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Elliott, Lorraine M. (2002) Global environmental (in)equity and the cosmopolitan project. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. Working papers (University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation) (No.95/).
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Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between economic globalisation and environmental inequity which is defined in terms of transnational harm and injustice. It argues that globalisation has been neither normatively neutral nor materially benign in its environmental consequences. The global politics of the environment has therefore come to be characterised by inequities in the use of resources and production of waste, in environmental impact, and in access to the structures of environmental governance at a local and global level. In effect, the lives of others-beyond-borders are shaped without their participation or consent. Drawing on cosmopolitanism as an ethical and political practice suggests that at least three conditions are essential for an equitable and just form of global environmental governance: recognition of equal moral obligation across borders, compensatory burden-sharing and a politics of consent. However, actual global practice on the environment has fallen short on each, complicated and compromised by uncertainty over the role of the state as moral agent in a globalised world.
| Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International relations, Globalization -- Environmental aspects, Distributive justice, Cosmopolitanism, Civil society | ||||
| Series Name: | Working papers (University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation) | ||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
| Official Date: | April 2002 | ||||
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| Number: | No.95/ | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 24 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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