New Publication New HCE publication on Polycentric Climate Governance

As a result of a project funded by the HCE, HCE Co-director Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun has published a new article on Polycentric Climate Governance.

The open-access paper on “Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs”, was authored by Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun together with Emiliano Levario Saad (Heidelberg University, Institut für Politische Wissenschaft) and Denise Gutiérrez (Environmental Geography Group at LMU Munich) and published in the journal Global Environmental Politics. 

The authors assess in this paper the factors that determine the partnership choices of 195 NGOs based in twenty-one Latin American countries. Their analysis reveals that the NGOs have formed networks with different types of organizations, which are located at different scales of the polycentric governance system. The findings of the regression models show that these factors especially explain the governance scale at which the NGOs’ partners operate. 

The article forms part of a special issue, edited by Prof. Paul Tobin, University of Manchester (UK), Prof. Dave Huitema, Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) and Dr. Elke Kellner, Arizona State University (USA). 

It is an output of a collaborative research projected funded by the Heidelberg Center for the Environment, which was carried out by Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun (HCE Co-Director and Professor, Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University) with Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler (Chair of Economic Geographies of the Future at LMU Munich) and Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann (Junior Professor of “Innovation and Sustainability in Ibero-America” at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies).