Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the publication on November 4th, 2005 of
GLOBAL CHALLENGES:
FURTHERING THE MULTILATERAL PROCESS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Edited by Angela Churie Kallhauge, Gunnar Sjöstedt and Elisabeth Corell
November 2005 | 320pp | 234 x 156 mm
Hardback: ISBN 1 874719 51 9 | GBP35.00 USD65.00
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THE WORLD Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg 2002
was the latest conference in an international process to manage
environment and development issues that can be traced back to the late
1960s. Three milestones mark this 30-year process of social and
political interaction: the United Nations Conference on the Human
Environment (UNCHE), held in Stockholm in 1972, the first international
meeting at a high political level convened to address environmental
issues; the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro; and the WSSD, which
attempted to set policy goals and targets for the global environmental
and developmental challenges previously identified.
But what did the WSSD achieve? Following the summit there have been
various opinions of its significance and its outputs, many of them
negative. This book argues that there is a need to place the WSSD in
its broader context. Understanding the connections between the WSSD and
its precedents as well as those between this overall process and
individual environmental decision-making processes (such as on climate
change), and how they all contribute to the overall global policy
process, adds a critical dimension to the analysis of the WSSD
outcomes.
This book examines the challenges facing the global policy process for
sustainable development as it continues beyond Johannesburg into the
future. It combines a forward outlook with a historical perspective in
tracing the evolution of selected cross-cutting themes on the agenda of
the three conferences, the institutions and formal results of the
process, and the actors and their patterns of interaction over time.
The focus is on the decision-making dimension—the multilateral
negotiations—which can be seen as the development over time of a
pattern of interlinked political activities.
Global Challenges has four operational objectives: first, to define the
ongoing process that formally began with the Stockholm Conference in
1972 and evolved towards its latest major manifestation at the WSSD;
second, to present some dynamics of the Stockholm–Rio–Johannesburg
(SRJ) process by exploring the themes identified; third, to introduce
an approach on how to consider the outcomes of this process as a way of
reflecting on what the process has actually accomplished; and, finally,
to discuss lessons learned for theory and practice from this exercise.
The practical lessons include reflections on how the continued SRJ
process should best be organised and supported into the future.
The book takes a uniquely broad outlook and interdisciplinary approach
in addressing important lessons relating to the emergence of
substantive issues as well as to process and institutional dynamics. It
is a bridge-building exercise from academic analysis to long-term
strategic thinking in environmental regime building.
Global Challenges provides a new perspective on the continuing and
increasingly complex global environment and development policy process
and analyses the interlinkages between the process, trends and
cross-cutting issues that set the conditions for the global efforts to
achieve sustainable development. It will be essential reading for
academics and practitioners interested in seeing the big picture of the
global challenges facing people and planet in the 21st century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Foreword
I. William Zartman, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns
Hopkins University
Introduction
1. The multilateral process for sustainable development: past, present
and future
Angela Churie Kallhauge, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,
Sweden
Elisabeth Corell and Gunnar Sjöstedt, Swedish Institute of
International Affairs
2. What did the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
accomplish? Suggestions for an outcome assessment
Gunnar Sjöstedt, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Part 1: Institutions and the development of the process
3. The road to Rio: early efforts on environment and development
Björn-Ola Linnér, Linköping University, Sweden
Henrik Selin, Boston University, USA
4. The negotiating system of environment and development: a ten-year
review
Pamela Chasek, Manhattan College, USA
5. A commission will lead them? The UN Commission on Sustainable
Development and UNCED follow-up
Lynn M. Wagner, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Part 2: Actors and their interplay
6. A tale of three cities: developing countries in global environmental
negotiations
Adil Najam, Tufts University, USA
7. Friends and foes: industrialised countries in multilateral
environmental negotiations
Duncan R. Marsh, United Nations Foundation, USA
8. Three decades of NGO activism in international environmental
negotiations: who influences NGOs?
Wagaki Mwangi, Syracuse University, USA
9. Street-wise provocations: the Global Justice Movement’s take on
sustainable development
Peter Doran, Research Fellow, Queen’s University, Belfast;
Research Officer, Northern Ireland Assembly, Belfast
10. Partnerships for sustainable development: the role of Type II
agreements
Claire Norris, Consultant, UK
Part 3: Process functions/cross-cutting themes
11. Knowledge processes in decision-making on sustainability:
challenges for the future
Elisabeth Corell, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Göran Sundqvist, Göteborg University, Sweden
12. Financing for sustainable development
Konrad von Moltke
13. Capacity development for the environment: North and South
Stacy D. VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire, USA
Ambuj D. Sagar, Harvard University, USA
14. Making the link: synergies in international regime governance
Angela Churie Kallhauge and Lisa van Well, Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Conclusion
15. An evolving sustainable development regime
Gunnar Sjöstedt, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Lisa van Well and Angela Churie Kallhauge,
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
About the editors
ANGELA CHURIE KALLHAUGE works on climate change issues at the Swedish
Energy Agency. Until recently she was a researcher at the Division of
Urban Studies at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm where
she focused on decision-making processes and planning. She has over a
decade’s experience as an observer in international environmental
negotiations, in particular the climate change and desertification
processes and in working with issues relating primarily to capacity
development and environmental policy in Africa. She has published
several articles on aspects relating to capacity development, climate
change policy in Africa and has participated in a number of capacity
development initiatives focused specifically on improving the
negotiation capacities in the South. She holds a Licentiate degree in
Regional Planning and an MSc in Environmental Engineering.
GUNNAR SJÖSTEDT is a senior research fellow at Swedish Institute of
International Affairs and an associate professor at the University of
Stockholm since 1977. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the
Program of International Negotiation (PIN) at the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and member of the
Advisory Board for Negotiation Journal. A principal area of research
has in recent years been negotiations about issues related to the
international economy and environment, publications relating to which
include: International Environmental Negotiations (co-editor with with
B. Spector and W. Zartman; Sage, 1993); Negotiating International
Regimes: Lessons Learned from UNCED (co-editor with R. Löfstedt; Graham
& Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff, 1994); Environmental Aid Programmes to
Eastern Europe (co-editor with V. Kremenyuk; Avebury Studies in Green
Research, 1996); International Economic Negotiation: Models versus
Reality (co-editor with J. Linneroth-Bayer and R.G. Löfstedt; Edgar
Elgar, 2000); Transboundary Risk Management (editor; London: Earthscan
Publications, 2001); and Professional Cultures in International
Negotiation: Bridge or Rift? (editor; Lexington Books, 2003).
ELISABETH CORELL works as a Wallenberg Fellow in Environment and
Sustainability at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs,
Stockholm. She holds a doctoral degree in international relations from
the University of Linköping in Sweden. Her research interests are in
the field of international decision-making for sustainable development
and centre on the role of experts and scientific advisors as well as
actors who represent practical and experience-based knowledge.
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