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When international agreements fail to solve global problems like
climate change, transnational networks attempt to address them by
implementing global ideaspolicies and best practices negotiated at
the global levellocally around the world. Grassroots Global
Governance not only explains why some efforts succeed and others
fail, but also why the process of implementing global ideas locally
causes these ideas to evolve. Drawing on nodal governance theory,
the book shows how transnational actors success in putting global
ideas into practice depends on the framing and network
capacity-building strategies they use to activate networks of
grassroots actors influential in local social and policy arenas.
Grassroots actors neither accept nor reject global ideas as
presented by outsiders. Instead, they negotiate whether and how to
adapt them to fit local conditions. This contestation produces
experimentation, and results in unique institutional applications
of global ideas infused with local norms and practices. Grassroots
actors ultimately guide this process due to their unique ability to
provide the pressure needed to push the process forward.
Experiments that endure are perceived as successful, empowering
those actors involved to activate transnational networks to scale
up and diffuse innovative local governance models globally. These
models carry local norms and practices to the international level
where they challenge existing global approaches and stimulate new
global governance institutions. By guiding the way global ideas
evolve through local experimentation, grassroots actors reshape
international actors thinking, discourse, organizing, and the
strategies they pursue globally. This makes them grassroots global
governors. To demonstrate this, the book compares transnational
efforts to implement local Integrated Watershed Management programs
across Ecuador and shows how local experiments altered the global
debate regarding sustainable development and stimulated a new
global movement dedicated to changing the way sustainable
development is practiced. In doing so, the book reveals the
grassroots level as not merely the object of global governance, but
rather a terrain where global governance is constructed.
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