Abstract Initiated in 2002, the International Environmental Agreements Data Base (IEADB)
catalogs the texts, memberships, and design features of over 3,000 multilateral and bilateral …

Acting to demarcate the spatial limits of decision-making processes, socio-political
boundaries are an inevitable part of a human-dominated world. Rarely coincident with …

International institutions are prevalent in world politics. More than a thousand multilateral
treaties are in place just to protect the environment alone, and there are many more. And yet …

Telecoupling constitutes a particular class of globalized environmental issues that are
neither local-cumulative, nor transboundary, nor concerning global commons, but that arise …

Commons governance theory is central to identifying and managing conflicts arising from
natural and cultural resources traps. Scholars–using game theory and economic analysis of …

Regional environmental governance has emerged as a viable alternative to supranational
environmental solutions, using regional and local knowledge and actors to tailor more …

Over the past decade, an increasingly sophisticated literature has sought to capture the
nature, sources, and consequences of a novel empirical phenomenon in world politics: the …

This article explores the growing environmental activism of nondemocratic regional
organizations (NDROs) by investigating the case of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization …

Mangroves provide critical ecosystems services, contributing an estimated 42 billion US
dollars to global fisheries, storing 25.5 million tons of carbon per year, and providing flood …

Regional international organizations (IOs) are considered to be among the most efficient
platforms in promoting an environmental agenda at global, regional, and national levels …