Challenging Global Environmental Governance: Social Movement Agency and Global Civil Society

Ford, Lucy H.

doi:10.1162/152638003322068254

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“…trade, finance, security (Wapner, 1996). In this sense, the global environmental movement has become part of a bigger transnational effort to expand environmental governance beyond the narrow confines of interstate society (Hurrell, 2007: 227-8 (Ford, 2003).…”

Section: The Creation Of Secondary Institutions Around the Norm Of Enmentioning

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The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society

Falkner

Buzan

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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This paper develops an English School (ES) framework for analysing the emergence of new primary institutions in global international society (GIS), and applies this to the case of environmental stewardship. The paper traces the impact that global environmentalism has had on the normative order of GIS, examines the creation of secondary institutions around this norm and identifies the ways in which these developments have become embedded in the constitution and behaviour of states. It assesses the ways in which environmental stewardship has interacted with the other primary institutions that compose GIS, changing some of the understandings and practices associated with them. The conclusions argue that environmental stewardship is likely to be a durable institution of GIS, and that it might be a harbinger of a more functional turn in its priorities.

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Section: The Creation Of Secondary Institutions Around the Norm Of Enmentioning

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The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society

Falkner

Buzan

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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“…Some scholars argue that emergent governance arrangements are simply reorganizations of existing power distributions that do little to include new or underprivileged actors [60]. Scholars have also questioned whether democracy is limited when the complex bureaucracies produced under hybrid arrangements require stakeholders to possess a certain level of expertise in order to participate [61].…”

Section: Environmental Governancementioning

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Hybrid Arrangements as a Form of Ecological Modernization: The Case of the US Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grants

Galli

Fisher

2016

Sustainability

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How are environmental policy goals implemented and sustained in the context of political stagnation surrounding national climate policies in the United States? In this paper, we discuss Ecological Modernization Theory as a tool for understanding the complexity of climate governance at the sub-national level. In particular, we explore the emergence of hybrid governance arrangements during the local implementation of federal energy efficiency programs in US cities. We analyze the formation and advancement of programs associated with one effort to establish a sub-national low carbon energy policy: the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program administered by the US Department of Energy. Our findings highlight the diverse range of partnerships between state, private, and civil society actors that emerged through this program and point to some of the challenges associated with collaborative climate governance initiatives at the city level. Although some programs reflected ecologically modern outcomes, other cities were constrained in their ability to move beyond the status quo due to the demands of state bureaucracies and the challenges associated with inconsistent funding. We find that these programs cultivated hybrid arrangements in an effort to sustain the projects following the termination of federal grant funding. Overall, hybrid governance plays an important role in the implementation and long-term sustainability of climate-related policies.

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“…5 advocacy networks and business actors (see e.g. Biermann et al, 2009a;Falkner, 2008;Ford, 2003;Oberthür and Stokke, 2011;Pattberg, 2007;Wapner, 1995). However, global climate change governance (as a particular kind of environmental governance) has arguably received the most scholarly attention in recent years, with a wide range of publications focusing on all aspects of the global climate governance architecture (see e.g.…”

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Integrating global energy and climate governance: The changing role of the International Energy Agency

2015

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Despite the long-recognized interlinkages between global energy consumption and climate change, there has historically been only limited policy interaction, let alone integration, between the two fields. This compartmentalization is mirrored in scholarship, where much research has focused on the fragmentation of, respectively, global energy and global climate governance, but only little has been said about how these fields might be integrated. Our analysis of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) changing activities in recent years shows that governance integration -both within global energy governance and between global energy and climate governance -is now happening. The IEA has broadened its portfolio to embrace the full spectrum of energy issues, including renewable energy and climate change; it has built and is expanding key partnerships with both the UN climate convention and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA); and it has become an authoritative advocate for the inter-related goals of a low-carbon transition and climate change mitigation.We show that these developments are not the result of a top-down plan, but have rather emerged through the Agency's various efforts to pursue its energy-centric mandate in a fastchanging global policy environment.

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Challenging Global Environmental Governance: Social Movement Agency and Global Civil Society

Cited by 97 publications

References 7 publications

The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society

The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society

Hybrid Arrangements as a Form of Ecological Modernization: The Case of the US Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grants

Integrating global energy and climate governance: The changing role of the International Energy Agency

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