The structures and resourcing of environmental public administrations matters immensely for governments’ abilities to address our many environmental challenges. But without cross-national data on what these organizations look like, it’s difficult to develop a general understanding of:
- which organizational features matter most, and under what conditions
- how to go about public sector reform in this context
- where global actors - such as international development agencies - should focus their work on institutional strengthening and prioritize distributing environmental/climate finance.
As such, much of my current research is focused on documenting variation in environmental ministries and agencies across the world.
Project Title
A global analysis of the structure and impacts of the environmental state
Systemic or Behavioral change(s) addressed
Humans’, corporations’, and governments’ behavior toward the environment
Empirical research strategies
Archival research, surveys
Possibilities for inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration
I would love to hear from researchers and practitioners who are interested in these topics. Researchers may be interested in teaming up on data collection or exploring analytical uses of these data. Practitioners may be interested in using these data for, e.g., benchmarking government structures and informing (international) capacity building in environmental policy.
Social transition(s) addressed
Environmental governance broadly, with an emphasis on climate and biodiversity