SENSE PhD Training School
The 2011 PhD Training School on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Earth System Governance was held at the Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, on 26-29 September 2011.
The lecture slides from the event can be found here.
New Working Papers
The latest (downloadable) Global Governance Working Papers:
- The Effectiveness of Transnational Rule-Setting Organisations in Global Sustainability Politics: An Analytical Framework
- Technology Transfer through Water Partnerships. A Radical Framework of Assessment for Legitimacy
- Global Democracy Without Global Justice? Why a Procedural Account is Flawed
- Towards a World Environment Organisation: Identifying the Barriers to International Environmental Governance Reform
- The Good, the Bad, and the Even Worse: Explaining Variation in the Performance of Energy Partnerships
- Transparency to the Rescue? Assessing Effectiveness of 'Governance by Disclosure'
About the project
The Global Governance Project (Glogov.org) is a joint research programme of thirteen European research institutions that seeks to advance understanding of the new actors, institutions and mechanisms of global governance. While we address the phenomenon of global governance in general, most of our research projects focus on global environmental change and governance for sustainable development.
The Global Governance Project is co-ordinated by the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and includes associate faculty members and research fellows from thirteen European institutions: Science Po Bordeaux, University of Bremen, Freie Universität Berlin (Environmental Policy Research Centre), German Development Institute, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Geneva, London School of Economics and Political Science, Lund University, Oldenburg University, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, and Wageningen University. The Project was created in 2001 with the endorsement of the Institutional Dimensions core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).
Analytically, we define global governance by three criteria, which also shape the research groups within the Project.
First, we see global governance as characterised by the increasing participation of actors other than states, ranging from private actors such as multinational corporations and (networks of) scientists and environmentalists to intergovernmental organisations ('multiactor governance'). These new actors of global governance are the focus of our research group Manus-Managers of Global Change.
Second, we see global governance as marked by new mechanisms of organisation such as public-private and private-private partnerships, alongside the traditional system of legal treaties negotiated by states. This is the focus of our research group Mecglo-New Mechanisms of Global Governance.
Third, we see global governance as characterised by different layers and clusters of rule-making and rule-implementation, both vertically between supranational, international, national and subnational layers of authority ('multilevel governance') and horizontally between different parallel rule-making systems. This stands at the centre of our research group Mosaic-'Multiple Options, Solutions and Approaches: Institutional Interplay and Conflict'.
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Joint research programme
Glogov.org is a joint research programme of the:
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Free University Berlin
- University of Bremen
- Science Po Bordeaux
- German Development Institute
- Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Lund University
- Oldenburg University
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Wageningen University
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Fridtjof Nansen Institute
