Transparency for whom? Information disclosure and power in global environmental governance
Abstract
Information disclosure is the most obvious manifestation of the transparency turn in global governance, as evident from a growing uptake of environmental disclosure practices by countries, corporations and international organizations. Any analytic examination of environmental disclosure measures needs to grasp their relation to wider configurations of political and economic authority. Highlighting these relations of power reveals that transparency measures do not necessarily overcome asymmetries in information access, and may even exacerbate them.
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For supply chains, the extent to which transparency leads to sustainability outcomes is particularly contested in cases of leakage, scope, and level of traceability.
“For supply chains, the extent to which transparency leads to sustainability outcomes is particularly contested in cases of leakage, scope, and level of traceability (Mason, 2008;Mol, 2010).”
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- Authors
- Mason, M.
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mason, Michael
- ORCID
- Mason, Michael
- Venue
- Global Environmental Politics
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2008-05
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 8-13
- ISSN
- 1526-3800 (ISSN-L)
- 1536-0091
- OpenAlex
- W2114327864
- Cited by
- 126
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 33.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Global Environmental Politics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › International Environmental Law and Policies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Keywords
- information disclosure, transparency, global environmental governance, power relations, information asymmetry, environmental disclosure, corporate disclosure, international organizations, political authority, economic authority
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