Governing Nature and the Making of World Order
Edited by Elana Wilson Rowe, Paul Beaumont and Lucas de Oliveira Paes
Published
Jul 22, 2025Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1529248920Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jul 22, 2025Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1529248937Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jul 22, 2025Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1529248937Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jul 22, 2025Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1529248944Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Governing Nature and the Making of World Order
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
How have efforts to govern nature and address urgent global environmental challenges shaped, transformed or undermined processes of world ordering?
Chapters in this book explore how efforts to govern nature have transformed – or are transforming – how we understand and practice world politics. Bringing together a team of contributors from around the world, the book traces this inquiry across diverse international policy fields, from security and peacebuilding through science cooperation and governing ecosystems to the politics of economic growth. Taken together, the book offers a conceptually ambitious and empirically grounded account of how the governance of nature and the making of world order intertwine and calls for a research agenda to attend to the growing impact of this interrelationship.
"A bold, theoretically rigorous, and empirically compelling argument for a fourth, post-anthropocentric IR debate that redefines the field amid the planet’s ecological crises." Joana Castro Pereira, University of Porto
“This innovative volume illuminates how crises of nature are not just environmental issues but crucibles of power and international politics.” Olaf Corry, University of Leeds
Elana Wilson Rowe is Professor at the Norwegian University of the Life Sciences and Adjunct Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Paul Beaumont is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Lucas de Oliveira Paes is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
1. Nature and Order in World Politics - Paul Beaumont, Lucas de Oliveira Paes and Elana Wilson Rowe
2. Governing Peace and Security in the Anthropocene - Dahlia Simangan
3. The Anthropocene, Climate Change and (Ecological) Security - Matt McDonald
4. Nature’s Hierarchies? Ecosystems and Order-Making - Elana Wilson Rowe, Paul Beaumont and Lucas de Oliveira Paes
5. To Unveil Nature’s Secrets. International Cooperation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY) - Joanne Yao
6. Outer Space and Sovereignty in Post-Planetary Politics - Katharina Glaab
7. World (Re-)Ordering through Green Growth and Degrowth Futures - Bruna Bosi Moreira and Matthias Kranke
8. Seeing like a Planet: Conclusion and Pathways for International Relations Scholarship - Paul Beaumont, Lucas de Oliveira Paes and Elana Wilson Rowe
