Accountability in global environmental governance: A meaningful tool for action?

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1-21

  Kramarz, Teresa ^a   Park, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; COMPLIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM;

EID: 84968627095     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/GLEP_a_00349     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Auld, Graeme, and Lars H. Gulbrandsen. 2010. Transparency in Nonstate Certification: Consequences for Accountability and Legitimacy. Global Environmental Politics 10 (3): 97-119
2. Balboa, Cristina M. 2015. The Accountability and Legitimacy of International NGOs. In The NGO Challenge to International Relations Theory, edited by William E. DeMars and Dennis Dijkzeul, 159-185. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
3. Banerjee, S. B. 2002. Corporate Environmentalism: The Construct and Its Measurement. Journal of Business Research 55 (3): 177-191.
4. Benner, Thorsten, Wolfgang Reinecke, and Jan Witte. 2005. Multisectoral Networks in Global Governance: Towards a Pluralistic Systems of Accountability. In Global Governance and Public Accountability, edited by David Held and Mathias Koenig- Archibugi, 67-87. Oxford: Blackwell.
5. Biermann, Frank, and Aarti Gupta. 2011. Accountability and Legitimacy in Earth System Governance: A Research Framework. Ecological Economics 70: 1856-1864
6. Cashore, Ben. 2002. Legitimacy and the Privatization of Environmental Governance: How Non-State Market-Driven (NSMD) Governance Systems Gain Rule-Making Authority. Governance 15 (4): 503-529.
7. Chan, Sander, and Phillip Pattberg. 2008. Private Rule-Making and the Politics of Accountability: Analyzing Global Forest Governance. Global Environmental Governance 8 (3): 103-121.
8. Chapin, Mark. 2004. A Challenge to Conservationists. World Watch Magazine (November/ December): 17-31.
9. Chesterman, Simon. 2008. Globalization Rules: Accountability, Power, and the Prospects for Global Administrative Law. Global Governance 14: 39-52.
10. Davenport, William, and Eileen Low. 2013. From Trust to Compliance: Accountability in the Fair Trade Movement. Social Enterprise Journal 9 (1): 88-101.
11. Dingwerth, Klaus. 2008. Private Transnational Governance and the Developing World: A Comparative Perspective. International Studies Quarterly 52: 607-634
12. Dowdle, Michael W., ed. 2006. Public Accountability: Designs, Dilemmas and Experiences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13. Dubnick, Melvin J., and H. George Frederickson. 2011. Introduction. In Accountable Governance: Problems and Promises, edited by Melvin J. Dubnick and H. George Frederickson, xi-xxx. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
14. Dubnick, Melvin J., and Jonathan B. Justice. 2004. Accounting for Accountability. Paper read at American Political Science Association, September 2-5, Chicago, IL
15. Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Edward Weisband, eds. 2007. Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
16. Engels, Joan. 2010. Modern Environmentalism. In The Turning Points of Environmental History, edited by Frank Uekötter, 119-131. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
17. Finnemore, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. International Norm Dynamics and Political Change. International Organization 52 (4): 887-917
18. Freeman, Jodie. 2006. Extending Public Accountability Through Privatization: From Public Law to Publicization. In Public Accountability: Designs, Dilemmas and Experiences, edited by Michael D. Dowdle, 83-114. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
19. Freeman, R. Edward, Jessica Pierce, and Richard Dodd. 2000. Environmentalism and the New Logic of Business: How Firms Can Be Profitable and Leave Our Children a Living Planet. New York: Oxford University Press.
20. Gulbrandsen, Lars. 2008. Accountability Arrangements in Non-State Standards Organizations: Instrumental Design and Imitation. Organization 15 (4): 563-583
21. Gupta, Aarti. 2010. Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: A Coming of Age? Global Environmental Politics 10 (3): 1-9.
22. Held, David, and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, eds. 2005. Global Governance and Public Accountability. Oxford: Blackwell.
23. Hoffmann, Matthew J. 2011. Climate Governance at the Crossroads: Experimenting with a Global Response After Kyoto. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
24. Koppell, Jonathan. 2005. Pathologies of Accountability: ICANN and the Challenge of Multiple Accountabilities Disorder. Public Administration Review 65 (1): 94-108
25. Kramarz, Teresa. 2013. Partnerships in Global Environmental Governance: The Growth of a Procedural Norm Without Substance? In Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services, edited by Roldan Muradian and Laura Rival, 47-66. New York: Springer
26. Larrinaga-Gonzalez, Carlos, and Jan Bebbington. 2001. Accounting Change or Institutional Appropriation? A Case Study of the Implementation of Environmental Accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 12 (3): 269-292.
27. Lohmann, Larry. 2009. Toward a Different Debate in Environmental Accounting: The Cases of Carbon and Cost-Benefit. Accounting, Organizations and Society 34 (3-4): 499-534.
28. Mashaw, Jerry. 2006. Accountability in Institutional Design: Some Thoughts on the Grammar of Governance. In Public Accountability: Designs, Dilemmas and Experiences, edited by Michael D. Dowdle, 115-156. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
29. Mason, Michael. 2005. The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility Across Borders. London: Earthscan.
30. Maniates, Michael. 2001. Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? Global Environmental Politics 1 (3): 31-52.
31. Mitchell, Ronald. 2002-2015. International Environmental Agreements Database Project. Version 2014.3. Available at http://iea.uoregon.edu/, accessed May 24, 2015
32. Najam, Adil, & Halle, Mark. 2010. Global Environmental Governance: The Challenge of Accountability. In Sustainable Development Insights. Boston: Boston University, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Available at www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx, accessed February 2, 2016
33. Nielson, Daniel, Michael Tierney, and Catherine Weaver. 2006. Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide: Re-engineering the Culture at the World Bank. Journal of International Relations and Development 9: 107-139.
34. Okereke, Charles. 2008. Equity Norms in Global Environmental Governance. Global Environmental Politics 8 (3): 25-50.
35. Pattberg, Phillip. 2005. The Forest Stewardship Council: Risks and Potential of Private Forest Governance. Journal of Environment and Development 14 (3): 356-374
36. Risse, Thomas. 2005. Global Governance and Communicative Action. In Global Governance and Public Accountability, edited by David Held and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, 164-189. Oxford: Blackwell.
37. Rubin, Edward. 2006. The Myth of Non-Bureaucratic Accountability and the Anti-Administrative Impulse. In Public Accountability: Designs, Dilemmas and Experiences, edited by Michael D. Dowdle, 52-82. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
38. Schillemans, Thomas, and Madalina Busuioc. 2015. Predicting Public Sector Accountability: From Agency Drift to Forum Drift. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 25 (1): 191-215. doi:10.1093/jopart/muu024
39. Searle, John. 1995. The Construction of Social Reality. New York: Free Press.
40. UNEP. 2007. Global Environmental Outlook 4. Available at www.unep.org/geo/geo4/report/GEO-4_Report_Full_en.pdf, accessed March 13, 2009.
41. Warner, Rosalind. 2005. Discourses of Global Environmental Governance from Colonialism to the 21st Century. Working Paper. York University, Toronto, Canada