interaction and Amplification of World Society Norms
Democracy and Health in Developing Countries
Globally Visible Environmental Protest
Deforestation in the Global South
Global Environmentalism and the World-System
Foreign Direct Investment Dependence and the Neglected Greenhouse Gas
Animal Advocacy and the 'Good Cop-Bad Cop' Radical Flanking of Laboratory Research
Global Fields, Institutional Emergence, and the Regulation of Transnational Corporations
Nonprofits as socially responsible actors
Green American City
The Making of Neoliberal Globalization
The World System and the Hollowing Out of State Capacity
Multilateralism of the Marginal
Formal commitments versus actual practices? Narratives as tools of epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry
Understanding Educational Policy Formation
The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society
World society and field theory
Crowding-in
Abortion Policies in a Polarizing World Society, 1970 to 2020
Guns versus Climate
The Politics of World Polity
The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom
What's different about the environment? Environmental Ingos in comparative perspective
Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018
The Global Adoption of National Policies Protecting Children from Violent Discipline in Schools and Homes, 1950-2011
| Unique citing works | 102 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 101 |