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Transparency Under Scrutiny: Information Disclosure in Global Environmental Governance

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  • Aarti Gupta

    (Aarti Gupta is Assistant Professor with the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She is also an associate faculty member of the Global Governance Project, a consortium of academic institutions in Europe researching issues of global environmental governance ( glogov.org ). Her research interests lie in global risk governance, the role of science in international environmental politics and interlinkages between trade and environment. Her research on these issues has appeared in Global Environmental Politics, Environment, International Journal of Biotechnology, and the Journal of Sustainable Forestry, among others.)

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Although transparency is a key concept of our times, it remains a relatively understudied phenomenon in global environmental politics. The link between transparency and accountable, legitimate and effective governance is assumed, yet the nature and workings of this link require further scrutiny. Transparency via information disclosure is increasingly at the heart of a number of global environmental governance initiatives, termed "governance-by-disclosure" here. The article identifies two assumptions that underpin such governance-by-disclosure initiatives, and calls for comparative analysis of the workings of such assumptions in practice, as a way to illuminate the nature and implications of a transparency turn in global environmental governance and its link to accountable, legitimate and effective governance. (c) 2008 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Aarti Gupta, 2008. "Transparency Under Scrutiny: Information Disclosure in Global Environmental Governance," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 8(2), pages 1-7, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:8:y:2008:i:2:p:1-7
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