FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

Unfinished Foundation

Ken Conca
    Product form
      FORMAT: Paperback / softback

      R 1,660.47 Price and availability exclusive to website

      YOU COULD EARN 1,660.47 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.
      ESTIMATED DELIVERY: Approx. 10 - 15 Business Days
      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 276.74 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 553.49 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 415.11 with
      Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges? The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly: it works for "better law between nations" and "better development within them." Thisapproach treats peace and human rights as unrelated to the world's environmental problems, despite a large body of evidence to the contrary.In this path-breaking book, a leading scholar of global environmental governance critiques the UN's failure to use its mandates on human rights and peace as tools in its environmental work. The book traces the institutionalization and performance of the UN's "law and development" framework and the parallel silence on rights and peace. Despite some important gains, the traditional approach is failing for some of world's most pressing and contentious environmental challenges, and has lost most ofthe political momentum it once enjoyed. The disastrous "Rio+20" Summit laid this fact bare, as assembled governments failed to find meaningful agreement on any of the most pressing issues.By not treating the environment as a human rights issue, the UN fails to mobilize powerful tools for accountability in the face of pollution and resource degradation. And by ignoring the conflict potential around natural resources and environmental protection efforts, the UN misses opportunities to transform the destructive cycle of violence and vulnerability around resource extraction. The book traces the history of the UN's traditional approach, maps its increasingly apparent limits, and suggests needed reforms. Detailed case histories for each of the four mandate domains flag several promising initiatives, while identifying barriers to transformation. Its core implication: the UN's environmental efforts require not just a managerial reorganization but a conceptual revolution-one that brings to bear the full force of the organization's mandate. Peacebuilding, conflictsensitivity, rights-based frameworks, and accountability mechanisms can be used to enhance the UN's environmental effectiveness and legitimacy.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ken Conca EAN: 9780190232863 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 432 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-08-27 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, SCIENCE / Environmental Science WIDTH: 165 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      International institutions, The environment

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Ken Conca is Professor of International Relations and Director of Global Environmental Politics at American University.
      Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges? The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly: it works for "better law between nations" and "better development within them." Thisapproach treats peace and human rights as unrelated to the world's environmental problems, despite a large body of evidence to the contrary.In this path-breaking book, a leading scholar of global environmental governance critiques the UN's failure to use its mandates on human rights and peace as tools in its environmental work. The book traces the institutionalization and performance of the UN's "law and development" framework and the parallel silence on rights and peace. Despite some important gains, the traditional approach is failing for some of world's most pressing and contentious environmental challenges, and has lost most ofthe political momentum it once enjoyed. The disastrous "Rio+20" Summit laid this fact bare, as assembled governments failed to find meaningful agreement on any of the most pressing issues.By not treating the environment as a human rights issue, the UN fails to mobilize powerful tools for accountability in the face of pollution and resource degradation. And by ignoring the conflict potential around natural resources and environmental protection efforts, the UN misses opportunities to transform the destructive cycle of violence and vulnerability around resource extraction. The book traces the history of the UN's traditional approach, maps its increasingly apparent limits, and suggests needed reforms. Detailed case histories for each of the four mandate domains flag several promising initiatives, while identifying barriers to transformation. Its core implication: the UN's environmental efforts require not just a managerial reorganization but a conceptual revolution-one that brings to bear the full force of the organization's mandate. Peacebuilding, conflictsensitivity, rights-based frameworks, and accountability mechanisms can be used to enhance the UN's environmental effectiveness and legitimacy.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ken Conca EAN: 9780190232863 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 432 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-08-27 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, SCIENCE / Environmental Science WIDTH: 165 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      International institutions, The environment

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Ken Conca is Professor of International Relations and Director of Global Environmental Politics at American University.

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account