International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

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2023, volume 23, articles 4

Beyond intergovernmental cooperation: domestic politics of transboundary air pollution in Korea and Singapore pp. 397-413

Annie Young Song

Exploring the links between climate transparency and mitigation policy through a reflexive capacity lens: case studies of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Mexico pp. 415-448

Nila Kamil and Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen

Does ICAO’s climate change mitigation policy based on international agreements reflect global environmental justice? pp. 449-466

Dinar Dewi Kania, Dian Artanti Arubusman, Mustika Sari, Ridho Bramulya Ikhsan and Safathira Zaldin

The potential of CO2 emission reduction via replacing cement with recyclable wastes in the construction industry sector: the perspective of Iran’s international commitments pp. 467-483

Mohammad Reza Seyedabadi, Mohsen Karrabi and Abolfazl Mohammadzadeh Moghaddam

An analysis of the convention on the protection of the Black Sea against pollution (the Bucharest Convention) from the perspective of Turkish contract law pp. 485-502

Nilay Tulukcu Yıldızbaş, Üstüner Birben, Osman Devrim Elvan and Melek Bilgin Yüce

2023, volume 23, articles 3

Unanimity or standing aside? Reinterpreting consensus in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations pp. 221-234

Katharina Rietig, Christine Peringer, Sarina Theys and Jecel Censoro

The treaty management organization established under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement: an international actor in its own right? pp. 235-252

Thomas Gehring and Linda Spielmann

Country differentiation in the global environmental context: Who is ‘developing’ and according to what? pp. 253-269

Deborah Barros Leal Farias

Tempering and enabling ambition: how equity is considered in domestic processes preparing NDCs pp. 271-292

Ceecee Holz, Guy Cunliffe, Kennedy Mbeva, Pieter W. Pauw and Harald Winkler

Progression requirements applicable to state action on climate change mitigation under Nationally Determined Contributions pp. 293-309

Benoit Mayer

Reality and perfection of China’s addressing climate change legislation in post-Paris Agreement era pp. 311-331

Xiaobin Pan and Bowen Yang

How best to incorporate conjunctive water management into international water law: legal amendment, instrument coupling, or new protocol adoption? pp. 333-353

Imad Antoine Ibrahim and Jonathan Lautze

A critical assessment of the International Seabed Authority’s implementation of the Common Heritage of Mankind principle from the perspective of benefit-sharing regime pp. 355-371

Hao Shen

The green investment principles: from a nodal governance perspective pp. 373-393

Wenting Cheng

Correction: The green investment principles: from a nodal governance perspective pp. 395-396

Wenting Cheng

2023, volume 23, articles 2

Enhancing the achievement of the SDGs: lessons learned at the half-way point of the 2030 Agenda pp. 107-114

Philipp Pattberg and Karin Bäckstrand

Inclusive development, leaving no one behind, justice and the sustainable development goals pp. 115-121

Joyeeta Gupta and Courtney Vegelin

Changes in the practices and narratives of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 123-132

Ayṣem Mert and Elise Remling

Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals through integration with human rights pp. 133-139

Magdalena Bexell, Thomas Hickmann and Andrea Schapper

Can democracy accelerate sustainability transformations? Policy coherence for participatory co-existence pp. 141-148

Jonathan Pickering

The sustainable development goals: governing by goals, targets and indicators pp. 149-156

Graham Long, Jecel Censoro and Katharina Rietig

The SDGs as integrating force in global governance? Challenges and opportunities pp. 157-164

Maya Bogers, Frank Biermann, Agni Kalfagianni and Rakhyun E. Kim

Multi-stakeholder partnerships for the SDGs: is the “next generation” fit for purpose? pp. 165-171

Oscar Widerberg, Cornelia Fast, Montserrat Koloffon Rosas and Philipp Pattberg

Strengthening reflexive governance to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs pp. 173-178

Casey Stevens

Not all risks are equal: a risk governance framework for assessing the water SDG pp. 179-189

Johanna Karolina Louise Koehler

The SDGs and fossil fuel subsidy reform pp. 191-197

Harro Asselt

Achieving SDG 14 in an equitable and just way pp. 199-205

Bianca Haas

Inspiration from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for SDG 15 pp. 207-214

Ina Lehmann

Sustainable development an oxymoron? pp. 215-219

Joshua Philipp Elsässer

2023, volume 23, articles 1

How does the UNFCCC enable multi-level learning for the governance of adaptation? pp. 1-25

Javier Gonzales-Iwanciw, Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen and Art Dewulf

It’s not as simple as copy/paste: the EU’s remobilisation of the High Ambition Coalition in international climate governance pp. 27-42

Joseph Earsom

The Columbia River Treaty’s adaptive capacity for fish conservation pp. 43-75

Cedar Morton and Murray Rutherford

Boundaries of benefit sharing: interpretation and application of substantive rules in the Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa sub-basin of the Zambezi Watercourse pp. 77-97

Joanna Fatch, Alex Bolding and Larry A. Swatuk

Edith Brown Weiss: Establishing Norms in a Kaleidoscopic World pp. 99-101

Hermine Coppenolle

Retraction Note to: Prospects of legal regulation in the field of electronic waste management in the context of a circular economy pp. 103-103

Gulzhazira Ilyassova, Aigul Nukusheva, Leila Arenova, Guldana Karzhassova and Marzhangul Akimzhanova

Retraction Note: Development of corporate investment funds as a tool to achieve the goals of international treaties in the field of climate change pp. 105-105

Maira Bauer, Mariya Bulatenko and Natalia Shimshirt

2022, volume 22, articles 4

Global climate governance: rising trend of translateral cooperation pp. 639-657

Nataliya Stranadko

Designed to be stable: international environmental agreements revisited pp. 659-672

Nahid Masoudi

The “top-down” Kyoto Protocol? Exploring caricature and misrepresentation in literature on global climate change governance pp. 673-692

Joanna Depledge

Rethinking polycentricity: on the North–South imbalances in transnational climate change governance pp. 693-713

Cille Kaiser

Carbon border adjustment: a unilateral solution to the multilateral problem? pp. 715-733

Jeongmeen Suh

Credibility dilemmas under the Paris agreement: explaining fossil fuel subsidy reform references in INDCs pp. 735-759

Christian Elliott, Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann

Embracing policy paradoxes: EU’s Just Transition Fund and the aim “to leave no one behind” pp. 761-792

Simo Sarkki, Alice Ludvig, Maria Nijnik and Serhiy Kopiy

Europe’s nature governance revolution: harnessing the shadow of heterarchy pp. 793-824

Suzanne Kingston, Zizhen Wang, Edwin Alblas, Mícheál Callaghan, Julie Foulon, Clodagh Daly and Deirdre Norris

Biofuelling the energy transition in Nordic countries: explaining overachievement of EU renewable transport obligations pp. 825-842

Jon Birger Skjærseth, Per Ove Eikeland and Tor Håkon Inderberg

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Espoo Convention and its role in construction industry as an element of an environmental impact assessment mechanism pp. 843-843

Zhi-Jiang Liu, Ahmad Ghandour and Anastasia Kurilova

2022, volume 22, articles 3

Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success? pp. 411-437

Lynda Goldsworthy

An adaptation-mitigation game: does adaptation promote participation in international environmental agreements? pp. 439-479

Miguel Borrero and Santiago Rubio

Cultivated ties and strategic communication: do international environmental secretariats tailor information to increase their bureaucratic reputation? pp. 481-506

Linda Mederake, Barbara Saerbeck, Alexandra Goritz, Helge Jörgens, Mareike Well and Nina Kolleck

Environmental-agreement design and political ideology in democracies pp. 507-525

Tobias Böhmelt

Evaluation of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism’s contribution to an international climate policy framework pp. 527-542

Chaewoon Oh

eThekwini’s green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape: research paradigms, theories and epistocrats pp. 543-560

Richard Meissner

Population growth, family planning and the Paris Agreement: an assessment of the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) pp. 561-576

Jenna Dodson, Patricia Dérer, Philip Cafaro and Frank Götmark

CHANS-Law: preventing the next pandemic through the integration of social and environmental law pp. 577-597

Kirsten Davies, Michelle Lim, Tianbao Qin and Philip Riordan

Carbon emission, solid waste management, and electricity generation: a legal and empirical perspective for renewable energy in Nigeria pp. 599-619

Olusola Joshua Olujobi, Daniel E. Ufua, Uchechukwu Emena Okorie and Mercy E. Ogbari

International legal aspects of countering environmental terrorism in the context of modern trends in radical environmentalism pp. 621-636

Gulnara Balgimbekova, Roza Zhamiyeva, Abzal Serikbayev, Bulatbek Shnarbayev and Amanbek Mashabayev

Retraction Note to: Economic and legal regulation of the use and development of renewable energy sources pp. 637-637

Ali Sabyrzhan, Gulnara Balgimbekova and Viktor Shestak

2022, volume 22, articles 2

Lessons learnt from international environmental agreements for the Stockholm + 50 Conference: celebrating 20 Years of INEA pp. 229-244

Joyeeta Gupta, Courtney Vegelin and Nicky Pouw

The politics of multilateral environmental agreements lessons from 20 years of INEA pp. 245-262

Agni Kalfagianni and Oran R. Young

Lessons learnt from two decades of international environmental agreements: law pp. 263-278

Peter H. Sand and Jeffrey McGee

Economic analysis of international environmental agreements: lessons learnt 2000–2020 pp. 279-294

Nicky R. M. Pouw, Hans-Peter Weikard and Richard B. Howarth

20 Years of global climate change governance research: taking stock and moving forward pp. 295-315

Philipp Pattberg, Cille Kaiser, Oscar Widerberg and Johannes Stripple

Reflecting on twenty years of international agreements concerning water governance: insights and key learning pp. 317-332

Naho Mirumachi and Margot Hurlbert

Lessons learnt in global biodiversity governance pp. 333-352

Matilda Petersson and Peter Stoett

Agency dynamics of International Environmental Agreements: actors, contexts, and drivers pp. 353-372

Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Katharina Rietig and Michelle Scobie

Institutional interplay in global environmental governance: lessons learned and future research pp. 373-391

Joshua Philipp Elsässer, Thomas Hickmann, Sikina Jinnah, Sebastian Oberthür and Thijs Graaf

Equity, justice and the SDGs: lessons learnt from two decades of INEA scholarship pp. 393-409

Joyeeta Gupta, Aarti Gupta and Courtney Vegelin

2022, volume 22, articles 1

Understanding international non-state and subnational actors for biodiversity and their possible contributions to the post-2020 CBD global biodiversity framework: insights from six international cooperative initiatives pp. 1-25

Marcel T. J. Kok and Kathrin Ludwig

The democratisation of European nature governance 1992–2015: introducing the comparative nature governance index pp. 27-48

Suzanne Kingston, Zizhen Wang, Edwin Alblas, Micheál Callaghan, Julie Foulon, Valesca Lima and Geraldine Murphy

Australia’s interaction with Asian countries in the negotiation for an international agreement for the marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction pp. 49-65

Sandya Nishanthi Gunasekara and Md Saiful Karim

From the circular economy to the sustainable development goals in the European Union: an empirical comparison pp. 67-95

José Miguel Rodríguez-Antón, Luis Rubio-Andrada, María Soledad Celemín-Pedroche and Soraya María Ruíz-Peñalver

Domestic and international climate policies: complementarity or disparity? pp. 97-118

Lauri Peterson

RETRACTED ARTICLE:Development of corporate investment funds as a tool to achieve the goals of international treaties in the field of climate change pp. 119-138

Maira Bauer, Mariya Bulatenko and Natalia Shimshirt

Environmental agreement under the non-interference principle: the case of ASEAN agreement on transboundary haze pollution pp. 139-155

Fikri Muhammad

International legal instruments for stimulating green building and construction business: Russian case study pp. 157-175

Zhi-Jiang Liu, Vera Snezhko and Anastasia Kurilova

Problems of the effectiveness of the implementation of international agreements in the field of waste management: the study of the experience of Kazakhstan in the context of the applicability of European legal practices pp. 177-199

Roza Zhamiyeva, Gulmira Sultanbekova, Gulnara Balgimbekova, Kuat Mussin, Maral Abzalbekova and Murat Kozhanov

Protection of prior and late developers of transboundary water resources in international treaty practices: a review of 416 international water agreements pp. 201-228

Yue Zhao, Xuefei Xiong, Sicheng Wu and Kaixaing Zhang