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The Environmental State: Nature and the Politics of Environmental Protection
Sociological Theory
2023

Christopher Rea defines the environmental state and theorizes two structuring forces central to its provision of environmental welfare. 

The Impact of Collaboration Network on Water Resource Governance Performance: Evidence From China’s Yangtze River Delta Region
2021

This study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, examines the relationship between network structure and network performance.

Under What Conditions Do Governments Collaborate? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Air Pollution Control in China
2021

This study, published in Public Management Review, proposes four starting conditions that affect the establishment of intergovernmental collaboration: power imbalance, resource imbalance, prehistory of collaboration and participation of superior levels of government.

Collaborative Networks and Environmental Governance Performance: A Social Influence Model
2020

This research, published in Public Management Review, examines how collaborative networks affect the performance of individual policy actors embedded in the network.

Violent Entanglements: The Pittman-Robertson Act, Firearms, and the Financing of Conservation
Conservation and Society
2022

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea compares the four largest sources of revenue for state wildlife and conservation agencies and demonstrate the growing importance of Pittman-Robertson as gun sales increase.

Back-Pedaling or Continuing Quietly? Assessing the Impact of ICLEI Membership Termination on Cities’ Sustainability Actions
2016

This study, published in Environmental Politics, questions whether cities’ termination of their ICLEI affiliation diminishes their implementation of sustainability actions.

Theorizing Command-and-Commodify Regulation: the Case of Species Conservation Banking in the United States
Theory & Society
2017

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea offers a framework for explaining these processes of regulatory marketization, like cap-and-trade and ecological offsetting.

Regulatory Thickening and the Politics of Market-Oriented Environmental Policy
Environmental Politics
2018

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the linkages between market-based policy instruments and expanding state control over environmental quality.

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