GOVERNING GLOBAL DESERTIFICATION
The Global Environmental Governance Series
Series Editors: John J. Kirton and Konrad von Moltke
Global Environmental Governance addresses the new generation of twenty-first century environmental problems and the challenges they pose for management and governance at the local, national, and global levels. Centred on the relationships among environmental change, economic forces, and political governance, the series explores the role of international institutions and instruments, national and subfederal governments, private sector firms, scientists, and civil society, and provides a comprehensive body of progressive analyses on one of the worlds most contentious international issues.
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Governing Global Desertification
Linking Environmental Degradation, Poverty and Participation
Edited by
PIERRE MARC JOHNSON
Heenan Blaikie, Canada
KAREL MAYRAND
Unisfra, Canada
MARC PAQUIN
Unisfra, Canada
First publihed 2006 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Governing global desertification : linking environmental
degradation, poverty and participation. - (Global environmental governance)
1. Convention on Desertification (1994) 2. Desert reclamation - International co-operation 3. Community development - International cooperation 4. Desertification - Social
aspects
I. Johnson, Pierre-Marc II. Mayrand, Karel III. Paquin, Marc, 1964-
333.736153
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006921294
ISBN 9780754643593 (hbk)
Contents
Pierre Marc Johnson, Karel Mayrand, and Marc Paquin
Stefanie M. Herrmann and Charles F. Hutchinson
Sally-Anne Way
Michelle Leighton
Adil Najam
Steffen Bauer
Friederike Knabe
Lene Poulsen and Masse Lo
Franois Falloux, Susan Tressler, and Karel Mayrand
Richard Pearce
Noel Oettl
Karel Mayrand and Marc Paquin
Pierre Marc Johnson, Karel Mayrand, and Marc Paquin
Steffen Bauer is the co-ordinator of the MANUS Research Group (Managers of Global Change: Effectiveness and Learning of International Organizations) within the international Global Governance Project at the Environmental Policy Research Centre of Freie Universitt Berlin and a doctoral candidate at the Freie Universitts Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science.
Franois Falloux is vice-president and member of the board of Eco-Carbone, of which he is also co-founder.
Stefanie M. Herrmann is a researcher in Arid Lands Resource Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Charles F. Hutchinson is director of the Office of Arid Lands Studies at the University of Arizona.
Pierre Marc Johnson is senior counsel with Heenan Blaikie and advisor to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
Friederike Knabe is an independent consultant, working primarily with nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) on international environmental and development policies and strategies.
Michelle Leighton is assistant dean at John F. Kennedy University Law School.
Masse Lo is the Regional Director of ENDA LEAD Francophone Africa, a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to create, strengthen, and support networks of people and institutions promoting change toward sustainable development.
Karel Mayrand is director of research at Unisfra International Centre, an independent, not-for-profit research centre on sustainable development policy and law, and a lecturer in environment and international development issues at lUniversit de Sherbrooke.
Adil Najam is associate professor of international negotiation and diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Noel Oettl is rural programme manager for the Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) and is based in Nieuwoudtville, South Africa.
Marc Paquin is a lawyer specialising in international and comparative environmental and sustainable development law and policy, and co-founder and executive director of Unisfra International Centre, an independent not-for-profit research centre on sustainable development policy and law.
Richard Pearce is in charge of the desertification programme in the Bureau Regional pour lAfrique de lOuest (BRAO) of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
Lene Poulsen is an independent consultant in sustainable development processes with a focus on good governance and sustainable livelihood in rural areas.
Susan Tressler is a consultant specialising in project development and fundraising.
Sally-Anne Way is Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and heads the Research Unit on the Right to Food, based at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies of the University of Geneva.
This publication is the result of the combined work of experts and highly esteemed development practitioners with long-standing experience on desertification and drought-related matters. Some of the authors have, over the years, played a key role in the negotiation sessions of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).