Virtual Panel: Climate Governance & Policy Design

Abstract

This panel examines how environmental policies are designed, contested, and put into practice across a wide range of settings, from the internal climate rules of public organisations to river basin water conflicts, national systems of social protection, and the regulation of chemicals at EU level. The empirical terrain includes Switzerland, France, Sri Lanka, and Europe more broadly, and the approaches range from quasi-experimental evaluation to comparative policy mapping and in-depth qualitative fieldwork. Three themes run through the panel. The first is effectiveness: what we can credibly say about whether particular instruments work, and under what conditions. The second is implementation and capacity, and specifically the recurring finding that administrative arrangements, fragmented mandates, and regulatory practice matter as much as the formal content of policy. The third is distribution and resistance: environmental policies reallocate entitlements, and those who stand to lose have reliable means of delay, whether through property rights, litigation, framing, or venue shopping. The panel is intended to be useful to anyone working on policy instruments, environmental governance, or the politics of implementation.

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Internationality Vs. Sustainability: Measuring the Effectiveness and Fairness of Flight‑reduction Policies at Universities	View Paper Details
Completing the Circle: Trust Negotiations for Circular Economy Between Private Sector and State Actors in Sri Lanka	View Paper Details
Chemical Pollution and Risks Towards Biodiversity - About the Role of the Precautionary Principle in the EU Chemical Risk Governance	View Paper Details
Maintaining the Status Quo Under Increasing Drought Risk: How Public Policies and Property Rights Shape Agricultural Water Uses in Western France	View Paper Details
Protecting and Adapting to Rising Environmental Risks: Variations in Policy-Mixes Across European Welfare States	View Paper Details