The National Context for Transparency-based Global Environmental Governance

Ann Florini
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Ann Florini: Ann Florini is Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, where she is founding Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation. She holds a simultaneous appointment as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her work investigates innovations in governance at all levels. Her publications include The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World (2007), The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (2003/2005), and numerous articles in journals such as Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, Global Governance, International Security, and International Studies Quarterly.

Global Environmental Politics, 2010, vol. 10, issue 3, 120-131

Abstract: Transparency-based global environmental governance, like all global governance, necessarily plays out in national contexts. Its efficacy is shaped not only by global politics but also by the norms and capacities prevailing within countries. Over the past two decades, there has been an extraordinary upheaval in transparency views and practices in numerous countries, rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian. This multi-faceted development has been driven by such varied factors as democratization, privatization, and changing views about appropriate regulatory practices. These changes provide the crucial context for understanding the transparency transformation that is currently unfolding within global environmental governance, as well as what its promise, limitations and implications in practice might be in diverse national contexts. (c) 2010 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2010
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