Andrea Lenschow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1573449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Lenschow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Lenschow |
| SIGNATURE | LENSCHOW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Osnabrück University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2162-1968 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 501 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
When talk meets actions – return to Commission leadership in EU environmental policy-making with the European Green Deal
Governance towards coordination for water resources management
Pathways towards enhanced capacity in water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Foreign corporate accountability
In the recent past, European states have adopted mandatory due diligence (MDD) laws for holding companies accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of their supply chains. The institutionalization of the international due diligence norm into domestic legislation has, however, been highly contested. Our contribution analyzes the discursive struggles about the meaning of due diligence that have accompanied the institutionalization …
The politics of supply chain regulations
In recent years, binding regulations in the “home states” of corporations have emerged mainly in the Global North with the aim of holding corporations accountable for human rights and environmental impacts throughout their supply chains. However, we still need a better understanding about to what extent such regulations contribute to enhance “foreign corporate accountability (FCA).” This article introduces a special issue that theorizes and empir…
Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems
Environmental governance is increasingly challenged by global flows, which connect distant places through trade, investment and movement of people. To date, research on this topic has been dispersed across multiple fields and diverse theoretical perspectives. We present the results of a systematic literature review of 120 journal articles on the environmental governance of global flows and their environmental impacts, employing the notion of tele…
Effects of policy and functional (in)coherence on coordination – A comparative analysis of cross-sectoral water management problems
Deficits in implementing integrated water resources management in South Africa
Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges
The negative externalities of global commodity chains and existing governance gaps have received wide scholarly attention. Indeed, many sectors including forest‐risk commodities (FRCs) like soy and beef from Brazil remain largely unregulated. This article analyzes ongoing policy‐making processes at European Union level to adopt new regulations for reducing accountability gaps: one regulation of FRCs and one general, cross‐sectoral directive on hu…
Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Contextualizing certification and auditing
The massive expansion of soy production in Brazil has contributed to a loss of access for local communities to land and water, particularly in highly dynamic frontier regions in the Cerrado. Soy certification standards like the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) contain principles that are supposed to prevent such problems. In this paper, we examine the extent to which certification and auditing have served to protect local communities’ access …
Dismantling, disintegration or continuing stealthy integration in European Union environmental policy
This symposium assesses the trajectory of European Union (EU) environmental policy and integration in light of the rising pressure for policy dismantling and disintegration. This introductory article discusses the literature and the mixed evidence of EU environmental policy dismantling. Building on the three symposium articles, we investigate the role of the European Commission in this process, evaluating its role as a general ‘motor of integrati…
Many faces of dismantling
Research on the termination or reduction of policies under the header of policy dismantling is becoming increasingly relevant within public policy analysis. To foster the understanding of dismantling this paper proposes to analyse post-legislative measures defining the setting of policy instruments and to look closely into how this phase provides room and opportunities for dismantling attempts. We investigate dismantling in EU sustainable consump…
Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability
Newig, J., E. Challies, B. Cotta, A. Lenschow, and A. Schilling-Vacaflor. 2020. Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability. Ecology and Society 25(4):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11844-250421
Is the trajectory of European Union environmental policy less certain
The core themes and research questions of this volume, centred on the nature of environmental policy change in the European Union (EU), are laid out. An original heuristic framework to capture different dimensions, mechanisms and processes of policy change is presented. In order to contextualise the current situation, where EU policy scope has reached maturity and faces an uncertain future trajectory, EU environmental politics is divided into par…
What is governance in global telecoupling
The concept of telecoupling is increasingly used as a framework to understand globally distant interconnections and their sustainability implications. Although there is a growing research focus on issues of governance related to global telecoupling, there appears little consensus over the meaning of "governance" in this respect. Papers in the recent Ecology and Society special feature titled "Telecoupling: A New Frontier for Global Sustainability…
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene
Globalization's limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
Globalization entails increased interdependence and interconnectivities among distal regions and social-ecological systems. This global interregional connectedness – telecoupling – gives rise to specific sustainability challenges, which require new governance solutions. Moving beyond ‘scaling-up’ governance to address global environmental problems, and exploring the implications of telecoupling for state-led environmental governance, ways the sta…
What role for social–ecological systems research in governing global teleconnections
Environmental policy integration
The principle of environmental policy integration (EPI) attracts great scholarly interest as well as widespread political backing. Political support is particularly strong in the European Union, where it enjoys a prominent quasi‐constitutional status. However, the practical fulfilment of EPI appears to lag well behind these aspirations, although the evidence base of this widely held view remains rather fragmented. This article aims to review the …
The Myth of a Green Europe
Unlike most nation‐states, the EU faces the challenge of actively creating and sustaining myths about its polity. In this article we explore if and under what conditions the story of a ‘Green Europe’ represents a successful new myth on the European project, which is appealing to present and future generations and capable of generating legitimacy for EU politics. Exploring the narratives of policy leaders (storytellers) we trace the functional rol…
Compliance, Competition and Communication
This analysis focuses on the relationship between supranational regulatory policy and national administrative change. We argue that the potential for change and cross-national convergence varies with the particular governance pattern employed, namely coercion, competition and communication. We identify the behavioural rationalities that guide the national bureaucratic responses and point to certain paradoxes with regard to the extent and directio…
When the birds sing. A framework for analysing domestic factors behind policy convergence
n Contains fulltext :\n 45848.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Greening” the European Union—are there lessons to be learned for international environmental policy
Seek and Ye Shall Find
Two theoretical schools—rationalist and constructivist approaches—dominate the literature on policy and institutional change. They tend to focus the debate on the ontological understanding of human behavior and hence the logic behind change. The authors note that another dimension of change—namely, its scope—is treated unsatisfactorily in the literature due to a neglect of the level of abstraction used as a point of departure by different studies…
Coping with Europe
A central problem for improving the implementation effectiveness of European legislation lies in the impact of national administrative traditions. The dependence on national administrations for implementing European policies implies that the formal transposition and practical application of supranational policies are crucially influenced by administrative traditions prevalent in a certain policy field, which may differ substantially from country …
When the birds sing. A framework for analysing domestic factors behind policy convergence
n Contains fulltext :\n 45848.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The politics of supply chain regulations
In recent years, binding regulations in the “home states” of corporations have emerged mainly in the Global North with the aim of holding corporations accountable for human rights and environmental impacts throughout their supply chains. However, we still need a better understanding about to what extent such regulations contribute to enhance “foreign corporate accountability (FCA).” This article introduces a special issue that theorizes and empir…
Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges
The negative externalities of global commodity chains and existing governance gaps have received wide scholarly attention. Indeed, many sectors including forest‐risk commodities (FRCs) like soy and beef from Brazil remain largely unregulated. This article analyzes ongoing policy‐making processes at European Union level to adopt new regulations for reducing accountability gaps: one regulation of FRCs and one general, cross‐sectoral directive on hu…
Seek and Ye Shall Find
Two theoretical schools—rationalist and constructivist approaches—dominate the literature on policy and institutional change. They tend to focus the debate on the ontological understanding of human behavior and hence the logic behind change. The authors note that another dimension of change—namely, its scope—is treated unsatisfactorily in the literature due to a neglect of the level of abstraction used as a point of departure by different studies…
Foreign corporate accountability
In the recent past, European states have adopted mandatory due diligence (MDD) laws for holding companies accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of their supply chains. The institutionalization of the international due diligence norm into domestic legislation has, however, been highly contested. Our contribution analyzes the discursive struggles about the meaning of due diligence that have accompanied the institutionalization …
Blurring or Shifting of Policy Frames
This article investigates how “policy frames” have shaped the way European Community actors perceive the policy linkage between market integration and environmental policy. The article contends that there are three Community policy frames: conditional, classic, and sustainability. They form alternative “packages” of policy ideas defining the relationship between economic and environmental policy. The article provides an analysis of how actors emb…
Compliance, Competition and Communication
This analysis focuses on the relationship between supranational regulatory policy and national administrative change. We argue that the potential for change and cross-national convergence varies with the particular governance pattern employed, namely coercion, competition and communication. We identify the behavioural rationalities that guide the national bureaucratic responses and point to certain paradoxes with regard to the extent and directio…
Many faces of dismantling
Research on the termination or reduction of policies under the header of policy dismantling is becoming increasingly relevant within public policy analysis. To foster the understanding of dismantling this paper proposes to analyse post-legislative measures defining the setting of policy instruments and to look closely into how this phase provides room and opportunities for dismantling attempts. We investigate dismantling in EU sustainable consump…
The Myth of a Green Europe
Unlike most nation‐states, the EU faces the challenge of actively creating and sustaining myths about its polity. In this article we explore if and under what conditions the story of a ‘Green Europe’ represents a successful new myth on the European project, which is appealing to present and future generations and capable of generating legitimacy for EU politics. Exploring the narratives of policy leaders (storytellers) we trace the functional rol…
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene
Globalization's limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
Globalization entails increased interdependence and interconnectivities among distal regions and social-ecological systems. This global interregional connectedness – telecoupling – gives rise to specific sustainability challenges, which require new governance solutions. Moving beyond ‘scaling-up’ governance to address global environmental problems, and exploring the implications of telecoupling for state-led environmental governance, ways the sta…
What role for social–ecological systems research in governing global teleconnections
Contextualizing certification and auditing
The massive expansion of soy production in Brazil has contributed to a loss of access for local communities to land and water, particularly in highly dynamic frontier regions in the Cerrado. Soy certification standards like the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) contain principles that are supposed to prevent such problems. In this paper, we examine the extent to which certification and auditing have served to protect local communities’ access …
Dismantling, disintegration or continuing stealthy integration in European Union environmental policy
This symposium assesses the trajectory of European Union (EU) environmental policy and integration in light of the rising pressure for policy dismantling and disintegration. This introductory article discusses the literature and the mixed evidence of EU environmental policy dismantling. Building on the three symposium articles, we investigate the role of the European Commission in this process, evaluating its role as a general ‘motor of integrati…
Variation in EC environmental policy integration
The principle of environmental policy integration (EPI) has been adopted by the European Community and gained priority status in its fifth Environmental Action Programme. This article investigates the reasons for considerable variation in applying this principle by comparing the experience of environmental policy integration in two 'most similar' although differently evolving cases: the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund. I …
Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Is the trajectory of European Union environmental policy less certain
The core themes and research questions of this volume, centred on the nature of environmental policy change in the European Union (EU), are laid out. An original heuristic framework to capture different dimensions, mechanisms and processes of policy change is presented. In order to contextualise the current situation, where EU policy scope has reached maturity and faces an uncertain future trajectory, EU environmental politics is divided into par…
When talk meets actions – return to Commission leadership in EU environmental policy-making with the European Green Deal
Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability
Newig, J., E. Challies, B. Cotta, A. Lenschow, and A. Schilling-Vacaflor. 2020. Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability. Ecology and Society 25(4):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11844-250421
Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems
Environmental governance is increasingly challenged by global flows, which connect distant places through trade, investment and movement of people. To date, research on this topic has been dispersed across multiple fields and diverse theoretical perspectives. We present the results of a systematic literature review of 120 journal articles on the environmental governance of global flows and their environmental impacts, employing the notion of tele…
Deficits in implementing integrated water resources management in South Africa
Effects of policy and functional (in)coherence on coordination – A comparative analysis of cross-sectoral water management problems
What is governance in global telecoupling
The concept of telecoupling is increasingly used as a framework to understand globally distant interconnections and their sustainability implications. Although there is a growing research focus on issues of governance related to global telecoupling, there appears little consensus over the meaning of "governance" in this respect. Papers in the recent Ecology and Society special feature titled "Telecoupling: A New Frontier for Global Sustainability…
Greening” the European Union—are there lessons to be learned for international environmental policy
Variation in EC environmental policy integration
The principle of environmental policy integration (EPI) has been adopted by the European Community and gained priority status in its fifth Environmental Action Programme. This article investigates the reasons for considerable variation in applying this principle by comparing the experience of environmental policy integration in two 'most similar' although differently evolving cases: the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund. I …
Coping with Europe
A central problem for improving the implementation effectiveness of European legislation lies in the impact of national administrative traditions. The dependence on national administrations for implementing European policies implies that the formal transposition and practical application of supranational policies are crucially influenced by administrative traditions prevalent in a certain policy field, which may differ substantially from country …
Blurring or Shifting of Policy Frames
This article investigates how “policy frames” have shaped the way European Community actors perceive the policy linkage between market integration and environmental policy. The article contends that there are three Community policy frames: conditional, classic, and sustainability. They form alternative “packages” of policy ideas defining the relationship between economic and environmental policy. The article provides an analysis of how actors emb…
Seek and Ye Shall Find
Two theoretical schools—rationalist and constructivist approaches—dominate the literature on policy and institutional change. They tend to focus the debate on the ontological understanding of human behavior and hence the logic behind change. The authors note that another dimension of change—namely, its scope—is treated unsatisfactorily in the literature due to a neglect of the level of abstraction used as a point of departure by different studies…
Greening” the European Union—are there lessons to be learned for international environmental policy
Compliance, Competition and Communication
This analysis focuses on the relationship between supranational regulatory policy and national administrative change. We argue that the potential for change and cross-national convergence varies with the particular governance pattern employed, namely coercion, competition and communication. We identify the behavioural rationalities that guide the national bureaucratic responses and point to certain paradoxes with regard to the extent and directio…
When the birds sing. A framework for analysing domestic factors behind policy convergence
n Contains fulltext :\n 45848.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Environmental policy integration
The principle of environmental policy integration (EPI) attracts great scholarly interest as well as widespread political backing. Political support is particularly strong in the European Union, where it enjoys a prominent quasi‐constitutional status. However, the practical fulfilment of EPI appears to lag well behind these aspirations, although the evidence base of this widely held view remains rather fragmented. This article aims to review the …
The Myth of a Green Europe
Unlike most nation‐states, the EU faces the challenge of actively creating and sustaining myths about its polity. In this article we explore if and under what conditions the story of a ‘Green Europe’ represents a successful new myth on the European project, which is appealing to present and future generations and capable of generating legitimacy for EU politics. Exploring the narratives of policy leaders (storytellers) we trace the functional rol…
What role for social–ecological systems research in governing global teleconnections
Globalization's limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
Globalization entails increased interdependence and interconnectivities among distal regions and social-ecological systems. This global interregional connectedness – telecoupling – gives rise to specific sustainability challenges, which require new governance solutions. Moving beyond ‘scaling-up’ governance to address global environmental problems, and exploring the implications of telecoupling for state-led environmental governance, ways the sta…
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene
Is the trajectory of European Union environmental policy less certain
The core themes and research questions of this volume, centred on the nature of environmental policy change in the European Union (EU), are laid out. An original heuristic framework to capture different dimensions, mechanisms and processes of policy change is presented. In order to contextualise the current situation, where EU policy scope has reached maturity and faces an uncertain future trajectory, EU environmental politics is divided into par…
What is governance in global telecoupling
The concept of telecoupling is increasingly used as a framework to understand globally distant interconnections and their sustainability implications. Although there is a growing research focus on issues of governance related to global telecoupling, there appears little consensus over the meaning of "governance" in this respect. Papers in the recent Ecology and Society special feature titled "Telecoupling: A New Frontier for Global Sustainability…
Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Contextualizing certification and auditing
The massive expansion of soy production in Brazil has contributed to a loss of access for local communities to land and water, particularly in highly dynamic frontier regions in the Cerrado. Soy certification standards like the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) contain principles that are supposed to prevent such problems. In this paper, we examine the extent to which certification and auditing have served to protect local communities’ access …
Dismantling, disintegration or continuing stealthy integration in European Union environmental policy
This symposium assesses the trajectory of European Union (EU) environmental policy and integration in light of the rising pressure for policy dismantling and disintegration. This introductory article discusses the literature and the mixed evidence of EU environmental policy dismantling. Building on the three symposium articles, we investigate the role of the European Commission in this process, evaluating its role as a general ‘motor of integrati…
Many faces of dismantling
Research on the termination or reduction of policies under the header of policy dismantling is becoming increasingly relevant within public policy analysis. To foster the understanding of dismantling this paper proposes to analyse post-legislative measures defining the setting of policy instruments and to look closely into how this phase provides room and opportunities for dismantling attempts. We investigate dismantling in EU sustainable consump…
Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability
Newig, J., E. Challies, B. Cotta, A. Lenschow, and A. Schilling-Vacaflor. 2020. Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability. Ecology and Society 25(4):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11844-250421
Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges
The negative externalities of global commodity chains and existing governance gaps have received wide scholarly attention. Indeed, many sectors including forest‐risk commodities (FRCs) like soy and beef from Brazil remain largely unregulated. This article analyzes ongoing policy‐making processes at European Union level to adopt new regulations for reducing accountability gaps: one regulation of FRCs and one general, cross‐sectoral directive on hu…
Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems
Environmental governance is increasingly challenged by global flows, which connect distant places through trade, investment and movement of people. To date, research on this topic has been dispersed across multiple fields and diverse theoretical perspectives. We present the results of a systematic literature review of 120 journal articles on the environmental governance of global flows and their environmental impacts, employing the notion of tele…
Effects of policy and functional (in)coherence on coordination – A comparative analysis of cross-sectoral water management problems
Deficits in implementing integrated water resources management in South Africa
Governance towards coordination for water resources management
Pathways towards enhanced capacity in water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Political science (23 works) · Economics (21 works) · Business (16 works) · Environmental resource management (15 works) · Corporate governance (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (11 works) · European union (10 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (9 works) · Geography (9 works)