Dear colleagues: I had asked for ideas about readings relating to the governance of various environmental issues. Below please find the compilation of responses. Thank you very much!!! Maria
GOVERNANCE RESOURCE LIST Compiled by: Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Contributors: Don Munton, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Kateryna Wowk, University of Delaware, USA, [email protected] <http://[email protected]/> . Nils Simon, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, [email protected] <http://[email protected]/> . Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon, USA, [email protected] <http://[email protected]/> . Henrik Selin, Boston University, USA, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Stacy VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire, UK, [email protected] <http://[email protected]/> . Sebastian Oberthür, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, [email protected] <http://[email protected]/> . QUESTION: Dear Colleagues, I am looking for recent analyses of the governance arrangements for biodiversity, climate, chemicals, and oceans to include in my International Organizations course. Rado Dimitrov¹s article "Inside UN Climate Negotiations" (which he sent to the list a few weeks ago) is an example of the kind of pieces that would be most useful. I am using Beth DeSombre¹s book Global Environmental Institutions and looking to add some current coverage of those issues. Thank you! Maria RESOURCES: Biodiversity governance UNEP/EMG publication. Advancing the Biodiversity Agenda. Helpful overview though not a deep analysis, especially pp. 31. Climate governance Dimitrov, Radoslav (2011), “Inside UN Climate Change Negotiations: The Copenhagen Conference”, Policy Studies Organization. Oberthur, Sebastian (2011) Global Climate Governance after Cancun: Options for EU Leadership. Final draft January 2011 for The International Spectator, 1/2011. Selin, Henrik and VanDeveer, Stacy (2009) Continental Climate Governance Challenges for North America. Issues in Governance Studies, Brookings. On why there should be more North American cooperation on climate (pdf sent). Selin, Henrik and VanDeveer, Stacy (2010) US climate change politics and policy-making. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. VanDeveer, Stacy (2010) Climate Politics 2009: A Big Year for the Future. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 2010-11 (s 1): 75-89. Covers issues on the table going into Cancun. Chemicals governance Selin, Henrik. Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals, MIT Press. Selin, Henrik, chapter in the Axelrod, VanDeveer and Downie (eds) book Global Environmental Policy, CO Press. Selin, Henrik, Pardee Center paper that can be downloaded for free: http://people.bu.edu/selin/publications/SelinPardeePaper2009.pdf <http://people.bu.edu/selin/publications/SelinPardeePaper2009.pdf> Selin, Henrik and VanDeveer, Stacy (2006) Raising Global Standards – Hazardous Substances and E-Waste Management in the European Union. Environment, Volume 48, Number 10, 2006, p 6-17. Demonstrates that it matters locally and globally that EU policy continues to strengthen. http://www.heldref.org/env.php <http://www.heldref.org/env.php> Oceans governance Currie, Duncan E.J. and Wowk, Kateryna (2009). Climate Change and CO2 in the Oceans and Global Oceans Governance – Improving Governance of the World’s Oceans. Carbon and Climate Law Review (CCLR), Vol. 4, 2009, p. 307-404. http://www.lexxion.de/pdf/cclr/cclr_409_reading-sample.pdf <http://www.lexxion.de/pdf/cclr/cclr_409_reading-sample.pdf> IUCN (2008). Options for Addressing Regulatory and Governance Gaps in the International Regime for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction. IUCN Marine Law and Policy Paper No. 2. http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/EPLP-MS-2.pdf <http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/EPLP-MS-2.pdf> Policy document (2011). Oceans Briefing Submitted to UNCSD Intersessional. Focusing on fisheries (and biodiversity), sustainable development, and the potential for enhanced governance at Rio 2012. http://uncsd.iisd.org/news/oceans-briefing-submitted-to-uncsd-intersessional /?referrer=uncsd-update <http://uncsd.iisd.org/news/oceans-briefing-submitted-to-uncsd-intersessiona l/?referrer=uncsd-update> Policy document (2010) Co-Chairs Statement emanating from Cancún Oceans Day: Essential to Life, Essential to Climate. Focusing on the requisite elements for enhanced governance on climate and oceans. http://www.globaloceans.org/sites/udel.edu.globaloceans/files/CancunOceansDa y-Co-ChairsStatement.pdf <http://www.globaloceans.org/sites/udel.edu.globaloceans/files/CancunOceansD ay-Co-ChairsStatement.pdf> Governance Overview Andresen, Steinar and Rosendal, Kristin (2009): “The Role of the United Nations Environment Programme in the Coordination of Multilateral Environmental Agreements.” In International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance (Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhuener, and Anna Schreyögg eds.), Routledge, 2009. Ivanova, Maria (2009). “UNEP as Anchor Organization for the Global Environment,” in International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance (Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhuener, and Anna Schreyögg eds.), Routledge, 2009. Mitchell, Ronald B (2009). International Politics and the Environment. Sage Publications. Textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in global environmental politics and modules in international relations courses. http://pages.uoregon.edu/rmitchel/iep-text/ <http://pages.uoregon.edu/rmitchel/iep-text/> VanDeveer, Stacy (2003) Green Fatigue. International Law, Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2003, p 55-59. The piece has been around for some years, but always provokes good discussion about how much it still says about global governance. Scenarios Garb, Pulver, VanDeveer (2008) Scenarios in society, society in scenarios: toward a social scientific analysis of storyline-driven environmental modeling. Enviromental Research Letters, 3, 2008, IOP Publishing. Pulver, Simone and VanDeveer, Stacy (2009) “Thinking about Tomorrows”: Scenarios, Global Environmental Politics, and Social Science Scholarship. Global Environmental Politics 9:2, May 2009. Syllabi and lecture notes Don Munton, syllabus from 2008. International Studies, 4th year seminar, University of Northern British Columbia. http://www.environmentalgovernance.org/teaching-geg/undergraduate-2/ <http://www.environmentalgovernance.org/teaching-geg/undergraduate-2/> “I had a practice of allowing the class to vote (during the first class session) on some of the topical issues we would discuss (ie, do you want to discuss conserving forests, or climate change or hazardous waste or the environmental effects of war?, etc) We would always discuss some issues, such as ozone depletion, and I always started with a debate about whether or not the global env't was a crisis. Then I would finalize the readings by the second class. Thus I have readings on some topics other than the ones shown on the 2008 syllabus. I taught the class every other year.” Ronald Mitchell, syllabus from 2011. International Environmental Politics, University of Oregon. http://pages.uoregon.edu/rmitchel/iep/PS477SyllabusWinter2011.pdf <http://pages.uoregon.edu/rmitchel/iep/PS477SyllabusWinter2011.pdf> “See if anything on my syllabus looks useful. If so, let me know and I will email it.” Ronald Mitchell’s course resources, including lecture notes, are online: http://pages.uoregon.edu/rmitchel/iep/ <http://pages.uoregon.edu/rmitchel/iep/> . General Advice Suggestion for finding recent articles: Look at the key international environmental law journals for the past few years. Quick scans of the tables of contents should suffice. The law journals tend to have much better articles for students because the lawyers feel the need to provide "all" the "facts" behind the cases. In other words they do not "dress" the articles up with theory (as do social scientists). Some law articles do get into questions about "how should the law evolve?" etc towards the end, but they all start out with the "facts" of the "case." I found it easier to tell students to ignore the last xx number of pages in a legal article than to suggest they try ignore the theory throughout a polisci one.
