Review of The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty
Review of The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty
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世界领先环境机构不为人知的故事回顾：环境署五十周年
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10.1080/00139157.2021.1979869
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2021
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T. O'Riordan
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联合国环境规划署是这个时代的产物。伊万诺娃巧妙地记录了它是如何在利益相关者的期望之间陷入困境的。其中之一是其环境监测和政策/条约审查作用。这是行政和调查工作，至关重要，但对工作人员和现金的要求很高。另一个是评判性的，试图告诫和鼓励政府，企业和非政府组织加强全球环境标志。第三个目标是为那些科学和组织能力有限的人提供咨询和专业知识，帮助他们面对各种各样的环境困境，从管理有毒废物到为数十亿人净化空气和水。第四个，可以说是最有争议的，是协调无数的发展和经济机构，使之成为某种共同的环境承诺，即使这些组织中的许多人认为他们已经是环境冠军。所有这些都需要相当的外交技巧、有效和富有魅力的领导、所有有关各方的真正尊重与合作，以及明确界定和得到有力支持的共同目标。伊万诺娃以一种微妙而可信的叙述方式记录了所有这些交织在一起的线索。她的叙述很有判断力，经过深思熟虑，在环境署旅程的每个阶段都进行了有益的总结，坦率地说，扣人心弦。
UNEP was a creature of this time. What Ivanova cleverly documents is how it fell between various stools of stakeholder expectations. One was its environmental monitoring and policy/treaty-examining role. This was administrative and investigative, vital but heavily demanding of staff and cash. Another was judgmental, seeking to admonish and encourage governments, businesses, and nongovernmental organizations to step up to the global environmental mark. A third was to provide advice and expertise to those with limited scientific and organizational capabilities when confronted with a vast range of environmental dilemmas, from managing toxic waste to sanitizing air and water for billions. And a fourth, arguably the most contentious, was to coordinate the myriad of developmental and economic agencies into some sort of common environmental commitment, even when many of these organizations felt they were environmental champions already. All of these required considerable diplomatic skills, effective and charismatic leadership, genuine respect and cooperation from all relevant parties, and a common purpose, well defined and well supported. Ivanova documents all of these interweaving strands in a delicate and credible narrative. Her account is well judged, thoughtfully scripted, helpfully summarized in every stage of UNEP’s journey, and frankly gripping.