The subject of this paper is the importance of the diffusion of environmental innovations between countries for the global development of environmental policy. Empirical observation has shown that national environmental initiatives are often rapidly adopted by other countries; thus, these...

In der vorliegenden Studie werden die Handlungsoptionen deutscher Kommunen als Akteure im Klimaschutz untersucht. Gerade auf lokaler Ebene ist die Durchführung entsprechender Maßnahmen unverzichtbar, sollen die global, europaweit und national angestrebten CO2-Reduktionsziele erreicht werden....

Die Umweltpolitik gilt als wichtiger Eckpfeiler rot-grüner Politik in Deutschland. Um deren Erfolg beurteilen zu können, müssen nationale Pfadabhängigkeiten wie auch globale Politikkonvergenzen berücksichtigt werden. Deshalb wird eine Konzeption gewählt, die zwei Dimensionen umfasst: das...

After the end of the Cold War, the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) developed into a highly dynamic area of cross-border cooperation and transnational networking. Four types of governance beyond the nation-state are discussed here: (1) international regimes, such as the Helsinki Convention for the...

More than ten years after the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, which marked the institutionalization of Agenda 21 and the beginning of Local Agenda 21 processes all over the world, it is time to summarize and evaluate the situation with respect to Local Agenda 21 in Germany. Even in Germany, which can...

When the topic of global governance or post-national governance arises, it generally does so in the context of the co-operation between nation states, international agreements and the role of international organizations. As opposed to this, global governance through the self-organization of...