Home  About FNI  Research  Publications  Staff  News & events  Contact		FNI PROJECTS The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance: Risks and Opportunities (GLOGOV) This project adresses the current transformation of global environmental governance that can be described as: a) increasing trans-nationalization, that is, the growing relevance of private and public actors beyond national governments; b) increasing supra- and transgovernmentalisation; and c) increasing fragmentation, that is, increasing segmentation of the policy process through additional layers of decision making and parallell systems of regulations. The project is carried out by a network composed of a number of the leading scholars in Europe on global environmental governance. It is mainly to function as a base for discussion and dissemination. External project page here. FNI project leader: Steinar Andresen Project period: 2008-2012 Publications: Gulbrandsen, Lars H., Transnational Environmental Governance: The Emergence and Effects of the Certification of Forests and Fisheries. Cheltenham, UK/Northampton (MA), USA, Edward Elgar, 2010, 213 p. Auld, Graeme and Lars H. Gulbrandsen, 'Transparency in Nonstate Certification: Consequences for Accountability and Legitimacy'. Global Environmental Politics, Vol 10, No 3, 2010, pp. 97-119. Many more publications at GLOGOV.org Top		Related focal points of research:   Global governance and sustainable developement Project funding:   COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) External cooperation partners:   Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universitet, Amsterdam (coordinator)   10 other European research institutions Recent media coverage: 'Vil miljøreformere FN' ('UN Environmental Reform Urged'), forskning.no, 18.03.2012. In Norwegian. 'Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance', Earth System Governance News, 16.03.2012. 'Forskere mener FN må forandres for å redde miljøet' ('Researchers Urge the UN to Change to Save Environment'), Nettavisen, 16.03.2012. In Norwegian. 'Fundamental Steps Needed Now in Global Redesign of Earth System Governance', Newswise, 16.03.2012.
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