Article by Gunnvor Berge in: Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 40(1)49-74
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Internasjonalt miljøsamarbeid og lokale prosesser: om jusens og økonomiens dominerende rolle i multilaterale miljøforhandlinger.
Ass. Prof. Gunnvor Berge
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Abstract:
In this article, the author argues that law and economy are the two dicsiplines that dominate the academic input to international environmental negotiations. These disciplines are prescriptive or model-based rather than grounded and empirically oriented.
The disciplines provide the simplifications and frameworks for action that states need both to establish common understandings, and to implement the ratified agreements by transforming local ways. More grounded, empirically oriented disciplines such as anthropology have succeeded in increasing the emphasis on the local in international agreements, but only within the understanding supported by the more model-based disciplines. Does it have to be like this?
