ABSTRACT
This chapter explores eco-regulations and the greening of imperialism. The first section discusses the history of world market globalisation and evidence that today it is in crisis. The second section shifts focus to the history of global eco-management, including its signature concept of sustainable development. To understand how world market globalisation and global eco-management have grown together over time. The third section focusses on how beliefs shape the rules we live by. The fourth section extends the discussion drawing on Hardt and Negri's theory of Empire and Plumwood's work on the colonisation of nature. This leads to a definition of regulatory imperialism and identification of ecology as a distinct (from terrain) dimension across which imperialism operates. The fifth section develops these points further by exploring how rules are changing in the context of the environmental crisis and shift from denial to action, including how they are linking centres and margins across terrain and ecology, leading to a discussion of eco-regulatory imperialism. The final section makes the case for governing and regulation based on solidarity with subsidiarity.
