@article{ElsaesserHickmannJinnahetal.2022,
  author    = {Els{\"a}sser, Joshua Philipp and Hickmann, Thomas and Jinnah, Sikina and Oberthur, Sebastian and Van de Graaf, Thijs},
  title     = {Institutional interplay in global environmental governance},
  series = {International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics},
  volume    = {22},
  journal   = {International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Dordrecht},
  issn      = {1567-9764},
  doi       = {10.1007/s10784-022-09569-4},
  pages     = {373 -- 391},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Over the past decades, the growing proliferation of international institutions governing the global environment has impelled institutional interplay as a result of functional and normative overlap across multiple regimes. This article synthesizes primary contributions made in research on institutional interplay over the past twenty years, with particular focus on publications with International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. Broadening our understanding about the different types, dimensions, pathways, and effects of institutional interplay, scholars have produced key insights into the ways and means by which international institutions cooperate, manage discord, engage in problem solving, and capture synergies across levels and scales. As global environmental governance has become increasingly fragmented and complex, we recognize that recent studies have highlighted the growing interactions between transnationally operating institutions in the wake of polycentric governance and hybrid institutional complexes. However, our findings reveal that there is insufficient empirical and conceptual research to fully understand the relationship, causes, and consequences of interplay between intergovernmental and transnational institutions. Reflecting on the challenges of addressing regulatory gaps and mitigating the crisis of multilateralism, we expound the present research frontier for further advancing research on institutional interplay and provide recommendations to support policy-making.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HickmannElsaesser2020,
  author    = {Hickmann, Thomas and Els{\"a}sser, Joshua Philipp},
  title     = {New alliances in global environmental governance},
  series = {International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics},
  volume    = {20},
  journal   = {International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Dordrecht [u.a.]},
  issn      = {1567-9764},
  doi       = {10.1007/s10784-020-09493-5},
  pages     = {459 -- 481},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {The past few years have witnessed a growing interest among scholars and policy-makers in the interplay of international bureaucracies with civil society organizations, non-profit entities, and the private sector. Authors concerned with global environmental politics have made considerable progress in capturing this phenomenon. Nevertheless, we still lack in-depth empirical knowledge on the precise nature of such institutional interlinkages across governance levels and scales. Building upon the concept oforchestration, this article focuses on the relationship between specific types of international bureaucracies and actors other than the nation-state. In particular, we investigate how the secretariats of the three Rio Conventions reach out to non-state actors in order to exert influence on the outcome of international environmental negotiations. Our analysis demonstrates that the three intergovernmental treaty secretariats utilize various styles of orchestration in their relation to non-state actors and seek to push the global responses to the respective transboundary environmental problems forward. This article points to a recent trend towards a direct collaboration between these secretariats and non-state actors which gives rise to the idea that new alliances between these actors are emerging in global environmental governance.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ElsaesserHickmannStehle2018,
  author    = {Els{\"a}sser, Joshua Philipp and Hickmann, Thomas and Stehle, Fee},
  title     = {The Role of Cities in South Africa's Energy Gridlock},
  series = {Case Studies in the Environment},
  volume    = {2},
  journal   = {Case Studies in the Environment},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {University of California Press},
  address   = {Oakland},
  issn      = {2473-9510},
  doi       = {10.1525/cse.2018.001297},
  pages     = {1 -- 7},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {South Africa's energy sector finds itself in a gridlock situation. The sector is controlled by the state-owned utility Eskom holding the monopoly on the generation and transmission of electricity, which is almost exclusively produced from domestically extracted coal. At the same time, the constitutional mandate enables municipalities to distribute and sell electricity generated by Eskom to local consumers, which constitutes a large part of the cities' municipal income. This is a strong disincentive for city governments to promote reductions in energy consumption and substantially limits the scope for urban action on energy efficiency and renewable energies. In the present case study, we portray the current development in South Africa's energy policy and trace how deadlocked legal, financial, and institutional barriers block the transition from a coal-based energy system toward a greener and more sustainable energy economy. We furthermore point to the efforts of major South African cities to introduce low-carbon strategies in their jurisdictions and highlight key challenges for the future development of the country's energy sector. By engaging with this case study, readers will become familiar with a prime example of the wider phenomenon of national political-economic obstacles to the progress in sustainable urban development.},
  language  = {en}
}