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2023
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Netherlands
2022

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Political Science

D-Index
45
Citations
11500
World Ranking
340
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Philipp Pattberg is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science, Social Sciences, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broad fields, their work is focused on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Development, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics covered in Pattberg's research include:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • International Development and Aid
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Forest Management and Policy

Pattberg has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Enhancing the achievement of the SDGs: lessons learned at the half-way point of the 2030 Agenda (2023) in International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics
  • 20 Years of global climate change governance research: taking stock and moving forward (2022) in International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics

Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Oscar Widerberg
  • Katarzyna Negacz
  • Montserrat Koloffon Rosas
  • Marcel Kok
  • Matilda Petersson

Pattberg's work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics
  • Climate Policy
  • Global Policy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Politische Vierteljahresschrift

In addition to articles, Pattberg has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including Mapping the Institutional Complex of the Climate-Energy Nexus (2020).

Best Publications

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

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

  • Global Governance as a Perspective on World Politics

    Klaus Dingwerth;Philipp Pattberg

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

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

  • The institutionalization of private governance: How business and nonprofit organizations agree on transnational rules

    Philipp Pattberg

  • Global Environmental Governance: Taking Stock, Moving Forward

    Frank Biermann;Philipp Pattberg

  • Beyond the public and private divide: remapping transnational climate governance in the 21st century

    Philipp Pattberg;Johannes Stripple

  • World Politics and Organizational Fields: The Case of Transnational Sustainability Governance

    Klaus Dingwerth;Philipp Pattberg

  • Private Institutions and Global Governance: The New Politics of Environmental Sustainability

    Philipp H. Pattberg

  • Governing climate change transnationally: Assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives

    Harriet Bulkeley;Liliana Andonova;Karin Bäckstrand;Michele Betsill

  • Transnational multistakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: Conditions for success

    Philipp Pattberg;Oscar Widerberg

  • 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

  • Multiactor Governance and the Environment

    Peter Newell;Philipp Pattberg;Heike Schroeder

  • Cities to the rescue? Assessing the performance of transnational municipal networks in global climate governance

    Jennifer S. Bansard;Philipp H. Pattberg;Oscar Widerberg

  • Reinvigorating International Climate Policy: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Nonstate Action

    Sander Chan;Harro van Asselt;Thomas Hale;Kenneth W. Abbott

  • What Role for Private Rule-Making in Global Environmental Governance? Analysing the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

    Philipp Pattberg

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

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

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

    Frank Biermann;Philipp H. Pattberg;Fariborz Zelli

  • Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered

    Frank Biermann;Philipp H. Pattberg

  • Private Governance and the South: lessons from global forest politics

    Philipp Pattberg

  • Public–Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development

    Philipp Pattberg;Frank Biermann;Sander Chan;Ayşem Mert

  • The Forest Stewardship Council: Risk and Potential of Private Forest Governance

    Philipp H. Pattberg

  • The Institutionalization of Private Governance: How Business and Non-profit Organizations Agree on Transnational Rules

    P.H. Pattberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Biermann
Frank Biermann Utrecht University
Harro van Asselt
Harro van Asselt University of Eastern Finland
Klaus Dingwerth
Klaus Dingwerth University of St. Gallen
Arthur C. Petersen
Arthur C. Petersen University College London
Karin Bäckstrand
Karin Bäckstrand Stockholm University
Peter M. Haas
Peter M. Haas University of Massachusetts Amherst
Peter Newell
Peter Newell University of Sussex
Kenneth W. Abbott
Kenneth W. Abbott Arizona State University
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona

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