LIST OF PANELS

The panel aims at addressing the complexities of policy analysis from a comparative cross-perspective and from the specific standing point of the discipline and the most recent developments in the field of environmental research. The issue of the governance of climate change gravitates around specific dedicated objects, like the policy transfer (Alibasic 2023) or diffusion of grand accords, specific related policies that are critical to mitigation strategies (like transportation and energy transitions (Artigas & Mouton 2017) or specific levels (Grin 2024) concerned by environmental strategies (like national plans or specific local governmental responses at the city§metro level) and their corresponding capacity-building dynamics. More novel research has pinpointed specific issues pertaining to policy dismantling of specific related policies, zombi policies (Peters & Nagel 2020)  politicization/mobilization/and conflictuality in regards to specific issues that remain low in the policy agenda, the increasing intersection of environmental technologies regulation, among others. Cutting across these different issues and research objects, fundamental dimensions of multi-level governance (considering the rapport between levels within supranational entities, cities and national governments or specific regional administrative constructs) have become relevant as per coordination imperatives of climate based policies. 

This panel is open to a wide variety of environmental related topics and methodological approaches, keeping however an important silver lining of comparative studies, looking into how research can communicate better, discussing concepts such as framing, instrumentation, evaluation across their context specific meanings and at times difficult adaptation. In this context, several issues should be considered: to facilitate the promotion of cross-comparative research on environmental governance, especially in critical regions of the planet, exposed to the full onslaught of climate change but confronted as well to significant shortcomings in terms of streamlining of environmental programs, to improve local government policy capacity, to take into account the weight of climate diplomacies and technical cooperation agencies and the power of central states. Furthermore, many countries have been facing contradictory issues such as climate change denialism and the fundamental challenge of the integration of expertise to their policy process. What can we learn from these parallel and increasingly convergent agendas worldwide?

Artigas A. & Mouton M,  La ville verte en Asie in Leducq Divya, Scarwell Helga-Jane & Ingallina Patrizia (dir.), Modèles de la ville durable en Asie. Utopies, circulation des pratiques, gouvernance, Bruxelles, PIE-Peter Lang, 2017, 420 p.

Atienza, Maria Ela L. and Tadem, Teresa S. Encarnacion. 2023. “Reforms and Ways Forward for Responsible Governance, Decentralization, and Equitable Development”, pp 489–518. In Tadem, T.S.E., Atienza, M.E.L. (eds), A Better Metro Manila?; Towards Responsible Local Governance, Decentralization and Equitable Development. Palgrave Macmillan,

Grin, E. Deciphering the sphinx of subnational bureaucracy in Brazilian federalism: What is hiding behind this reality? Cad. Gest. Pública Cid. 29 • 2024

Peters, Brainard Guy & Nagel, Maximilian Lennart (2020). Zombie Ideas: Why Failed Policy Ideas Persist. Cambridge University Press.

Steinberg, Paul F., and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. Comparative Environmental Politics: Theory, Practice, and Prospects. The MIT Press, 2012. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vjs7f.