Managing the global commons: common good or common sink? [PDF]
Third World Quarterly, 2016 The global commons, comprising the areas and resources beyond the sovereignty of any state, build upon the heritage of Grotius’s idea of mare liberum – an idea that aimed to preserve the freedom of access for the benefit of all. However, the old mare liberum idea digressed into ‘first come, first served’ advantages for industrialised countries ...
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Constructing a climate change logic: An institutional perspective on the "tragedy of the commons" [PDF]
Organization Science, 2013 Despite increasing interest in transnational fields, transnational commons have received little attention. In contrast to economic models of commons, which argue that commons occur naturally and are prone to collective inaction and tragedy, we introduce ...
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Is the Paris Agreement effective? A systematic map of the evidence
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 The Paris Agreement (PA) sets out to strengthen the global response to climate change, setting targets for mitigation, adaptation, and finance, and establishing mechanisms through which to achieve these targets.
Kilian Raiser +3 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2021 This paper reviews quantitative estimates of the economic and environmental benefits from different forms of international co-ordination on carbon pricing based on economic modelling studies.
Sneha Thube +3 more
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Road to glory or highway to hell? Global road access and climate change mitigation
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Transportation infrastructure is considered a key factor for economic development and poverty alleviation. The United Nations have explicitly included the provision of transport infrastructure access, e.g.
Leonie Wenz +3 more
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From Targets to Action: Rolling up our Sleeves after Paris
Global Challenges, 2017 At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015 ambitious targets for responding to the threat of climate change have been set: limiting global temperature increase to “well below 2 °C […] and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature ...
Brigitte Knopf +5 more
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Detecting a signal in the noise : Monitoring the global spread of novel psychoactive substances using media and other open source information [PDF]
, 2015 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no ...
Canadian Community Epidemiology Network On Drug Use +3 more
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Global citizenship education at the crossroads: Globalization, global commons, common good, and critical consciousness [PDF]
PROSPECTS, 2020 AbstractThis article-dialogue addresses current criticisms of global citizenship and challenges frequent misinterpretations of Global Citizenship Education (GCE), while discussing what it means to educate for critical global citizenry in an increasingly multicultural world.
Torres, CA, Bosio, E
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Complex Politics: A Quantitative Semantic and Topological Analysis of UK House of Commons Debates [PDF]
, 2015 This study is a first, exploratory attempt to use quantitative semantics techniques and topological analysis to analyze systemic patterns arising in a complex political system.
Battiston, Federico +10 more
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Striving towards 2050 net zero CO2 emissions: How critical are clean energy and financial sectors?
Heliyon, 2023 The development of clean energy and financial sectors have been highlighted as critical factors in tackling climate change and achieving net zero emissions goals.
Haibo Chen +2 more
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