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Fariborz Zelli
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Fariborz Zelli

Professor | Principal investigator BECC | Excellent Teaching Practitioner

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Fariborz Zelli
Contact details
  • Email: fariborz [dot] zelli [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se
  • Phone: +46 46 222 47 64
Organisation
  • Department of Political Science
  • Room number: 330
  • Service point: 31
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Member of Strategic Research Area
    BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Profile area member
    LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions

Political science | International relations

Main research or teaching areas

  1. International institutions
  2. Global environmental governance
  3. Climate politics
  4. Biodiversity and forestry politics
  5. Public policy processes
  6. Political theory and philosophy

Current research and teaching

One of the core phenomena in today’s international relations is a growing degree of institutional fragmentation and complexity. Ongoing regulation and legalization processes have led to material and functional overlaps between politicalinstitutions.  This institutional fragmentation matters: it alters aspects of power, justice legitimacy and effectiveness of governance processes.

In different research collaborations I investigate the degree, causes and consequences of fragmentation for global and local environmental governance. This includes past projects on the nexus between climate, energy and trade governance as well as ongoing collaborations on the nexus between climate change, biodiversity, security and human rights, e.g. in the projects ‘The Nature of Peace’ on environmental peacebuilding and ‘Environmental Human Rights Defenders’.

Environmental governance is also at the core of my teaching, together with issues of international development and global trade.

Publications

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Introduction

Fariborz works on interlinkages between climate change, biodiversity, human rights, trade and security – both on a global scale and locally with a focus on Latin America and the Amazon.

Ongoing research projects

Research groups

High-Resolution Photo

High-Resolution Photo of Fariborz Zelli by photographer Kennet Ruona Lund University.

Last updated: 7 Apr 2025