[gep-ed] New article on Moral Duties, compliance and polycentric climate governance

[Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh]

Dear GEP-Ed Colleagues,    I just wished to share my latest journal article on Moral Duties, Compliance and Polycentric Climate Governance (which just came out in International Environmental Agreements). In this paper, I develop a normative cartography to address the problem of non-compliance with duties of climate change mitigation in a context of polycentric governance.    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-020-09494-4?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_source=ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AA_en_06082018&ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst_20200710   I hope it will be of interest to you! For those without institutional access, please email me.    All the very best,    Alex     ***** Abstract Contributions to the climate governance literature have highlighted the importance of recognizing its new polycentric nature, which includes roles for non-state and subnational actors in climate change mitigation and in leadership for climate action. Yet, the literature is missing a normative cartography—that is, a mapping of the distribution of moral duties in the real world—which is tailored to a context of polycentric governance. This paper answers the question: how can moral duties be distributed in a context of polycentric climate governance such as to diminish the problem of non-compliance? This implies the following question: do duties change in situations of non-compliance in a context of polycentric governance, and if so how? Acknowledging polycentric governance is the key to an effective distribution of moral duties, as it allows for a more accurate mapping of non-state and subnational actors’ duties in leading the charge against climate change. Correspondingly, a normative cartography fitted to this context will be instrumental in showing how morally informed climate governance can diminish the problem of non-compliance. This paper focusses on the distribution of moral duties in a context of polycentric governance as a contributing factor to inducing agents to act according to the collective goal. It argues that a more fine-grained distribution of climate duties, tailored to polycentric climate governance, contributes to addressing the problem of non-compliance. ***** Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh, Ph.D. Professeur adjoint Département de science politique Université Laval www.alexgajevic.com T  418 656-2131, poste 408841 Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, local 4409 Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6 -- 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 gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/1595111069303.1628%40pol.ulaval.ca.