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This article introduces a special issue of the journal Global Environmental Politics on the expanding research agenda on institutional fragmentation.
The term refers to the growing diversity and challenges to coordination among private and public norms, treaties, and organizations that address a given issue area of international politics. International relations scholars increasingly address this phenomenon, framing it with alternative concepts like regime complexes or polycentricity. A considerable part of the existing debate remains focused on whether a centralized or polycentric governance architecture is preferable. Instead, as this special issue shows, domains of global environmental governance – such as climate change, biological diversity, renewable energy, and forestry – are already fragmented. It is time to address new, more pertinent questions and help advance institutionalist research on this phenomenon.
The authors introduce four major research themes for analyzing the fragmentation of different domains of global environmental governance: taking stock, causes, consequences, and responses.
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Journal article / Researchers developed a method for quantifying the social and cultural values of treescapes, creating a composite measure which can be used by policymakers.
Feature / The India-Sweden Industry Transition Partnership, launched at COP28 to accelerate the decarbonization of heavy industry, held its first meeting in April.
Event on 04 June – 06 April in Turku / SEI York will discuss the collaborative teaching of sustainability and policy, using its interdisciplinary module at the University of York as a case study.
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