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Partner selection in international environmental networks: The effect of skills and money on cooperation in the Global South

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What explains cooperation in international environmental networks? What are the effects of skills and money on the decision by state agencies to collaborate across borders on environmental problems? This article answers these questions, showing that international cooperation provides environmental bureaucrats and their agencies with the opportunity to pool scarce resources, update critical skills, and attract funds from international donors. Theory and results offer novel findings on network homophily (the tendency of similar actors to work together), as international cooperation increases between environmental state agencies at similar levels of program development. Hypotheses are tested using social network analysis to measure cooperation on a dataset that includes all regional and global grants awarded over the past two decades by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

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  • Alcañiz, Isabella, 2016. "Partner selection in international environmental networks: The effect of skills and money on cooperation in the Global South," Environmental Science & Policy, Elsevier, vol. 55(P1), pages 107-115.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:enscpo:v:55:y:2016:i:p1:p:107-115
    DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.09.007
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