Steven Bernstein

TL;DR: It is argued that an “applied forward reasoning” approach is better suited for social scientists seeking to address climate change, which is characterized as a “super wicked” problem comprising four key features: time is running out, those who cause the problem also seek to provide a solution, the central authority needed to address it is weak or non-existent, and policy responses discount the future irrationally.

TL;DR: The last half decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence of attention among practitioners and scholars to understand the ability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to address environmental and social problems as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop an analytical framework and a preliminary set of causal propositions to explicate whether and how political legitimacy might be achieved in non-state market driven governance systems.

TL;DR: The most significant shift in environmental governance over the last thirty years has been the convergence of environmental and liberal economic norms toward "liberal environmentalism", which predicates environmental protection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in June is an important opportunity to improve the institutional framework for sustainable development and requires fundamental reorientation and restructuring of national and international institutions toward more effective Earth system governance and planetary stewardship.