Keeping the world's environment under review : : an intellectual history of the Global Environment Outlook / / Jan Bakkes [and four others].

• VerfasserIn: Bakkes, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest : : Central European University Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (516 pages) :; illustrations, maps

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Introduction to the book -- -- Chapter 1: Keeping the World's Environment Under Review -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Global environmental assessment: initial insights -- 1.3 UNEP meets its mandate to keep the world environmental situation under review - and explores alternative models -- 1.4 UNEP gets the green light for its new global environmental assessment -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 2: The Conceptual Framework of the Global Environment Outlook Reporting System -- 2.1 Introduction: Conceptual framework-a foundation for global environmental assessments -- 2.2 The role of science -- 2.3 From GEO's mandate to its assessment framework -- 2.4 The evolution of GEO's conceptual framework -- 2.5 Beyond DPSIR -- Chapter 3: Collaboration and Participation in the Global Environment Outlook Process -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Partner institutions -- 3.3 Shifting of roles and responsibilities from partner institutes to individuals -- 3.4 A closer look at author groups -- 3.5 Other GEO Participants: A Medley of Roles -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Evolution of the Global Environment Outlook Reports 1-6, Including Their Use of the Integrated Environment Assessment Approach -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 GEO delivery formats and length -- 4.3 Evolution of the Driving forces and Pressures components -- 4.4 Evolution of the State and Trends component -- 4.5 Evolution of the Impacts component, including human well-being -- 4.6 Evolution of the Policy Responses component in the global GEOs -- 4.7 -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 5: Beyond DPSIR - Outlook and Other Major Aspects -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Evolution of the Outlook component in global GEOs -- 5.3 Other main elements found in GEOs 1-6 -- 5.4 Regional aspects, content and treatment in global GEOs -- 5.5 Other global GEO products -- Chapter -- 6. Global Environmental Outlooks from Subglobal to Local: GEO's Multilevel, Multiscale Geographic Success -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Regional and subregional GEO reports and their origins -- 6.3 National GEO-style reports -- 6.4 Local-level GEO reporting -- 6.5 The special case of the Latin America and Caribbean region -- 6.6 Conclusions -- Chapter 7: Global Environment Outlook Support Systems -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Process coordination -- 7.3 Expert and advisory groups -- 7.4 Capacity building -- 7.5 Data support -- 7.6 Report preparation process -- 7.7 Evaluation process -- 7.8 Additional GEO products -- 7.9 Funding support -- Chapter 8: Outreach to Stakeholders and Users -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Outreach to Governments -- 8.3 Outreach within UNEP -- 8.4 Outreach to the rest of the UN -- 8.5 Outreach to the general public and other audiences -- 8.6 Strengthening the outreach strategy -- 8.7 Conclusion -- Chapter -- 9. Global Perceptions and Influence of GEO -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 GEO's global role -- 9.3 A worldwide context informing national-level policymaking and vice versa -- 9.4 Capacity development: the importance of process, ownership and learning by doing -- 9.5 GEO, youth and the education community -- 9.6 GEO and the research community -- 9.7 GEO and the mass media -- 9.8 GEO's influence on UNEP itself -- 9.9 Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Regional Perceptions and Influence of GEO -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 GEO in Africa: enabling the regional environmental agenda -- 10.3 GEO in Asia and the Pacific: one size does not fit all -- 10.4 GEO in Europe: getting noticed in a crowded place -- 10.5 GEO in Latin America and the Caribbean: riding the GEO wave -- 10.6 GEO in North America: acting in a region of fading interest -- 10.7 West Asia and North Africa: GEO as a professionalizing force -- 10.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Beyond GEO-61 -- 1.1 Introduction and setting the scene1 -- 1.2 Four scenarios of what could happen to GEO in 2020-20301 -- 1.3 Messages for the future of GEO1 -- 1.4 Conclusion -- Concluding Remarks -- 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.