Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance - Expert Institutions Implementation of International Environmental

"Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance" examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their contribution to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.

List of contents

List of Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Science and Global Environmental Governance; 3. Balancing Expertise: Critical Use and the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer; 4. "Should We Be Voting on Science?": Endosulfan and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; 5. Getting the Science (Committee) Right: Knowledge and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification; 6. Institutionalizing Norms of Global Science Advice; Epilogue; Appendix: Methods; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Pia M. Kohler is an interdisciplinary social scientist who specializes in international environmental negotiations. She teaches environmental studies at Williams College, USA, and has taught international relations at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. In addition to her research on institutions providing science advice to multilateral environmental agreements, Kohler publishes on global chemicals governance.

Summary

"Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance" examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their contribution to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.

Product details

• Authors: Pia M Kohler, Pia M. Kohler
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781785279782
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-978-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: International Environmental Policy Series; Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International institutions, nature; science, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations