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Green Web-II - Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN: Program and Policy Development in Environment Conservation Domain - A Comparative Study of India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan
(2018)
Abstract
Green Web-II investigates the IUCN's role in global biodiversity conservation policy as well as in national program development in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. It explores how nature protection priorities and approaches are promoted or addressed by IUCN, an international organization, and how environment conservation policies are created and maintained in states with different capacities of South Asia. It also evaluates IUCN's competency in biodiversity, climate change, nature conservation and environmental policy formulation at global, regional and country levels. This study is the first detailed scholarly study on the IUCN as an organization as well as on its efforts in biodiversity conservation.
This book adds to our knowledge, first by contributing to a small but growing body of work on the sociology of international organizations. IOs, especially International Governmental Organizations (IGOs), have long been the subject of mostly political science. Second, it applies a fuller sociological imagination to the study of IOs by critically exploring one of the largest and most active nature conservation organizations in the world. Third, it also explores how the IUCN actually goes about building protectoral programs with individual member nations.
Additionally, the book explores the recent development of the green economy (GE) concepts into IUCN's program planning today. The green economy initiative applies a people-first approach. Although the concept is relatively new, this research explores the theoretical development of a green economy and illustrates how this theory is applied in IUCN's program planning to program implementation.
Keywords
- International Organization,
- IUCN World Bank,
- India,
- Nepal,
- Bangladesh,
- Pakistan,
- Climate change,
- Biodiversity conservation,
- Prajita Bhandari,
- Manaslu Prameya,
- United Nations,
- Protected Area Management
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall October 18, 2018
Editor
Medani P. Bhandari,
Publisher
River Publishers
ISBN
978-8770220125
DOI
8770220123
Publisher Statement
This outstanding book, Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN - Program and Policy Development in Environment Conservation by Prof. Medani P. Bhandari, is the first known book of its kind, covering the role of IUCN, one of the grandest international membership-based environmental and conservation organizations. Prof. Bhandari's book effectively provides a discussion of the organizational competencies and popular indices, and analyzes the environmental governance mechanisms of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, which hold very different sociopolitical scenarios in South Asia. The book provides an overall picture of the differing roles of international organizations in the formation of each country's environmental policy, with reference to IUCN. The book reveals Prof. Bhandari's lifelong love of nature, his motivation toward conservation and natural resources, and explains how IUCN became his dream organization. The book begins with a real life story of the author's conservation activism for Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where environmental issues are similar, but the approaches are somewhat different. This book serves as a resource for postgraduates and professors in understanding the theories and methods for research, concerning the pros and cons of biodiversity, forest conservation, parks management, and environmental policy. General readers with interest in a sustainable world should find many things of interest toward establishing the green web for the future generation
Citation Information
Bhandari, Medani P. (2018). Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN, Published, sold and distributed by: River Publishers, Denmark / the Netherlands ISBN: 978-87-70220-12-5 (Hardback) 978-87-70220-11-8 (eBook). http://www.riverpublishers.com/book_details.php?book_id=568
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