Building Environmental Peace
Publisher: Springer
Author(s): Natalia Dalmer
Date: 2021
Topics: Governance, Programming
This book analyzes how international bureaucracies come to matter by showing how they develop knowledge. Conceiving the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as an open system, it looks at its’ expansion towards security by generating knowledge on the security-environment nexus. This is primarily expressed in the Programme’s work on environmental peacebuilding. The theoretical part discusses knowledge, open systems, and knowledge creation. The book also presents a historical discussion that embeds UNEP’s development in an open system context and examines its contribution to knowledge development on environmental and security concerns by investigating knowledge emergence on the linkage of these two concerns, its influence on UNEP’s interests, and its work on environmental peacebuilding.