TY - BOOK AU - SAMPFORD Charles TI - Fractured international environmental governance and the potential role of the Commonwealth in biodiversity and climate change PY - 2012/// KW - COMMONWEALTH KW - BIODIVERSITY KW - CLIMATE CHANGE N2 - This paper examines the reasons behind most failures of governance, including fault lines in institutional and professional specialisation and in ideology. These three, forever competing within and between themselves , frustrate attempts to find solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges such as environmental challenges. What role can the Commonwealth play in addressing the fracture lines that bedevil the solutions for climate change and biodiversity? It may help to stimulate global action on these issues if it can encourage agreement across multidimensional global boundaries UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00358533.2012.661530 ER -