Adil Najam
Biographic Data
| ID | 354580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adil Najam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adil |
| FAMILY NAME | Najam |
| SIGNATURE | NAJAM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Global South and Climate Coverage
Global media coverage of climate change has grown consistently—although unevenly—over recent years. While major differences exist in how much attention is paid to climate coverage in different parts of the world, how climate is discussed has been noticeably uniform and the major thrust of the “climate communication agenda” remains recognizably “global” in that it is driven by the more mature media markets in the North and especially by the narrat…
How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands
List of Tables and Figures viii Preface xi 1. Immigrants from Developing Countries: An Overview of Their Homeland Impacts / Susan Eckstein 1 2. Migration and Development: Reconciling Opposite Views / Alejandro Portes 30 3. How Overseas Chinese Spurred the Economic Miracle in Their Homeland / Min Ye 52 4. Immigrants' Globalization of the Indian Economy / Kyle Eischen 75 5. How Cuban Americans Are Unwittingly Transforming Their Homeland / Susan Eck…
Institutions for a Green Economy
Measuring the Negotiation Burden of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
The Global Environmental Governance (GEG) system has grown significantly since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. In this paper we analyze ten leading Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), reviewing various quantitative indicators (related to time, resources and commitment) to chart their evolution and to measure the “negotiation burden” that the burgeoning GEG system is imposing on states…
Kashmir
This paper documents and analyses 46 proposals made between 1947 and 2008 for resolving the India–Pakistan dispute over Jammu and Kashmir. We conduct a content analysis to recognise the patterns that emerge from these formulations and identify the key elements that recur over time. Our analysis suggests that the dispute may be more ‘ripe’ for resolution today than it has ever been in the past. For the first time in the dispute's history, there is…
Developing Countries and Global Environmental Governance
Dynamics of the Southern Collective
This paper seeks to understand how the collective South, as institutionally represented by the Group of 77 (G77), manages its unity as a negotiating collective despite its many internal differences and in the face of external pressures. Negotiations leading to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) are used as an empirical case study. This is a particularly interesting case because a) it was manifestly South-driven, b) it s…
The Emergent “System” of Global Environmental Governance
A de facto “system” of global environmental governance already exists. The de facto system of global environmental governance is neither neat nor simple; it works in a rather messy, non-linear, non-hierarchical, and intertwined fashion. However it is a system that has proved to be resilient as well as prolific. This paper argues that although there is no real reason to make the system less messy, it can be made more effective by taking a number o…
Energy and Sustainable Development at Global Environmental Summits
The Case Against a New International Environmental Organization
[World Organizations] are credited with an importance they do not possess; they are blamed for not doing what they are not given the means to do; faults that are often imaginary are ascribed to them, while their real faults go unnoticed; mythical explanations are invented to explain their ineffectiveness; and finally, there is very little recognition of the few significant results that they do achieve. (1) --Maurice Bertrand The premise of this a…
Financing Sustainable Development
This year presents us with two important opportunities to influence the direction of sustainable development financing - the UN Summit on Financing for Development and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. We may ultimately remember both as missed opportunities. We need to take a fresh look at the entire system of financing for development and reorient it towards a sustainable development orientation. This requires focusing on questions of…
Global Voices from the South
February 01 2001 Global Voices from the South Adil Najam Adil Najam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Adil Najam Online Issn: 1536-0091 Print Issn: 1526-3800 © 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Global Environmental Politics (2001) 1 (1): 148–154. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638001570679 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article …
Seizing the Future
The failure at Seattle to agree the mandate for a new round of trade negotiations represents a dual crisis, not only for the trade community, but also for those supporting a shift to sustainable development. At the root of the crisis lies the North-South faultline, with an embedded sense of inequity keeping developing countries forever wary of the industrialized countries, not least on linkages between trade and the environment. But Seattle also …
Mismeasuring Globalization
Strategy and Structure in Managing Global Associations
A key aspect of civil society worldwide is the emergence of thousands of nongovernmental organizations that operate on a global scale. The special challenges of organizing and managing these organizations include massive communications problems and the need to accommodate a wide diversity of interests. In this paper, we ask what kinds of organizational structures and management strategies are utilized by globally oriented nongovernmental organiza…
Shaping human development
The United Nations Development Programme's concept of human development, first presented in the 1990 Human Development Report (HDR), distilled the essence of the evolution in development thinking and effectively reoriented the debate by bringing people back into the centre of development. There has been much discussion of the HDRs in the literature and the reports have also evolved somewhat over the years. But the basic concept of human developme…
Searching for NGO Effectiveness
The human development index
Since 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has published a series of annual Human Development Reports (HDRs) in which the human development index (HDI) is computed for each country. This index has become an important alternative to the traditional unidimensional measure of development (i.e. the gross domestic product). Although the index still fails to include any ecological considerations, it has broadened the discussion surroun…
NGO Accountability
A developing countries' perspective on population, environment, and development
The South in International Environmental Negotiations
Developing Countries and Global Environmental Governance
The Emergent “System” of Global Environmental Governance
A de facto “system” of global environmental governance already exists. The de facto system of global environmental governance is neither neat nor simple; it works in a rather messy, non-linear, non-hierarchical, and intertwined fashion. However it is a system that has proved to be resilient as well as prolific. This paper argues that although there is no real reason to make the system less messy, it can be made more effective by taking a number o…
Measuring the Negotiation Burden of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
The Global Environmental Governance (GEG) system has grown significantly since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. In this paper we analyze ten leading Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), reviewing various quantitative indicators (related to time, resources and commitment) to chart their evolution and to measure the “negotiation burden” that the burgeoning GEG system is imposing on states…
Dynamics of the Southern Collective
This paper seeks to understand how the collective South, as institutionally represented by the Group of 77 (G77), manages its unity as a negotiating collective despite its many internal differences and in the face of external pressures. Negotiations leading to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) are used as an empirical case study. This is a particularly interesting case because a) it was manifestly South-driven, b) it s…
Strategy and Structure in Managing Global Associations
A key aspect of civil society worldwide is the emergence of thousands of nongovernmental organizations that operate on a global scale. The special challenges of organizing and managing these organizations include massive communications problems and the need to accommodate a wide diversity of interests. In this paper, we ask what kinds of organizational structures and management strategies are utilized by globally oriented nongovernmental organiza…
The South in International Environmental Negotiations
The Case Against a New International Environmental Organization
[World Organizations] are credited with an importance they do not possess; they are blamed for not doing what they are not given the means to do; faults that are often imaginary are ascribed to them, while their real faults go unnoticed; mythical explanations are invented to explain their ineffectiveness; and finally, there is very little recognition of the few significant results that they do achieve. (1) --Maurice Bertrand The premise of this a…
Financing Sustainable Development
This year presents us with two important opportunities to influence the direction of sustainable development financing - the UN Summit on Financing for Development and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. We may ultimately remember both as missed opportunities. We need to take a fresh look at the entire system of financing for development and reorient it towards a sustainable development orientation. This requires focusing on questions of…
Seizing the Future
The failure at Seattle to agree the mandate for a new round of trade negotiations represents a dual crisis, not only for the trade community, but also for those supporting a shift to sustainable development. At the root of the crisis lies the North-South faultline, with an embedded sense of inequity keeping developing countries forever wary of the industrialized countries, not least on linkages between trade and the environment. But Seattle also …
A developing countries' perspective on population, environment, and development
Shaping human development
The United Nations Development Programme's concept of human development, first presented in the 1990 Human Development Report (HDR), distilled the essence of the evolution in development thinking and effectively reoriented the debate by bringing people back into the centre of development. There has been much discussion of the HDRs in the literature and the reports have also evolved somewhat over the years. But the basic concept of human developme…
The Global South and Climate Coverage
Global media coverage of climate change has grown consistently—although unevenly—over recent years. While major differences exist in how much attention is paid to climate coverage in different parts of the world, how climate is discussed has been noticeably uniform and the major thrust of the “climate communication agenda” remains recognizably “global” in that it is driven by the more mature media markets in the North and especially by the narrat…
Institutions for a Green Economy
Kashmir
This paper documents and analyses 46 proposals made between 1947 and 2008 for resolving the India–Pakistan dispute over Jammu and Kashmir. We conduct a content analysis to recognise the patterns that emerge from these formulations and identify the key elements that recur over time. Our analysis suggests that the dispute may be more ‘ripe’ for resolution today than it has ever been in the past. For the first time in the dispute's history, there is…
The South in International Environmental Negotiations
NGO Accountability
A developing countries' perspective on population, environment, and development
Searching for NGO Effectiveness
The human development index
Since 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has published a series of annual Human Development Reports (HDRs) in which the human development index (HDI) is computed for each country. This index has become an important alternative to the traditional unidimensional measure of development (i.e. the gross domestic product). Although the index still fails to include any ecological considerations, it has broadened the discussion surroun…
Strategy and Structure in Managing Global Associations
A key aspect of civil society worldwide is the emergence of thousands of nongovernmental organizations that operate on a global scale. The special challenges of organizing and managing these organizations include massive communications problems and the need to accommodate a wide diversity of interests. In this paper, we ask what kinds of organizational structures and management strategies are utilized by globally oriented nongovernmental organiza…
Shaping human development
The United Nations Development Programme's concept of human development, first presented in the 1990 Human Development Report (HDR), distilled the essence of the evolution in development thinking and effectively reoriented the debate by bringing people back into the centre of development. There has been much discussion of the HDRs in the literature and the reports have also evolved somewhat over the years. But the basic concept of human developme…
Global Voices from the South
February 01 2001 Global Voices from the South Adil Najam Adil Najam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Adil Najam Online Issn: 1536-0091 Print Issn: 1526-3800 © 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Global Environmental Politics (2001) 1 (1): 148–154. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638001570679 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article …
Seizing the Future
The failure at Seattle to agree the mandate for a new round of trade negotiations represents a dual crisis, not only for the trade community, but also for those supporting a shift to sustainable development. At the root of the crisis lies the North-South faultline, with an embedded sense of inequity keeping developing countries forever wary of the industrialized countries, not least on linkages between trade and the environment. But Seattle also …
Mismeasuring Globalization
Financing Sustainable Development
This year presents us with two important opportunities to influence the direction of sustainable development financing - the UN Summit on Financing for Development and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. We may ultimately remember both as missed opportunities. We need to take a fresh look at the entire system of financing for development and reorient it towards a sustainable development orientation. This requires focusing on questions of…
Energy and Sustainable Development at Global Environmental Summits
The Case Against a New International Environmental Organization
[World Organizations] are credited with an importance they do not possess; they are blamed for not doing what they are not given the means to do; faults that are often imaginary are ascribed to them, while their real faults go unnoticed; mythical explanations are invented to explain their ineffectiveness; and finally, there is very little recognition of the few significant results that they do achieve. (1) --Maurice Bertrand The premise of this a…
Dynamics of the Southern Collective
This paper seeks to understand how the collective South, as institutionally represented by the Group of 77 (G77), manages its unity as a negotiating collective despite its many internal differences and in the face of external pressures. Negotiations leading to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) are used as an empirical case study. This is a particularly interesting case because a) it was manifestly South-driven, b) it s…
The Emergent “System” of Global Environmental Governance
A de facto “system” of global environmental governance already exists. The de facto system of global environmental governance is neither neat nor simple; it works in a rather messy, non-linear, non-hierarchical, and intertwined fashion. However it is a system that has proved to be resilient as well as prolific. This paper argues that although there is no real reason to make the system less messy, it can be made more effective by taking a number o…
Developing Countries and Global Environmental Governance
Measuring the Negotiation Burden of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
The Global Environmental Governance (GEG) system has grown significantly since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. In this paper we analyze ten leading Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), reviewing various quantitative indicators (related to time, resources and commitment) to chart their evolution and to measure the “negotiation burden” that the burgeoning GEG system is imposing on states…
Kashmir
This paper documents and analyses 46 proposals made between 1947 and 2008 for resolving the India–Pakistan dispute over Jammu and Kashmir. We conduct a content analysis to recognise the patterns that emerge from these formulations and identify the key elements that recur over time. Our analysis suggests that the dispute may be more ‘ripe’ for resolution today than it has ever been in the past. For the first time in the dispute's history, there is…
Institutions for a Green Economy
How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands
List of Tables and Figures viii Preface xi 1. Immigrants from Developing Countries: An Overview of Their Homeland Impacts / Susan Eckstein 1 2. Migration and Development: Reconciling Opposite Views / Alejandro Portes 30 3. How Overseas Chinese Spurred the Economic Miracle in Their Homeland / Min Ye 52 4. Immigrants' Globalization of the Indian Economy / Kyle Eischen 75 5. How Cuban Americans Are Unwittingly Transforming Their Homeland / Susan Eck…
The Global South and Climate Coverage
Global media coverage of climate change has grown consistently—although unevenly—over recent years. While major differences exist in how much attention is paid to climate coverage in different parts of the world, how climate is discussed has been noticeably uniform and the major thrust of the “climate communication agenda” remains recognizably “global” in that it is driven by the more mature media markets in the North and especially by the narrat…
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