ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 introduces unfamiliar readers to the workings of the UN. In addition, it orients familiar readers with the specific elements of the UN that are relevant to my analysis. Non-governmental participants who engage in UN negotiations realise that their contributions to the process are contingent on their ability to work within the structural and ideological constraints of the UN organisational complex. However, the strategies that participants deploy to effectively engage in the processes demonstrate that global environmental governance is not a vague and abstract entity but is instead generated through the actions of specific individuals in actual locations—with implications for situated individuals who may have no contact with UN deliberations. Chapter 2 sets up the ‘site’ in terms of its relevant components for what it is I am trying to accomplish in this broader analysis.
