Asymmetric Environmental Governance in Azerbaijan: Oil Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Chapter 1 - Research overview, context and problematization.- Chapter 2 - Overview of environmental governance in Azerbaijan.- Chapter 3 - Oil contamination: policy prioritization and un-politics of pollution?.- Chapter 4 - Corruption and weakened civil society: impact on environmental governance.- Chapter 5 - Explaining path dependent patterns in Azerbaijan’s environmental governance.- Chapter 6 - Reduction of GHG emissions: a comparative success?.- Chapter 7 - International pressure and domestic legitimacy.- Chapter 8 - Discussion on Findings.- Chapter 9 - Conclusion.

Agshin Umudov is associated with the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Earlier, he was employed as a research assistant at the Department of European Studies and
International Relations of the Qafqaz University in Baku (Azerbaijan). From 2012-2013, he worked as a project assistant at Renewables Academy (RENAC AG) in Berlin for the ＂TrEff -Training in Energy Efficiency＂
project, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) to support energy efficiency initiatives in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.