CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Vasilenko, Ekaterina |
|---|---|
| Title | Understanding the development of global environmental governance through environmental discourse of the United Nations |
| Summary | Global Environmental Governance (GEG) is a mainstreaming approach in analyzing the global level politics in the field of environment, climate change and sustainable development. Scholars often notes the fragmented nature of the GEG across problems, levels, actors, instruments and forms of interaction in addressing the complex environmental issues. Despite the growing number of GEG studies, no attempt had been made to define what the “environmental” part in the GEG term actually means since it is extremely broad. This paper studies the contribution of the two United Nations organs (the General Assembly and UNEP) into the formation and following clustering of the environment as a field of policy. The combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was used in order to address this aim: content analysis and text-mining analysis. This research reveals a rapidly expanding network of environmental themes in the resolution of the General Assembly and the decisions of UNEP and blurry lines between problems that are usually referred to as political, political-economic and the actual environmental ones. It was also revealed that the UNGA and UNEP, within the framework of environmental protection, perform functions that include managing the accumulation of knowledge, developing norms, promoting recommendations and institutionalizing ideas. It confirms the existing understanding of the role of the United Nations in global environmental governance. |
| Supervisor | Antypas, Alexios |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/vasilenko_ekaterina.pdf |
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