Transnationalisation of GEG

RESEARCH FOCUS

WG1 focuses on transnational environmental governance – i.e. on the transboundary regulation through a variety of private actors, including environmental NGOs, philanthropic foundations, corporations, business associations, scientific organizations and the like. 

The phenomena covered include transnational climate networks, public-private partnerships on water and energy, certification schemes on sustainable forest and fisheries management as well as mining, and the over 300 ‘type-2 partnerships’ registered with the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. 

Among others, we are interested in the following questions:

• How has the role of non-state actors changed in global environmental governance over the past decades?
• Is there a transnationalization of global environmental governance? If so, is transnationalization a pervasive trend across all areas of environmental governance or is it limited to particular issue fields?
• Why, when and how do transnational environmental governance arrangements emerge?
• What are the particular organizational dynamics of transnational environmental governance?
• What are the effects of transnational environmental governance arrangements and under which particular conditions are such arrangements most effective?
• How do transnational environmental governance arrangements interact with the state?
• And what are the normative implications of the transnationalization of global environmental governance?

WG1 is open to all members of the COST Action IS0802 Management Committee, and to members of their parent institutions, as well as interested researchers from other academic institutions within the Action IS0802 member countries – see the list on COST website. PhD students, junior and senior researchers are all welcome.