We’re pleased to announce a new deliverable from the CONNECT project. This time Flavia Dias Guerra has taken the lead in writing a technical report on mapping the institutional architecture in global forest governance. It paper operationalizes an analytical framework based on Abbott and Snidal (2009) for mapping the institutional architecture and explains much of the thinking the CONNECT projects first bits and pieces.

In short the paper explains how we map institutions that are (i) international or transnational scope; (ii) display intentionality to steer the behaviour of their members; (iii) explicitly mention a common governance goal; and, (iv) have identifiable governance functions. The mapping involves two stages of data collection: (1) transnational institutions – relying on a review of previous case studies and desk research; and (2) inter-state regimes – sorting through an online database of International Environmental Agreements.

You can find our paper here or visit our “resources” page.

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