The Power of Legitimation: The Role of Expert Networks in Global Environmental Governance

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Rousselin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Expert Networks

scholarly journals What Does Collaborative Event Ethnography Tell Us About Global Environmental Governance?

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaleen Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Insight Into

This forum places CEE at COP10 in the context of wider theoretical debates about global environmental governance. This special issue enhances our understanding of governance by examining how ideas travel and develop at meetings before they become the official documents and announcements that are the more common foci of such papers. The articles in this issue of GEP open up the ‘black box’ of decision-making and allow us to gain a better understanding of global environmental governance, in theory and in practice. These articles are firmly in line with International Political Economy approaches, allowing us to reflect on how regulations can mirror and deepen existing global inequalities, revealing the continuing power of epistemic communities, and demonstrating the important role of ideas. The special issue allows us insight into how global conventions work, how alliances are formed, how particular ideas emerge, and crucially, how alternatives are rendered silent and invisible.

scholarly journals MEMPROBLEMATISASI PERAN KOTA DALAM TATA KELOLA LINGKUNGAN GLOBAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gema Ramadhan Bastari ◽  
Lathiefah Widuri Retyaningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
International Norm ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Norm Entrepreneur

This paper will discuss about problems surrounding discourse on the role of local government or ‘city’ in global environmental governance. Many scholars, such as Acuto (2013), Betsill & Bulkeley (2010) and Fraser (2014) have argued that city might be the missing actor that global environmental governance needs to make it work. However, this paper believes that the argument is riddled with fallacy, most notably with the way they did not take into account the existence of growth-based development ideology that can prevent local government from truly preserving the environment. This paper argues that city is not the panacea that will solve all environmental problems since it favors utilitarianism approach over deep ecology. However, this paper acknowledges that city could be the new norm entrepreneur that can strengthen international norm on environmental preservation.Keyword: City, Environment, Norm, Utilitarianism

scholarly journals The Swedish initiative and the 1972 Stockholm Conference: the decisive role of science diplomacy in the emergence of global environmental governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Paglia
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Science Diplomacy ◽  
Environmental Diplomacy

AbstractThis article applies a science diplomacy lens to examine Sweden’s 1967–1968 intervention in the United Nations—the so-called “Swedish initiative”—that led to the seminal 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment. The three classic science diplomacy typologies—science in diplomacy, diplomacy for science and science for diplomacy—are employed to structure an analysis of how Swedish diplomats skillfully leveraged science for diplomatic objectives, first for convincing member states of the need to convene a major environmental conference under UN auspices and then to mobilize scientific research internationally—particularly in developing countries—during the Conference preparatory process. The empirical study, based on archival research and the oral histories of key participants, also brings to light how problems of the human environment were conceived of and shaped by Swedish scientists and diplomats during this embryonic moment of global environmental governance. Through analysis of some of the public pronouncements and key documents drafted during the first phase of the Swedish initiative, the article further considers the role of popular science as a style of science communication that is particularly relevant in the realm of environmental diplomacy.

scholarly journals A TRANSNATIONAL AGRI-FOOD SYSTEM FOR WHOM? THE STRUGGLE FOR HEGEMONY AT RIO+20

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUNA FONTOURA ◽  
ZAREEN PERVEZ BHARUCHA ◽  
STEFFEN BÖHM
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Food System ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Global Environmental

ABSTRACT Food has been one of the most debated and contested discourses in recent global environmental governance without this fact being reflected, however, in management and organizational studies (MOS). In this paper, we analyze the different positions taken in relation to the transnational agri-food system by the state sector, the private sector and civil society actors and we map key differences and similarities in the discourses of these groups at the influential 2012 Rio+20 Conference. Using neo-Gramscian discourse theory, we uncover the different politico-economic interests that exist and show how these different actors deal with the agri-food system. We demonstrate that international NGOs and grassroots social movements are very diverse in how they approach the question of food security, which in turn is reflected in how they vary in their approach to doing politics. This analysis contributes to our understanding of how hegemony is organized, highlighting the important role of different civil society actors in either maintaining or resisting hegemonic approaches to the transnational agri-food system.

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