scholarly journals The National Context for Transparency-based Global Environmental Governance

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Florini
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
National Context ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Environmental

Transparency-based global environmental governance, like all global governance, necessarily plays out in national contexts. Its efficacy is shaped not only by global politics but also by the norms and capacities prevailing within countries. Over the past two decades, there has been an extraordinary upheaval in transparency views and practices in numerous countries, rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian. This multi-faceted development has been driven by such varied factors as democratization, privatization, and changing views about appropriate regulatory practices. These changes provide the crucial context for understanding the transparency transformation that is currently unfolding within global environmental governance, as well as what its promise, limitations and implications in practice might be in diverse national contexts.

Global Environmental Governance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Global Economic Governance ◽  
Dynamic Criteria

Long subordinate to global economic governance, global environmental governance currently fails to produce responses that match the urgency and depth of global environmental challenges, as well as being short on justice and democracy. Environmental political theory can speak to this condition though the critique of the deficiencies of governance, scrutiny of reform proposals, and development of dynamic criteria to seek in improved governance. At issue here are not just institutions generally recognized as environmental, but the system of global governance in its entirety. In the Anthropocene, ecosystemic reflexivity can be recognized as properly the first virtue of global environmental governance.

The politics of global environmental governance: the powers and limitations of transfrontier conservation areas in Central America

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaleen Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Transfrontier Conservation

This article examines the concepts and practices of global governance as a definitively liberal project. It provides an analysis of how TFCAs intersect with wider neoliberal debates about the efficacy of global environmental governance, and explores the power and limitations of that governance. In particular, this article investigates the complex local contexts which global environmental governance schemes such as TFCAs encounter; in so doing it highlights the ways that local activities subvert and challenge global-level conservation schemes. Through an analysis of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in Central America, it contends that specific forms of global environmental governance require some rethinking to accommodate their potentially fragile and uneven nature, and that it is more open, opaque or uneven than many theorists suggest.

NGO’s Authority: A Discussion in the Global Environmental Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-97
Author(s):  
Xiaolong Zou ◽  
Chuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
International System ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Sociological Institutionalism ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Important Position

As non-governmental organizations (NGOs) assume incrementally important roles in global environmental governance, literature regarding their functions also multiplies. Studies are available about their features, structural advantages or impacts. However, very few have sufficiently explained what makes them tick in the international system as non-state actors. In this article, we argue that NGOs’ important position in global governance lies in its authority. We build our analysis on sociological institutionalism and the principal–agent models, arguing that NGOs are independent and autonomous with both inherent authority and granted authority by sovereign states or inter-governmental organizations (IGOs). It is through this authority that NGOs could function independently and autonomously in global governance instead of being the affiliated or appendant actors of parties. To shed some new light on understanding NGOs in the international system from a theoretical perspective, we employ cases from environmental governance domain as evidence for illustration.

Transparency for Whom? Information Disclosure and Power in Global Environmental Governance

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mason
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Disclosure ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Relations Of Power

Information disclosure is the most obvious manifestation of the transparency turn in global governance, as evident from a growing uptake of environmental disclosure practices by countries, corporations and international organizations. Any analytic examination of environmental disclosure measures needs to grasp their relation to wider configurations of political and economic authority. Highlighting these relations of power reveals that transparency measures do not necessarily overcome asymmetries in information access, and may even exacerbate them.

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