Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

Climate Policy's Tower of Babel Confronting Petro-Power Markets to the Rescue?Making Democracy Safe for Markets What Are Governments For?Governance from the Bottom Up Distributed Leadership Understanding Governance What Is Governance?”Good” Governance The Future of Governance Political Governance Governance, Sustainability, and Evolution Governance and Individual Behavior Governance at the Community Level The Emergence of Human Ultrasociality Box 3–1. Can Networked Governance Help?Cooperation Versus Accumulation Ecoliteracy: Knowledge Is Not Enough Restoring and Expanding Ecoliteracy Obstacles to Learning and Action From Knowledge to Behavior From Behavior to Governance Digitization and Sustainability Sustainable Production Digital Democracy Funding Sustainability Looking Ahead Living in the Anthropocene: Business as Usual, or Compassionate Retreat?Geoengineering Governance in the Anthropocene Geoengineering: Managing First Ethics First: Compassionate Retreat Governing People as Members of the Earth Community Earth Jurisprudence Transforming Governance Progress to Date Box 7–1. Extracts from the Constitution of Ecuador Winds of Change Prospects Listening to the Voices of Young and Future Generations Future Rights: From the Page to the Court Room Representing Tomorrow, Today Putting “Long-term Goggles” on Business The Devil in the Details of Economic Thinking Box 8–2. Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Financial Arm of Intergenerational Governance?A New Phase in the Climate Movement Trusting the Millennial Generation Advancing Ecological Stewardship Via the Commons and Human Rights Making the Transition to a New Paradigm The Human Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment The Commons as a Model for Ecological Governance Imagining a New Architecture of Law and Policy to Support the Ecological Commons General internal governance principles and policies that can guide the development and management of commons.Macro-principles and policies—laws, institutions, and procedures— that the state and market can embrace as ways to facilitate the development of a quasi-autonomous sector of commons and “peer governance.”Catalytic legal strategies that civil society and distinct communities of commoners, governments, and international intergovernmental bodies can pursue to validate, protect, and support ecological commons.Moving Forward Box 9–1. Litigating for the Public Trust Looking Backward (Not Forward) to Environmental Justice The Too-Polite Revolution: Understanding the Failure to Pass U.S. Climate Legislation The Promise of Cap and Trade From Earth Day to Inside the Beltway The Battle in Congress The Grassroots Alternative China's Environmental Governance Challenge Top-down Directives for Ecological Civilization Grassroots Hopes for a Beautiful China Conclusion Assessing the Outcomes of Rio+20 Conceptual Outcomes: The Evolving Sustainable Development Narrative Institutional Outcomes: Reforming the Institutions for Environment and Sustainable Development Operational Outcomes: Voluntary Commitments and Sustainable Development Goals Conclusion Box 13–1. A Policy Mechanism for Ensuring Sustainable Development: National Resource Sufficiency Evaluation How Local Governments Have Become a Factor in Global Sustainability Locally Global A Growing International Role Growing Input to UN Processes Box 14–1. Local Agenda 21: A Powerful Movement with Wide-ranging Impacts Pioneering Local Governments for Sustainability Box 14–2. Local Government Involvement in the UN Biodiversity Convention Box 14–3. Cities in the UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda Economic Governance Scrutinizing the Corporate Role in the Post-2015 Development Agenda Corporate Perspectives and Governance Models Making Business Participation More Transparent and Accountable Making Finance Serve the Real Economy Finance and the Destruction of Shared Prosperity Putting Finance Back in the Box Conclusion: Beyond Orthodox Economics Climate Governance and the Resource Curse The Traditional Resource Curse and Its Impacts on Governance The New Face of the Resource Curse Box 17–1. The Norwegian Oil Fund Escaping the Curse Conclusion The Political-Economic Foundations of a Sustainable System What Does Justice Require?Building an Alternative International Developments Box 18–1. Ten Years On: Argentina's “Recuperated” Worker-Owned Factories Next Steps The Rise of Triple-Bottom-Line Businesses From Shareholders Only, to All Stakeholders Origins and Rapid Growth of Benefit Corporations Certified B Corps and Other Third-Party Certifications Acquisitions by Larger Corporations Pose Complications Conclusion Working Toward Energy Democracy The Need for Energy Democracy Resisting the Dominant Energy Agenda Reclaiming the Energy System for the Public Benefit Restructuring the Energy Sector Addressing Energy Poverty Conclusion Take the Wheel and Steer! Trade Unions and the Just Transition No Jobs on a Dead Planet Trade Unions as Reluctant Agents of Change?Reorganizing Work Democratizing the Economy From the Ground Up Conclusion Improving Governance How?Box 22–1. Women, Governance, and Sustainability Box 22–2. Building a Culture of Engagement