Transformative Novel Technologies and Global Environmental Governance

by Florian Rabitz

Overview

Transformative Novel Technologies are potential gamechangers for confronting climate change, biodiversity loss, and many other elements of the global environmental crisis, allowing us to achieve a more sustainable future. The contemporary and future international governance of these technologies has crucial implications for managing the global transition towards sustainability. This book is the first to present a comprehensive assessment of the impact of these technologies on international politics. The author examines the responses of international institutions to the emergence of these technologies, focusing on three broad domains: biotechnology, climate engineering, and mineral extraction in areas beyond national jurisdiction (the ocean floor or near-Earth asteroids). This book is aimed at a non-specialist, academic audience with interest in the international and environmental politics of sustainability and technology. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website - Cambridge Core - for details.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781009352628
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/07/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Florian Rabitz is a Chief Researcher in the Civil Society and Sustainability Research Group at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. He is a political scientist with more than ten years of experience working on global environmental governance, international institutions, and the technology-environment interface. He is the author of The Global Governance of Genetic Resources (2017, Routledge).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Technology and sustainability; 3. Technology and international institutions; 4. Biotechnology; 5. Climate engineering; 6. Mining beyond national jurisdiction; 7. Conclusions and outlook