Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this book examines the role that inter-national public administrations play in global environmental politics in the Anthropocene. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, the book offers fresh insight into how international bureaucracies shape global policies in the complex areas of climate change, biodiversity, and development polic…
This book explores the best mechanisms for helping bring about states’ compliance with international treaties. Many recent treaties include noncompliance mechanisms (NCMs) to facilitate implementation and promote parties’ compliance with their obligations. These NCMs exist alongside the formal dispute resolution processes of international courts and tribunals. …
When international courts are given sweeping powers, why would they ever refuse to use them? The book explains how and when courts employ strategies for institutional survival and resilience forbearance and audacity, which help them adjust their sovereignty costs to pre-empt and mitigate backlash and political pushback.
Speeding up land reform through a constitutional amendment that would explicitly permit the expropriation of land without compensation has dominated legal and political-policy debates in South Africa in recent years.
Examining the twenty years since China acceded to the World Trade Organization, this collection provides an original, systematic assessment of the opportunities and challenges that China has presented to the WTO. Offering in-depth analyses of the “two-way†relationship between China and the WTO.
The majority of the world’s largest carbon emitters are either federations or have adopted systems of decentralised governance. The realization of the world’s climate mitigation objectives, therefore, depends in large part on whether and how governments within federal systems can cooperate to reduce carbon emissions and catalyze the emergence of low-carbon soci…
Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change is the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was prepared by its Working Group III. The volume provides an updated global assessment of current and projected emissions from all sources and sectors, mitigation options that reduce emissions or remove greenhouse gases from the a…