Environmental justice in world
politics can be better understood and
implemented through these three
dimensions of world politics. In view
of the political synergy as well as
friction and tension that exist
between
and
within
these
dimensions, I argue that the
transnational mode of environmental
justice is better situated to achieve
positive and enduring results for local
communities and their environments
around the world. It can also mitigate
the practical difficulties encountered
frequently in achieving environmental
justice through the international and
global dimensions of world politics.
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The overall effects of these changes
can turn out to be positive, negative
or even neutral according to the
adjustment capacity of states, and
also according to the multivariate
interactions
among
different
dimensions of globalism. Due to
these variations in state capacity and
different dimensions of globalism, the
norms and practices of state
sovereignty are differentially affected.
State sovereignty seems to be
resilient, although not monolithic or
immutable, and it is too early to
declare the obsolescence of interstate politics. If this analysis of
contemporary world politics holds,
then, we can view world politics as
constituted
by
simultaneous
interactions within and among its
international, transnational, and
global dimensions.
*The author is editor of GLOCAL.
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globalist side of this debate argued
that GEF‘s funding must be restrict
with the truly global environmental
issues such as ozone depletion,
climate change, loss of biodiversity,
and pollution of international waters.
The glocalists, on the other hand,
argued that seemingly local issues
such as land degradation problems in
developing countries (desertification
and deforestation) must also qualify
for financial and technical assistance
since they were connected to other
global
problems.
With
the
fundamental restructuring of GEF in
1994, this dispute was resolved with
a compromise solution that included
land degradation problems as eligible
for funding in so far as these cases
were related to GEF‘s four focal
areas (i.e., ozone depletion, climate
change, biodiversity loss and
international
water
pollution).
Despite
the
challenge
of
globalization
and
transnational
relations, the international sphere is
far
from
being
obsolete.
Transnational and global forces are
definitely altering the international
dimension of world politics by
challenging, for example, the de facto
and de jure aspects of state
sovereignty, but their quantitative or
qualitative effects on states are not
homogenous at all.