The Effectiveness and Legitimacy of International Environmental Institutions

Andresen, Steinar; Hey, Ellen

doi:10.1007/s10784-005-3804-9

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“…However, not much attention has been devoted to the issue of the management and administration of the IEAs. Only recently has scholarly attention been devoted to the institutional arrangements of IEAs, the "global governance architecture" of environmental regimes, and the role of IEA Secretariats as "international bureaucracies" and as "managers of global change" (e.g., Andresen & Hey, 2005;S. Bauer, 2006;Biermann & Siebenhuner, 2009;Churchill & Ulfstein, 2000;Frank, Philipp, Harro van, & Fariborz, 2009;Sandford, 1994).…”

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Assessing the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs)

Seelarbokus

2014

Sage Open

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It is commonly claimed that assessing the effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) from the environmental problem-solving perspective is challenging because environmental data are not available. However, not much research has been done on the characterization of the nature and causes of such data unavailability. This article analyzes the term "data unavailability" and provides three typologies for data unavailability: (a) "true unavailability," where data collection complexities and resource constraints limit data collection and analysis; (b) "false unavailability," which refers to the existence of relevant data, but failure to report due to various causes; and (c) "external availability," which refers to the existence of relevant data in several organizations and research institutions, but with no established networks for data sharing between such institutions and the IEA institutions. This article discusses the causes for the various types of data unavailability and makes recommendations for promoting data availability.

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Section: Iea Management Challengesmentioning

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Assessing the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs)

Seelarbokus

2014

Sage Open

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“…Some analysts see this as an unprecedented development (Fidler, 2007;. However, there are close parallels to the development of other (previous) 'soft' issues like international environmental politics (Andresen and Hey, 2005). As such, this development is an illustration of the broadening of the international political agenda.…”

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From Development Aid to Foreign Policy: Global Immunization Efforts as a Turning Point for Norwegian Engagement in Global Health

Sandberg

Andresen

2010

Forum for Development Studies

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“…The failure to substantiate the agreed upon policy objectives brings the effectiveness and legitimacy of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) into question [18] and has prompted scholarly debates on more effective alternative modes of governance. In our reflections, we focus on the international policy level and the major challenge of resource mobilization, but we acknowledge that there are many other political and technical hurdles associated with the implementation of large-scale restoration at the national and at the local levels.…”

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From Target to Implementation: Perspectives for the International Governance of Forest Landscape Restoration

Pistorius

Freiberg

2014

Forests

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Continuing depletion of forest resources, particularly in tropical developing countries, has turned vast areas of intact ecosystems into urbanized and agricultural lands. The degree of degradation varies, but in most cases, the ecosystem functions and the ability to provide a variety of ecosystem services are severely impaired. In addition to many other challenges, successful forest restoration of these lands requires considerable resources and funding, but the ecological, economic and social benefits have the potential to outweigh the investment. As a consequence, at the international policy level, restoration is seen as a field of land use activities that provides significant contributions to simultaneously achieving different environmental and social policy objectives. Accordingly, different policy processes at the international policy level have made ecological landscape restoration a global priority, in particular the Convention on Biological Diversity with the Aichi Target 15 agreed upon in 2010, which aims at restoring 15% of all degraded land areas by 2020. While such ambitious policy targets are important for recognizing and agreeing upon solutions for environmental problems, they are unlikely to be further substantiated or governed. The objective of this paper is thus to develop a complementary governance approach to the top-down implementation of the Aichi target. Drawing on collaborative and network governance theories, we discuss the potential of a collaborative networked governance approach and perspectives for overcoming the inherent challenges facing a rapid large-scale restoration of degraded lands. OPEN ACCESSForests 2014, 5 483

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The Effectiveness and Legitimacy of International Environmental Institutions

Abstract: effectiveness, GEF, legitimacy, MEAs, UNDP, UNEP, World Bank,

Cited by 34 publications

References 15 publications

Assessing the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs)

Assessing the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs)

From Development Aid to Foreign Policy: Global Immunization Efforts as a Turning Point for Norwegian Engagement in Global Health

From Target to Implementation: Perspectives for the International Governance of Forest Landscape Restoration

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