Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives

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Contents Series Foreword vii Preface ix Acronyms xiii Part I: Transparency in Broader Context 1 A Transparency Turn in Global Environmental Governance 3 Aarti Gupta and Michael Mason 2 The Lost Innocence of Transparency in Environmental Politics 39 Arthur P. J. Mol 3 The National Context for Transparency-Based Global Environmental Governance 61 Ann Florini and Bharath Jairaj Part II: State-Led Multilaterally Negotiated Transparency 4 So Far but No Further? Transparency and Disclosure in the Aarhus Convention 83 Michael Mason 5 Global Pesticide Governance by Disclosure: Prior Informed Consent and the Rotterdam Convention 107 Kees Jansen and Milou Dubois 6 Risk Governance through Transparency: Information Disclosure and the Global Trade in Transgenic Crops 133 Aarti Gupta 7 Transparency in the Governance of Access and Benefit Sharing from Genetic Resources 157 Amandine Orsini, Sebastian Oberthür, and Justyna Pożarowska vi Contents 8 Making REDD+ Transparent: The Politics of Measuring, Reporting, and Verification Systems 181 Aarti Gupta, Marjanneke J. Vijge, Esther Turnhout, and Till Pistorius Part III: Public-Private and Private Transparency 9 The Political Economy of Governance by Disclosure: Carbon Disclosure and Nonfinancial Reporting as Contested Fields of Governance 205 Janelle Knox-Hayes and David Levy 10 Tamed Transparency and the Global Reporting Initiative: The Role of Information Infrastructures 225 Klaus Dingwerth and Margot Eichinger 11 Transparency in Energy Governance: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Publish What You Pay Campaign 249 James Van Alstine 12 Learning through Disclosure: The Evolving Importance of Transparency in the Practice of Nonstate Certification 271 Graeme Auld and Lars H. Gulbrandsen 13 Transparency and Environmental Equity: The International Finance Corporation’s Disclosure Practices 297 Timothy Ehresman and Dimitris Stevis 14 Transparency Revisited 321 Michael Mason and Aarti Gupta Contributors 341 Index 343 ...