The Study On The Correlation Between The Global Environmental Discourse And The UN Global Environmental Governance Regimes

There are no borders among the global environmental issues, and these issues are related to the future of the earth and the human beings living on this planet. Since 1960s, the international society has made continual endeavors in order to cognize and cope with these issues. On one hand, a clear series of Global Environmental Discourse (GED) system have been constructed, showing the mainstream belief, value, general rule, and consensus. On the other hand, the global environmental governance regimes centered at the United Nations (UNGEGR) came into being during the United Nations conference on human environment in 1972, and there has been a continual development to the UNGEGR in the past thirty years. The two aspects all make well-known successes, and the correlation between their successes begin to get concerns of international society. The intention of the author lies in researching the correlation problem between the GED and UNGEGR, namely, making an attempt to make it clear that there is some correlation or not between the GED and UNGEGR, the nature of the correlation, and how this correlation forms or evolves.In order to ensure a scientific and precise research process, the author describes the evolvements of the GED and UNGEGR respectively at first, then compares their evolvements and get a qualitative judgment that there is a correlation between them. On this basis, the author tries to analyze those relevant indicators of the GED and UNGEGR, affirm that there is a correlation between them quantitatively in the sense of statistics. So, he can reply the question that there is some correlation or not between the GED and UNGEGR. Second, on the basis of description to the way and content of their interaction, the author reduces this interaction to the nature of construction according to the basic conception of constructivism. So, he can answer the question about the nature of their correlation. At last, the author analyzes the correlation between them dynamically by the perspective of constructivism, tries to make clear those primary variables which influence the constructive interaction between them and their process of construction. So, he can answer the question ultimately that how the correlation forms or evolves. As a result of the above research path, the thesis consists of three parts. The first part named by introduction brings out the main problem, value for research, review, perspective and research path, defines the main objects and their conceptions which will be discussed in the next part. As the main body, the second part contains three chapters, and tries to describe and analyze the main problem presented in the first part according to the path defined by the introduction. The first chapter aims at affirming there is a correlation between the GED and UNGEGR. The second chapter illuminates the correlation is constructive in the sense of nature on the basis of the first chapter. The third chapter strives for analyze the constructive interaction process between the GED and UNGEGR in order to make clear the question that how this constructive correlation forms or evolves. The last part named by conclusion sums up the whole research, provides a thought and outlook about the current environmental problems and affairs.Finally, the author comes to a conclusion via research. Since 1960s, the central content of GED has renewed continually, and shows a trend of evolution from trying for survival to seeking sustainable development and further to confident theory and practice of ecological modernization. The GED promote the United Nations to make progress on constructing the global environmental governance regimes via affirming threat, providing blueprint, defining expectation for action, and construct the relative identity for the United Nations on the global environmental affairs, so, the UNGEGR are improved and strengthened continually. Contrarily, the GED are impacted by the UNGEGR. The United Nations and its special agencies promote the formation and development of the GED by launching and organizing discussion on the global environmental issues, setting up topic for discussion and transforming the thought paradigm on environment, advancing the environmental education. So, there is a correlation between the GED and UNGEGR, they construct each other and co-evolve.Furthermore, the context of problem, actors who can transcend the different borders, and the various rules are the main variables, they carry out more functions in the constructive correlation between the GED and UNGEGR. The context of problem is the background parameter of the constructive correlation. Politicians, experts, enterprisers and actives act as the agents of the construction process. The rules of the directive, the instructive and the affirmatory are the media of the constructive correlation. The process of construction can be decomposed into three aspects including the political, the scientific, the economic and social aspect. In the political process, the agents should do best to establish a new governance authority under the circumstances of the global environmental crisis. In the scientific process, the agents need to eliminate the uncertainty of the global environmental problems, provide more precise knowledge and suggestions. In the economic and social process, the agents should turn the environmental value into an indispensable part of the life of mankind.Altogether, by the affirmation to the correlation between the GED and UNGEGR in the quantitative analysis, the description about the way, content and nature of their interaction, especially the analysis to their construction process, the author give a demonstration of interactive mode for their co-evolution, clarify or make up the viewpoint of some scholars that the environmental discourse and the environmental regime can co-evolve, but also provide a general framework for international societies to cognize the global environmental issues and offer some references for the environmental decision and action of different international actors. For the developing countries, that is probably helpful to enrich the research field of their scholars about the environmental discourse and the international environmental governance regime, enhance their discourse power and expression ability in this field.