TY - JOUR
A1 - Hickmann, Thomas
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Höhne, Chris
A1 - Lederer, Markus
A1 - Stehle, Fee
T1 - Carbon Governance Arrangements and the Nation-State: The Reconfiguration of Public Authority in Developing Countries
JF - Public administration and development
N2 - Several scholars concerned with global policy-making have recently pointed to a reconfiguration of authority in the area of climate politics. They have shown that various new carbon governance arrangements have emerged, which operate simultaneously at different governmental levels. However, despite the numerous descriptions and mapping exercises of these governance arrangements, we have little systematic knowledge on their workings within national jurisdictions, let alone about their impact on public-administrative systems in developing countries. Therefore, this article opens the black box of the nation-state and explores how and to what extent two different arrangements, that is, Transnational City Networks and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, generate changes in the distribution of public authority in nation-states and their administrations. Building upon conceptual assumptions that the former is likely to lead to more decentralized, and the latter to more centralized policy-making, we provide insights from case studies in Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, and India. In a nutshell, our analysis underscores that Transnational City Networks strengthen climate-related actions taken by cities without ultimately decentralizing climate policy-making. On the other hand, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation tends to reinforce the competencies of central governments, but apparently does not generate a recentralization of the forestry sector at large.
KW - authority
KW - climate politics
KW - decentralization
KW - developing countries
KW - global south
KW - public administration
KW - REDD
KW - transnational city networks
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1814
SN - 0271-2075
SN - 1099-162X
VL - 37
SP - 331
EP - 343
PB - Wiley
CY - Hoboken
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - The rise of the Global South and the rise in carbon emissions
JF - Third world quarterly
N2 - Jointly with the Global North, the rise of the Global South has come at a high cost to the environment. Driven by its high energy intensity and the use of fossil fuels, the South has contributed a significant portion of global emissions during the last 30 years, and is now contributing some 63% of today's total GHG emissions (including land-use change and forestry). Similar to the Global North, the Global South's emissions are heavily concentrated: India and China alone account for some 60% and the top 10 countries for some 78% of the group's emissions, while some 120 countries account for only 22%. Without highlighting such differences, it makes little sense to use the term 'Global South'. Its members are affected differently, and contribute differently to global climate change. They neither share a common view, nor do they pursue joint interests when it comes to international climate negotiations. Instead, they are organised into more than a dozen subgroups of the global climate regime. There is no single climate strategy for the Global South, and climate action will differ enormously from country to country. Furthermore, just and equitable transitions may be particularly challenging for some countries.
KW - Climate change
KW - international development
KW - energy
KW - environmental policy
KW - Global South
KW - transition policy
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1954901
SN - 0143-6597
SN - 1360-2241
VL - 42
IS - 11
SP - 2724
EP - 2746
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Hickmann, Thomas
A1 - Kern, Kristine
T1 - The role of cities in multi-level climate governance
BT - local climate policies and the 1.5 degrees C target
JF - Current opinion in environmental sustainability
N2 - The past two decades have witnessed widespread scholarly interest in the role of cities in climate policy-making. This research has considerably improved our understanding of the local level in the global response to climate change. The present article synthesizes the literature on local climate policies with respect to the 1.5 degrees C target. While most studies have focused on pioneering cities and networks, we contend that the broader impacts of local climate actions and their relationship to regional, national, and international policy frameworks have not been studied in enough detail. Against this backdrop, we introduce the concept of upscaling and contend that local climate initiatives must go hand in hand with higher-level policies and be better integrated into the multi-level governance system.
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.10.006
SN - 1877-3435
SN - 1877-3443
VL - 30
SP - 1
EP - 6
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Rezension zu: Geopolitical economy of energy and anvironment : China and the European Union / Hrsg.: Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi ; Yang, Guang. - Leiden: Brill, 2017. - ISBN: 978-90-04-27310-8
JF - Comparative sociology
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341522
SN - 1569-1322
SN - 1569-1330
VL - 19
IS - 1
SP - 151
EP - 153
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Campbell, Tim
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Conclusions and policy lessons
Y1 - 2004
SN - 0-8213-5707-7
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Introduction and Preview
Y1 - 2004
SN - 0-8213-5707-7
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Context of change : decentralization and state reform in Latin America
Y1 - 2004
SN - 0-8213-5707-7
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Campbell, Tim
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Research questions : inventing decentralized government
Y1 - 2004
SN - 0-8213-5707-7
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Campbell, Tim
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Selection of cases and methods
Y1 - 2004
SN - 0-8213-5707-7
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Modernizing a provincial public sector : an experiment in Mendoza, Argentina
Y1 - 2004
SN - 0-8213-5707-7
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Institutional change and new incentive structures for development : can decentralization and better local governance help?
N2 - This paper focuses on some of the factors explaining recent trends in decentralisation, and some areas where decentralisation has had a positive impact, including bringing citizens into public affairs, improving sub-national public administration, and stimulating local economic development. It concludes by exploring the dangers and the implications for governments of differing capabilities starting out on the decentralisation path. More specifically, the paper stresses the underlying incentive structures within states in reform. It suggests a country-specific discussion of both vertical and horizontal incentive structures in decentralisation, as well as clear-cut accountability within a public sector in change. While vertical incentive structures mean defined rules for intergovernmental relationships, horizontal incentive structures mean defined rules between local governments, their citizens and the local private sector. Both sets of incentives need to be reformed jointly to stimulate better results from decentralisation and for better performance of local government. Neglecting one of them, could harm development. Above all, politics and processes are key to understanding, and eventually, managing decentralisation effectively.
Y1 - 1999
U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-11492
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Höhne, Chris
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Hickmann, Thomas
A1 - Lederer, Markus
A1 - Stehle, Fee
ED - Nuesiri, Emmanuel O.
T1 - REDD plus and the reconfiguration of public authority in the forest sector
BT - a comparative case study of Indonesia and Brazil
JF - Global Forest Governance and Climate Change
N2 - Since the 1980s, central governments have decentralized forestry to local governments in many countries of the Global South. More recently, REDD+ has started to impact forest policy-making in these countries by providing incentives to ensure a national-level approach to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Höhne et al. analyze to what extent central governments have rebuilt capacity at the national level, imposed regulations from above, and interfered in forest management by local governments for advancing REDD+. Using the examples of Brazil and Indonesia, the chapter illustrates that while REDD+ has not initiated a large-scale recentralization in the forestry sector, it has supported the reinforcement and pooling of REDD+ related competences at the central government level.
Y1 - 2018
SN - 978-3-319-71946-7
SN - 978-3-319-71945-0
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71946-7_8
SP - 203
EP - 241
PB - Palgrave
CY - Basingstoke
ER -
TY - CHAP
A1 - Lederer, Markus
A1 - Höhne, Chris
A1 - Stehle, Fee
A1 - Hickmann, Thomas
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
ED - Wurzel, Rüdiger K. W.
ED - Andersen, Mikael Skou
ED - Tobin, Paul
T1 - Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia
BT - domestic pioneership and leadership in the Global South
T2 - Climate governance across the globe : Pioneers, leaders and followers
N2 - Focusing on forest policy and urban climate politics in Brazil and Indonesia, the primary objective of this chapter is to identify domestic pioneers and leaders who, compared to other sectors, governmental levels or jurisdictions within the same nation-state, move ‘ahead of the troops’ (Liefferink and Wurzel, 2017: 2-3). The chapter focuses especially on the role of multilevel governance in bringing about pioneership and leadership and on the different types of that have emerged. It also explores whether and, if so, to what extent domestic pioneers and leaders attract followers and whether there are signs of sustained domestic leadership. The chapter identifies the actors that constitute pioneers and leaders and assesses the processes which lead to their emergence. The chapter authors take up Wurzel et al.’s (2019) call to open up the black box of the nation-state. But instead of stressing the role of non-state actors, the chapter authors focus on vertical interactions among different governmental levels within nation states. The main argument put forward is that international and transnational processes, incentives, and ideas often trigger the development of domestic pioneership and leadership. Such processes, however, cannot be understood properly if domestic politics and dynamics across governmental levels within the nation-state are not taken into account.
Y1 - 2020
SN - 978-1-003-01424-9
SN - 978-0-367-65047-6
SN - 978-0-367-43436-6
U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003014249
SP - 101
EP - 119
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Lederer, Markus
T1 - Emerging modes of governance and climate protection : the Role of green companies in newly industrializing countries
Y1 - 2008
SN - 978-81-8450-080-6
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Lederer, Markus
A1 - Schröder, Miriam
T1 - Klimaschutz und Entwicklungspolitik : der Beitrag privater Unternehmen
Y1 - 2007
SN - 978-3-8329-3154-4
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Lederer, Markus
T1 - Regieren in der Globalisierung
Y1 - 2009
SN - 978-3-16-149743-8
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Lederer, Markus
T1 - Varieties of carbon governance in newly industrializing
Y1 - 2009
SN - 1070-4965
ER -
TY - CHAP
A1 - Höhne, Chris
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Hickmann, Thomas
A1 - Lederer, Markus
A1 - Stehle, Fee
ED - Nuesiri, Emmanuel O.
T1 - REDD+ and the reconfiguration of public authority in the forest sector
BT - a comparative case study of Indonesia and Brazil
T2 - Global Forest Governance and Climate Change
Y1 - 2018
SN - 978-3-319-71945-0
SP - 203
EP - 241
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hecke, Steven van
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Wolfs, Wouter
T1 - The politics of crisis management by regional and international organizations in fighting against a global pandemic
BT - the member states at a crossroads
JF - International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration
N2 - Despite new challenges like climate change and digitalization, global and regional organizations recently went through turbulent times due to a lack of support from several of their member states. Next to this crisis of multilateralism, the COVID-19 pandemic now seems to question the added value of international organizations for addressing global governance issues more specifically. This article analyses this double challenge that several organizations are facing and compares their ways of managing the crisis by looking at their institutional and political context, their governance structure, and their behaviour during the pandemic until June 2020. More specifically, it will explain the different and fragmented responses of the World Health Organization, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund/World Bank. With the aim of understanding the old and new problems that these international organizations are trying to solve, this article argues that the level of autonomy vis-a-vis the member states is crucial for understanding the politics of crisis management.
Points for practitioners
As intergovernmental bodies, international organizations require authorization by their member states. Since they also need funding for their operations, different degrees of autonomy also matter for reacting to emerging challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The potential for international organizations is limited, though through proactive and bold initiatives, they can seize the opportunity of the crisis and partly overcome institutional and political constraints.
KW - autonomy
KW - COVID-19
KW - crisis management
KW - European Union
KW - International
KW - Monetary Fund
KW - international organizations
KW - multilateralism
KW - World Bank
KW - World Health Organization
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852320984516
SN - 0020-8523
SN - 1461-7226
VL - 87
IS - 3
SP - 672
EP - 690
PB - Sage
CY - Los Angeles, Calif. [u.a.]
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Globale Herausforderung, internationale Beziehungen und Entwicklungspolitik : offene Fragen und einige Anregungen
Y1 - 1997
ER -