scholarly journals The Emergence of New Global Institutions: A Discursive Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Maguire ◽  
Cynthia Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
Persistent Organic Pollutants ◽  
Stockholm Convention ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Global Institutions ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Regulatory Institutions ◽  
New Institutions

We examine how a new discourse shapes the emergence of new global regulatory institutions and, specifically, the roles played by actors and the texts they author during the institution-building process, by investigating a case study of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and its relationship to the new environmental regulatory discourse of ‘precaution’. We show that new discourses do not neatly supplant legacy discourses but, instead, are made to overlap and interact with them through the authorial agency of actors, as a result of which the meanings of both are changed. It is out of this discursive struggle that new institutions emerge.

scholarly journals THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ISSUE OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN UKRAINE AND APPROACHES FOR ITS RESOLUTION

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
V.V. Chetverykov ◽  
I. Holoubek ◽  
K.K. Pianykh
Keyword(s):  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
Persistent Organic Pollutants ◽  
Plant Protection ◽  
Electrical Equipment ◽  
Stockholm Convention ◽  
Implementation Plan ◽  
Best Available Techniques ◽  
Dielectric Liquids ◽  
National Implementation ◽  
Expert Analysis

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) relate to a group of toxicants, which is separated due to an extremely hazardous impact on human health and is regulated by a special international agreement — the Stockholm Convention on POPs. Each Party of the Convention should develop and consistently renew the National Implementation Plan to implement requirements under this Convention. Ukraine developed the National Implementation Plan in 2007, and the experts started works on its renewal in 2020. The article contains results of expert analysis of changes in volumes and forms of accumulation of waste, consisting of containing or contaminated with POPs, in particular, unusable and prohibited plant protection chemicals (PPC). There are outcomes of expert analysis of changes in use of electrical equipment that contained synthetic dielectric liquids based on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Based on analysis, activities are proposed to the National Implementation Plan for development of effective infrastructure for thermal destruction of POP-containing waste. In addition to storage sites of POPs-containing waste, so-called “nintentional production” is an essential source of POPs entering environment. For categories of sources that under the Stockholm Convention can potentially polluted environment with POPs volumes of annual emission into the air, water, and soil for six basic pollutants have been calculated. Modern extensive monitoring system for POPs should be established to clear up a real state with environmental pollution by POPs in the country. Results of such monitoring together with strong regulatory support may motivate enterprises to an introduction of “best available techniques”. Bibl. 7, Tab. 3.

Levels and Spatial Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Environment: A Case Study of German Forest Soils

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (22) ◽  
pp. 12703-12714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Aichner ◽  
Bernd Bussian ◽  
Petra Lehnik-Habrink ◽  
Sebastian Hein
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
Persistent Organic Pollutants ◽  
Forest Soils
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