Methods and Global Environmental Governance

Global Environmental Governance

Global Environmental Governance provides a very eloquent and concise statement of the key international events and milestones, as well as the most relevant concepts and philosophies that have influenced the global environmental agenda over the past decades. James Gustave Speth and Peter M. Haas are two well-respected figures, widely recognized for their contributions to the debate of environmen...

Is Global Environmental Governance Working ?

NAFTA and its environmental side agreement were supposed to bring prosperity to Mexico and thus give it the money to improve public health and natural resource protection. So far, the treaties haven’t done either. But that does not mean that environmentalists’ criticism of the pacts was correct, just that proponents were wrong. It also means that new trade agreements being forged by the Bush ad...

THEORY AND METHODS Ethics and governance of global health inequalities

Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because ethical claims have the power to motivate, delineate principles, duties and responsibilities, and hold global and national actors morally responsible for achie...

The North-South Knowledge Divide: Consequences for Global Environmental Governance

History, Structure and Agency in Global Health Governance; Comment on “Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?”

Ilona Kickbusch’s thought provoking editorial is criticized in this commentary, partly because she fails to refer to previous critical work on the global conditions and policies that sustain inequality, poverty, poor health and damage to the biosphere and, as a result, she misreads global power and elides consideration of the fundamental historical structures of political and material power tha...