Developing Countries and Global Environmental Governance: From Contestation to Participation to Engagement |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Adil?NajamEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 160 Packatrd Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA |
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Abstract: | Developing countries did not start off as demandeurs of global environmental governance. Although they are still rather skeptical about the global environmental enterprise, they
have come a long way from being the vigorous contestants that they were three decades ago. This fascinating evolution has
not only changed the views of developing countries but has also transformed the shape of the global environmental discourse,
most significantly by turning what used to be global environmental politics into what is now the global politics of sustainable
development. This paper charts this evolution by using the twin conceptual lenses of effectiveness and legitimacy and the
heuristic markers of the three key global conferences on the global environment (Stockholm 1972; Rio de Janeiro 1992; Johannesburg
2002). The paper argues that the pre-Stockholm era was exemplified by a politics of contestation by the South; the Stockholm-to-Rio period was a period of reluctant participation as a new global compact emerged around the notion of sustainable development; and the post-Rio years have seen the emergence
of more meaningful, but still hesitant, engagement by the developing countries in the global environmental project but very much around the promise and potential of actualizing
sustainable development.
The author is grateful to an anonymous review, and to Steinar Andresen, Ellen Hey, and Jessica Green for valuable comments. |
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Keywords: | development governance transformation |
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