Markus Fraundorfer

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at University of Leeds

Phosphorus’ availability and pricing is critical for the entire food system. Transformative phosphorus governance is required to reduce the European Union’s fertiliser vulnerability. At the same time, the EU’s governance approach is constrained by multiple problem definitions and missing salient framings that could make phosphorus recovery a priori...

“Regional cooperation exists, but looks different in the global South than in the European Union,” claim the contributors to South American Policy Regionalism, which offers novel theory, methods, and Latin American case studies of joint governance efforts in nine international policy arenas, ranging from illegal drugs to artificial intelligence. C...

This review paper presents a critical perspective on the transformation of phosphorus governance in the European Union to support food and environmental security, which are subject to systemic shocks. It presents three major limitations that act as constraints to this process: (1) the predominance of technical studies, which produce isolated meanin...

We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with ‘thingifying’ processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and Indigenous contexts as person‐like kin , we describe how rivers the world over have been re‐done primarily as thing —amoral, controllable, a potential commodity like anything else. We d...

Robotics and autonomous systems are reshaping the world, changing healthcare, food production and biodiversity management. While they will play a fundamental role in delivering the UN Sustainable Development Goals, associated opportunities and threats are yet to be considered systematically. We report on a horizon scan evaluating robotics and auton...

This chapter introduces the dominant features of the global food system, highlighting that the dominant dynamics of global agricultural production have been one of the key drivers of the Anthropocene. Then, the chapter examines several alternative dynamics in the global food system that challenge its dominant logic. The chapter explains the concept...

This chapter examines the architecture of transboundary water governance and its dominant approaches to tackling the global degradation of freshwater resources, such as rivers, lakes and groundwater aquifers. The chapter presents two case studies to exemplify the dominant logic of freshwater governance. The first case study examines the internation...

This chapter casts light on the entanglements between the emergence of global governance and the emergence of the Anthropocene over the past two hundred years. The chapter discusses the principal driving forces behind the emergence of the Anthropocene and introduces different views from the natural and social sciences on the meaning of this new epo...

This chapter briefly summarises the dominant global governance dynamics in the five sectors of infectious disease, food, freshwater, energy and environmental governance. It teases out the tragic entanglements between global governance and the Anthropocene, symbolised by a fragmented global governance system and weak international and transnational...

This chapter introduces a conceptual toolbox, consisting of the concepts of authority, legitimacy, democracy, and network/nodal governance, to assist in analysing global governance. The chapter characterises the authority of global governance institutions as reflexive and liquid, discusses the institutional and structural sources of legitimacy and...

This chapter focuses on global efforts to reduce global CO2 emissions. After having established the ineptness of the traditional state-centric logic of global environmental governance to deal with global environmental challenges, the chapter turns its attention to two major global movements that break with this logic. The first case study introduce...

This chapter presents the dominant characteristics underlying global energy production patterns and the global energy governance architecture. After pointing out that the principal processes and dynamics of global energy governance heavily rely on fossil fuels and the emission of tonnes of carbon dioxide, two case studies explore in more detail two...

This chapter provides an overview of the global governance of major infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics over the past two decades. Through three case studies, the chapter teases out the principal characteristics of the contemporary global health governance architecture in confronting infectious disease outbreaks. These case studies refer to...

Why has global governance largely failed to effectively tackle some of the most pressing global environmental challenges of our time? What are the obstacles to effective global and planetary problem-solving? And which solutions and responses have global governance actors come up with to confront these challenges? This textbook teases out the tragic...

The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020/21 was dominated by the Westphalian primacy of national territory and sovereignty, significantly worsening and prolonging this global health crisis. Global platforms for cross-border coordination and cooperation, set up by the WHO and other global health partnerships, were constrained by national...

In the context of Brazil's rising energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we develop a forward-looking analysis of the domestic renewable energy policy framework. We probe the overall effectiveness of this framework by focusing on instrument design (in terms of stringency and predictability) as well as policy coherence. We analyze the develo...

In times of human-inflicted ecological crises and the mass extinction of countless species, it becomes ever more urgent to redefine how we perceive ourselves and our relationship with the planet's ecosystems and other species. Indigenous cosmologies harbour perspectives fundamentally different from those of modern political and philosophical though...

In recent years, a growing literature has focused on how to create more effective and democratic global governance mechanisms to better tackle global challenges such as health epidemics, global hunger, Internet surveillance or the consequences of climate change. Yet there is a gap in accessible published material to reflect contributions of democra...

In the face of the apparent weaknesses of the state system to find meaningful solutions to global challenges such as the regulation of the Internet, more democratic forms of governance may show more creative and innovative ways to move forward. Instead of focusing once again on the usual suspects in this debate (civil society actors, Western state...

In 2011, on the initiative of US President Barack Obama 8 governments and 9 civil society organizations (CSOs) came together to create the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP was proclaimed as a new paradigm in promoting open government and democratic principles through the creation of participatory mechanisms involving governments and CSOs....

Today, many human rights norms are promoted and reinforced as transnational law in transnational settings involving a multiplicity of state and non-state actors. Over the last few years, debates about constitutionalising a human right to an adequate environment as a legal instrument to confront the devastating consequences of climate change have st...

The Ebola epidemic in 2014 in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone demonstrated for the first time that in an interdependent and interconnected world the Ebola virus is no longer a negligible threat limited in its lethal impact to a few isolated African villages. By linking Carol Gould's concept of transnational solidarity with the concept of transnati...

A growing literature explores how global governance mechanisms can be made more effective and democratic to tackle trans-boundary development challenges like global epidemics, global poverty or climate change. The international system today is characterized by an increasing influence of non-state actors gradually undermining the prominent role of t...

Brazil, together with other emerging powers, has repeatedly made headlines over the last few years as a serious player in international climate change negotiations. In December 2015, states will convene at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris to agree on a new international climate treaty. What can we expect from Brazil at the upcoming climate...

The author examines Brazil's emerging role as an important actor in various sectors of global governance and, in particular, health, food security and bioenergy. By exploring how Brazil's exercise of power developed over the last decade, he sheds light on the power strategies of an emerging country from the global south. The book focuses on Brazil'...

This article demonstrates how an analysis directed at one of the so-called BRIC-countries may help us better understand the impact of global power shifts on the development of transnational law. The article focuses on Brazil's role in the progressive realisation of the human right to health in the last decade. It argues that Brazil's success in inf...

Brazil's Zero Hunger Strategy is regarded as an international model in the global fight against hunger and poverty. I will analyse the mechanisms Brazil created to allow other governments and international organisations to benefit from the experience Brazil collected in the Zero Hunger Strategy. Based on the theoretical concept of "nodal governance...

Book Review: Jonathan Wolff, The Human Right to Health, New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. 192 pp. Hardcover: $23.95. ISBN 978-0-393-06335-6.

Im Juni 2013 haben Massenproteste das fünftgrößte Land der Welt in einem Umfang erschütt ert, wie das Land sie seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr erlebt hat. Die Proteste richte-ten sich unter anderem gegen den desolaten Zustand des Bildungs-und Gesundheits-systems, das schwach ausgebildete öff entliche Verkehrssystem und die politische Kor-ruption. Trotz...

Analyse Monatliche Zahlungen (mensalão) an Abgeordnete sicherten Expräsident Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva am Beginn seiner ersten Amtszeit (2003-2005) die notwendigen parlamen-tarischen Mehrheiten. Dies mag moralisch verwerflich sein, erklärt sich aber aus der großen Fragmentierung des brasilianischen Parlaments. Obwohl der Präsident in der Verfassun...