Overview

In dealing with the IUCN, one must bear in mind that there never has been, and undoubtedly never will be, any other organization even remotely resembling it. Its peculiarities, subtleties and complexities are sometimes mind-boggling (Nicholson 1990 in Holdgate 1999: ix). Green Web-II investigates 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 bio-diversity, climate change, nature conservation and environmental policy formulation at global, regional and country level. 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, firstly 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. Secondly, 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. Thirdly, 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. Technical topics discussed in the book include:  Motivation of Environment Conservation - How personal efforts make difference  Role of International Environment Conservation Organizations  Political Economy of Organizations, Network theory, Institutional theory, Stakeholder theory, Governance theory  Governance performances and Competitiveness  Popularity indices  Knowledge creation and diffusion  Conservation commons

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Author:   Medani P. Bhandari (Akamai University, Hawaii, USA)
Publisher:   River Publishers
Imprint:   River Publishers
ISBN:  

9788770220125

ISBN 10:   8770220123
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   31 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; introduction-The Power of Logo/ The brand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal's scenario in terms of strength; Theoretical frameworks, Political Economy of Organizations, Network theory, Institutional theory, Stakeholder theory, Governance theory; The IUCN-Organizational structure; Governance, World Conservation Congress; Business and Biodiversity-The program of controversies and focus, Economics and Environment Interlinked programs, Ecosystem Management Program (EMP), Environmental Law Program (ELP), Forest conservation Program (FCP); exploring IUCN’s failings – members perspective -View from the members in the IUCN system, The blind spots in IUCN’s principles and practices; Comments from Members: How they value IUCN; the strengths and weaknesses of IUCN-The framework of organizational evaluation, Major challenges of IUCN, The weaknesses of IUCN; comparative-Overview-The Case Studies of Bangladesh, India, Nepal And Pakistan -Governance performances, Competitiveness level in relation to the 12 pillars, Institutional competitiveness in global context, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Environmental Conservation movement with focus on Forest conservation; IUCN and its role in conservation of nature-The IUCN in South Asia, IUCN’s roles in environmental regime creation in the region, Conservation programs in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan; Theory, Knowledge Creation, and Knowledge Diffusion at IUCN for National and International Program Development; Conservation Commons, Conclusion-The popularity index of global conservation organizations, Annexes

Reviews

The book by Professor Medani P. Bhandari shows how IUCN represents a unifying power for the environmental discourse. It transcended care for Nature to include environmental justice, sustainable development, and equity. Book also explains IUCN's new paradigm for global leadership and sound governance for both people and nature. Book shows how action and policy converge to tell a compelling story on human responsibility and stewardship. Book gives a new insight in the environment conservation field, tries to convince readers to be a facilitator, convener and a bridge for knowledge and for a transition to a sustainable future that celebrates diversity. Book provides the historical and contemporary state of global environment conservation and how international organization can play positive roles by impowering concerned stakeholders through policy and action projects. -- Prof. Odeh Al-Jayyousi * IUCN * 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. -- Prof. Dr. Douglass Capogrossi * Akamai University review * Prof. Medani Bhandari's book Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN is an important contribution towards understanding how IUCN functions in South Asia. The book provides insights into IUCN's work and its influence in Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, a region with unparalleled range of bio-diversity and rich natural assets and consisting of almost a quarter of world population. Utilizing his first-hand experience in the region, and a rigorous academic analysis, Prof. Bhandari investigates how a Europe-based international organization can effectively function in a developing region with several economic, social and environmental challenges. This book is a recommended reading for those interested in the sociology and impact of IUCN, an international organization with a long history of leadership in nature conservation, and a world body with a remarkably complex structure and functioning mechanism. -- Dr. Ambika P. Adhikari * City of Tempe, Arizona * The book Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN by Professor Medani P. Bhandari has provided a new insightful look at the global conservation movement and its governance led by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN delves into the foundational values, standards, evolution and impact of IUCN as an organization some 70 year after its inception. This book describes a multidecade paradigm shift within the conservation community from species preservation to one focused on the role of sustainable development and the green economy. The Green Web-II provides a scholarly analysis of key drivers embraced by IUCN to understand the complexity of the scientific, cultural, social and political interactions that impact the sustainability of our natural world. Professor Bhandari lays out a blueprint for a sustainable future, where strategically communicated global values and standards, when coupled with cooperative and intentional personal efforts, can make the greatest difference on the future of our planet and all those who inhabit it . -- Keith A. Wheeler * IUCN - Commission on Education and Communication *

Author Information

Medani P. Bhandari is Professor of Social and Environmental research methods and Crisis Management at Sumy State University, Ukraine; Faculty and Deputy Program Director of Sustainability Studies at Akamai University, Hilo, Hawaii; and Professor of Natural Resources and the Environment at Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain.

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