An ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, this book detailes the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that currently characterize it.

Chukwumerije Okereke is a Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, UK.

1. Introduction Part 1: Setting the Scene 2. Environmental Regimes: Medium for International Distributive Justice 3. Ideas of Justice and Global Environmental Sustainability Part 2: Empirical Analysis of Three Regime Texts 4. Managing a Global Commons: The United Nations Law of the Sea 5. The Global Waste Management Regime: The Basel Convention 6. Protecting the Global Atmosphere: The United Nations Framework Convention on the Climate Change (UNFCCC) Part 3: Exposition and Normative Critique of Dominant Approaches 7. Establishing the Core Ideas of Justice in the Three MEAs 8. A Critique of the Dominant Ideas of Justice in Relation to Sustainable Development 9. Global Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance 10. Conclusion