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Emerging Global Environmental Governance, N. Brian Winchester
Emerging Global Environmental Governance, N. Brian Winchester
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Environmental thinking and activism are steadily gaining widespread, even global acceptance, but are often in conflict with economic interests and international politics. Environmental priorities are further challenged by scientific uncertainty involving effects that in some cases will only become manifest far into the future. Nonetheless, accompanying this global environmental awakening has been an extraordinary number of international agreements on a wide range of critical environmental issues. While many of these environmental regimes lack adequate financial support and sanctions for non-compliance, they involve a variety of non-state actors, suggesting meaningful movement towards an evolving, complex form of global environmental governance. Indeed, …
Challenges For Private Sector Conservation: Sanderson's The Future Of Conservation In Tierra Del Fuego, Julia Amrock
Challenges For Private Sector Conservation: Sanderson's The Future Of Conservation In Tierra Del Fuego, Julia Amrock
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
To date, global protection of biodiversity has been largely dominated by governmental actors. Ecosystems transcending state boundaries find themselves at the mercy of international agreements, for better or for worse. Steven Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) suggested for worse in The Future of Conservation, but he gave hope for more effective environmental conservation, if the private sector could gain more standing globally. The plan that Sanderson created for self-assertion of nongovernmental environmental groups describes approaches typically endorsed not by NGOs but by governments: global alliances, political strategy, human-centered conservation, and economic development. This Note isolates the current use …