Dear gep-ed community, We are organizing a panel on global governance of chemicals and wastes management (including global to local links), and are looking for another paper. Please see below for the abstract, papers, and other info:
Title: Mobilizing Change in Chemicals and Wastes Governance Abstract The governance of hazardous chemicals and wastes is highly dynamic, by institutional design and through actors’ efforts to push for greater protections for human health and the environment. In this cluster of regimes, several have routinized change to add new chemicals or waste streams to the conventions in response to parties’ concerns or experts’ recommendations. Three chemicals and wastes conventions – the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions – are engaged in a “synergies” process to bring the conventions closer together in substantive and procedural terms. Further, the Minamata Convention awaits entry into force and into this dynamic cluster. This panel explores actors’ responses to this dynamic institutional environment at local and global scales. Some civil society actors engage across the cluster, others specialize, while others ignore major issues such as e-waste entirely. How does the (at times explicit) experimentation and evolving development of cooperative rules and norms in the cluster influence actors’ strategies? Does global change provide new platforms for local actors? Through exploring the uneven patterns of engagement of actors, and the consequences of experimentation, this panel seeks to add to our understanding of global environmental governance while highlighting the importance of chemicals and wastes issues. Chair: Pam Chasek Discussant: Kate O'Neill Papers 1. Local activism using global information: the case of PFOA. Pia Kohler, Williams College 2. NGO Dynamics at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Mercury. Jessica Templeton, LSE 3. Skipping this one: Big ENGO Silence on E-Waste. Jen Iris Allan, University of British Columbia 4. Experimenting with SuperCOPs: David Downie, Jessica Templeton and Jen Iris Allan 5. You???? Best regards, Jen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
