TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating Authority in Global Biofuel Governance: Brazil and the EU in the WTO
AU - Stattman, S.L.
AU - Gupta, A.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Globalization is changing the nature and practices of global governance,
including those relating to governance of large-scale environmental change.
A complex array of actors and institutions now frames and seeks to manage
environmental problems in diverse ways, resulting in intersecting spheres of
public and private authority that shape governance outcomes. We interpret
authority here as the capacity to define the content of rules and norms that
shape social, economic, and political processes.1 Our interest is in how the
state, still a dominant actor in global environmental governance, navigates
shifting spheres of governance authority in promoting its own policy agenda. In
assessing such a role for the state, we focus here on global biofuels governance
and the Brazilian state. (...)
AB - Globalization is changing the nature and practices of global governance,
including those relating to governance of large-scale environmental change.
A complex array of actors and institutions now frames and seeks to manage
environmental problems in diverse ways, resulting in intersecting spheres of
public and private authority that shape governance outcomes. We interpret
authority here as the capacity to define the content of rules and norms that
shape social, economic, and political processes.1 Our interest is in how the
state, still a dominant actor in global environmental governance, navigates
shifting spheres of governance authority in promoting its own policy agenda. In
assessing such a role for the state, we focus here on global biofuels governance
and the Brazilian state. (...)
U2 - 10.1162/GLEP_a_00271
DO - 10.1162/GLEP_a_00271
M3 - Article
SN - 1526-3800
VL - 15
SP - 41
EP - 59
JO - Global Environmental Politics
JF - Global Environmental Politics
IS - 1
ER -