Grassroots Global Governance

Local Watershed Management Experiments and the Evolution of Sustainable Development

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Public Policy, International, International Relations
Cover of the book Grassroots Global Governance by Craig M. Kauffman, Oxford University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Craig M. Kauffman ISBN: 9780190650933
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: November 1, 2016
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Craig M. Kauffman
ISBN: 9780190650933
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: November 1, 2016
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Oxford University Press

Cover of the book The Prisoner of Zenda - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Child Welfare Research by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Silas Marner Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book The Seven Secrets of Germany by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Understanding: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Fortune's Fool by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Black and Blue by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Developing Destinies by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book The Language of Defamation Cases by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Mathematics in Western Culture by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Handbook of Girls' and Women's Psychological Health by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Self-System Therapy for Depression by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book How Fantasy Becomes Reality by Craig M. Kauffman
Cover of the book Journalism Without Profit by Craig M. Kauffman
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy