Representing Mountains : From Local and National to Global Common Good
Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, mountains have acquired global recognition as a specific issue in the promotion of sustainable development policies. Starting from the traditional roles of mountains for local societies and in modern geopolitics, this paper...
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ftunivgeneve:oai:unige.ch:unige:3978 2023-05-15T14:00:38+02:00 Representing Mountains : From Local and National to Global Common Good Debarbieux, Bernard Price, Martin 2008 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:3978 eng eng unige:3978 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:3978 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ISSN: 1465-0045 Geopolitics, Vol. 13, No 1 (2008) pp. 148-168 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/910 Mountain Geographical Text info:eu-repo/semantics/article Article scientifique info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 2008 ftunivgeneve 2022-02-08T22:33:44Z Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, mountains have acquired global recognition as a specific issue in the promotion of sustainable development policies. Starting from the traditional roles of mountains for local societies and in modern geopolitics, this paper analyses the status that mountains have been acquiring though globalisation, and the modes of global mobilisation and recognition that have taken shape since 1992. Particular attention is given to the role of scientists, international organisations, some mountainous States, and “mountain people”. The specific characteristics of this process are discussed and compared to those pertinent to other goods, especially ‘geographical' or ‘ecological' goods such as tropical forests and Antarctica. Though the globalisation of mountain issues is part of a wider process of the recognition of environmental and cultural goods at a global level, it may be seen as the first example of a new category of global common good: “global common regions” or “glocal common good”. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Université de Genève: Archive ouverte UNIGE |
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Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, mountains have acquired global recognition as a specific issue in the promotion of sustainable development policies. Starting from the traditional roles of mountains for local societies and in modern geopolitics, this paper analyses the status that mountains have been acquiring though globalisation, and the modes of global mobilisation and recognition that have taken shape since 1992. Particular attention is given to the role of scientists, international organisations, some mountainous States, and “mountain people”. The specific characteristics of this process are discussed and compared to those pertinent to other goods, especially ‘geographical' or ‘ecological' goods such as tropical forests and Antarctica. Though the globalisation of mountain issues is part of a wider process of the recognition of environmental and cultural goods at a global level, it may be seen as the first example of a new category of global common good: “global common regions” or “glocal common good”. |
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Representing Mountains : From Local and National to Global Common Good |
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