Selected GEG Publications, Data, and Documentation
For a complete and updated list of publications, please click here.
The Virginia Gazette, "Enviro-activists"
February 21, 2009 | Opinion by Frank Shatz
“There was a time when the United States led the way on international environmental cooperation,” writes Maria Ivanova in the prestigious academic journal SAIS Review, published by John Hopkins University Press. (...) In the article, co-authored with Daniel C. Esty, an environmental law professor, Ivanova describes the U.S. effort that was instrumental in launching the U.N. Environmental Program in 1972. President Richard Nixon pledged to contribute 40% of the $100 million that initially capitalized the environment fund." Read More.
Global Environmental Governance: Perspectives on the Current Debate
Contributors: Enrique Berruga, Frank Biermann, Mohamed El-Ashry, Christiana Figueres, Maria Ivanova, Norichika Kanie, Markus Knigge, Peter Maurer, Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf, and Jennifer Roy.
This book provides up-to-date information on the options and opportunities to strengthen global environmental governance (GEG) and explores fundamental questions such as:
» Can the current GEG system deal effectively with environmental problems?
» What are the pros and cons of having hundreds of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, each with their own Secretariat and Conference of the Parties?
» What can be learned from UNEP’s history?
» How can the GEG system be improved?
Please go to www.centerforunreform.org/node/251 for an electronic copy of the book. To order a hard copy of the book from the Center, please e-mail: GEGbook@centerforunreform.org
Can the Anchor Hold?: Rethinking the United Nations Environment Programme for the 21st Century
By Maria Ivanova, Director of the GEG Project
This publication assesses the performance of UNEP as the mandated anchor institution for the global environment. The report takes a look at UNEP's performance in regards to key functions that are necessary for an effective international environmental organization and offers policy recommendations for governments, UNEP, and the UN Secretary-General on steps for reform.
Published in time for the historic UN General Assembly / 2005 World Summit, this report aims to reinvigorate the debate on the architecture of global environmental governance in the context of larger UN reform discussions.
Download or Order from Yale »
Global Environmental Governance: Options and Opportunities
By Daniel C. Esty and Maria Ivanova, Editors
"This collection of essays assembles the accumulated collective knowledge on global environmental governance generated by the Global Environmental Governance Project. It draws on different perspectives from authors of five continents aiming to contribute to the policy dialogue with a rigorous reform agenda that will strengthen global environmental governance."
To read online or in print click here »
Governança Ambiental Global: Opções & Oportunidades
Daniel C. Esty e Maria Ivanova (Organizadores)
A governança ambiental envolve todos e cada um nas decisões sobre meio ambiente, por meio das organizações civis e governamentais, a fim de obter ampla e irrestrita adesão ao projeto de manter a integridade do planeta.
Editora: Senac; ISBN: 8573594586; Ano: 2005
Ivanova, Maria and Daniel C. Esty. "Reclaiming US Leadership in Global Environmental Governance," in SAIS Review of International Affairs, Vol. XXVIII, Issue 2, Summer-Fall 2008.
Ivanova, Maria. "Designing the United Nations Environment Programme: A Story of Compromise and Confrontation," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Economics and Law, Vol. 7, Issue 3, September 2007.
Ivanova, Maria, David Gordon and Jennifer Roy. “Towards Institutional Symbiosis: Business and the United Nations in Environmental Governance,” in Review of European Community and International Environmental Law RECIEL, Vol. 16, Issue 2, 2007.
Ivanova, Maria and Steven Bernstein. “Institutional Fragmentation and Normative Compromise in Global Environmental Governance: What Prospect for Re-embedding?” in Global Governance: Towards a New Grand Compromise? (Steven Bernstein and Louis W. Pauly, eds.) Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.