Building Environmental Peace

The UN Environment Programme as a Knowledge Actor

authored by

Natalia Dalmer

Abstract

By analyzing the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP’s) contribution to peacebuilding, this book aims to show how international bureaucracies develop knowledge and thereby come to matter on the world stage. Portraying UNEP as an open system, it explores how a growing understanding within the Programme of how environmental degradation shapes insecurities and vice versa has motivated its work on peacebuilding. The theoretical part of this book addresses knowledge, open systems, and knowledge creation. It then presents a historical discussion of UNEP’s development in an open system context. Finally, it investigates how knowledge emergence on the linkage between the environment, conflicts, and insecurities influenced UNEP’s interests and its work on environmental peacebuilding.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Political Science

Type

Monograph

No. of pages

280

Publication date

18.03.2022

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Political Science and International Relations

Research Area (based on ÖFOS 2012)

International relations

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72094-0 (Access: Closed)