This multidisciplinary volume presents a refreshing new approach to environmental values in the global age. it investigates the challenges that globalization poses to traditional environmental values in general as well as in politics and international governance.Divided into five parts, the book investigates how environmental values could be reconceived in a globalizing world.Part I explores contemporary environmental values and their implications for a globalizing world.Part II examines the development of Western and Eastern environmental valuesPart III discusses contemporary environmental politicsPart IV examines how values inform environmental governance and how governance solutions influence which values are realisedPart V concludes the volume with two different views of the prospects of environmental values in a globalising world.This study will be of great interest to students and researchers studying the environment in philosophy, political science, international relations, international environment law, environmental studies and development studies.

This volume brings together contributions from prominent philosophers, political scientists and other scholars on the challenges that globalization poses to traditional environmental values.

In a world where the role of nation states is diminishing, the authors investigate how environmental values could be reconceived and what kind of governance institutions could realize them. They make a strong argument for pluralism and governance institutions that can maintain and fertilize it, underlining that while there will be increasing reasons to protect the environment for its own sake, the environment will also continue to be important for economic development as well as other aspects of human well-being.