Building Environmental Peace

The UN Environment Programme as a Knowledge Actor

verfasst von

Natalia Dalmer

Abstract

By analyzing the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP’s) contribution to peacebuilding, this book aims to show how international bureaucracies develop knowledge and thereby come to matter on the world stage. Portraying UNEP as an open system, it explores how a growing understanding within the Programme of how environmental degradation shapes insecurities and vice versa has motivated its work on peacebuilding. The theoretical part of this book addresses knowledge, open systems, and knowledge creation. It then presents a historical discussion of UNEP’s development in an open system context. Finally, it investigates how knowledge emergence on the linkage between the environment, conflicts, and insecurities influenced UNEP’s interests and its work on environmental peacebuilding.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Typ

Monografie

Anzahl der Seiten

280

Publikationsdatum

18.03.2022

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Politikwissenschaften und internationale Beziehungen

Fachgebiet (basierend auf ÖFOS 2012)

Internationale Beziehungen

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72094-0 (Zugang: Geschlossen)