Harro van Asselt

Harro van Asselt

Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden

Harro van Asselt is a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute. He is also a Visiting Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, and a PhD researcher with the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam. He is co-editor of Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation? (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He has published extensively on issues related to global climate governance in edited books and journals, including Global Environmental Politics, Climate Policy, Law & Policy and the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics. He is editor of the Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), and also serves as Associate Editor of the Carbon and Climate Law Review.

Recent publications

  • Asselt, H. van (2012, forthcoming). Managing the Fragmentation of International Environmental Law: Forests at the Intersection of the Climate and Biodiversity Regimes. New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 44(4).
  • Asselt, H. van & Zelli, F. (2013, forthcoming). Connect the Dots: Managing the Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (accepted).
  • Moncel, R. & Asselt, H. van (2012, forthcoming). All Hands on Deck! Mobilizing Climate Change Action Beyond the UNFCCC. Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 21(3).
  • Asselt, H. van (2011). Dealing with the Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance: Legal and Political Approaches in Interplay Management. In: Oberthür, S. & Stokke, O.S. (Eds.), Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental Change. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • Asselt, H.van (2011). Integrating Biodiversity in the Climate Regime’s Forest Rules: Options and Tradeoffs in Greening REDD Design. Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 20(2), 139-149.
  • Asselt, H. van & Brewer, T. (2010). Addressing Competitiveness and Leakage Concerns in Climate Policy: An Analysis of Border Adjustment Measures in the US and the EU. Energy Policy 38(1), 41-52.
  • Jordan, A., Huitema, D., Asselt, H. van, Rayner, T. & Berkhout, F. (Eds.) (2010, forthcoming). Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Asselt, H. van & Gupta, J. (2009). Stretching Too Far: Developing Countries and the Role of Flexibility Mechanisms Beyond Kyoto. Stanford Environmental Law Journal 28(2), 311-378.
  • Asselt, H. van, Kanie, N. & Iguchi, M. (2009). Japan's Position in International Climate Policy: Navigating between Kyoto and the APP. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 9(3), 319-336.
  • Biermann, F., Pattberg, P., Asselt, H. van & Zelli, F. (2009). The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A Framework for Analysis. Global Environmental Politics 9(4), 14-40.
  •  Asselt, H. van & Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, S. (Eds.) (2009). Exploring and Explaining the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. Special Issue of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 9(3).
  • Asselt, H. van, Sindico, F. & Mehling, M. (2008). Global Climate Change and the Fragmentation of International Law. Law & Policy 30(4), 423-449.
  • Asselt, H. van (2007). From UN-ity to Diversity? The UNFCCC, the Asia-Pacific Partnership, and the Future of International Law on Climate Change. Carbon and Climate Law Review 1(1), 17-28.
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