Sustainability: Politics and governance

Harald Heinrichs; Frank Biermann

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-7242-6_11

Sustainability: Politics and governance

Harald Heinrichs, Frank Biermann

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The article gives an overview of global sustainability policy and politics. It is shown how international policy making on sustainable development has progressed from environmental policy toward recent approaches of Earth system governance. Key challenges of international sustainability politics are discussed, and institutional and instrumental options to improve sustainability policy are presented. The article ends with an outlook of the need for cosmopolitan policy making on sustainable development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sustainability Science
Subtitle of host publication	An Introduction
Editors	Harald Heinrichs, Pim Martens, Gerd Michelsen, Arnim Wiek
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer
Pages	129-137
Number of pages	9
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-94-017-7242-6
ISBN (Print)	978-94-017-7241-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7242-6_11
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2015

Keywords

Sustainability policy
Politics
Earth system governance
Cosmopolitanism

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