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Postmodern Global Governance
Andreas Rechkemmer
其他書名
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
出版Nomos, 2004
主題Political Science / International Relations / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Process / Political PartiesPolitical Science / Public Policy / Environmental PolicyScience / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology
ISBN38329103289783832910327
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WCPrAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book is about the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) ñ one of the multilateral agreements that came out of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. UNCCD is based on a conceptualization of international relations that transcends to a large extent the traditional notions of inter-governmental treaties. Such policy concepts are known under the framework of Global Governance as they allocate political action rather to the horizontal level ñ implying multi-actor-networks and the civil society ñ than to vertical or top-down processes. The study first shows that ñ inspired by the Brundtland Report and the emerging process of globalization ñ Rio was the peak season for Global Governance concepts that found their way into treaties and triggered structural reform, thus shaping a different reality of multilateral cooperation. In a second step, the book shows that the Convention to Combat Desertification is the most Global Governance oriented of all of UNCEDís outcomes. Its legally binding text contains a number of pertinent elements, ranging from a stringent cross-over of environment and development issues, via the 'bottom-up approach', to a mix of policy tools such as mainstreamed national action programmes and partnership agreements.