Governance Architecture and Processes within GEG

 

RESEARCH FOCUS

Working Group 3 of COST Action IS0802 is concerned with the evolving architectures, principles and processes of multilevel environmental governance.  

 

Theoretical and Conceptual foci include:  

  • Global and regional intergovernmental environmental regimes: interlinkages and interactions
  • International organizations as actors in global environmental governance
  • Legalization of international relations with respect to environmental protection and sustainable development issues
  • Theoretical approaches to global environmental governance: uniformity versus polycentricity
  • Role of knowledge and the science-policy-law interface in governance
  • Multi-level environmental governance at international, national, regional and local level and the development of regulatory systems and mechanisms
  • International environmental negotiations as multilateral governance processes
  • Participation and democratization in environmental governance
  • Transparency, accountability and legitimacy of environmental governance
  • Public-private governance arrangements
  • Role of local communities and individuals in governance processes

 

Issue-areas currently addressed by WG3 members include:

  • Biodiversity
  • Management of Genetic Resources
  • Biotechnology
  • Climate Change
  • Environmental Governance of the Mediterranean (pollution from dumping, emergencies, pollution from land-based sources, pollution from the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes, specially protected areas and biodiversity, integrated coastal zones management)
  • Marine and Maritime Environmental Governance
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Waste Management
  • Forests
  • Environmental Governance in Post-Communist States
  • Protection of traditional human relations to environment