The World Commission on Dams and trends in global environmental governance

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Conca
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Stakeholder Dialogue ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
Consensus Document ◽  
Windows Of Opportunity ◽  
Large Dams ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
World Commission On Dams

The World Commission on Dams marks a moment of real progress in the large-dams controversy. It does so in at least two ways: as a statement of the norms that should govern dam-related decision-making and as a process of dialogue between dam proponents and critics. Whether this progress translates into consistently better dam-related decisionmaking is a question that remains to be answered. Also unanswered is the larger question of whether the WCD experience will prove to be a replicable model for other environment-development controversies. The Commission emerged from a curious situation in which both dam builders and dam critics felt stymied in their ability to achieve their aims, and in which both saw opportunities in the idea of stakeholder dialogue. Such windows of opportunity may prove rare. The skillful leadership and interpersonal dynamics among the commissioners that helped forge a consensus document may be difficult to reproduce.

scholarly journals Mechanisms for activating the environmental dimension of sustainable development

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-131
Author(s):  
مديحة بخوش ◽  
لزهر فارس
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Environmental Dimension ◽  
Environmental Citizenship ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World

After the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the environmental dimension of development was established to achieve sustainable development. It changes the perception of organizations to harmonize their economic effectiveness with their social and environmental profitability on the one hand. Recent attention has shifted to researching mechanisms to help promote sustainable development, especially the environmental dimension, across the world on the other hand. This study details these mechanisms, in particular environmental governance and citizenship, by providing a framework known as global environmental governance and environmental citizenship. With the presentation of a number of tools that environmental governance and citizenship can activate in the service of sustainable development to allow the transition from theoretical frameworks to the application on the ground based on the descriptive analytical approach. It is expected that the study will identify these two modern concepts in studies (environmental governance and environmental citizenship) and highlights the most important tools used by these concepts in practice to increase attention to the environmental dimension of sustainable development to reach a number of results. Perhaps the most important of which is global environmental governance requires an international, local legal and institutional framework starts from the citizen. To focus environmental citizenship on pro-environmental behaviors in the public and private sectors, this concept should extend beyond the State to the adoption of general international environmental law through several dimensions, beginning with special responsibility: justice in the distribution of resources and collective action to protect the environment. The study concludes with a number of recommendations to alert the importance of these two variables in activating the environmental dimension of sustainable development around the world.

Movements, Networks, Hierarchies: A Gender Perspective on Global Environmental Governance

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bretherton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Transnational Mobilization ◽  
Environmentally Sound

Environmental governance may be distinguished from environmental management by the implication that, in the former, some form of participatory process is involved. Here, the focus is upon the potential for women's movements and networks to influence the principles and practices of global environmental governance (GEG). It is contended that, in principle, women are uniquely placed to oppose the dominant norms informing GEG; and that women's participation would, in consequence, be crucial to the achievement of equitable and environmentally sound forms of governance. In practice, however, a number of factors combine to create divisions between women, and hence to impede transnational mobilization by women around environmental issues. This article examines these issues.

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