Jörg Balsiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jörg Balsiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jörg |
| FAMILY NAME | Balsiger |
| SIGNATURE | BALSIGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5401-1723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Focus Issue
Editorial
Emerging trends in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation higher education
Increasing learning opportunities and teaching capacities in higher education (HE) institutions in the domain of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) is a key pre-requisite not only to enhance individual and collective knowledge, but also to forge resilient societies. However, several barriers exist that hinder the development and delivery of education curricula, including, e.g. fragmentation of DRR education offers a…
Knowledges co-creation and water conservation in the Global Souths
This Special Issue seeks to offer empirical evidence of the forms of knowledge valued by different actors involved in water conservation practices, the dynamics of cross-fertilization dynamics, and possible tensions that emerge. It investigates knowledge dialogue and co-creation around water conservation through case studies at the local, regional and global levels, and including various types of actors - local and indigenous communities, parish …
Education for Sustainable Mountain Development
This article provides insights from a survey of education programs for sustainable mountain development (ESMD) and comments on the findings from the perspective of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's.(UNESCO) Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) for 2030 framework. Twenty-eight programs implemented by universities, research institutes, and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are analyzed in terms of program struct…
Focus Issue
Editorial
Making Connections for Our Changing Mountains
The Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) promotes basic and applied research to understand how drivers and processes of global change present challenges and opportunities in mountain social-ecological systems. It convenes a global network that collectively generates and synthesizes knowledge on global change in mountains that also supports decisions and actions to enable sustainable development. Building on the considerable social and intellectual …
What We Know (and Could Know) About International Environmental Agreements
Initiated in 2002, the International Environmental Agreements Data Base (IEADB) catalogs the texts, memberships, and design features of over 3,000 multilateral and bilateral environmental agreements. Using IEADB data, we create a comprehensive review of the evolution of international environmental law, including how the number, subjects, and state memberships in IEAs have changed over time. By providing IEA texts, the IEADB helps scholars identif…
The role of environmental issues in the adoption processes of European Union macro-regional strategies
Regional Governance and Environmental Problems
Only recently has international environmental politics scholarship focused more explicitly on “regionalism” as a distinct phenomenon, one which has received much more sustained attention among specialists in international security and international political economy. By the early twenty-first century, regional environmental governance had become commonplace. Since the term “region” has had different connotations in different disciplines, the anal…
Monitoring Mountains in a Changing World
Mountains are globally distributed environments that provide significant societal benefits, a function that is increasingly compromised by climatic change, environmental stress, political and socioeconomic transformations, and unsustainable use of natural resources. Gaps in our understanding of these processes and their interactions limit our capacity to inform decisions, where both generalities of mountain regions (eg climate processes) and spec…
No Friends but the Mountains
Reviewed: No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands. By Judith Matloff. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2017. 253 pp. US$ 28.00. ISBN 978-0-465-09788-3
Transformative Learning and Education for Sustainable Development
Is higher education capable of promoting learning for change? Can transformative learning nurture spaces for innovation in education for sustainable development? A call to action from saguf
Mountains of Our Future Earth
The Perth conferences, held every 5 years in Perth, Scotland, bring together people who identify as mountain researchers and who are interested in issues related to global change in mountain social-ecological systems. These conferences provide an opportunity to evaluate the evolution of research directions within the mountain research community, as well as to identify research priorities. The Future Earth Strategic Research Agenda provides a usef…
Die Alpen
Reviewed: Die Alpen: Raum, Kultur, Geschichte [The Alps: Space, Culture, History] By Jon Mathieu. Stuttgart, Germany: Reclam, 2015. 254 pp. € 38.80. ISBN 978-3-15-011029-4
Should mountains (really) matter in science and policy
Functional regulatory spaces and policy diffusion in Europe
Scientific collectives in region-building processes (Reprint)
Transdisciplinarity in the class room? Simulating the co-production of sustainability knowledge
Transforming the Frontier
Regional agreements in international environmental politics
Scientific collectives in region-building processes
The Institutionalization of Mountain Regions in Europe
Debarbieux B., Price M. F. and Balsiger J. The institutionalization of mountain regions in Europe, Regional Studies. Since the 1990s, many ‘project regions’ have emerged in Europe, a trend deriving from the tendency to adopt ad hoc institutions for specific spatial and environmental issues and the empowerment of diverse stakeholders who compete with the dominant role of states. This article addresses the building of institutionalized mountain reg…
Global Change and the World's Mountains— Research Needs and Emerging Themes for Sustainable Development
The conference on Global Change and the World's Mountains held in Perth, Scotland, in 2010 offered a unique opportunity to analyze the state and progress of mountain research and its contribution to sustainable mountain development, as well as to reflect on required reorientations of research agendas. In this paper we provide the results of a three-step assessment of the research presented by 450 researchers from around the world. First, we deter…
Navigating Regional Environmental Governance
Global environmental governance is growing increasingly complex and recent scholarship and practice raise a number of questions about the continued feasibility of negotiating and implementing an ever-larger set of global environmental agreements. In the search for alternative conceptual models and normative orders, regional environmental governance (REG) is (re)emerging as a significant phenomenon in theory and practice. Although environmental co…
New Environmental Regionalism and Sustainable Development in the European Alps
In the context of increasing fragmentation and functional differentiation in international governance, new environmental regionalism represents a recent trend involving initiatives that seek to territorialize environmental governance at the level of transboundary ecoregions, such as mountain ranges or river basins. This article examines the implications of this trend for sustainable development, which is defined here as a procedural norm for reco…
Actors, Norms, and Impact
This article reviews three recent developments in international cooperation theory: the introduction of nonstate actors, the study of norms and ideas, and increased examination of the effectiveness, or impact, of international cooperation. Through the lens of the agent-structure debate, we critique the literature that addresses these themes. We argue, first, for a view of structure that goes beyond material properties; second, that more attention…
What We Know (and Could Know) About International Environmental Agreements
Initiated in 2002, the International Environmental Agreements Data Base (IEADB) catalogs the texts, memberships, and design features of over 3,000 multilateral and bilateral environmental agreements. Using IEADB data, we create a comprehensive review of the evolution of international environmental law, including how the number, subjects, and state memberships in IEAs have changed over time. By providing IEA texts, the IEADB helps scholars identif…
The Institutionalization of Mountain Regions in Europe
Debarbieux B., Price M. F. and Balsiger J. The institutionalization of mountain regions in Europe, Regional Studies. Since the 1990s, many ‘project regions’ have emerged in Europe, a trend deriving from the tendency to adopt ad hoc institutions for specific spatial and environmental issues and the empowerment of diverse stakeholders who compete with the dominant role of states. This article addresses the building of institutionalized mountain reg…
Navigating Regional Environmental Governance
Global environmental governance is growing increasingly complex and recent scholarship and practice raise a number of questions about the continued feasibility of negotiating and implementing an ever-larger set of global environmental agreements. In the search for alternative conceptual models and normative orders, regional environmental governance (REG) is (re)emerging as a significant phenomenon in theory and practice. Although environmental co…
Transdisciplinarity in the class room? Simulating the co-production of sustainability knowledge
Regional agreements in international environmental politics
Scientific collectives in region-building processes
The role of environmental issues in the adoption processes of European Union macro-regional strategies
Should mountains (really) matter in science and policy
New Environmental Regionalism and Sustainable Development in the European Alps
In the context of increasing fragmentation and functional differentiation in international governance, new environmental regionalism represents a recent trend involving initiatives that seek to territorialize environmental governance at the level of transboundary ecoregions, such as mountain ranges or river basins. This article examines the implications of this trend for sustainable development, which is defined here as a procedural norm for reco…
Human Footprints on the Global Environment
Functional regulatory spaces and policy diffusion in Europe
Knowledges co-creation and water conservation in the Global Souths
This Special Issue seeks to offer empirical evidence of the forms of knowledge valued by different actors involved in water conservation practices, the dynamics of cross-fertilization dynamics, and possible tensions that emerge. It investigates knowledge dialogue and co-creation around water conservation through case studies at the local, regional and global levels, and including various types of actors - local and indigenous communities, parish …
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Global Forest Politics
Journal Article The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Global Forest Politics Get access Tropical Forests, International Jungle: The Underside of Global Ecopolitics. By Smouts Marie-Claude. Translated from the French by Cynthia Schoch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 280 pp., $59.95 (ISBN: 1-4039-6203-0). Jörg Balsiger Jörg Balsiger Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley Search for other wo…
Actors, Norms, and Impact
This article reviews three recent developments in international cooperation theory: the introduction of nonstate actors, the study of norms and ideas, and increased examination of the effectiveness, or impact, of international cooperation. Through the lens of the agent-structure debate, we critique the literature that addresses these themes. We argue, first, for a view of structure that goes beyond material properties; second, that more attention…
The Power of Words in International Relations
The Impact of Ecoregional Mobilization on Mountain Policies in the Swiss Alps and California’s Sierra Nevada
Mountain regions have occupied a significant role in the political evolution, economic history, and sociocultural imaginary of Switzerland and California, yet the emergence of the modern state and the global economy have meant their increasing marginalization. During the last four decades, both polities have devised targeted strategies, policies, and programs for mountain regions. This article suggests that ecoregional mobilization has played a s…
L’impact de la mobilisation écorégionale sur les politiques en matière de montagne dans les Alpes suisses et la Sierra Nevada en Californie
Les régions de montagne ont joué un rôle important dans l’évolution politique, l’histoire économique et l’imaginaire socioculturel, en Suisse comme en Californie. Cependant, l’émergence de l’État moderne et la mondialisation de l’économie ont conduit à une marginalisation croissante de ces régions. Au cours des quarante dernières années, les régimes politiques de part et d’autre ont mis au point des stratégies, des politiques et des programmes ci…
Human Footprints on the Global Environment
The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law – By Daniel Bodansky
Global Change and the World's Mountains— Research Needs and Emerging Themes for Sustainable Development
The conference on Global Change and the World's Mountains held in Perth, Scotland, in 2010 offered a unique opportunity to analyze the state and progress of mountain research and its contribution to sustainable mountain development, as well as to reflect on required reorientations of research agendas. In this paper we provide the results of a three-step assessment of the research presented by 450 researchers from around the world. First, we deter…
Navigating Regional Environmental Governance
Global environmental governance is growing increasingly complex and recent scholarship and practice raise a number of questions about the continued feasibility of negotiating and implementing an ever-larger set of global environmental agreements. In the search for alternative conceptual models and normative orders, regional environmental governance (REG) is (re)emerging as a significant phenomenon in theory and practice. Although environmental co…
New Environmental Regionalism and Sustainable Development in the European Alps
In the context of increasing fragmentation and functional differentiation in international governance, new environmental regionalism represents a recent trend involving initiatives that seek to territorialize environmental governance at the level of transboundary ecoregions, such as mountain ranges or river basins. This article examines the implications of this trend for sustainable development, which is defined here as a procedural norm for reco…
The Institutionalization of Mountain Regions in Europe
Debarbieux B., Price M. F. and Balsiger J. The institutionalization of mountain regions in Europe, Regional Studies. Since the 1990s, many ‘project regions’ have emerged in Europe, a trend deriving from the tendency to adopt ad hoc institutions for specific spatial and environmental issues and the empowerment of diverse stakeholders who compete with the dominant role of states. This article addresses the building of institutionalized mountain reg…
Transforming the Frontier
Regional agreements in international environmental politics
Scientific collectives in region-building processes
Should mountains (really) matter in science and policy
Functional regulatory spaces and policy diffusion in Europe
Scientific collectives in region-building processes (Reprint)
Transdisciplinarity in the class room? Simulating the co-production of sustainability knowledge
Mountains of Our Future Earth
The Perth conferences, held every 5 years in Perth, Scotland, bring together people who identify as mountain researchers and who are interested in issues related to global change in mountain social-ecological systems. These conferences provide an opportunity to evaluate the evolution of research directions within the mountain research community, as well as to identify research priorities. The Future Earth Strategic Research Agenda provides a usef…
Die Alpen
Reviewed: Die Alpen: Raum, Kultur, Geschichte [The Alps: Space, Culture, History] By Jon Mathieu. Stuttgart, Germany: Reclam, 2015. 254 pp. € 38.80. ISBN 978-3-15-011029-4
Transformative Learning and Education for Sustainable Development
Is higher education capable of promoting learning for change? Can transformative learning nurture spaces for innovation in education for sustainable development? A call to action from saguf
Regional Governance and Environmental Problems
Only recently has international environmental politics scholarship focused more explicitly on “regionalism” as a distinct phenomenon, one which has received much more sustained attention among specialists in international security and international political economy. By the early twenty-first century, regional environmental governance had become commonplace. Since the term “region” has had different connotations in different disciplines, the anal…
Monitoring Mountains in a Changing World
Mountains are globally distributed environments that provide significant societal benefits, a function that is increasingly compromised by climatic change, environmental stress, political and socioeconomic transformations, and unsustainable use of natural resources. Gaps in our understanding of these processes and their interactions limit our capacity to inform decisions, where both generalities of mountain regions (eg climate processes) and spec…
No Friends but the Mountains
Reviewed: No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands. By Judith Matloff. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2017. 253 pp. US$ 28.00. ISBN 978-0-465-09788-3
The role of environmental issues in the adoption processes of European Union macro-regional strategies
Political science (27 works) · Geography (20 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Environmental resource management (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Environmental planning (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Ecology (9 works)