International Environmental Governance: A Case for Sub-Regional Judiciaries in Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eghosa Ekhator
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
International Environmental Governance

Peacebuilding Functions of International Environmental Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ole Kristian Fauchald
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
International Environmental Governance ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Key Aspects

This chapter seeks to focus on ‘peacebuilding’ as a construct of peace among groups that have previously been in conflict. This calls for moving beyond peacemaking and conflict resolution to consider the longer-term efforts at establishing sustainable peace. Notwithstanding the longstanding efforts of UNEP’s Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, there has been very limited development of international normative and institutional structures targeting the process of post-conflict sustainable peacebuilding. How far the current international environmental governance (IEG) regimes are responsive to the specific challenges to post-conflict situations? It seeks to briefly consider four key aspects of IEG regimes: (i) Ad- hoc and subject specific (ii) Incremental and facilitative (iii) Degree of reciprocity and (iv) Science-based.

Calculative Practices in International Environmental Governance: In (Partial) Defence of Indicators

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-321
Author(s):  
Jaye Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Regimes ◽  
Human World ◽  
Calculative Practices ◽  
Critical Literature

AbstractThe role of calculative practices such as goals and indicators in international environmental governance causes concern among many observers, who view them as promoting a reductivist approach to the non-human world and privileging economic understandings of environmental governance above all others. Yet they possess enormous potential to provide insights into the non-human world that could be of great benefit to governance. This article takes seriously critical perspectives of calculative practices, while exploring a weakness in much of the critical literature, namely a failure to examine assumptions about the nature of scientific knowledge and the manner in which it is, and ought to be, taken up by policy makers. I contend that both the design of environmental regimes and critical analyses of these regimes bear the marks of the influence, albeit indirect, of early 20th century views on the superiority of scientific knowledge and its unique capacity to ground decision making. I argue that a richer, more nuanced account of the co-production of ecological metrics such as goals and indicators and their potential contributions to ecosystem governance and sustainability is necessary. With such accounts, scholars and political authorities would be in a better position to address the very real pitfalls and dangers of calculative practices while not feeling compelled to forego these potentially powerful approaches.

scholarly journals What We Know (and Could Know) About International Environmental Agreements

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Ronald B. Mitchell ◽  
Liliana B. Andonova ◽  
Mark Axelrod ◽  
Jörg Balsiger ◽  
Thomas Bernauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
International Environmental Agreements ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Environmental Agreements ◽  
Design Features ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
International Environmental Governance ◽  
Graduate Teaching ◽  
Research Questions

Initiated in 2002, the International Environmental Agreements Data Base (IEADB) catalogs the texts, memberships, and design features of over 3,000 multilateral and bilateral environmental agreements. Using IEADB data, we create a comprehensive review of the evolution of international environmental law, including how the number, subjects, and state memberships in IEAs have changed over time. By providing IEA texts, the IEADB helps scholars identify and systematically code IEA design features. We review scholarship derived from the IEADB on international environmental governance, including insights into IEA membership, formation, and design as well as the deeper structure of international environmental law. We note the IEADB’s value as a teaching tool to promote undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. The IEADB’s structure and content opens up both broad research realms and specific research questions, and facilitates the ability of scholars to use the IEADB to answer those questions of greatest interest to them.

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