SCIENCE ADVICE AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: EXPERT INSTITUTIONS AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL TREATIES by Pia M. Kohler Published by Anthem Press, 2019, 226 pp., £80.00, hardback.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara R. Wendebourg
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Treaties ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Science Advice ◽  
International Environmental Treaties

Liberal Environmentalism and Global Environmental Governance

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Earth Summit ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
International Environmental Treaties

Global environmental governance rests on a set of norms best characterized by the label “liberal environmentalism.” The 1992 Earth Summit catalyzed the process of institutionalizing these norms, which predicate environmental pro tection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order. To support this claim, this article identifies the specific norms institutionalized since Rio that undergird international environmental treaties, policies and programs. It also explains why a shift toward liberal environmentalism occurred from earlier, very different, bases of environmental governance. The implications of this shift are then outlined, with examples drawn from responses to climate change, forest protection and use, and biosafety. The article is not an endorsement of liberal environmentalism. Rather, it shows that institutions that have developed in response to global environmental problems support particular kinds of values and goals, with important implications for the constraints and opportunities to combat the world's most serious environmental problems.

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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