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In the field of natural resource management, an array of new organizational forms is being established in order to meet the challenges arising from ecological crises. Environment ministries, national environmental councils, sectoral organizations and civil society actors are often oriented towards supranational agreements, stipulating principles for transboundary environmental problems or prescribing “rational” solutions for sectoral and cross-cutting environmental management problems. Often, these principles and agreements are part of a global sustainability agenda promoted by the United Nations, international donors and other international organizations. Global conferences such as the celebrated 1992 Rio Conference constitute platforms for producing self-binding global targets, international conventions, or action plans. These outcomes incorporate principles and paradigms regarding the “right” ways to …