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Complex Governance to Cope with Global Environmental Risk: An Assessment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Source :
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Science & Engineering Ethics . Sep2010, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p517-533. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- In this article, a framework is suggested to deal with the analysis of global environmental risk governance. Climate Change is taken as a particular form of contemporary environmental risk, and mobilised to refine and characterize some salient aspects of new governance challenges. A governance framework is elaborated along three basic features: (1) a close relationship with science, (2) an in-built reflexivity, and (3) forms of governmentality. The UNFCCC-centered system is then assessed according to this three-tier framework. While the two-first requisites are largely met, the analysis of governmentality points to some institutional weak spots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CLIMATE change
*ENVIRONMENTAL risk assessment
*GOVERNMENTALITY
*CLIMATOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13533452
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Science & Engineering Ethics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 52799318
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-009-9170-1