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What We Know (and Could Know) About International EnvironmentalAgreements

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  • RonaldB. Mitchell
  • LilianaB. Andonova
  • Mark Axelrod
  • Jörg Balsiger
  • Thomas Bernauer
  • JessicaF. Green
  • James Hollway
  • RakhyunE. Kim
  • Jean-Frédéric Morin

Abstract

Initiated in 2002, the International Environmental Agreements Data Base (IEADB)catalogs the texts, memberships, and design features of over 3,000 multilateraland bilateral environmental agreements. Using IEADB data, we create acomprehensive review of the evolution of international environmental law,including how the number, subjects, and state memberships in IEAs have changedover time. By providing IEA texts, the IEADB helps scholars identify andsystematically code IEA design features. We review scholarship derived from theIEADB on international environmental governance, including insights into IEAmembership, formation, and design as well as the deeper structure ofinternational environmental law. We note the IEADB’s value as a teachingtool to promote undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. TheIEADB’s structure and content opens up both broad research realms andspecific research questions, and facilitates the ability of scholars to use theIEADB to answer those questions of greatest interest to them.

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  • RonaldB. Mitchell & LilianaB. Andonova & Mark Axelrod & Jörg Balsiger & Thomas Bernauer & JessicaF. Green & James Hollway & RakhyunE. Kim & Jean-Frédéric Morin, 2020. "What We Know (and Could Know) About International EnvironmentalAgreements," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 20(1), pages 103-121, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:103-121
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