International Governance on Environmental Issues

1. Front Matter

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2. Political Dimensions of International Environmental Governance Issues

   • Görel Thurdin

   Pages 1-6

3. Introduction: The Challenge of Global Environmental Governance

   • Helen Sjöberg

   Pages 7-18

4. Global Environmental Governance: Delicate Balances, Subtle Nuances, and Multiple Challenges

   • James N. Rosenau

   Pages 19-56

5. Negotiation, Governance, and Regime Building

   • I. William Zartman

   Pages 57-68

6. The Desertification Convention

   • Bo Kjellén

   Pages 69-77

7. Compliance with International Environmental Accords

   • Harold K. Jacobson, Edith Brown Weiss

   Pages 78-110

8. Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity

   • Johan Bodegård

   Pages 111-118

9. National and Local Policy Implementation as a Participatory Process

   • Katarina Eckerberg

   Pages 119-137

10. International Scientific Networks

    • Bert Bolin

    Pages 138-149

11. The Role of Business in International Environmental Governance

    • J. Hugh Faulkner

    Pages 150-158

12. On the Formative Side of History

    • Matti Wuori

    Pages 159-172

13. International Environmental Governance

    • Uno Svedin

    Pages 173-176

14. Back Matter

    Pages 177-181

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During the last years international cooperation on environmental issues has increased, especially after UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The efforts made by the United Nations or groups of states to solve more or less global problems through negotiation has brought up a number of questions of interest for the research community. How are inter­ national agreements achieved? Which roles do governments, ministries, diplomats, researchers, experts and NGO's play? Is the negotiation­ process of today effective or would we get better results through regional, national or local actions? How should we understand the interplay between the different societal levels where environmental 'governance' is created? And what constitutes a successful implementation of a conven­ tion or bilateral agreement in practical policy? The Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN) has since the early 1980's initiatated and funded environmental research, and in particular for research problems with a focus on the interplay between humans~society-natural resources. In order to get a picture of on-going research with relevance to an understanding of inter­ national environmental governance, and to stimulate the research com­ munity towards addressing new issues, the FRN arranged an inter­ national workshop for August 17-19, 1994 at Krusenberg Manor, near Uppsala. The workshop could also be seen in the context of FRN's long term interest in the issues of 'the Human Dimensions of Global Environ­ mental Change', including the activities of the Human Dimensions Programme (now IHDP) at the international level.

• Governance
• Government
• Nation
• Policy
• desertification
• environment
• negotiations
• non-governmental organizations
• organization

• Swedish Council for Planning & Coordination of Research, Stockholm, Sweden

  Mats Rolén, Uno Svedin

• University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

  Helen Sjöberg

• University of Linköping, Lingköping, Sweden

  Uno Svedin

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