Environmental regionalism: moving in from the policy margins

Elliott, Lorraine

doi:10.1080/09512748.2017.1303534

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“…36 Second, ROs contribute actively to environmental norm diffusion. 37 Since their geographic scope is narrower than IGOs, ROs can 'benefit from enhanced commonalities in a particular environmental challenge, greater familiarity with key actors and the ability to tailor mitigating action to a smaller than global constituency'. 38 Researchers note ROs' ability to contextualize global environmental norms and to identify relevant local context and credible local actors to support their adoption; additionally, they document many specific ROs, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), that are actively engaged in environmental norm diffusion.…”

Section: Environmental Norm Diffusion Scholarshipmentioning

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Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals

Angstadt

2022

Rev Euro Comp Intl Enviro

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As international environmental law grows decentralized, it is increasingly important to understand how norms promoting new environmental law institutions diffuse. This article identifies the actor classes that are promoting a norm supporting the establishment of specialized environmental courts and tribunals. It first surveys existing literature on environmental and institutional norm diffusion for foundational insight. Using document review, expert surveys and elite interviews, the article identifies key actors who have sought to promote environmental court establishment. The findings affirm that environmental courts have been promoted by widely recognized agents of environmental norm diffusion, including intergovernmental organizations, regional organizations and nongovernmental organizations. However, the results also emphasize that global environmental norms reflect active engagement by domestic judges, courts and judicial networks. This finding holds broad theoretical relevance for legal transfer and norm dynamics research in global environmental governance. First, while domestic judges are widely recognized for implementing international environmental legal norms and contributing to the governance of specific environmental regimes, this study demonstrates a case where domestic judges' norm entrepreneurship has actively supported the global diffusion of an emergent institutional norm. Second, while institutional actors including intergovernmental organizations, regional organizations, nongovernmental organizations and judicial networks are known to directly advocate new environmental institutions, this article emphasizes that they also catalyse normative dialogue, intentionally facilitating exchanges among domestic judges and actors. Collectively, these insights support ongoing research examining what values domestic environmental courts may reflect and how domestic judges and courts support environmental norm diffusion, broadly. Finally, the interdisciplinary nature of these findings underscores the benefit and practice-relevance of further integrating norm diffusion scholarship in international environmental law and global environmental politics. | INTRODUCTIONAs global environmental politics and international environmental law principles are increasingly interpreted and implemented in decentralized, domestic and subnational settings, domestic courts and judges offer valuable and often innovative pathways for governing global challenges. 1 Simultaneously, understanding who is advocating 1

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Section: Environmental Norm Diffusion Scholarshipmentioning

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Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals

Angstadt

2022

Rev Euro Comp Intl Enviro

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“…Some studies focused on law and governance (Elliott, 2012 ; Koh, 2013 ; Mori, 2013 ). There have also been studies of regional cooperation efforts (Elliott, 2017 ) to address these problems. Some of these efforts, such as the ASEAN Haze Agreement, are within ASEAN itself (Lee et al, 2016 ; Muhammad, 2021 ; Nurhidayah et al, 2014 ; Varkkey, 2014 ).…”

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ASEAN countries’ environmental policies for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Elder

Ellis

2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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This study’s objective is to examine how ASEAN countries reported their environment-related policies for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), and a dataset of their environmental policies was developed. This is a necessary first step in analyzing the reasons for insufficient progress on the environmental dimension of the SDGs, since policies are key means of implementation. Previous studies of SDG progress and VNRs examined many aspects such as achievement levels, indicators, data, governance, and VNR preparation procedures, but surprisingly, there has been little discussion of countries’ actual policy efforts. Progress on the SDGs’ environmental dimensions is widely considered insufficient, including in Asia. This study showed that insufficient progress on the environmental dimension of the SDGs is not due to a lack of environmental policies or a lower prioritization of policies for environmental SDG targets. ASEAN countries included almost 600 concrete environment-related policies in their VNRs, widely distributed among most SDGs, accounting for about 40 percent of their total reported SDG-related policies. The number of environmental policies was not closely related to GDP, GDP per capita, or VNR date. Many policies appeared substantial, including national action plans, strategies, laws, and regulations, not just small projects or programs. However, some major existing environmental policies, for example on air pollution, were usually not included in the VNRs. Further research is needed to explore other possible factors such as insufficient policy implementation or effectiveness, which this study could not examine. This study’s environmental policy dataset provides the necessary baseline for future research on policy implementation and effectiveness, especially to help future studies identify ASEAN countries’ environmental policies in specific areas such as climate, energy, or water. This will also facilitate comparative analysis.

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“…Regional security complexes and alliances best illustrate security regionalism. This way of thinking about clusters of regionalism has also been recently utilised by scholars working in the field of climate change and refers to environmental regionalism to highlight the role of regional organsations in cooperating on the issues of environment (Elliott, 2017).…”

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Regionalism

Buranelli¹,

Tskhay²

2019

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies

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“Regionalism” is a polysemic term that represents both a subfield of international relations (IR) that studies regions of the world and a process of formation of regions themselves. Its meaning and content have evolved substantially from its inception in the 1940s to its most recent contributions in the early 21st century. More precisely, the field of regionalism was severely marked by neofunctionalism theory and an economic reading of international relations in the years of the Cold War and then embraced new contributions from post-positivist and critical theories and methodologies from the 1990s onward, which featured not only different manifestations and causes but also different normative meanings. Regionalism has progressively moved away from Europe over the years (both as a site of production of research and as an empirical case study) to explore non-European and, more widely, non-Western and postcolonial domains, challenging Eurocentric theoretical and epistemological assumptions in IR. In addition, the two subfields of comparative regionalism and interregionalism have become prominent. The field of regionalism is more dynamic than ever, developing, self-innovating, and becoming more conceptually aware, while at the same time being susceptible to weaknesses, blind spots, and potential for further improvement and deeper dialogue with IR theory.

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Environmental regionalism: moving in from the policy margins

Cited by 16 publications

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Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals

Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals

ASEAN countries’ environmental policies for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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