The Uttarakhand disaster invited much criticism, but to say that the state government was unaware of the possibility of such a disaster would be unfair.
How can we start thinking about the link between indicators, international institutions and the law?
The term ‘indicatorisation’ captures features of a complex process that help reveal politics at play: for instance, the indicatorisation of the Right to Development (RTD) points out the attendant notion of neoliberalism as ‘development common sens
How does international institutional law shape the way in which international institutions collect information and govern through indicators?
This paper inquires into factors that influence the pace and pattern of institutionalisation of climate change policies in Africa, providing discussion of three key variables: deliberative discourses; defence of jurisdictional boundaries; and mult
This event was part of a series of collaborative fora hosted by Southern research
institutes – for this workshop, the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and the
This brief summarises research based on analysis of South African climate change and energy policy and practice; a broad literature review of climate change relevant scholarship in South Africa; and 16 semi-structured interviews.
This article in the Global Compact International Yearbook, reports on issues in mining within the context of weakened institutional and political capacities of states – and consequently of their weakened capacity to pursue developmental objectives
The reforms, regulatory frameworks and institutions introduced over the last 20 years to open the mining
sector of mineral rich countries of Africa to investment pursued specific objectives – objectives very