The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870–1990
The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870–1990
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世界环境制度的构建，1870-1990
DOI：
10.1162/002081897550474
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
7.8
通讯作者：
N. Tuma
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作者：
John W. Meyer;David John Frank;Ann M. Hironaka;Evan Schofer;N. Tuma
近几十年来，沿着世界范围内关于环境问题的讨论和交流的爆炸式增长，世界环境组织（包括政府和非政府组织）迅速发展。所有这些构成了一个世界环境制度。我们将“制度”一词定义得比通常更广泛一些，我们将世界环境制度定义为世界级组织、理解和假设的部分整合，这些组织、理解和假设指定了人类社会与自然的关系。环境制度的兴起伴随着全球社会许多部门的组织和活动的极大扩展。然而，解释环境制度的增长带来了一些问题。世界社会中占主导地位的行为者的利益和权力民族国家和经济利益在环境领域出现得很晚。因此，与全球社会的其他部门（例如，国际经济和国家安全制度）相比，这些力量不能轻易地用来解释围绕环境的世界动员的兴起。
In recent decades a great expansion has occurred in world environmental organization, both governmental and nongovernmental, along with an explosion of worldwide discourse and communication about environmental problems. All of this constitutes a world environmental regime. Using the term regime a little more broadly than usual, we define world environmental regime as a partially integrated collection of world-level organizations, understandings, and assumptions that specify the relationship of human society to nature. The rise of an environmental regime has accompanied greatly expanded organization and activity in many sectors of global society. Explaining the growth of the environmental regime, however, poses some problems. The interests and powers of the dominant actors in world society—nation-states and economic interests—came late to the environmental scene. Thus these forces cannot easily be used to explain the rise of world mobilization around the environment, in contrast with other sectors of global society (for example, the international economic and national security regimes).