Keeping the World’s Environment under Review : : An Intellectual History of the Global Environment Outlook / / Marion Cheatle, Nora Mžavanadze, Jan Bakkes, László Pintér, Ronald G. Witt.

• VerfasserIn: Bakkes, Jan,; Cheatle, Marion,; Mžavanadze, Nora,; Witt, Ronald G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (534 p.)

How do we take stock of the state and direction of the world’s environment, and what can we learn from the experience? Among the myriad detailed narratives about the condition of the planet, the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) reports—issued by the United Nations Environment Programme—stand out as the most ambitious. For nearly three decades the GEO project has not only delivered iconic global assessment reports, but through its multitude of contributors has inspired hundreds of similar processes worldwide from the regional to the local level. This book provides an inside account of the evolution of the GEO project from its earliest days. Building on meticulous research, including interviews with former heads of the United Nations Environment Programme, diplomats, leading contributing scientists, and senior leaders of collaborating organizations, the story is told from the perspective of five GEO veterans who all played a pivotal role in shaping the periodic assessments. The GEO’s history provides striking insights and will save valuable time to those who commission, design and conduct, as well as critique and improve, assessments of environmental development in the next decade.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Introduction to the book -- Chapter 1: Keeping the World’s Environment Under Review -- Chapter 2: The Conceptual Framework of the Global Environment Outlook Reporting System -- Chapter 3: Collaboration and Participation in the Global Environment Outlook Process -- Chapter 4: Evolution of the Global Environment Outlook Reports 1-6, Including Their Use of the Integrated Environment Assessment Approach -- Chapter 5: Beyond DPSIR – Outlook and Other Major Aspects -- Chapter 6. Global Environmental Outlooks from Subglobal to Local: GEO’s Multilevel, Multiscale Geographic Success -- Chapter 7: Global Environment Outlook Support Systems -- Chapter 8: Outreach to Stakeholders and Users -- Chapter 9. Global Perceptions and Influence of GEO -- Chapter 10: Regional Perceptions and Influence of GEO -- Chapter 11: Beyond GEO-6 -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Annex I: The Evolution of UNEP Mandates for the Global Environment Outlook -- Annex II: GEO Collaborating Centres and other Contributing Institutions listed in GEO reports -- Annex III: Structure of GEOs-1 to 6 Reports -- Annex IV: GEO-related Reports -- Annex V: Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Annex VI: List of Interviews -- Index