Essentially, however, Lipschutz is concerned to demonstrate that what I might think of as the global environmental movement is better conceived of as the self-development of a GCS, with the latter implying a new system of global environmental governance (not government), and with the latter, again, dependent on globally-informed local activity. The question is now one of whether his understanding enlightens his subject matter - and/or whether the subject matter sharpens the concept.įor reasons I will later try to explain, this is a difficult book to summarise. I have no doubt that, in so doing, he is moving the concept beyond the previous somewhat superficial level of use/abuse (as in Waterman 1998:227-8). Lipschutz is clearly concerned to see global environmental governance in terms of global civil society (henceforth GCS). If Lipschutz/Mayer had been available at that time I would have had to qualify this statement. In a review article written some years ago I argued that `global civil society' had had the misfortune of being transformed from an ideological formulation to an international policy slogan without passing through the forge of theoretical clarification or the sieve of public debate (Waterman 1996:170). Published in Transnational Associations, Issue 2/1999 Lipschutz (with Judith Mayer), Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance: The Politics of Nature from Place to Planet. Executive Master in International Association Management.Advertising in UIA Associations Mailing.Survey on International Meetings Issues.UIA Survey on International Association Meeting Issues.International Meetings Statistics Report. Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential.Yearbook of International Organizations.He walked downstairs I left my book downstairs a downstairs flat. , ˌdownˈstairs adverb on or towards a lower floor.
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