Meet Prof. Fariborz Zelli, whose work and interest is on the connection between climate change, biodiversity, human rights, trade and security – both globally and locally with a focus on Latin America and the Amazon.

His concerns relate to today’s international relations, which are a growing degree of institutional fragmentation and complexity. Based on ongoing regulation and legalization processes that have led to material and functional overlap between political institutions. This institutional fragmentation is important: it changes aspects of power, justice legitimacy and effectiveness of governance processes.

Professor Fariborz’s projects involve examining the degree, causes and consequences of institutional fragmentation for global environmental governance. This includes, for example, our Lund-based NAVIGOV project focusing on climate engineering and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). His many research interests also include overlaps between climate, trade and security governance; the Anthropocene; environmental peacebuilding; and the legitimacy of global governance.

Fariborz’s profile

linkedin.com/in/fariborz-zelli-07974313

Homepages

svet.lu.se/fariborz-zelli

lunduniversity.lu.se/

Research:

Zelli, F, Gerrits, L., Möller, I., & Widerberg, O. (2023), Institutional Complexity and Political Agency in Polycentric Governance’, (in Frank Gadinger and Jan Aart Scholte (eds), Polycentrism: How Governing Works Today) Oxford Academics, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866837.003 .0004,

Zelli, F., Droste, N., Alkan Olsson, A., Hanson, H., Knaggård, Å., Lima G., Lundmark, L., & Thoni, T. (2022). A global overview of biodiversity outweighs governance. Journal of Environmental Management 316 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115231

Sommerer, T., Agne, H., Zelli, F., & Bes, B. (2022) Global Legitimacy Crises – Decline and Revival in Multilateral Governance Decline and Revival in Multilateral Governance. Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780192856326 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192856326.001.0001

Edited volumes:

Environmental Policy and Governance in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2016).

Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics (Elgar, 2015).

A special issue with Global Environmental Politics (2013).

Global Climate Governance after 2012 (Cambridge University Press, 2010).