Institutional Issues in Global Environmental Governance

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530176
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: International Christian University
• Principal Investigator: MORI Katsuhiko 国際基督教大学, 教養学部, 教授 (00247420)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: グローバル・イシュー / 地球環境ガバナンス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Salient features of institutionalization in global environmental governance during the period from the 2002 Johannesburg conference to the 2002 Rio+20 conference include: the revival of state-centric international relations in reaction to economic globalization in the 1990s as well as the further integration of market-oriented CSR practices in the global marketplace. These tendencies can be found synchronically across the four environmental spheres: atmosphere, geosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere. Diachronically, institutionalization can now be understood as the fourth pillar of “sustainable development” after the phases of “internationalization,” “worldization,” and “globalization” of environmental problems.

Free Research Field

国際関係論