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Jörg Balsiger is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment and the Institute of Environmental Sciences of the University of Geneva, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Environmental Governance and Territorial Development.
He previously held a Swiss National Science Professorship as well as senior researcher and lecturer positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, and the European University Institute in Florence. Between obtaining a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., he worked for several years in international development, providing expertise in forest policy and administration, donor coordination, and capacity building to nongovernmental organizations, international organizations, national ministries, and the private sector in Central and Southern Africa, and East and Southeast Asia.
Research Interests
Keywords: Regionalization, Institutionalization, Governance, Heteronomy, Alps, Caucasus, Comparative Analysis.
Jörg Balsiger’s research is located at the intersection of international relations, political geography, and organizational sociology, with a special focus on regional environmental and sustainable development politics and policy in transboundary mountain regions. He currently coordinates several research projects in these domains, from the local to the global level. He has been involved in institutional capacity building in regional sustainable mountain development, particularly in the Caucasus, and plays an active role in national and international mountain initiatives.
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