Dear colleagues, I wanted to draw your attention to the most recent volume of Global Environmental Politics (August 2010, a special issue), which is devoted to the topic of transparency and information disclosure in global environmental governance.
The premise behind this special issue is that an increasing array of global environmental challenges have information disclosure as an essential element, yet the link between transparency and more accountable, legitimate and effective governance (in both theory and practice) remains understudied. The special issue brings together scholars with diverse analytical interests in global environmental governance (private governance, market environmentalism, non-state standard-setting, corporate social responsibility, legitimacy and democracy, science- politics and risk governance) to revisit their long-standing areas of concern through a transparency and disclosure lens. We hope that the results are of direct relevance to the many in the Gep-ed community researching similar phenomena. Given heated debates around MRV (monitoring, reporting, verifying) during Copenhagen, one can venture to suggest that "transparency as contested political terrain" will acquire ever more salience in GEP! For those interested, here's the link: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/glep/10/3?ai=sa&ui=bl33&af=H Best regards, Aarti ____________________ Aarti Gupta Assistant Professor Environmental Policy Group (175) Wageningen University Hollandseweg 1 6706 KN Wageningen, Netherlands Phone: +31-(0)317-482496 / 484452 Fax: +31(0)317-483990 Mobile: +31-(0)628729382 Email: [email protected]<http://us.mc657.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> Web: www.enp.wur.nl<http://www.enp.wur.nl/>
