Dear all,
I would like to announce the release of my new book, which explains how transnational networks are addressing global environmental problems outside the multilateral treaty system, and how local experiments are altering the global debate over sustainable development. In doing so, the book reveals the grassroots level as not merely the object of global governance, but rather a terrain where global environmental governance is constructed. *Grassroots Global Governance*: <http://grassrootsglobalgovernance.com/>*Local Watershed Management Experiments and the Evolution of Sustainable Development <http://grassrootsglobalgovernance.com>. *New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. *Abstract: * When international agreements fail to solve global problems like climate change, transnational networks attempt to address them by implementing "global ideas" -- policies and best practices negotiated at the global level-locally around the world. *Grassroots Global Governance* not only explains why some efforts succeed and others fail, but also why the process of implementing global ideas locally causes these ideas to evolve. Drawing on nodal governance theory, the book shows how transnational actors' success in putting global ideas into practice depends on the framing and network capacity-building strategies they use to activate networks of grassroots actors influential in local social and policy arenas. Grassroots actors neither accept nor reject global ideas as presented by outsiders. Instead, they negotiate whether and how to adapt them to fit local conditions. This contestation produces experimentation, and results in unique institutional applications of global ideas infused with local norms and practices. Grassroots actors ultimately guide this process due to their unique ability to provide the pressure needed to push the process forward. Experiments that endure are perceived as "successful," empowering those actors involved to activate transnational networks to scale up and diffuse innovative local governance models globally. These models carry local norms and practices to the international level where they challenge existing global approaches and stimulate new global governance institutions. By guiding the way global ideas evolve through local experimentation, grassroots actors reshape international actors' thinking, discourse, organizing, and the strategies they pursue globally. This makes them grassroots global governors. To demonstrate this, the book compares transnational efforts to implement local Integrated Watershed Management programs across Ecuador and shows how local experiments altered the global debate regarding sustainable development and stimulated a new global movement dedicated to changing the way sustainable development is practiced. In doing so, the book reveals the grassroots level as not merely the object of global governance, but rather a terrain where global governance is constructed. Available Now at Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Grassroots-Global-Governance-Experiments-Sustainable/dp/0190625732/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488484693&sr=8-1&keywords=Grassroots+Global+Governance> or OUP <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/grassroots-global-governance-9780190625733?cc=us&lang=en&;> . Craig M. Kauffman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Oregon www.craigmkauffman.com <http://www.cmkauffman.com/> -- 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.
