International Environmental Regimes and Subnational Resistance to Cooperation
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Political Science · International Relations
A new study examines whether international environmental agreements actually lead to domestic land protection, finding that while deeper engagement with global regimes increases overall protected area, local economic interests often determine where that protection takes place. The researcher compiled an original geospatial dataset covering 846 ecoregions worldwide from 1992 to 2020 and developed novel measures of anti-protection interests to test the effectiveness of international cooperation. For you, as a former public servant with deep experience in energy and procurement policy and a global citizen attuned to issues of governance, this research offers a nuanced, empirical lens on the tension between international commitments and local economic pressures—a dynamic that resonates across environmental and land-use politics.
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