The Effectiveness of International Institutional Multiplicity in the Field of the Environmental Protection

Abstract

The aim of this research is to provide a perception of the institutional multiplicity of global environmental regulation and the various environmental institutions. In order to do this, I want to demonstrate the institutional structure of the classical, statist and official international environmental governance, which regroups many institutions, that represent states at international level, and the new transnational institutions that emerge from the global governance perspective. After showing the major international environmental institutions which correspond to the United Nations environmental institutions and other international environmental bureaucracies, I analyze the new institutional structure which include the new non state actors like nongovernmental organizations and multinational corporations. In a second stage, we develop a perception of the institutional architecture of global environmental regulation in the perspective of global governance. In order to do this, I want to demonstrate the transformations of the institutional structure of international environmental governance and different proposals to reform the institutional architecture of global environment, and analyze the conditions for equal and equitable environment institutional structures. After showing the major international environmental institutions and the actual conditions for the environmental regulation in the perspective of global governance, I analyze the chances of these structures in the realization of the environmental agenda and the needs for a reformist philosophy which can promote the complex institutional interaction of the contemporary circumstances