International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance

Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this book examines the role that international 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 policy. International public administrations are recognized as partially autonomous actors with their own interests and motivations, assuming the roles of managers, orchestrators, brokers, or attention-seekers. This comprehensive resource provides scholars and practitioners with valuable insight into environmental policymaking and how international public administrations might be transformed to better address the multiple, fundamental challenges of our century. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Helge Jörgens is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and an integrated researcher at CIES-IUL, the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Lisbon. He has coedited several books on environmental policy, including Understanding Environmental Policy Convergence (Cambridge University Press, 2014), A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy (Edward Elgar, 2017), and the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy (Routledge, 2023).

Nina Kolleck is Full Professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Prior to her current role, she held professorships at Leipzig University, RWTH Aachen University, and the Free University Berlin. Additionally, she has served as a visiting Professor at institutions such as the University of California, Berkeley, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Mareike Well is a Ph.D. candidate at the Free University Berlin. She works at the German Federal Foreign Office on international and European climate policy and climate diplomacy. Her research interests include multilateral negotiations on climate change, biodiversity, and educational issues. Her publications have appeared in Global Governance, Global Environmental Politics, and Climate Policy.