Lyuba,
Thanks. This is a nicely provocative addition to the log, very much in the tradition perhaps of Bodansky (The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law [2010]). I particularly like the focus on the “unabated bickering between North and South” about who is to blame and who should pay to fix the problems we have. My sense is that that is something we need to hear a lot more about. Geoffrey. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:20 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [gep-ed] Explaining the Rio+20 Outcomes Hi Geoff. Good idea. Here's a little something I wrote for Triple Crisis Blog: http://triplecrisis.com/spotlight-rio20-a-hard-slog-towards-sustainability/ Lyuba -----Original Message----- From: Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith Sent: Jun 27, 2012 8:27 AM To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: [gep-ed] Explaining the Rio+20 Outcomes Let me suggest there would be value in our trying to keep a log of post-Rio+20 analyses or assessments, such as the one by CAP, posted to gep-ed earlier today by Michael Maniates. In England, while Rio+20 was in progress, I noted a very negative press for the conference, uniformly across those British newspapers that bothered to report on Rio+20 at all. And in three very recent online reports or post-mortems I happen to have encountered, one posted to gep-ed by Pam Chasek, yesterday, another contributed to the Migratory Wildlife Network Digest by Margi Prideaux (with more to come), and a press summary from Infosylva, there is essentially no good news. What happened and what, if anything, went wrong? Where might one turn for some understanding of what the Rio+20 outcomes mean? Here’s the (incomplete) list I have at this point: Chasek/IISD http://www.iisd.ca/uncsd/rio20/enb/ Prideaux/MWN http://wildmigration.org/newsletter.php?newsletter_select=29 Infosylva http://www.fao.org/forestry/33165-092ea9bc725a616b7d7d792239690cb3b.pdf James et al./CAP http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/06/rio_text.html I hope others will log additional items to the list as time goes by. Geoffrey. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith Emeritus Professor of Political Science University of California, Davis. Associate Editor, JIWLP. Lyuba Zarsky Associate Professor Graduate School of International Policy and Management Monterey Institute of International Studies http://www.miis.edu/ Local: 608 San Miguel Ave, Berkeley CA 94707 USA Cell: +510 495 4598 [email protected]
