New alliances in global environmental governance

How intergovernmental treaty secretariats interact with non-state actors to address transboundary environmental problems

Bibliographic Data

ID12823948
AuthorsThomas Hickmann (0000-0001-5072-7855, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Joshua Philipp Elsässer (0000-0002-3638-5171, University of Potsdam)
Year2020
Volume20
Issue3
Pages459-481
Publication date2020-07-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1567-9764 • E-ISSN: 1573-1553
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s10784-020-09493-5
OpenAlexW3040863827
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited54

The past few years have witnessed a growing interest among scholars and policy-makers in the interplay of international bureaucracies with civil society organizations, non-profit entities, and the private sector. Authors concerned with global environmental politics have made considerable progress in capturing this phenomenon. Nevertheless, we still lack in-depth empirical knowledge on the precise nature of such institutional interlinkages across governance levels and scales. Building upon the concept of orchestration , this article focuses on the relationship between specific types of international bureaucracies and actors other than the nation-state. In particular, we investigate how the secretariats of the three Rio Conventions reach out to non-state actors in order to exert influence on the outcome of international environmental negotiations. Our analysis demonstrates that the three intergovernmental treaty secretariats utilize various styles of orchestration in their relation to non-state actors and seek to push the global responses to the respective transboundary environmental problems forward. This article points to a recent trend towards a direct collaboration between these secretariats and non-state actors which gives rise to the idea that new alliances between these actors are emerging in global environmental governance

Bureaucracy · Business · Civil society · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental governance · Global governance · Management · Negotiation · Orchestration · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Treaty · Environmental law and policy · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

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