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56
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Frank Biermann is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands, focusing primarily on environmental science and social sciences. Their research integrates topics related to climate change, sustainability governance, and international development, with an interdisciplinary approach spanning global and planetary change, sociology, political science, and aspects of space exploration and regulation.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals, 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non-use agreement, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • The Boundaries of the Planetary Boundary Framework: A Critical Appraisal of Approaches to Define a "Safe Operating Space" for Humanity, 2020, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Four approaches to anticipatory climate governance: Different conceptions of the future and implications for the present, 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • The future of 'environmental' policy in the Anthropocene: time for a paradigm shift, 2020, Environmental Politics

The scientist regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • Earth System Governance
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Sustainable Development
  • Global Policy
  • Nature Sustainability

Frank Biermann collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including Rakhyun E. Kim, Marjanneke J. Vijge, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit, and Agni Kalfagianni. These collaborations reflect a strong network across environmental governance and climate change research fields.

They have contributed to book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press, including the work International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance published in 2024.

Their main fields of study cover Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with subfields focusing on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Development, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • International Development and Aid
  • Human Rights and Development
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Environmental law and policy
  • Space exploration and regulation

Best Publications

  • The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A Framework for Analysis

    Frank Biermann;Philipp Pattberg;Harro van Asselt;Fariborz Zelli

  • Global governance by goal-setting: the novel approach of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Frank Biermann;Norichika Kanie;Rakhyun E Kim

  • Preparing for a Warmer World: Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees

    Frank Biermann;Ingrid Boas

  • 'Earth system governance' as a crosscutting theme of global change research

    Frank Biermann

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

    F. Biermann;F. Biermann;K. Abbott;S. Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Bright spots : seeds of a good Anthropocene

    Elena M. Bennett;Martin Solan;Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs;Timon McPhearson

  • Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda

    Xuemei Bai;Sander van der Leeuw;Karen O’Brien;Frans Berkhout

  • Global Environmental Governance: Taking Stock, Moving Forward

    Frank Biermann;Philipp Pattberg

  • Managers of Global Change - The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies

    Frank Biermann;Bernd Siebenhüner

  • Earth system governance: A research framework

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Michele M. Betsill;Joyeeta Gupta;Joyeeta Gupta;Norichika Kanie

  • Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene

    Frank Biermann

  • Accountability and legitimacy in earth system governance: A research framework

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Aarti Gupta

  • Earth System Governance: People, Places and the Planet. Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project.

    F. Biermann;M. Betsill;J. Gupta;N. Kani

  • Re-conceptualizing the Anthropocene: A call for collaboration

    Eduardo S. Brondizio;Karen O'Brien;Xuemei Bai;Frank Biermann

  • Why equity is fundamental in climate change policy research

    Sonja Klinsky;J. Timmons Roberts;Saleemul Huq;Chukwumerije Okereke

  • Partnerships, governance and sustainable development. Reflections on theory and practice

    P. Glasbergen;Frank Biermann;A. P. J. Mol

  • Protecting Climate Refugees: The Case for a Global Protocol

    Frank Biermann;Ingrid Boas

  • Down to Earth: Contextualizing the Anthropocene

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Xuemei Bai;Ninad Bondre;Wendy Broadgate

  • Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet

    Frank Biermann;Michele M. Betsill;Joyeeta Gupta

  • A World Environment Organization: Solution or Threat for Effective International Environmental Governance?

    Frank Biermann;Steffen Bauer

  • The Case for a World Environment Organization

    Frank Biermann

  • Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Kenneth Abbott;Steinar Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Emergence, Influence and Legitimacy

    P.H. Pattberg;F.H.B. Biermann;M. Chan;A. Mert

  • Cross-sectoral strategies in global sustainability governance: towards a nexus approach

    Ingrid Boas;Frank Biermann;Norichika Kanie

  • Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012: Architecture, Agency and Adaptation

    Frank Biermann;Philipp H. Pattberg;Fariborz Zelli

  • Earth system governance

    F. Biermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Philipp Pattberg
Philipp Pattberg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Harro van Asselt
Harro van Asselt University of Eastern Finland
Heike Schroeder
Heike Schroeder University of East Anglia
Michele M. Betsill
Michele M. Betsill University of Copenhagen
Arthur C. Petersen
Arthur C. Petersen University College London
Louis Lebel
Louis Lebel Chiang Mai University
Steven Bernstein
Steven Bernstein University of Toronto
Oran R. Young
Oran R. Young University of California, Santa Barbara

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