All, Some time back I asked for help identifying good pieces on why states take the positions they do in international environmental negotiations generally and climate change negotiations in particular. This was for a final paper for my climate change course.
Belatedly, here are the results, including a set of links for students to actually identify the country positions they are going to explain before they try to explain them. Thanks to those who provided the citations! Ron Readings for Final Paper on “identifying why countries are taking the positions they are in the current climate change negotiations” Dependent variable information: State Policies and Positions * NPR Story about groups of states <http://www.npr.org/2015/08/31/434599379/how-are-u-n-climate-talks-like-a-mi ddle-school-cliques-rule> (Links to an external site.) and their positions * Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Progress -- <http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/climate-change-mitigation_97892642 38787-en> (Links to an external site.)OECD report including description of many states' positions * Countries positions and policies -- Guardian database <http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/oct/16/which-cou ntries-are-doing-the-most-to-stop-dangerous-global-warming?CMP=ema-60> (Links to an external site.) -- ANOTHER good place to start on positions * Best option for the countries you want to explain may be to Google the country name and "climate position" or "climate negotiating position" * UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris 2015 website <http://unfccc.int/2860.php> (Links to an external site.) -- good source for official information on the negotiations and for news * Earth Negotiation Bulletin daily reports from prior climate meetings: <http://www.iisd.ca/process/climate_atm.htm> (Links to an external site.)AND their Current Climate Negotiation News <http://climate-l.iisd.org/> (Links to an external site.): extremely reliable reporting on negotiations and positions taken -- you will need to dig a bit but will find invaluable information here. Theories of why states take the positions they do (your Independent Variables or IVs) and examples of scholars using them to explain the real positions of states -- imitate these well and you will be able to do a good paper) · Sprinz, D. F. and T. Vaahtoranta. 1994. The interest-based explanation of international environmental policy. International Organization 48(1): 77-105. Explains why states take particular negotiating positions. · Mitchell, R. B. 2010. International politics and the environment (ch. 5). London: Sage Publications · Hochstetler, K. and E. Viola. 2012. Brazil and the politics of climate change: beyond the global commons. Environmental Politics 21(5): 753-771. · Hochstetler, K. and M. Milkoreit. 2015. Responsibilities in Transition: Emerging Powers in the Climate Change Negotiations. Global Governance 21: 205-226. · Downie, C. 2012. Toward an understanding of state behavior in prolonged international negotiations. International Negotiation 17: 295-320. · Blaxekjær, L. Ø. and T. D. Nielsen. 2014. Mapping the narrative positions of new political groups under the UNFCCC. Climate Policy: 1-16. Ronald Mitchell, Professor Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284 [email protected] http://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/ IEA Database Director: http://iea.uoregon.edu/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
