Causal Mechanisms and the Study of International Environmental Regimes

2004 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Jon Hovi
Keyword(s):  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Environmental Regimes ◽  
International Environmental Regimes

14. The Political Economy of the Environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 384-412
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Regimes ◽  
Environmental Institutions ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
History Of ◽  
Growth Production ◽  
International Environmental Regimes

This chapter assesses the global political economy of the environment. The growth of the world economy is transforming the Earth's environment. Nothing is particularly controversial about this statement. Yet, sharp disagreements arise over the nature of this transformation. Is the globalization of capitalism a force of progress and environmental solutions? Or is it a cause of the current global environmental crisis? The chapter addresses these questions by examining the debates around some of the most contentious issues at the core of economic globalization and the environment: economic growth, production, and consumption; trade; and transnational investment. It begins with a glance at the general arguments about how the global political economy affects the global environment. The chapter then traces the history of global environmentalism — in particular, the emergence of international environmental institutions with the norm of sustainable development. It also evaluates the effectiveness of North–South environmental financing and international environmental regimes.

The International Regimes Database: Designing and Using a Sophisticated Tool for Institutional Analysis

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oran R. Young ◽  
Michael Zürn
Keyword(s):  
Decision Rules ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
International Regimes ◽  
Comparable Data ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Environmental Regimes ◽  
Database Designing ◽  
International Environmental Regimes ◽  
Qualitative Analyses ◽  
Current Emphasis

This article presents the International Regimes Database (IRD), an analytical tool designed to (i) move regime analysis from its current emphasis on the use of discrete case studies to the use of a relational database encompassing comparable data on a large number of cases and (ii) facilitate quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of hypotheses dealing with international regimes. The article describes the architecture of this database, introduces some preliminary findings relating to compliance, decision rules, and programmatic activities, and discusses methodological issues pertaining to the use of the database on the part of other scholars. It provides a short and easily accessible introduction to the book-length treatment of the IRD contained in: Helmut Breitmeier, Oran R. Young, and Michael Zürn, Analyzing International Environmental Regimes, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

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