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Rob Ralston

University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

  • University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science

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Unpacking Plastic Credits: Challenges to Effective and Just Global Plastics Governance

One Earth, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 09 Dec 2024
Sangcheol Moon, Neil Tangri, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Rob Ralston, Melanie Bergmann, Kristian Syberg, Tara Olsen, Mengjiao Wang, Arturo Castillo, Gabin Colombini, Joseph Alegado and Tara Janvier
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, California Polytechnic State University, University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Roskilde University, Lund University, University of Exeter, Utrecht University, Sorbonne University - Institut D'écologie Et Des Sciences De L'environnement De Paris, Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy and Independent
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plastic credits, additionality, EPR, global plastics treaty, waste colonialism

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Preventing Corporate Capture: Democratic Legitimacy and the Global Plastics Treaty

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 15 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2024
Rob Ralston, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Rachel Radvany, Dharmesh Shah, Mengjiao Wang and Juressa Lee
University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) - United States, Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), University of Exeter and Greenpeace International
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plastics, corporate power, Petrochemical industry, global plastic governance, procedural justice

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Protecting the Right to Science in Multilateral Environmental Agreements addressing chemicals and plastics pollution (Submitted to the International Journal of Human Rights)

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 May 2025 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2025
Bethanie Carney Almroth, Rob Ralston, Joachim Peter Tilsted, Angeliki Balayannis, Michael G. Bertram, Tara Olsen and Damien Short
University of Gothenburg, University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science, University of Copenhagen - Copenhagen University, Wageningen University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Copenhagen - Copenhagen University and University of London - SOAS University of London
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Human Rights, knowledge systems, conflicts of interest, environmental justice, regulation, indicators, governance, science-policy interface

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A Framework of NGO inside and outside Strategies in the Commercial Determinants of Health: Findings from a Narrative Review

Globalization and Health, volume 19, issue 1, 2023[10.1186/s12992-023-00978-x]
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Jun 2025
Belinda Townsend, Timothy Johnson, Rob Ralston, Katherine Cullerton, Jane Martin, Jeff Collin, Fran Baum, Liz Arnanz, Rodney Holmes and Sharon Friel
Deakin University - Faculty of Arts and Education, School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet), University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science, University of Queensland, Cancer Council Victoria - ood for Health Alliance, University of Edinburgh, Flinders University, The NCD Alliance, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education and Australian National University (ANU)
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Commercial determinants of health, NGO, Civil society, Advocacy, Policy, Public health, Health policy