Title: Transparency in global environmental governance : critical perspectives /
Authors: Gupta, Aarti, 1967-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental policy International cooperation; Transparency in government International cooperation.; Global environmental change International cooperation.
Abstract: Transparency is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world. It is often assumed to result in more accountable and effective governance. The 'transparency turn' in global environmental governance in particular is evident in a wide range of international agreements, voluntary disclosure initiatives, and public-private partnerships. This is the first book to scrutinise this transparency turn critically, and to investigate whether it is a broadly transformative force or plays a more limited, instrumental role.
Contents: A transparency turn in global environmental governance / Aarti Gupta and Michael Mason -- The lost innocence of transparency in environmental politics / Arthur P.J. Mol -- The national context for transparency-based global environmental governance / Ann Florini and Bharath Jairaj -- So far but no further? Transparency and disclosure in the Aarhus convention / Michael Mason -- Global pesticide governance by disclosure : prior informed consent and the Rotterdam Convention / Kees Jansen and Milou Dubois -- Risk governance through transparency : information disclosure and the global trade in transgenic crops / Aarti Gupta -- Transparency in the governance of access and benefit sharing from genetic resources / Amandine Orsini, Sebastian Oberthür, and Justyna Pożarowska -- Making REDD+ transparent : the politics of measuring, reporting, and verification systems / Aarti Gupta ... [et al.] -- The political economy of governance by disclosure : carbon disclosure and nonfinancial reporting as contested fields of governance / Janelle Knox-Hayes and David Levy -- Tamed transparency and the global reporting initiative : the role of information infrastructures / Klaus Dingwerth and Margot Eichinger -- Transparency in energy governance : the extractive industries transparency initiative and publish what you pay campaign / James Van Alstine -- Learning through disclosure : the evolving importance of transparency in the practice of nonstate certification / Graeme Auld and Lars H. Gulbrandsen -- Transparency and environmental equity : the international finance corporation's disclosure practices / Timothy Ehresman and Dimitris Stevis -- Transparency revisited / Michael Mason and Aarti Gupta.