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- Bastos Lima, Mairon G., 1984
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Toward multipurpose agriculture: Food, fuels, flex crops, and prospects for a bioeconomy
- 2018
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Politics. - : MIT Press - Journals. - 1526-3800 .- 1536-0091. ; 18:2, s. 143-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Each day, agriculture becomes more highly integrated into an increasing number of industries. Agriculture has never been only about food; cotton, tobacco, and other nonfood agricultural commodities (not to speak of spices and luxury foods, such as sugar and coffee) have for centuries been important to livelihoods and the economy. Yet, thanks to developments in biotechnology, the scope of agriculture is broadening quickly, and it may expand significantly in the coming years.
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- Bauhr, Monika, 1973, et al.
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Resisting Transparency: Corruption, Legitimacy, and the Quality of Global Environmental Policies
- 2012
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Politics. - : MIT Press. - 1526-3800 .- 1536-0091. ; 12:4, s. 9-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The domestic endorsement and institutionalization of transparency is of central importance to the implementation of global environmental policies. Studies often contend that interaction with international organizations (IOs) promotes domestic support for transparency. This article qualifies this conclusion and suggests that the positive effects of interaction with international organizations depend on the quality of IO decision-making processes, defined as their fairness, predictability, and effectiveness. Unfair, ineffective, and unpredictable decision- making processes in IOs can increase corruption, reduce legitimacy, and make officials blame transparency for unsatisfactory decision-making. The results build on a study of government officials in developing countries responsible for managing funds from the Clean Development Mechanism and the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol. Our findings suggest that government officials who perceive IO systems as unfair, ineffective, and unpredictable cultivate an adversarial relationship with media and NGOs and become more critical of the benefits of transparency.
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- Berg, Monika, 1979-
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Value Judgments at the Heart of Green Transformation : The Leverage of Pension Fund Investors
- 2021
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Politics. - : MIT Press. - 1526-3800 .- 1536-0091. ; 21:3, s. 77-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As the urgency for green transformation grows, the question of whether finance capital can be harnessed to promote green transformation has been raised. Public pension funds are of particular interest since they are publicly governed, have long-term interest, and are growing in proportion to the global investment capital. However, transformative change demands a reprioritization of fundamental values in terms of trade-offs among economic, environmental, and social ends. This article identifies shifts in value judgments in public pension fund investments and particularly focuses on the institutional constraints by which value (re)priorities are resisted by investigating Swedish public pension funds. While there are signs of environmental embedding of the economy, I also note neutralization of the role and investment strategies of the funds, which has a stabilizing rather than a transformative function. The neutralization constrains deep green transformation, which demands politicization of the role of institutional investors.
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- Boström, Magnus, 1972-, et al.
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NGO power in global social and environmental standard-setting
- 2010
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Politics. - : Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press): Arts & Humanities Titles etc. - 1526-3800 .- 1536-0091. ; 10:4, s. 36-59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have seen a worldwide increase in new nonstate, multi-stakeholder organizations setting standards for socially and environmentally responsible behavior. These standard-setting arenas offer new channels for political participation for NGOs. Scholars have drawn attention to the rise and the role of NGOs in global politics, but there is less research on the power and long-term implications of NGO participation in transnational multi-stakeholder standard-setting. This article analyzes NGOs within three such global organizations: the Forest Stewardship Council, the Marine Stewardship Council, and the International Organization for Standardization on Social Responsibility. Using a power-based perspective, we demonstrate the impact that NGOs can have on multi-stakeholder work. In doing so, we analyze four types of NGO power: symbolic, cognitive, social, and monitoring power. The article further emphasizes institutional, structural, and discursive factors within multi-stakeholder organizations that create certain challenges to NGO power and participation in the longer term.
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- Bäckstrand, Karin, et al.
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Planting trees to mitigate climate change: Contested discourses of ecological modernization, green governmentality and civic environmentalism
- 2006
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Politics. - : Mit Press. - 1526-3800 .- 1536-0091. ; 6:1, s. 50-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Forest plantations or so-called carbon sinks have played a critical role in the climate change negotiations and constitute a central element in the scheme to limit atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations set out by the Kyoto Protocol. This paper examines dominant discursive framings of forest plantation projects in the climate regime. A central proposition is that these projects represent a microcosm of competing and overlapping discourses that are mirrored in debates of global environmental governance. While the win-win discourse of ecological modernization has legitimized the inclusion of sink projects in the Kyoto Protocol, a green governmentality discourse has provided the scientific rationale necessary to turn tropical tree-plantation projects operational on the emerging carbon market. A critical civic environmentalism discourse has contested forest sink projects depicting them as unjust and environmentally unsound strategies to mitigate climate change. The article examines the articulation and institutionalization of these discourses in the climate negotiation process as well as the wider implications for environmental governance.
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- Esguerra, Alejandro, et al.
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Stakeholder engagement in the making : IPBES Legitimization Politics
- 2017
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Politics. - Cambridge, USA : MIT Press. - 1526-3800 .- 1536-0091. ; 17:1, s. 59-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A growing number of expert organizations aim to provide knowledge for global environmental policy-making. Recently, there have also been explicit calls for stakeholder engagement at the global level to make scientific knowledge relevant and usable on the ground. The newly established Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is one of the first international expert organizations to have systematically developed a strategy for stakeholder engagement in its own right. In this article, we analyze the emergence of this strategy. Employing the concept “politics of legitimation,” we examine how and for what reasons stakeholder engagement was introduced, justified, and finally endorsed, as well as its effects. The article explores the process of institutionalizing stakeholder engagement, as well as reconstructing the contestation of the operative norms (membership, tasks, and accountability) regulating the rules for this engagement. We conclude by discussing the broader importance of the findings for IPBES, as well as for international expert organizations in general.
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- Gustafsson, Maria-Therese, 1979-, et al.
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Indigenous Peoples and Multiscalar Environmental Governance: The Opening and Closure of Participatory Spaces
- 2022
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Politics. - : MIT Press. - 1526-3800 .- 1536-0091. ; 22:2, s. 70-94
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There has been an unprecedented inclusion of Indigenous peoples in environmental governance instruments like free, prior, and informed consent; reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) projects; climate adaptation initiatives; and environmental impact assessment. We draw on theories of participatory governance to show how locally implemented processes have been shaped by their interactions with invited, closed, and indigenous-led spaces at multiple scales. Empirically, our article is based on field research in Latin America, semistructured interviews, and a systematic literature review. We find four main barriers that have (re-)produced environmental injustices in environmental governance: first, a lack of influence over the institutional design of governance instruments; second, the exclusion of Indigenous peoples in the domestication of global instruments; third, policy incoherencies constraining the scope for decision-making; and fourth, weak cross-scale linkages between Indigenous-led spaces. This article helps to elucidate constraints of participatory spaces and identify leeway for transformation toward environmental justice.
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- Hjerpe, Mattias, et al.
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Frames of Climate Change in Side Events from Kyoto to Durban
- 2014
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Politics. - : Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press): Arts andamp; Humanities Titles etc. - 1526-3800 .- 1536-0091. ; 14:2, s. 102-121
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Addressing climate change is challenging because of its diverse meanings regarding the implications of science, values, risk, and governance. Climate change frames are central organizing ideas that allow us to identify why climate change is a problem of global concern, who is responsible, and the ways in which and by whom it should be governed. UN climate change conferences gather diverse actors for debating climate policy, allowing us to study the frames they represent and how they evolve. They examine the official side events at these conferences, considering the topics of all 2,214 side events from 1997 through 2011. The results show a prominence of the action and conformity frames, indicating that actors reluctant to change have not been engaged; a tendency to favor the social progress frame over the economic frame; that topical changes were not solely the result of new organizations being admitted; a rise in non-climatic issues indicating large potential for bandwagoning; and a symbiotic relationship between negotiations and side events.
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- Jernnäs, Maria, 1992-, et al.
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Accelerating Climate Action : The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime
- 2022
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Politics. - : MIT Press. - 1526-3800 .- 1536-0091. ; 22:3, s. 38-58
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The 2015 Paris Agreement is often depicted as a turning point for global climate governance. Following years of diplomatic gridlock, it laid the foundations for a new global climate regime that invites states to partner with nonstate actors in the transition to the low-carbon society. This article critically examines the political rationalities that inform the pluralization of climate politics after Paris and the turn toward cooperative modes of governing. Drawing on an analysis of initiatives led by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that were launched to engage nonstate actors in the evolving Paris regime, we identify a global governmentality that mobilizes nonstate actors as active and responsible partners in the quest for rapid and deep decarbonization. In its search for cooperative and efficient forms of problem management, we argue, this form of rule nurtures a global space free from friction and opposition where businesses, investors, and industry are elevated as the real partners of government.
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