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Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN

Medani P. Bhandari

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In dealing with the IUCN, one must bear in mind that there never has been, and undoubtedly never will be, any other organization even remotely resembling it. Its peculiarities, subtleties and complexities are sometimes mind-boggling (Nicholson 1990 in Holdgate 1999: ix).

Green Web-II investigates IUCN's role in global biodiversity conservation policy as well as in national program development in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. It explores how nature protection priorities and approaches are promoted or addressed by IUCN, an international organization, and how environment conservation policies are created and maintained in states with different capacities of South Asia. It also evaluates IUCN's competency in bio-diversity, climate change, nature conservation and environmental policy formulation at global, regional and country level. This study is the first detailed scholarly study on the IUCN as an organization as well as on its efforts in biodiversity conservation.

This book adds to our knowledge, firstly by contributing to a small but growing body of work on the sociology of international organizations. IOs, especially International Governmental Organizations (IGOs), have long been the subject of mostly political science. Secondly, it applies a fuller sociological imagination to the study of IOs by critically exploring one of the largest and most active nature conservation organizations in the world. Thirdly, it also explores how the IUCN actually goes about building protectoral programs with individual member nations.

Additionally, the book explores the recent development of the green economy (GE) concepts into IUCN's program planning today. The green economy initiative applies a people-first approach. Although the concept is relatively new, this research explores the theoretical development of a green economy and illustrates how this theory is applied in IUCN's program planning to program implementation.

Technical topics discussed in the book include:

  • Motivation of Environment Conservation - How personal efforts make difference
  • Role of International Environment Conservation Organizations
  • Political Economy of Organizations, Network theory, Institutional theory, Stakeholder theory, Governance theory
  • Governance performances and Competitiveness
  • Popularity indices
  • Knowledge creation and diffusion
  • Conservation commons

Book Details

  • Publisher: River Publishers
  • Publish Date: Aug 15th, 2018
  • Pages: 250
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.81in - 1.49lb
  • EAN: 9788770220125
  • Categories: • Environmental Conservation & Protection - General• Development - Sustainable Development• Public Policy - Environmental Policy

About the Author

Bhandari, Medani P.: - Dr. Medani P. Bhandari completed his M.A. in Anthropology (Tribhuvan University, Nepal), M.Sc. Environmental System Monitoring and Analysis (ITC-The University of Twente, the Netherlands), M.A. Sustainable International Development (Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA), M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology (Syracuse University, NY, USA). He is dedicated to conservation of nature and natural resources and social empowerment through research and action project. His purpose of life is to give or contribute to the society fullest through whatever he has, earned, learned or experienced. He has worked with various organizations as consultant-United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)/Adelaide University, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the IUCN, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the World Resource Institute (WRI), Winrock International, the Japan Environment Education Forum, and the Pajaro Jai Foundation (PJF), along with others. During 2015-17, he served as a Professor of Natural Resources and Environment at the Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain. Prof. Bhandari has spent most of his career focusing on the Sociological Theories; Environmental Sustainability; Social Inclusion, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation; Environmental Health Hazard; Environmental Management; Social Innovation; Developing along the way expertise in Global and International Environmental Politics, Environmental Institutions and Natural Resources Governance; Climate Change Policy and Implementation, Environmental Justice, Sustainable Development; Theory of Natural Resources Governance; Impact Evaluation of Rural Livelihood; International Organizations; Public/Social Policy; The Non-Profit Sector; Low Carbon Mechanism; Good Governance; Climate Adaptation; REDD Plus; Carbon Financing; Green Economy and Renewable Energy; Nature, Culture and Power. Prof. Bhandari's major teaching and research specialties include: Sociological Theories and Practices; Environmental Health; Social and Environmental research methods; Social and Environmental Innovation; Social and Environmental policies; Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation; International Environmental Governance; Green Economy; Sustainability and assessment of the Economic, Social and Environmental impacts on society and nature. In brief, Prof. Bhandari has sound theoretical and practical knowledge in social science and environment science. His field experience spans across Asia, Africa, the North America, Western Europe, Australia, Japan and the Middle East. Professor Bhandari has published 4 books, and about 50 scholarly papers in international scientific journals. Currently, he is serving as a Professor of Inter-Disciplinary Department-Natural Resource & Environment/Sustainability Studies, at the Akamai University, USA and Professor of the Department of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Sumy State University (SSU) Ukraine; and International Program Coordinator, Atlantic State Legal Foundation, NY, USA (remotely).

Praise for this book

"This book shows how IUCN represents a unifying power for the environmental discourse. It transcended care for Naturetoincludeenvironmentaljustice, sustainabledevelopment, andequity. Book also explains IUCN's new paradigm for global leadership and sound governance for both people and nature. The book shows how action and policy converge to tell a compelling story on human responsibility and stewardship, and it gives a new insight in the environment conservation field, tries to convince readers to be a facilitator, convener and a bridge for knowledge and for a transition to a sustainable future that celebrates diversity."

- Prof. Odeh Al-Jayyousi, former regional director of IUCN. West Asia (2004-2011). Currently, Head of Innovation and Technology Management, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain

"This outstanding book, Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN - Program and Policy Development in Environment Conservation by Prof.Medani P. Bhandari, is the first known book of its kind, covering the role of IUCN, one of the grandest international membership-based environmental and conservation organizations. Prof. Bhandari's book effectively provides a discussion of the organizational competencies and popular indices, and analyzes the environmental governance mechanisms of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, which hold very different sociopolitical scenarios in South Asia. The book provides an overall picture of the differing roles of international organizations in the formation of each country's environmental policy, with reference to IUCN."

- Prof. Dr. Douglass Capogrossi, President, Akamai University, Hilo, Hawaii, USA

"IUCN is such a complex organization, championing the conservation of nature as the basis for human well-being, that this book's academic analysis should people understand its diverse ways of working."

- Wendy Goldstein, former IUCN, Head of Education and Communication, MacquarieUniversity, Australia, Director of Master Sustainable Development

"The book Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN by Professor Medani P. Bhandari has provided a new insightful look at the global conservation movement and its governance led by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN delves into the foundational values, standards, evolution, and impact of IUCN as an organization some 70 years after its inception. This book describes a multidecade paradigm shift within the conservation community from species preservation to one focused on the role of sustainable development and the green economy."

- Keith A. Wheeler, Chair, Emeritus IUCN-Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), and IUCN Council Member (2004-2012). Currently, President of the Brandwein Institute, USA

"This book on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) opens a window onto a little known and vastly under-used site of global institutional capacity for effective environmental governance at the national and international levels. In this book, he applies the tools of organizational sociology to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the IUCN and other International Governmental Organizations (IGOs); however, his ultimate concern is to explore how such organizations, and the IUCN in particular, can be critical in the implementation of people-first approaches to conservation innovation and management. This book will be of lasting encyclopedic usefulness for technicians and lay persons alike. We should be eternally grateful to Dr. Bhandari for providing us with this much needed tool."

- Cecilia A. Green, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA