Global Environmental Politics and International Organizations

The Eurasian and European Experience
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-70411-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 296 g

The literature on environmental politics and regional governance has mainly been dedicated to the role played by the European Union (EU). The analysis of environmental agenda and politics of other regional international organisations (IOs) and banks remained in the shadows compared to studies of European actors. This book aims to address the following questions: How do various actors (such as regional IOs) matter in promoting an environmental agenda? What challenges do they face?

The first perspective developed in this book investigates European IOs (e.g., the EU, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and newly emerged Eurasian IOs (e.g., the Eurasian Economic Union, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank). The second perspective unfolds various environmental issues within the EU and across post-Communist EU members and candidate states (e.g., in Serbia, Latvia, Hungary). The analysis of these two perspectives discloses multiple dimensions in the impact of the EU and other regional and non-regional IOs on sustainable development. The book aspires to shed more light on the nexus of political and economic developments, and to contribute to better understanding of the role of a variety of IOs in sustainable development in Europe and Eurasia.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Post-Communist Economies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Obydenkova, Anastassia

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction—Global environmental politics and international organizations: the Eurasian and European experience 1. Environmental commitments and rhetoric over the pandemic crisis: social media and legitimation of the AIIB, the EAEU, and the EU 2. The impact of new actors in global environmental politics: the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development meets China 3. Do social and environmental capabilities improve bank stability? Evidence from transition countries 4. Post-accession backsliding and European Union environmental policies 5. Impact of the environmental taxes on reduction of emission from transport in Latvia 6. Environmental conflict, renewable energy, or both? Public opinion on small hydropower plants in Serbia

Über Autor(innen)

Anastassia Obydenkova is Research Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (IAE-CSIC) and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Spain. Her main areas of expertise are sustainable development, socio-economic and geopolitical transformations, global environmental politics, and area-focus on Eurasia and China. She is the author and editor of multiple books and articles on these topics. She was awarded research fellowships at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Universities.