Markus Lederer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1571459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Markus Lederer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Markus |
| FAMILY NAME | Lederer |
| SIGNATURE | LEDERER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9856-0855 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Conceptualizing and analyzing (de-)politicization in environmental and climate politics
After a period of relative continuity, environmental and climate policymaking has experienced considerable turbulence over the past decade. In a time increasingly perceived as crisis-ridden, climate change and other global environmental issues have become subjects of heated debate and societal conflicts. At the same time, there are efforts to counteract these dynamics by stripping environmental and climate issues of their political character and …
Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism
Recognizing that no central authority can combat climate change, scholars have pointed to the potential of polycentric governance in tackling climate change. Yet, empirical evidence for such a claim is scarce, particularly in the Global South. This study analyzes the characteristics, promises, and pitfalls of polycentric governance to promote climate mitigation efforts in three Indian states. Our contribution is twofold: (1) conceptually, we prop…
Radical climate movements—is the hype about “eco-terrorism” analogy, warning or propaganda
Is the hype about “ecoterrorism” analogy, warning or propaganda? In order to answer this question, we start by defining radicalization, terrorism, and civil disobedience to develop systematic categories which allow us to pursue two specific research goals: First, we analyse how the breadth of the German climate movement is represented in the media, how the issue of “terrorism” is taken up and with what consequences for the debate. Here we make a …
Urban Climate Politics in Emerging Economies
Several scholars have pointed to the increasing salience of cities in the global endeavour to reduce dangerous climate change to 1.5°C. However, we still lack systematic comparative analyses on how urban climate initiatives evolve in different political-administrative systems of countries in the global South and what role transnational city networks play in that context. This question is specifically important with regard to the role of cities in…
The Promise of Prometheus and the Opening up of Pandora’s Box
Simon Dalby has most fervently argued to reframe various current security challenges as ‘anthropogenic geopolitics’. This paper takes up Dalby’s call discussing theoretically classical as well as critical readings of geopolitics arguing that both are helpful analytical lenses that do, however, focus on very different aspects. Empirically, these two geopolitical frames are used for an analysis of the current boom of renewable energies. The paper t…
Same, same but different? How democratically elected right-wing populists shape climate change policymaking
The Paris Agreement expresses far-reaching commitments to combat climate change, but its translation into national contexts faces severe confrontation by populist movements and individuals worldwide. We unpack and compare how differently right-wing populist leaders translate rhetoric into climate policymaking and institutional change. We do so by investigating three areas of contestation: (1) the economic marginalization of the left behind, (2) c…
Politicizing climate change in times of populism
With this introduction to the special issue on climate politics, democracy, and populism, we lay the ground for the multiplicity of analyses that follow. We highlight the essentially contested nature of concepts like (de-)politicization, populism, and democracy that reject the notion of a single definition. We do so by outlining what post-, de-, and re-politicization can mean, how diverse the perspectives on populism are, and which ones help guid…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 sub-targets which serve as a global reference point for the transition to sustainability. The agenda acknowledges that different issues such as poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, environmental degradation, among others, are intertwined and can therefore only be addressed together. Implementing the SDGs as an ‘indivisible whole’ repres…
Low‐carbon energy, sustainable development, and justice
Governments and civil society are increasingly aware that the decarbonization of energy systems needs to be aligned with justice principles of recognition, distribution, and process. This paper establishes a conceptual linkage between “sustainable development”, “low‐carbon energy transitions” and “energy justice” and examines social priorities to address peoples' competing priorities associated with low‐carbon energy interventions. By analyzing a…
Max Weber in the tropics
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is one of the most advanced global climate governance arrangements and we show that it contributes to the buildup of autonomous capacities and reliable procedures in areas of rather limited statehood. These partially unintended effects can be conceptualized as an increasing rational–legal bureaucratization, which has been initiated through both external and domestic actors as we…
Which Way Forward in Measuring the Quality of Life? A Critical Analysis of Sustainability and Well-Being Indicator Sets
The movement to develop indicators that provide a more nuanced view of quality of life (QoL) continues to gain momentum and support in both scientific and policy-making circles. However, measuring QoL still faces a number of challenges. While a range of indicator sets has been developed, it is unclear whether any of them is able to adequately capture the broad range of conditions it encompasses. In addition, it has yet to be determined whether di…
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat as an orchestrator in global climate policymaking
Scholars have recently devoted increasing attention to the role and function of international bureaucracies in global policymaking. Some of them contend that international public officials have gained significant political influence in various policy fields. Compared to other international bureaucracies, the political leeway of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been considered rather limited. Due to …
Beyond PES and Redd
Wallbott, L., G. Siciliano, and M. Lederer. 2019. Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?. Ecology and Society 24(1):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10476-240124
Transregional trends in international organizations in the field of climate and energy
The history of human civilization has been strongly influenced by climatic events. For years now, a growing body of scientific work has been analysing in detail nature’s role in global history. From the ice ages to the ‘medieval climate optimum’ around the first millennium, changes in temperature have had an undeniable effect on how people interacted within as well as between specific region. The history of energy and climate governance has been …
Organising the unthinkable in times of crises
In this article, we ask how the approaches of climate engineering – mostly highly technological approaches to address the challenge of global climate change – might be organised in the age of the Anthropocene. We understand the term ‘Anthropocene’ to be characterised by crisis, on one hand, and by promise, on the other. In particular, we aim to raise doubts on the dominant perspective on the organisation of climate engineering, which assumes thes…
Green transformations in Vietnam's energy sector
Vietnam has experienced rapid economic growth over the past few decades, as well as growing environmental pressures. The country is therefore pursuing strategies for green transformations, which are the processes of restructuring to bring economies and societies within the planetary boundaries. This article addresses the opportunities, barriers, and trade-offs for green transformations in Vietnam's energy sector and examines them from an energy j…
Carbon Trading
The six articles in this special issue shed a fascinating light on the global diffusion of carbon trading and advance our political understanding of emissions trading systems (ETSs) all over the world. They show the various interactions and spillovers that occur and that push for the extension of carbon trading to more sectors and more countries, now including such diverse jurisdictions as China, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, and California. …
Imagining Jihad
The article examines how the Islamic State (IS) has evolved into a community- and initial state-building project. Using Benedict Anderson’s concept of “imagined community” (Anderson, B. [1983]. Imagined communities. London: Verso), we claim that IS is about to construct an aggressive Sunni national identity with a specific territorial claim, which could have a high impact on international order. Comparing nationalism and Islamism allows us to und…
Envisioning Redd + in a post‐Paris era
From its advent in 2005 within global climate change negotiations, reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and other forest‐related activities (so‐called REDD +) has been experimented with in developing country contexts for over a decade now, with a wide array of expectations coming to be associated with it. Three consecutive conceptualizations are identifiable: carbon‐centered, where REDD + is primarily a climate mitigation strategy; co‐ben…
Introduction
First paragraph: This special issue contributes empirical analyses to the evolving research programme on human rights and climate change within international relations (IR) scholarship. We aim to supplement the existing normative debate within political philosophy and political theory on international, environmental and intergenerational justice (for example, Hiskes 2009; 2010; Woods 2010; Shue 2011; Arnold 2011) with empirical insights that rega…
Redd+ governance
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) has developed into one of the most important carbon governance mechanisms that the international community has at its disposal in the fight against climate change. Deforestation and degradation, particularly in the tropics, constitute one of the major drivers of climate change, the avoidance of which is often portrayed as one of the most effective and efficient options for mitigation. …
Market making via regulation
Proponents as well as critics of carbon trading underestimate the institutional and political underpinnings of evolving carbon markets. Based on institutionalist approaches, this paper argues that the strong embeddedness of carbon markets explains why certain characteristics (positive and negative) materialize. Focusing on the actors who initiate and who influence carbon markets, this article also shows that currently only states and intergovernm…
The practice of carbon markets
Pragmatism has recently taken up the ‘practice turn’ in order to overcome the neglect of agency in poststructuralist accounts. To explore potential advantages if such an approach is used for an analysis of carbon markets, it is first asked whether a practice approach could allow us to go beyond the dichotomy of agents vs. structures and thus lead to an understanding of carbon assets as a specific configuration of power and authority. Second, migh…
From CDM to Redd+ — What do we know for setting up effective and legitimate carbon governance
Practicing agrifood governance
Low‐carbon energy, sustainable development, and justice
Governments and civil society are increasingly aware that the decarbonization of energy systems needs to be aligned with justice principles of recognition, distribution, and process. This paper establishes a conceptual linkage between “sustainable development”, “low‐carbon energy transitions” and “energy justice” and examines social priorities to address peoples' competing priorities associated with low‐carbon energy interventions. By analyzing a…
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat as an orchestrator in global climate policymaking
Scholars have recently devoted increasing attention to the role and function of international bureaucracies in global policymaking. Some of them contend that international public officials have gained significant political influence in various policy fields. Compared to other international bureaucracies, the political leeway of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been considered rather limited. Due to …
Market making via regulation
Proponents as well as critics of carbon trading underestimate the institutional and political underpinnings of evolving carbon markets. Based on institutionalist approaches, this paper argues that the strong embeddedness of carbon markets explains why certain characteristics (positive and negative) materialize. Focusing on the actors who initiate and who influence carbon markets, this article also shows that currently only states and intergovernm…
Politicizing climate change in times of populism
With this introduction to the special issue on climate politics, democracy, and populism, we lay the ground for the multiplicity of analyses that follow. We highlight the essentially contested nature of concepts like (de-)politicization, populism, and democracy that reject the notion of a single definition. We do so by outlining what post-, de-, and re-politicization can mean, how diverse the perspectives on populism are, and which ones help guid…
Max Weber in the tropics
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is one of the most advanced global climate governance arrangements and we show that it contributes to the buildup of autonomous capacities and reliable procedures in areas of rather limited statehood. These partially unintended effects can be conceptualized as an increasing rational–legal bureaucratization, which has been initiated through both external and domestic actors as we…
Envisioning Redd + in a post‐Paris era
From its advent in 2005 within global climate change negotiations, reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and other forest‐related activities (so‐called REDD +) has been experimented with in developing country contexts for over a decade now, with a wide array of expectations coming to be associated with it. Three consecutive conceptualizations are identifiable: carbon‐centered, where REDD + is primarily a climate mitigation strategy; co‐ben…
Introduction
First paragraph: This special issue contributes empirical analyses to the evolving research programme on human rights and climate change within international relations (IR) scholarship. We aim to supplement the existing normative debate within political philosophy and political theory on international, environmental and intergenerational justice (for example, Hiskes 2009; 2010; Woods 2010; Shue 2011; Arnold 2011) with empirical insights that rega…
Same, same but different? How democratically elected right-wing populists shape climate change policymaking
The Paris Agreement expresses far-reaching commitments to combat climate change, but its translation into national contexts faces severe confrontation by populist movements and individuals worldwide. We unpack and compare how differently right-wing populist leaders translate rhetoric into climate policymaking and institutional change. We do so by investigating three areas of contestation: (1) the economic marginalization of the left behind, (2) c…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 sub-targets which serve as a global reference point for the transition to sustainability. The agenda acknowledges that different issues such as poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, environmental degradation, among others, are intertwined and can therefore only be addressed together. Implementing the SDGs as an ‘indivisible whole’ repres…
The practice of carbon markets
Pragmatism has recently taken up the ‘practice turn’ in order to overcome the neglect of agency in poststructuralist accounts. To explore potential advantages if such an approach is used for an analysis of carbon markets, it is first asked whether a practice approach could allow us to go beyond the dichotomy of agents vs. structures and thus lead to an understanding of carbon assets as a specific configuration of power and authority. Second, migh…
Redd+ governance
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) has developed into one of the most important carbon governance mechanisms that the international community has at its disposal in the fight against climate change. Deforestation and degradation, particularly in the tropics, constitute one of the major drivers of climate change, the avoidance of which is often portrayed as one of the most effective and efficient options for mitigation. …
Green transformations in Vietnam's energy sector
Vietnam has experienced rapid economic growth over the past few decades, as well as growing environmental pressures. The country is therefore pursuing strategies for green transformations, which are the processes of restructuring to bring economies and societies within the planetary boundaries. This article addresses the opportunities, barriers, and trade-offs for green transformations in Vietnam's energy sector and examines them from an energy j…
Which Way Forward in Measuring the Quality of Life? A Critical Analysis of Sustainability and Well-Being Indicator Sets
The movement to develop indicators that provide a more nuanced view of quality of life (QoL) continues to gain momentum and support in both scientific and policy-making circles. However, measuring QoL still faces a number of challenges. While a range of indicator sets has been developed, it is unclear whether any of them is able to adequately capture the broad range of conditions it encompasses. In addition, it has yet to be determined whether di…
Carbon Trading
The six articles in this special issue shed a fascinating light on the global diffusion of carbon trading and advance our political understanding of emissions trading systems (ETSs) all over the world. They show the various interactions and spillovers that occur and that push for the extension of carbon trading to more sectors and more countries, now including such diverse jurisdictions as China, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, and California. …
Imagining Jihad
The article examines how the Islamic State (IS) has evolved into a community- and initial state-building project. Using Benedict Anderson’s concept of “imagined community” (Anderson, B. [1983]. Imagined communities. London: Verso), we claim that IS is about to construct an aggressive Sunni national identity with a specific territorial claim, which could have a high impact on international order. Comparing nationalism and Islamism allows us to und…
Radical climate movements—is the hype about “eco-terrorism” analogy, warning or propaganda
Is the hype about “ecoterrorism” analogy, warning or propaganda? In order to answer this question, we start by defining radicalization, terrorism, and civil disobedience to develop systematic categories which allow us to pursue two specific research goals: First, we analyse how the breadth of the German climate movement is represented in the media, how the issue of “terrorism” is taken up and with what consequences for the debate. Here we make a …
The Promise of Prometheus and the Opening up of Pandora’s Box
Simon Dalby has most fervently argued to reframe various current security challenges as ‘anthropogenic geopolitics’. This paper takes up Dalby’s call discussing theoretically classical as well as critical readings of geopolitics arguing that both are helpful analytical lenses that do, however, focus on very different aspects. Empirically, these two geopolitical frames are used for an analysis of the current boom of renewable energies. The paper t…
Beyond PES and Redd
Wallbott, L., G. Siciliano, and M. Lederer. 2019. Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?. Ecology and Society 24(1):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10476-240124
Practicing agrifood governance
Criticizing Global Governance
The Politics of the Global
The Politics of the Global. By Himadeep Muppidi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 130p. $60.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Himadeep Muppidi has written a short, sophisticated, and provocative book that pushes its readers to think hard about global politics. His main hypothesis is that a thorough analysis of the “contestations over the social meaning of the global” (p. xvii) allows us to explore new “spaces and strategies for resisting t…
From CDM to Redd+ — What do we know for setting up effective and legitimate carbon governance
Practicing agrifood governance
Redd+ governance
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) has developed into one of the most important carbon governance mechanisms that the international community has at its disposal in the fight against climate change. Deforestation and degradation, particularly in the tropics, constitute one of the major drivers of climate change, the avoidance of which is often portrayed as one of the most effective and efficient options for mitigation. …
Market making via regulation
Proponents as well as critics of carbon trading underestimate the institutional and political underpinnings of evolving carbon markets. Based on institutionalist approaches, this paper argues that the strong embeddedness of carbon markets explains why certain characteristics (positive and negative) materialize. Focusing on the actors who initiate and who influence carbon markets, this article also shows that currently only states and intergovernm…
The practice of carbon markets
Pragmatism has recently taken up the ‘practice turn’ in order to overcome the neglect of agency in poststructuralist accounts. To explore potential advantages if such an approach is used for an analysis of carbon markets, it is first asked whether a practice approach could allow us to go beyond the dichotomy of agents vs. structures and thus lead to an understanding of carbon assets as a specific configuration of power and authority. Second, migh…
Introduction
First paragraph: This special issue contributes empirical analyses to the evolving research programme on human rights and climate change within international relations (IR) scholarship. We aim to supplement the existing normative debate within political philosophy and political theory on international, environmental and intergenerational justice (for example, Hiskes 2009; 2010; Woods 2010; Shue 2011; Arnold 2011) with empirical insights that rega…
Imagining Jihad
The article examines how the Islamic State (IS) has evolved into a community- and initial state-building project. Using Benedict Anderson’s concept of “imagined community” (Anderson, B. [1983]. Imagined communities. London: Verso), we claim that IS is about to construct an aggressive Sunni national identity with a specific territorial claim, which could have a high impact on international order. Comparing nationalism and Islamism allows us to und…
Envisioning Redd + in a post‐Paris era
From its advent in 2005 within global climate change negotiations, reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and other forest‐related activities (so‐called REDD +) has been experimented with in developing country contexts for over a decade now, with a wide array of expectations coming to be associated with it. Three consecutive conceptualizations are identifiable: carbon‐centered, where REDD + is primarily a climate mitigation strategy; co‐ben…
Carbon Trading
The six articles in this special issue shed a fascinating light on the global diffusion of carbon trading and advance our political understanding of emissions trading systems (ETSs) all over the world. They show the various interactions and spillovers that occur and that push for the extension of carbon trading to more sectors and more countries, now including such diverse jurisdictions as China, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, and California. …
Transregional trends in international organizations in the field of climate and energy
The history of human civilization has been strongly influenced by climatic events. For years now, a growing body of scientific work has been analysing in detail nature’s role in global history. From the ice ages to the ‘medieval climate optimum’ around the first millennium, changes in temperature have had an undeniable effect on how people interacted within as well as between specific region. The history of energy and climate governance has been …
Organising the unthinkable in times of crises
In this article, we ask how the approaches of climate engineering – mostly highly technological approaches to address the challenge of global climate change – might be organised in the age of the Anthropocene. We understand the term ‘Anthropocene’ to be characterised by crisis, on one hand, and by promise, on the other. In particular, we aim to raise doubts on the dominant perspective on the organisation of climate engineering, which assumes thes…
Green transformations in Vietnam's energy sector
Vietnam has experienced rapid economic growth over the past few decades, as well as growing environmental pressures. The country is therefore pursuing strategies for green transformations, which are the processes of restructuring to bring economies and societies within the planetary boundaries. This article addresses the opportunities, barriers, and trade-offs for green transformations in Vietnam's energy sector and examines them from an energy j…
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat as an orchestrator in global climate policymaking
Scholars have recently devoted increasing attention to the role and function of international bureaucracies in global policymaking. Some of them contend that international public officials have gained significant political influence in various policy fields. Compared to other international bureaucracies, the political leeway of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been considered rather limited. Due to …
Beyond PES and Redd
Wallbott, L., G. Siciliano, and M. Lederer. 2019. Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?. Ecology and Society 24(1):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10476-240124
Which Way Forward in Measuring the Quality of Life? A Critical Analysis of Sustainability and Well-Being Indicator Sets
The movement to develop indicators that provide a more nuanced view of quality of life (QoL) continues to gain momentum and support in both scientific and policy-making circles. However, measuring QoL still faces a number of challenges. While a range of indicator sets has been developed, it is unclear whether any of them is able to adequately capture the broad range of conditions it encompasses. In addition, it has yet to be determined whether di…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 sub-targets which serve as a global reference point for the transition to sustainability. The agenda acknowledges that different issues such as poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, environmental degradation, among others, are intertwined and can therefore only be addressed together. Implementing the SDGs as an ‘indivisible whole’ repres…
Low‐carbon energy, sustainable development, and justice
Governments and civil society are increasingly aware that the decarbonization of energy systems needs to be aligned with justice principles of recognition, distribution, and process. This paper establishes a conceptual linkage between “sustainable development”, “low‐carbon energy transitions” and “energy justice” and examines social priorities to address peoples' competing priorities associated with low‐carbon energy interventions. By analyzing a…
Max Weber in the tropics
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is one of the most advanced global climate governance arrangements and we show that it contributes to the buildup of autonomous capacities and reliable procedures in areas of rather limited statehood. These partially unintended effects can be conceptualized as an increasing rational–legal bureaucratization, which has been initiated through both external and domestic actors as we…
Urban Climate Politics in Emerging Economies
Several scholars have pointed to the increasing salience of cities in the global endeavour to reduce dangerous climate change to 1.5°C. However, we still lack systematic comparative analyses on how urban climate initiatives evolve in different political-administrative systems of countries in the global South and what role transnational city networks play in that context. This question is specifically important with regard to the role of cities in…
The Promise of Prometheus and the Opening up of Pandora’s Box
Simon Dalby has most fervently argued to reframe various current security challenges as ‘anthropogenic geopolitics’. This paper takes up Dalby’s call discussing theoretically classical as well as critical readings of geopolitics arguing that both are helpful analytical lenses that do, however, focus on very different aspects. Empirically, these two geopolitical frames are used for an analysis of the current boom of renewable energies. The paper t…
Same, same but different? How democratically elected right-wing populists shape climate change policymaking
The Paris Agreement expresses far-reaching commitments to combat climate change, but its translation into national contexts faces severe confrontation by populist movements and individuals worldwide. We unpack and compare how differently right-wing populist leaders translate rhetoric into climate policymaking and institutional change. We do so by investigating three areas of contestation: (1) the economic marginalization of the left behind, (2) c…
Politicizing climate change in times of populism
With this introduction to the special issue on climate politics, democracy, and populism, we lay the ground for the multiplicity of analyses that follow. We highlight the essentially contested nature of concepts like (de-)politicization, populism, and democracy that reject the notion of a single definition. We do so by outlining what post-, de-, and re-politicization can mean, how diverse the perspectives on populism are, and which ones help guid…
Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism
Recognizing that no central authority can combat climate change, scholars have pointed to the potential of polycentric governance in tackling climate change. Yet, empirical evidence for such a claim is scarce, particularly in the Global South. This study analyzes the characteristics, promises, and pitfalls of polycentric governance to promote climate mitigation efforts in three Indian states. Our contribution is twofold: (1) conceptually, we prop…
Political science (25 works) · Politics (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Climate change (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Corporate governance (10 works) · Law (10 works)