THE FORMATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1946-2016)

The history of an environment as an issue of the international politics pays remarkably little attention to the circumstances in which the environmental agenda develops and to its constitutive issues. The Stockholm Conference on the human environment is one of the important milestones that made the...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	E. A. Bliznetskaya, E. P. Vasilenko
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN RU
Publicado:	MGIMO University Press 2018
Materias:	international agenda united nations general assembly environment resources desertification sovereignty sustainable development environmental problems nuclear weapon International relations JZ2-6530
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/36b7f0020e59469ea5f9f96fcc2a61c4
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:36b7f0020e59469ea5f9f96fcc2a61c4
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:36b7f0020e59469ea5f9f96fcc2a61c42021-11-23T14:50:40ZTHE FORMATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1946-2016)2071-81602541-909910.24833/2071-8160-2018-5-62-131-145https://doaj.org/article/36b7f0020e59469ea5f9f96fcc2a61c42018-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/809https://doaj.org/toc/2071-8160https://doaj.org/toc/2541-9099The history of an environment as an issue of the international politics pays remarkably little attention to the circumstances in which the environmental agenda develops and to its constitutive issues. The Stockholm Conference on the human environment is one of the important milestones that made the environment as an issue of international concern. However, its success would be impossible without the immense experience in addressing environmental issues gathered at the multilateral level. A review of the literature on the research topic shows that the term «environmental agenda» is not always used properly, there is a lack of empirical data to explain the «greening» of international relations. Indeed, given the fragmented nature of international environmental governance, specifically within the framework of the United Nations, it is difficult to trace the evolution of the environmental agenda from the first days of Organization to the present. For identification and definition of the content of the environmental agenda, the authors used the content analysis of the title of the resolutions of the UN General Assembly adopted in the period from 1946 to 2016. The research identified environmental issues of high priority: sovereignty over resources, environment, sustainable development, desertification, climate, natural disasters. The analysis made it possible to track their appearance on the agenda in chronological order. Also, we identified the issues underlying the formation of the environmental agenda of the General Assembly, namely international security issues related to nuclear weapons and economic development. In addition, we examined some voting patterns on environmental issues, the dynamics of changes in the attention of UN member states to key issues such as sustainable development, desertification, climate, sovereignty over natural resources.E. A. BliznetskayaE. P. VasilenkoMGIMO University Pressarticleinternational agendaunited nations general assemblyenvironmentresourcesdesertificationsovereigntysustainable developmentenvironmental problemsnuclear weaponInternational relationsJZ2-6530ENRUVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, Vol 0, Iss 5(62), Pp 131-145 (2018)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN RU
topic	international agenda united nations general assembly environment resources desertification sovereignty sustainable development environmental problems nuclear weapon International relations JZ2-6530
spellingShingle	international agenda united nations general assembly environment resources desertification sovereignty sustainable development environmental problems nuclear weapon International relations JZ2-6530 E. A. Bliznetskaya E. P. Vasilenko THE FORMATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1946-2016)
description	The history of an environment as an issue of the international politics pays remarkably little attention to the circumstances in which the environmental agenda develops and to its constitutive issues. The Stockholm Conference on the human environment is one of the important milestones that made the environment as an issue of international concern. However, its success would be impossible without the immense experience in addressing environmental issues gathered at the multilateral level. A review of the literature on the research topic shows that the term «environmental agenda» is not always used properly, there is a lack of empirical data to explain the «greening» of international relations. Indeed, given the fragmented nature of international environmental governance, specifically within the framework of the United Nations, it is difficult to trace the evolution of the environmental agenda from the first days of Organization to the present. For identification and definition of the content of the environmental agenda, the authors used the content analysis of the title of the resolutions of the UN General Assembly adopted in the period from 1946 to 2016. The research identified environmental issues of high priority: sovereignty over resources, environment, sustainable development, desertification, climate, natural disasters. The analysis made it possible to track their appearance on the agenda in chronological order. Also, we identified the issues underlying the formation of the environmental agenda of the General Assembly, namely international security issues related to nuclear weapons and economic development. In addition, we examined some voting patterns on environmental issues, the dynamics of changes in the attention of UN member states to key issues such as sustainable development, desertification, climate, sovereignty over natural resources.
format	article
author	E. A. Bliznetskaya E. P. Vasilenko
author_facet	E. A. Bliznetskaya E. P. Vasilenko
author_sort	E. A. Bliznetskaya
title	THE FORMATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1946-2016)
title_short	THE FORMATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1946-2016)
title_full	THE FORMATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1946-2016)
title_fullStr	THE FORMATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1946-2016)
title_full_unstemmed	THE FORMATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1946-2016)
title_sort	formation of the environmental agenda of the united nations general assembly (1946-2016)
publisher	MGIMO University Press
publishDate	2018
url	https://doaj.org/article/36b7f0020e59469ea5f9f96fcc2a61c4
work_keys_str_mv	AT eabliznetskaya theformationoftheenvironmentalagendaoftheunitednationsgeneralassembly19462016 AT epvasilenko theformationoftheenvironmentalagendaoftheunitednationsgeneralassembly19462016 AT eabliznetskaya formationoftheenvironmentalagendaoftheunitednationsgeneralassembly19462016 AT epvasilenko formationoftheenvironmentalagendaoftheunitednationsgeneralassembly19462016
_version_	1718416638040080384

THE FORMATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1946-2016)

Ejemplares similares