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14 Int'l Env't Agreements: Pol. L. & Econs. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/intenve14 and id is 1 raw text is: Int Environ Agreements (2014) 14:1 3 DOI 10.1007/s10784-013-9234-1 I I I n I, k I V Editorial Joyeeta Gupta - Agni Kalfagianni Published online: 8 January 2014 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 As we are entering into the 14th year of publication, we are proud to announce that our impact factor is growing and has gone up to 2.0! This great achievement is all thanks to the hard work of authors and reviewers, dedicated members of the editorial team and the Springer publishing group to promote the journal among the best students and colleagues worldwide. It is on this happy note that we would also like to wish you a wonderful 2014. In the meanwhile, global environmental challenges are growing more and more severe as globalization, liberalization and demographic trends have led to a multiplication of production and consumption levels worldwide. Many of these challenges affect the delivery of global public goods, goods from which no one can be excluded (non-exclusion) and whose use by one does not affect its use by others (non-rival). The governance of these global public goods cannot be left to the market alone. Rather, we need collective gov- ernance systems that can deal with the free-rider challenge, and we need agreement at multiple levels of governance, but especially at the global level. Looking back at the first editorial, the co-editors at the time wrote: 'This journal aims to attract state-of-the-art articles from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives on environmental problem solving through the use of international environmental agreements, whether formal or informal, private or public'. These lines capture precisely the uniqueness and comparative advantage of this journal in relation to other journals dealing with environmental politics, international environmental law and economics: namely its focus on treaties and agreements as the central means of addressing global environmental problems and its reliance on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research frameworks and methodologies for analysing environmental concerns and pondering on their solutions. It is for this reason and despite our cumbersome name-International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economic-that we have been able to attract top publi- cations from the political science and international relations, law and the economics world. In fact, our cumbersome title, reflecting the spirit of the journal, has helped to focus our J. Gupta - A. Kalfagianni (E) Amsterdam, The Netherlands e-mail: a.kalfagianni@vu.nl Springer

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