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Global Environmental Governance and Small States: Architectures and Agency in the Caribbean

This book aims to fill the gap in the literature on international relations and global environmental change by providing answers to the following questions in the Caribbean context: how are global institutional architectures and environmental norms adapted to local development priorities in the areas of tourism, ocean governance, energy, nature conservation, and trade? To what extent are the national development trajectories of Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) relevant from this perspective? What are the broader challenges and opportunities for the environmental governance of Caribbean SIDS in the future? how unique historical, cultural, and economic contexts have added new levels of “ complexity ” to the way international environmental governance regimes and norms have been deployed in Caribbean SIDS or not. In doing so, the author highlights some of the power asymmetries and complex relationships between “ new ” private transnational actors (agencies, corporations, ad-vocacy groups, NGOs, etc.) and these “ small states, ” with the help of many illustrations (exploitation of natural resource, energy transition, “ blue economy, ” etc.). Overall, the book reflects the richness and dynamism of the current ways in which Caribbean SIDS and non-state actors are trying to implement global environmental governance regula-tions or enhance local ones. The examples in Global Environmental Governance and Small States come mainly the English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, in particular Jamaica, Barbados, Saint and Trinidad and These share the “ classic ” environmental and economic vulnerabilities of SIDS, but along different economic