The Institutional Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences, and Responses - Introduction

This article introduces a special issue 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. Inte...

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Published in:Global Environmental Politics
Main Authors: Zelli, Fariborz, van Asselt, Harro
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Project MUSE 2013
Subjects:
Political Science
complexity
fragmentation
Institutional theory
International organisations
Environmental institutions
UNFCCC
Kyoto Protocol
WTO
WTO law
climate governance
environmental governance
biodiversity
arctic
Renewable energy
Forest governance
Genetically modified
interplay
Arctic
Climate change
Online Access:https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/2374148
https://doi.org/10.1162/GLEP_a_00180
https://portal.research.lu.se/files/36041861/glep_a_00180.pdf
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Summary:This article introduces a special issue 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—like 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. We 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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