"Emerging economies have fundamentally transformed global environmental politics. Led by China and India, they increasingly make or break international negotiations, which now require agreement among a large number of governments with widely varied preferences. Emerging economies-which still...

Given the rapid growth of resource consumption and pollution in the developing world, the importance of environmental governance in the global South has increased in recent years. In this article, we examine the global spread of environmental ministries. We argue that developing countries have...

Does political alignment at different levels of government influence centralized bureaucratic processes? Environmental clearances are important regulatory tools that allow governments to target the distribution of public goods/bads by both controlling negative externalities and allocating rents...

The term "global South" refers to developing countries as a whole, but recently, numerous developing countries -- Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Thailand, South Africa, and others -- simultaneously grew wealthier while many other countries remain poor. This prompts a...

Ambient air pollution kills over four million people every year globally. Improving air quality presents a complex problem for governments as emissions are produced from a wide range of sources and tend to cross boundaries. To understand the challenge of transboundary air pollution transfer, we...