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Environmental Politics

Comparative Politics
Environmental Policy
Governance
Green Politics
International Relations
Social Movements
Women
Political Sociology
S028
Brian Doherty
Keele University
Hannes Stephan
University of Stirling

Endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Environmental Politics


Abstract

This section is designed to gather a series of eight panels focusing on current issues in and approaches to environmental politics. Given the prominent position occupied by environmental thematics within public policy agendas, regulatory systems, social movement mobilisations, and systems of political competition, we expect to attract a diverse range of panels from scholars working throughout the academic community and across political science disciplines. We will particularly encourage panels which develop a comparative analytical framework in their rationale, and expect proposals reflecting both the more conventional core interests in the study of environmental politics as well as more contemporary areas of academic enquiry. These are expected to include environmental science and public policy; Green political theory; Green parties; environmental issues within electoral systems; environmental mobilization, protest and civil society; environmental policy and regulation; policy learning and policy implementation across political systems; sustainable development; the environment within international institutions and governance regimes; and the construction of ‘green’ scientific and political discourses. The overall aim of the section is for all panels to draw together conceptual expertise and rigorous empirical analysis in order to explore, challenge and re-configure theories surrounding environmental problems, both new and old. The ECPR Environmental Politics Standing Group has over 300 members at present and its sections have been vibrant and over-subscribed at all seven of the ECPR General conferences to date. At Bordeaux in 2013, there were 96 high quality submissions for seven panels including tabled papers; 29 papers were run between the panels, producing a series of high quality discussions on subjects ranging from Green parties after the global financial crisis to post-growth politics to transnational fisheries governance. We expect an Environmental Politics section at Glasgow in 2014 to be similarly notable and stimulating.
Code Title Details
P021 Challenging the System The Environment at the Crossroads between the Westphalian and the Globalised World View Panel Details
P032 Comparative Environmental Politics View Panel Details
P049 Coordinating the New Environmental Governance (1): Whether and How does all Innovation in Governance Result in Cohesive Systems of Environmental Governance? View Panel Details
P092 Environmental Governance and Public Participation View Panel Details
P098 EU Environmental Policy Ten Years after Eastern Enlargement View Panel Details
P174 Is there Anything New under the Sun? The Governance Challenges and Social Risks of Climate Engineering View Panel Details
P419 Global Environmental Politics: Negotiation and Implementation View Panel Details