Posted in In-class exercises on Jan 28th, 2011 1 Comment »
There is a rather large body of literature that examines qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the effectiveness of international environmental regimes (for examples, you can read Sprinz 2000 literature review, with reference to some early work by Bernauer 1995 and Young 1994, as well as recent work by Mitchell 2007 and 2010). I asked […]
Posted in Lecture commentary on Jan 15th, 2011 6 Comments »
The past couple of weeks we have been discussing the structure of the United Nations Environment Programme (you can read some of Dr. Maria Ivanova’s recent work on global environmental governance and the UNEP). Fragmentation in global environmental politics is not surprising (at least to me). We live in a world where resource constraints and […]
Posted in Lecture commentary on Jan 4th, 2011 No Comments »
Welcome to POLI 375A, Global Environmental Politics. It’s my intention to help you familiarize yourself with both theoretical and empirical ideas around global environmental governance. What makes governments act in the way they do when making life-changing decisions in regards to protection of their national habitats, compliance with international environmental agreements, participation in global environmental […]