scholarly journals Proposal: International Year of the Biosphere

1980 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Vallentyne ◽  
J. R. Strickler ◽  
Nicholas Polunin
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Scientific Committee ◽  
United Nations Environment Programme ◽  
International Council ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Environment ◽  
Environment Programme

‘The time is ripe to step up and expand current efforts to understand the great interlocking systems of air, water, and minerals, that nourish the Earth’, wrote Gilbert F. White (President of the International Council of Scientific Unions' Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) and Mostafa K. Tolba (Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme) in Environmental Conservation (Vol. 6, No. 2, p. 88,1979).

Depoliticisation as a securitising move: the case of the United Nations Environment Programme

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (03) ◽  
pp. 344-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucile Maertens
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
United Nations Environment Programme ◽  
International Level ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Conflict Framing ◽  
Nations Environment ◽  
Environment Programme

AbstractCreated in 1972, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has a normative mandate to promote the protection of the environment at the international level. However, since 1999, the organisation has been conducting field assessments in postconflict situations and addressing the role of natural resources in conflict, framing the environment as a security issue. To do so, the programme insists on its neutrality as a technical and ‘apolitical’ actor within the UN system. Considering depoliticisation as a political act, this article unpacks the concrete practices by which international organisations (IOs) enact depoliticisation. It further argues that IOs can perform securitising moves through practices and techniques presented as outside of the political realm. It draws upon the recent work on depoliticisation at the international level and reinforces studies considering the links between (de)politicisation and securitisation.

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