Complex governance to cope with global environmental risk: an assessment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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.
SPRU-Science and Technology Policy Research, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QE, UK. B.Turnheim@sussex.ac.uk
Bruno
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Turnheim
Mehmet Y
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D057231:Climate Change; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D058735:Environmental Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012306:Risk; D012586:Science / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014480:United Nations