What the Framework Convention on Climate Change Teaches Us About Cooperation on Climate Change

Abstract: "Arild Underdal has been at the center of an important community of scholars studying global environmental governance. Since the 1990s that community, along with many other scholars globally, has offered important insights into the design and management of international institutions that can lead to more effective management of environmental problems. At the same time, diplomats have made multiple attempts to create institutions to manage the dangers of climate change. This essay looks at what has been learned by both communities - scholars and practitioners - as their efforts co-evolved. It appears that despite a wealth of possible insights into making cooperation effective very few of the lessons offered by scholars had much impact during the first two decades of climate change diplomacy. Indeed, basic concepts from cooperation theory and evidence from case studies - many developed in Arild's orbit - can explain why those two decades achieved very little real cooperation. The new

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Politics and Governance ; 4 (2016) 3 ; 133-141

Classification
Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2016
Creator
Victor, David G.

DOI
10.17645/pag.v4i3.657
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019080312553283799703
Rights
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Victor, David G.

Time of origin

  • 2016

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