Global Norms in Local Contexts: Examining Cases of Environmental Governance in France

This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France. It provides a snapshot of how global-level environmental norms travel vertically across levels of governance, from the global to the local, and asks how global environmental norms are (re)interpreted by local-level actors and translated to a particular local context.

Chapters focus on three in-depth case studies, each involving multi-stakeholder environmental governance: (1) the Cerbère-Bany...