ECONIS Select – Sustainability and Global Governance

07/2010

Selected for the Global Economic Symposium 2010

The following global developments are on collision course: (1) the surge in global population, currently expected to reach 8.9 billion by 2049, up from just 2.5 billion a century earlier, (2) rising demands for higher and more diversified consumption, fuelled by economic success and the celebration of wealth, (3) the rapid and accelerating destruction of our inherited natural capital (ground water, marine life, terrestrial biodiversity, crop- and grazing land and our life-enabling atmosphere) and (4) deepening pockets of poverty, rapidly growing urban slums, collapsing states and uncontrolled migration, heightening the risk of new pandemics. The increasing tension between rising populations, with expanding needs and desires, and the limited, falling stock of natural capital is not sustainable. Most new population growth will occur among the very poor, moreover, in remote rural areas and shantytowns around huge cities. Problems of ungovernability, terrorism and new migratory waves are foreseeable. The collapse of weak states will sharpen political and cultural tensions and deepen poverty. The interconnectedness of the global economy means that, according to the principle of subsidiarity, the lowest level of organization at which the spillovers can be addressed is the supranational level.

• What new forms of global governance need to be developed to deal with these large, interconnected risks?
• Global governance must span the intellectual “silos” within which international agreements are traditionally made (e.g., trade, migration, health, foreign aid, environment, resource use). What political process and which institutions could achieve such global governance?
• Are new global institutions required or can the goal be achieved through a reassignment of tasks among existing organizations?
• What resources are required to provide such governance?
• There is also a growing appreciation that such global governance must address the needs for economic prosperity, social justice and sustainability. How are these needs to be balanced?
• What shared rules, principles and values can provide an adequate balance for the global community?
• What models of cooperation (such as the European social and market-oriented system, Asian forms of collaboration, American forms of regulated enterprise and social engagement, emerging market economic and social models, etc.) or combinations of such models, are useful foundations for this purpose?
• How can equal access for countries to global institutions be ensured?
• How can misconduct of single nationals or national organizations be effectively sanctioned?
• How can supranational organizations by made accountable to the people they are meant to represent?

Literature selected from our database ECONIS:

• Title: Global governance: the G20 and a global Green new deal / Edward B. Barbier
  Published: 2010
  Subject heading: Keynesian macroeconomic policy / Environmental investment / Climate protection / Development Aid / Sustainable development / Global governance / World
  Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/29633 [Download: 15.01.2010]
• Article: Polycentric systems as one approach to solving collective-action problems / Elinor Ostrom
  In: Climate change and sustainable development. - Cheltenham [u.a.]: Elgar, ISBN 978-1-8484-4409-6. - 2009, S. 17-35
  Subject heading: Public Good / Public welfare / Research method / Global governance / Sustainable development / World
• Title: Global democracy for sustaining global capitalism: the way to solve current global problems / Jose Miguel Andreu; Rita Dulci Rahman
  Published: New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2009
  Subject heading: Globalization / Capitalism / Sustainable development / Global governance / World economic order / World
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: Governing sustainability / ed. by W. Neil Adger ...
  Published: Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009
  Subject heading: Sustainable development / Global governance / Environmental policy / Society / Participation / Decision under uncertainty / Theory
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: Right relationship: building a whole earth economy / Peter Brown, Geoffrey Garver with Keith Helmuth ...
  Published: San Francisco, Calif.: Berrett-Koehler, c 2009
  Subject heading: Sustainable development / Limits to growth / Global governance / World
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: Making global economic governance effective: hard and soft law institutions in a crowded world / John Kirton, Marina Larionova, Paolo Savona
  Published: Farnham, Surrey [u.a.]: Ashgate, c 2010
  Subject heading: Globalization / International economic relations / International organization / Global governance / International Law / G-8 countries
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: Governance, democracy and development / ed. by Anil Kumar Thakur ...
  Published: New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publications, 2009
  Subject heading: Economic Growth / Sustainable development / Democratization / Good governance / Global governance / Development Aid / World
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: Sustainable development and the limitation of growth: future prospects for world civilization / Victor I. Danilov-Danil'yan; Kim S. Losev; Igor E. Reyf
  Published: Berlin [u.a.]: Springer; Chichester: Praxis Publ., 2009
  Subject heading: Agenda 21 / Sustainable development / Limits to growth / Environmental protection / International environmental policy / Market Economy / Global governance / Humanism / World
• Title: The crisis of global environmental governance: towards a new political economy of sustainability / ed. by Jacob Park; Ken Conca and Matthias Finger
  Published: London [u.a.]: Routledge, 2008
  Subject heading: Globalization / Global governance / Sustainable development / Environmental protection / Environmental policy / International environmental agreement / World
• Title: Policies for sustainable governance of global ecosystem services / ed. by Janet Ranganathan ...
  Published: Cheltenham [u.a.]: Elgar, 2008
  Subject heading: Globalization / Climate change / Environmental Degradation / Environment / Evaluation / Society / Sustainable development / Global governance / Environmental Management / World
• Title: Partnerships, governance and sustainable development: reflections on theory and practice / ed. by Pieter Glasbergen ...
  Published: Cheltenham [u.a.]: Elgar, 2007
  Subject heading: Cooperation / Public-private partnership / Public Administration / Enterprise / Non-governmental organization / Global governance / Sustainable development / Environmental policy / World
• Article: The crisis of globalization as a opportunity to create a fairer world / Rob Vos
  In: Journal of human development and capabilities. - Abingdon: Routledge, ISSN 1945-2829, ZDB-ID 24956946. - Bd. 11.2010, 1, S. 143-160
  Subject heading: Globalization / Financial crisis / Global governance / Economic development
• Article: International regulators and network governance / Pamela Camerra-Rowe; Michelle Egan
  In: The Oxford handbook of business and government. - Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN 978-0-19-921427-3. - 2010, S. 404-421
  Subject heading: Global governance / Globalization / Business network
• Title: World-regional social policy and global governance: new research and policy agendas in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America / ed. by Bob Deacon ...
  Published: London [u.a.]: Routledge, 2010
  Subject heading: Social Policy / Regionalism / Global governance / World / 1958-2008
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: Global social economy: development, work and policy / ed. by John B. Davis
  Published: London [u.a.]: Routledge, 2010
  Subject heading: Globalization / International economic relations / Market Economy / Social conditions / Global governance / Social justice / World / 1980-2007
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: The politics of international economic relations / Joan Edelman Spero; Jeffrey A. Hart
  Published: Boston, Mass. [u.a.]: Wadsworth, c 2010
  Subject heading: International economic relations / International economic policy / Globalization / Global governance / North South relations / Transnational corporation / World
  Link: Table of contents
• Article: Shaping a new world economic governance: a challenge for America and Europe / Jacques Mistral
  In: Liberalism in crisis?. - Cheltenham [u.a.]: Elgar, ISBN 978-1-8484-4530-7. - 2009, S. 1-23
  Subject heading: Economic liberalism / Globalization / Global governance / World economic order / Economic policy / EU countries / United States
• Title: Rules for the global economy / Horst Siebert
  Published: Princeton, NJ [u.a.]: Princeton Univ. Press, 2009
  Subject heading: World economic order / Globalization / Institutional economics / Global governance / International economic policy / World
  Link: Table of contents
• Article: Global imbalances and global governance / Philip R. Lane
  In: Intereconomics. - Berlin; Heidelberg [u.a.]: Springer, ISSN 0020-5346, ZDB-ID 29099. - Bd. 44.2009, 2, S. 77-81
  Subject heading: Capital mobility / Financial liberalization / North South relations / World economic order / Global governance / World
• Article: The significance of a world government in the process of globalization in the 21st century / Fariborz Moshirian
  In: Journal of banking & finance. - Amsterdam [u.a.]: Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4266, ZDB-ID 7529053. - Bd. 32.2008, 8, S. 1432-1439
  Subject heading: Global governance / Globalization / World economic order / Central Bank / World