Ideas and transnational climate change governance: how environmental beliefs shape REDD+ projects

Thesis

Both scholars and policymakers working on transnational climate change governance (TCG) have largely sidestepped long-running ideological debates within environmentalism. This thesis brings the issue into the spotlight by investigating how “environmental beliefs”, which I define as actors’ normative and causal ideas about dealing with environmental challenges, affect TCG. Specifically, I focus on projects associated with “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation and the...

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Authors: Abraham, B

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-qrgpeqqk7
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: transnational governance; REDD+; climate change; environmental beliefs
• Subjects: environmental politics; politics; forest governance; public policy; international relations; transnational governance; climate change