Environmental Politics

This section is designed to bring together a series of panels focusing on current issues and problematics in Green politics, broadly defined. Given the prominent position occupied by environmental politics within public policy agendas, institutional operations, regulatory systems, social movement mobilisations and the dynamics of political competition, the section will include a diverse range of panels from scholars working throughout the academic community across political science disciplines. Panels will develop a comparative analytical framework in their rationale, and expect paper proposals reflecting both the more conventional core interests in the study of green politics as well as more contemporary areas of academic enquiry. These are expected to include environmental public policy; Green political theory; Green parties; environmental issues within electoral systems; environmental mobilisation, protest and social movements; environmental policy and regulation; policy learning and policy implementation across political systems; environmental NGOs and civil society; environmental aspects of transnational institutions and governance regimes; and the construction of Green scientific and political discourses. The overall aim of the section is to draw together conceptual expertise and rigorous empirical analysis in order to explore, challenge and re-configure theories surrounding environmental problems. The Section is supported by the Convenors of the ECPR Standing Group on Green Politics, which has nearly 300 members. The SGGP sections have been over-subscribed at all six of the ECPR General Conferences to date; for Reykjavik in 2011 there were 96 high quality submissions for eight panels including tabled papers; 49 papers were run between the panels, producing a series of high-quality discussions on subjects ranging from national climate policy to deliberative justice to urban adaptation strategies. We expect an Environmental Politics section at Bordeaux in 2013 to be similarly important and stimulating.