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Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap

Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap

Park, Susan
Kramarz, Teresa

Paperback

Series: Earth System Governance

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0262536234
ISBN13: 9780262536233
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 19 2019
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An examination of whether accountability mechanisms in global environmental governance that focus on monitoring and enforcement necessarily lead to better governance and better environmental outcomes.

The rapid development of global environmental governance has been accompanied by questions of accountability. Efforts to address what has been called a culture of unaccountability include greater transparency, public justification for governance decisions, and the establishment of monitoring and enforcement procedures. And yet, as this volume shows, these can lead to an accountability trap--a focus on accountability measures rather than improved environmental outcomes. Through analyses and case studies, the contributors consider how accountability is being used within global environmental governance and if the proliferation of accountability tools enables governance to better address global environmental deterioration. Examining public, private, voluntary, and hybrid types of global environmental governance, the volume shows that the different governance goals of the various actors shape the accompanying accountability processes. These goals--from serving constituents to reaping economic benefits--determine to whom and for what the actors must account.

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