Acknowledgments

First of all, we thank the authors of this volume for their contributions and for their patience with the coming-into-being of this book. A warm thank you also goes to the anonymous reviewers from Cambridge University Press, who provided excellent feedback, input, and ideas, all of which increased the quality and accessibility of the book. Robert O. Keohane read and commented on an early version of this book. We are thankful for his constructive feedback. We thank Frank Biermann for including this book in his excellent Earth System Governance Series at Cambridge University Press. We furthermore wish to thank our research assistants, Berfin Yildirim and Christiane Emmerling, for their precise and steadfast help in formatting the manuscript and supporting our administration. We are grateful for the kind guidance received from Cambridge University Press staff, especially Emma Kiddle, Sarah Armstrong, and Matt Lloyd. Finally, we thank the German Research Foundation, to which we are greatly indebted for funding a large-scale research program on the study of international public administrations that has been carried out over the last ten years (www.ipa-research.com), including the ENVIPA research project (German Research Foundation funding codes: JO 1142/1-1 and KO 4997/1-1), the CONNECT research project (German Research Foundation funding codes: KO 4997/4-1 and JO 1142/2-1), and the TRANSPACE project on the emergence of transnational administrative spaces in environmental governance (German Research Foundation funding code: KO 4997/10-1). This book combined central findings from the scholars active in these projects with findings of some of the most renowned international scholars in the field of global environmental policy. We are grateful for this opportunity to jointly showcase the broad range of new conceptual, empirical, and methodological insights into the role of international public administrations in global environmental governance.