Article
Political Science
Laura Sjoberg, Cameron G. Thies
Summary: This is a critical time for the study of gender and sexuality in global politics, with feminist scholars building on decades of research while facing ongoing gender inequities due to various crises. This article focuses on four enduring and growing areas of gender and IR research: gender and political economy, gender and security, queer approaches, and feminist foreign policy. By examining recent scholarship in each area, the article aims to provide an overview of these subfields and their contours.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
International Relations
Benjamin Raynor
Summary: This paper examines the complexity and consequences of lifting financial sanctions, highlighting the need for both punitive measures and economic incentives in successful sanctions regimes. It finds that financial sanctions often restrict the economic benefits promised to target states and relies on the cooperation of financial institutions. The study further identifies reputational risk as the primary factor limiting a target's reintegration into the global economy by observing market reactions to sanctions relief in three key cases.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Jordan Becker
Summary: The allocation of scarce resources for shared defense priorities is influenced by national and regional political economies rather than geostrategy, according to a mixed-methods analysis focusing on NATO's Black Sea littoral states. National and regional political economies are found to be more significant factors in driving burden-sharing choices.
SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES
(2021)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Giulio Fusco
Summary: In recent years, policymakers have shown increasing attention to agricultural policies, with the Common Agricultural Policy being a major initiative of the European Commission to enhance the agricultural sector. Despite the fragmentation in the scientific debate caused by academics with different backgrounds, research continues to actively evaluate the public investments made by the European Commission. The study reveals the presence of three independent and complementary research clusters in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Obaid Ur Rehman, Xiaoxing Liu
Summary: The study found a positive correlation between corporate default risk and environmental deterioration, particularly in low-income and highly uncertain countries. Additionally, the negative impact of corporate default risk on the environment is more pronounced in countries with higher population density and less forest area.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Geography
Sarah D'Onofrio
Summary: This paper uses comparative historical analysis to explore how the state of Wisconsin shifted from progressive environmentalism to neoliberal policy, focusing on the expansion of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The study examines the role of the demise of the Office of the Public Intervenor (OPI) and the decline of environmental social movements in enabling the growth of CAFOs without environmental regulation. The research highlights the importance of understanding the consequences of regulatory failure in the adoption of neoliberal environmental policies.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Sven Fischer
Summary: The study found that the lifting of sanctions led to an increase in shadow economy activity in Iran, with the impact on the informal economy being greater than on the formal economy.
Article
Economics
Achim Hagen, Juan-Carlos Altamirano-Cabrera, Hans-Peter Weikard
Summary: This paper examines the effects of political pressure groups on transboundary emissions of individual countries and on the stability of international environmental agreements, finding that lobby activities can potentially facilitate international cooperation to abate global pollution, depending on the distribution of lobby activities across countries and the focus of green lobby groups.
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS-POLITICS LAW AND ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
International Relations
Helen V. Milner, Sondre Ulvund Solstad
Summary: This study examines how world politics influence the adoption of new technology, arguing that the structure of the international system affects competition among states and leaders' willingness to implement policies promoting technology adoption. The findings suggest that a less concentrated international system leads to faster technology adoption, with government policies reflecting concerns about rising international competition.
Article
Economics
Sarah Spycher, Ralph Winkler
Summary: This study reconsiders the trade-off between "narrow-but-deep" and "broad-but-shallow" in international environmental agreements, taking into account the principal-agent relationship induced by the hierarchical structure of international policy. Strategic delegation is found to hinder efforts to increase coalition sizes in the weak delegation game, while achieving the first-best outcome from the principals' perspective in the strong delegation game.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Olivier Aznar
Summary: This article re-examines the issue of environmental services from the perspective of agriculture policy and introduces a new typology. The application of this typology helps to better understand the definition and implementation of European agricultural environmental policies, and provides guidance for promoting environmental services, clarifying policy instrument choices, and adjusting policy evaluation.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2023)
Article
Management
Klaus E. Meyer, Chengguang Li
Summary: The global economy is currently experiencing a series of disruptions, including reduced people mobility, divergent national regulatory institutions, and increased anti-globalization populism. These disruptions not only pose new operational challenges and the need for local adaptation to global strategies, but also challenge the legitimacy of global business models. International relations perspectives of realism, liberalism, and constructivism can help explain the nature of these disruptions and provide insights for understanding and studying strategic responses to such external disruptions.
GLOBAL STRATEGY JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Economics
Gene Park, Gabrielle Cheung, Saori N. Katada
Summary: This article develops and tests a theory of asymmetric incentives to explain why politicians might be less motivated to confront deflation than inflation. Leveraging Japan as a least-likely crucial case, we analyze the conditions that lead legislators to take advantage of their power to summon central bankers for questioning. We find that even moderate inflation makes it more likely that legislators will summon central bankers compared to periods when the inflation rate is near zero. By contrast, deflation has either no effect or reduces the likelihood of summonses. We also find some evidence that unconventional monetary policies to combat deflation, specifically quantitative easing, are likely to invite greater legislative scrutiny. These findings have important policy implications. While deflation is widely viewed as pernicious and more difficult to exit than inflation, there are weaker incentives for politicians to address it.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Business
Mark A. Andor, Andreas Lange, Stephan Sommer
Summary: Exemptions from costly policy measures, particularly for low-income households, play a significant role in alleviating financial burdens. In the promotion of renewable energy policies, exempting low-income households leads to substantially higher support compared to exempting the industry. Furthermore, individual measures of inequality aversion and fairness perceptions are associated with support for exemptions.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Political Science
Fabio Franchino
Summary: Fiscal discipline, which refers to the balancing of government outlays and revenues, has been extensively studied in political economy. However, the oversight of national budgets by the European Union (EU) excessive deficit procedure has mostly been ignored in studies covering EU countries. This research explains why this oversight leads to lower deficits and investigates its effects across all EU member countries.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Maral Mahlooji, Ludovic Gaudard, Bora Ristic, Kaveh Madani
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Rahman Davtalab, Ali Mirchi, Rebecca J. Harris, Mark X. Troilo, Kaveh Madani
Letter
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Farshid Vahedifard, Kaveh Madani, Amir AghaKouchak, Sannith Kumar Thota
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kaveh Madani, Majid Shafiee-Jood
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mohammad Mahdi Naderi, Ali Mirchi, Ali Reza Massah Bavani, Erfan Goharian, Kaveh Madani
Summary: This study uses system dynamics modeling to simulate the future development trends of the water resources system in Qazvin Plain, Iran, and finds that continuing existing management policies will cause severe damage to water and energy sectors, pushing water resources development to its limits. To delay the issue of water limits to growth in the region, it is crucial to implement water demand and supply management policies.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Review
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Amir AghaKouchak, Ali Mirchi, Kaveh Madani, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Ali Nazemi, Aneseh Alborzi, Hassan Anjileli, Marzi Azarderakhsh, Felicia Chiang, Elmira Hassanzadeh, Laurie S. Huning, Iman Mallakpour, Alexandre Martinez, Omid Mazdiyasni, Hamed Moftakhari, Hamid Norouzi, Mojtaba Sadegh, Dalal Sadeqi, Anne F. Van Loon, Niko Wanders
Summary: Traditional definitions of drought focus on water deficit, but within human-water systems, drought is defined as the complex dynamics of both natural and human-induced changes. This definition considers dynamic feedbacks and processes like land-atmosphere interactions and water balance.
REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Alireza Sharifi, Ali Mirchi, Roghayeh Pirmoradian, Rasoul Mirabbasi, Mohammad Javad Tourian, Ali Torabi Haghighi, Kaveh Madani
Summary: The Zayandeh-Rud River Basin in Iran is struggling with water shortages due to supply-oriented water management, leading to excessive water usage. Groundwater depletion and tensions among stakeholders in the basin highlight the weaknesses in the current water management paradigm.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Editorial Material
Engineering, Environmental
Renee Obringer, Benjamin Rachunok, Debora Maia-Silva, Maryam Arbabzadeh, Roshanak Nateghi, Kaveh Madani
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Roohollah Noori, Mohsen Maghrebi, Ali Mirchi, Qiuhong Tang, Rabin Bhattarai, Mojtaba Sadegh, Mojtaba Noury, Ali Torabi Haghighi, Bjorn Klove, Kaveh Madani
Summary: Iran faces severe depletion and salinity issues in its groundwater resources, with an increase in extraction points but a decrease in annual withdrawal. Over-extraction of nonrenewable water leads to declining groundwater levels and increased salinity hazard.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Water Resources
Peyman Saemian, Mohammad J. Tourian, Amir AghaKouchak, Kaveh Madani, Nico Sneeuw
Summary: This study investigates the water loss in Iran over the last two decades using satellite gravimetry observations, in-situ and globally precipitation data, and gauged groundwater level. The results show significant water loss and a drastic overexploitation of non-renewable water resources in Iran. The study also highlights the impacts of extreme events such as droughts and floods on water availability in the region.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY-REGIONAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Faraz Farhidi, Kaveh Madani, Rohan Crichton
Summary: This research examines the impact of extreme climatic events on environmental policies and finds that policymakers are more likely to make stricter environmental decisions when death rate increases and environmental threats become more imminent, especially in European countries.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Peder Hjorth, Kaveh Madani
Summary: Despite the recognition of water governance as a political issue, the adoption of sustainable development principles has been slow. The paper explores historical events and failures in translating political rhetoric and scientific findings into operational changes in water management. It argues that a persistent failure to learn is a key factor behind the current dire state of water management. The paper concludes that adaptive water management (AWM), rooted in systems thinking, is a prominent framework for a radical transformation of water governance systems.
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Kaveh Madani, Faraz Farhidi, Sona Gholizadeh
Summary: Cooperative game theory provides a framework to assess conflict resolution likelihood, encourage cooperation, and determine each party's share in resource sharing conflicts. This study reformulates cooperative game theory methods to account for players' exogenous bargaining powers and demonstrates the impact of these powers on resource sharing game outcomes using the Caspian Sea international conflict as an example.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Faraz Farhidi, Kaveh Madani, Rohan Crichton
Summary: Composting is an environmentally friendly way to reduce organic waste, with potential economic and climate change benefits. However, economic incentives alone are not enough to drive the growth of composting industry, stronger environmental policies and waste taxes are needed to incentivize private sector investment.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INSIGHTS
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Kaveh Madani