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Being at the frontline of climate change, small island developing states (SIDS) hold a serious stake in climate negotiations. However, these countries usually are marginalized in the international political arena, due to their lack of structural power. This paper explores the strategic influence of SIDS and its representative organization, the Alliance of Small Island States, in the negotiations leading to the Copenhagen summit of December 2009. Using the concepts of leadership and discourses, the position, strategies, and impact of SIDS are analyzed on negotiation processes and their final outcome, focusing on three core demands of small island countries at Copenhagen: a temperature rise limit of 1.5 (degrees)C above preindustrial levels, funding for adaptation, and a legally binding outcome. Results reveal that SIDS practiced entrepreneurial, intellectual, and environmental leadership strategies and especially made use of moral claims in the debate. Given their near absence of structural power, they managed to secure a surprisingly large part of 'their' agenda and interests in the final Copenhagen Accord, especially through (discourse) coalitions with various other state and non-state stakeholders. Adapted from the source document.

Enthält Rezensionen von: The environment, international relations, and US foreign policy. / P. G. Harris (ed.). - Washington : Georgetown Univ. Press, 2001. - 276 S. + Mol, A. P. J.: Globalization and environmental reform : the ecological modernization of the global economy. - Cambridge : MIT Press, 2001. - 288 S. + International relations and global climate change. / U. Luterbacher ... (eds.). - Cambridge : MIT Press, 2001. - 343 S

Explores the process, extent and circumstances under which partnerships can improve the legitimacy and effectiveness of governance for sustainable development. This book examines partnerships as single collaborative arrangements, focusing on how they are created, how they operate, and their determinants.

Entering the twenty-first century, China has been the site of many serious environmental disasters and accidents. These have strengthened the call for the establishment of an environmental risk management system and for the development of new policies to effectively manage risk. Among the new policies in China's environmental risk management strategy are pollution insurance and information disclosure. This paper explores information disclosure policies through the implementation of the Environmental Information Disclosure Decree by governmental authorities and companies. In both 2008 and 2010, we reviewed the websites of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and all 31 provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus, conducted experiments in requesting information disclosure, and held interviews with all provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus. We conclude that the implementation of the Environmental Information Disclosure Decree is improving but still far from widespread, full and effective. The lack of enforcement and the ambiguity of some clauses in the decree give provincial environmental agencies great discretion to avoid disclosure and discourages enforcement of company environmental information disclosure. Implementation shortcomings of the decree are also related to the longstanding closeness, secrecy and monopoly of information in China's political system.

Entering the twenty-first century, China has been the site of many serious environmental disasters and accidents. These have strengthened the call for the establishment of an environmental risk management system and for the development of new policies to effectively manage risk. Among the new policies in China's environmental risk management strategy are pollution insurance and information disclosure. This paper explores information disclosure policies through the implementation of the Environmental Information Disclosure Decree by governmental authorities and companies. In both 2008 and 2010, we reviewed the websites of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and all 31 provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus, conducted experiments in requesting information disclosure, and held interviews with all provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus. We conclude that the implementation of the Environmental Information Disclosure Decree is improving but still far from widespread, full and effective. The lack of enforcement and the ambiguity of some clauses in the decree give provincial environmental agencies great discretion to avoid disclosure and discourages enforcement of company environmental information disclosure. Implementation shortcomings of the decree are also related to the longstanding closeness, secrecy and monopoly of information in China's political system. (JCCA/GIGA)

In addressing the debate on the role & function of nation-states in environmental politics, a collection of essays focuses on the relationship between globalization, the environment, & the state. Three domains in the studies & debates on globalization & governance are emphasized: (1) conceptualizing the changing nature of the state & its role in global environmental governance; (2) stressing the environmental dimension as critical to the dynamics of globalization & governance; & (3) assessing the consequences of globalization & the changing role of the environmental state for understanding the concept of the environment. After discussing the conceptualization of the environment in terms of environmental flows, focus turns to the essay's theoretical basis, starting with a review of the sociological & political science literature on environmental governance & global modernity. Attention is given to the notion of "hybrid arrangements." Contributions are introduced in closing. Figures, References. D. Edelman

Develops & applies an interpretative framework on environmental reform in transnational urban spaces, exploring how multinational corporate office buildings are creating new hybrid arrangements of environmental management. At issue is achieving a conceptual understanding of the mechanisms & dynamics instigating the environmental restructuring of buildings, proposing a model that transcends the basic state vs market & global vs local dichotomies. Explored are the arrangements regulating & restructuring the environmental dimensions of urban office stock, & how traditional entities & actors of state & market are "enmeshed" & "hybridized" in practices of environmental reform where global & local interface. Twelve case studies of the interception of corporate environmental strategies & urban environmental policies in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sao Paulo, Brazil, & Beijing, People's Republic of China, are subject to qualitative analysis to shed light on how the dynamics of urban environmental governance are changing. The model is then developed further, assessing urban environmental reforms & asserting that conceptualizing them as simply place-bound political processes is inadequate. Figures, References. D. Edelman