Dear Colleagues, I'm writing a textbook for upper undergraduates on Intergovernmental Organisations with a chapter on the environment (big I know!). I'm seeking both current and good readings on how IOs deal with environmental problems. If you have written on this or know excellent readings please do send them directly to me and I will compile and circulate back to GEP-ed.
I'm familiar with Tammy Gutner's work on the Multilateral Development Banks, Oran Young's work on Institutional Dynamics, Sikina Jinnah's book on Post-Treaty Politics, Frank Biermann on Earth Systems Governance and the Biermann and Siebenhuner book: Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies. If you think there are better instances of where foundations, corporations or NGOs are governing an environmental issue compared with an IO I'd love to hear about it too. Some background on the textbook's aims: The book seeks to do four things in each chapter: 1) look at how IOs: seek to define and address environmental problems, 2) identify good theoretical accounts of IO behaviour in relation to their attempts to address environmental problems; 3) what challenges the IO faces in trying to address the env problem (resources, state intractability etc); and 4) if there are other competitors to the IO in addressing env problems (NGOs, corporations, foundations etc). As this is a textbook covering a range of international relations issues, I know the "environment" is really too big (especially if we cover all forms of international cooperation and global governance) but I'm keen to see what's out there in terms of the field! Many thanks, Susan Associate Professor Susan Park The University of Sydney Dept of Government and International Relations Merewether Building H04, Sydney, NSW 2006 t: 61 2 9351 6593 f: 61 2 9351 3624 e: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> tw: Spark_syd New Book: http://www.amazon.com/Governance-Development-Practices-Multilateral-Political/dp/1138827126 Free Article in Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/glep/16/2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
