- Global Governance Frameworks: Author of a widely cited analytical framework that now serves as a cornerstone for studying governance beyond the state.
- Empirical Innovations: Pioneered research on city networks, public-private partnerships, and private rule-making in climate, forestry, and marine governance.
- Complexity & Fragmentation: Applied concepts from complexity theory to map and explain institutional architectures across environmental domains, producing the field’s reference work on governance fragmentation.
- Anthropocene Governance: Among the first to integrate the Anthropocene concept into political science and global governance debates.
- Global Databases: Developed novel, policy-relevant databases on International Cooperative Initiatives (ICIs) across climate, biodiversity, food, and energy.
- Impact-Oriented Research: Directly contributed to the Action Agenda on climate and biodiversity through policy advice to PBL, the European Commission, and UN processes.
Philipp Pattberg
Simple in means, rich in ends
Philipp Pattberg 