Transparency in Global Environmental Governance : Critical Perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acronyms -- I Transparency in Broader Context -- 1 A Transparency Turn in Global Environmental Governance -- 2 The Lost Innocence of Transparency in Environmental Politics -- 3 The National Context for Transparency-Based Global Environmental Governance -- II State-Led Multilaterally Negotiated Transparency -- 4 So Far but No Further? Transparency and Disclosure in the Aarhus Convention -- 5 Global Pesticide Governance by Disclosure: Prior Informed Consent and the Rotterdam Convention -- 6 Risk Governance through Transparency: Information Disclosure and the Global Trade in Transgenic Crops -- 7 Transparency in the Governance of Access and Benefit Sharing from Genetic Resources -- 8 Making REDD+ Transparent: The Politics of Measuring, Reporting, and Verification Systems -- III Public-Private and Private Transparency -- 9 The Political Economy of Governance by Disclosure: Carbon Disclosure and Nonfinancial Reporting as Contested Fields of Governance -- 10 Tamed Transparency and the Global Reporting Initiative: The Role of Information Infrastructures -- 11 Transparency in Energy Governance: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Publish What You Pay Campaign -- 12 Learning through Disclosure: The Evolving Importance of Transparency in the Practice of Nonstate Certification -- 13 Transparency and Environmental Equity: The International Finance Corporation's Disclosure Practices -- 14 Transparency Revisited -- Contributors -- Index.

A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role.

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