Perspectives in global environmental governance

Global Environmental Governance

Global Environmental Governance provides a very eloquent and concise statement of the key international events and milestones, as well as the most relevant concepts and philosophies that have influenced the global environmental agenda over the past decades. James Gustave Speth and Peter M. Haas are two well-respected figures, widely recognized for their contributions to the debate of environmen...

Is Global Environmental Governance Working ?

NAFTA and its environmental side agreement were supposed to bring prosperity to Mexico and thus give it the money to improve public health and natural resource protection. So far, the treaties haven’t done either. But that does not mean that environmentalists’ criticism of the pacts was correct, just that proponents were wrong. It also means that new trade agreements being forged by the Bush ad...

Mekong Regional Environmental Governance: Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges

The Mekong Regional Environmental Governance (MREG) project is a part of the Resources Policy Support Initiative. REPSI is a World Resources Institute-coordinated collaboration among local, regional and international organizations based and working in the Mekong region. REPSI works towards increasing the capacity and legitimacy of policy-oriented research concerning environment and natural reso...

The North-South Knowledge Divide: Consequences for Global Environmental Governance

1 Introduction : The Business of Global Environmental Governance