{"product_id":"responsibility-in-environmental-governance-unwrapping-the-global-food-waste-dilemma-hardcover","title":"Responsibility in Environmental Governance: Unwrapping the Global Food Waste Dilemma - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTobias Gumbert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a comprehensive study of the notion of responsibility in environmental governance. It starts with the observation that, although the rhetoric of responsibility is indeed all-pervasive in environmental and sustainability-related fields, decisive political action is still lacking. Governance architectures increasingly strive to hold different stakeholders responsible by installing accountability and transparency mechanisms to manage environmental problems, yet the structural background conditions affecting these issues continue to generate unevenly distributed, socially unjust, and ecologically devastating consequences. \u003ci\u003eResponsibility in Environmental Governance\u003c\/i\u003e develops the concept of responsibility as an analytical approach to map and understand these dynamics and to situate diverse meanings of responsibility within larger socio-political contexts. It applies this approach to the study of food waste governance, uncovering a narrow governance focus on accountability, optimization, and consumer behavior change strategies, opening up spaces for organizing more democratic solutions to a truly global problem. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTobias Gumbert deftly interrogates the dynamics of global food waste to uncover a potent obstacle to environmental sustainability and social justice: the intentional, insidious, and largely hidden narrowing of environmental responsibility within mainstream conversations about sustainability. Theoretically rich yet eminently practical, Gumbert's analysis is a wake-up call to policymakers, activists and academics alike. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cb\u003eMichael Maniates\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Social Science (Environmental Studies), Yale-NUS College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eResponsibility in Environmental Governance\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the neoliberal tendency to put the onus for sustainability action on individuals rather than systems such as the political economy of capitalism. Integrating theoretical analysis and empirical case studies on food waste governance, Gumbert has produced a pioneering work highlighting the urgent need for collective not individual modes of responding to the planetary crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJohn Barry\u003c\/b\u003e, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver-more pervasive, the call to responsibility in environmental governance is also increasingly elusive, global threats and complex value chains making it an elective terrain for window-dressing. This timely book makes sense of the intricacies of a moral category and its political use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cb\u003eLuigi Pellizzoni\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Pisa, Italy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a comprehensive study of the notion of responsibility in environmental governance. It starts with the observation that, although the rhetoric of responsibility is indeed all-pervasive in environmental and sustainability-related fields, decisive political action is still lacking. Governance architectures increasingly strive to hold different stakeholders responsible by installing accountability and transparency mechanisms to manage environmental problems, yet the structural background conditions affecting these issues continue to generate unevenly distributed, socially unjust, and ecologically devastating consequences. \u003ci\u003eResponsibility in Environmental Governance\u003c\/i\u003e develops the concept of responsibility as an analytical approach to map and understand these dynamics and to situate diverse meanings of responsibility within larger socio-political contexts. It applies this approach to the study of food waste governance, uncovering a narrow governance focus on accountability, optimization, and consumer behavior change strategies, opening up spaces for organizing more democratic solutions to a truly global problem. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTobias Gumbert \u003c\/b\u003eis a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science and the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research at the University of Münster, Germany. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTobias Gumbert is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science and the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research at the University of Münster, Germany. He works on contemporary issues of environmental politics, particularly in the areas of food policy, waste policy, sustainable consumption, and democratic governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 267\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42121705619591,"sku":"9783031137280","price":194.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/63270b08d6827b0ddced970b73ac661f.webp?v=1732555381","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/responsibility-in-environmental-governance-unwrapping-the-global-food-waste-dilemma-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}