Climate & Environment

A Well-Intentioned Curse? Securitization, Climate Governance and Its Way Forward

Hannah Lentschig • Mar 4 2024 • Essays

The construction of climate change as a security threat confines the issue to exclusive state politics, undermining the effectiveness and legitimacy of global climate governance.

The UNSDGs and Transition to a Sustainable Economy through Post-growth Approach

Shrinwanti Mistri • Oct 14 2023 • Essays

For the UNSDGs to transcend their self-limiting internal contradictions, they need to be reconceptualized as visions in the making and not as goals or targets.

America the Beautiful, or the Exclusive? The Other in US Nature Conservation

Lea Wowra • Sep 21 2023 • Essays

Despite its goals to re-envision nature conservation and to make it more inclusive, the AtB campaign keeps marginalising and silencing Indigenous peoples in the US.

Transnational Corporations, State Capacity and Development in Nigeria

Olusola Samuel Oyetunde • Nov 11 2022 • Essays

While TNCs have sometimes acted as development agents in host countries, their developmental contribution is marginal.

The Sky is Not the Limit: The Billionaires’ Space Race Read Through Buen Vivir

Heloísa Traiano • Aug 8 2022 • Essays

The billionaire’s space race is critiqued as being exclusionary and individualistic (resulting from Western subjectivities) with the ethical framework of Buen Vivir.

Populism and Extractivism in Mexico and Brazil: Progress or Power Consolidation?

Ian Granit • Jul 26 2022 • Essays

AMLO and Bolsonaro both consolidate power in their countries, while their promises of progress through the extractive industries have thus far been barely effective.

Renewable Energy: Local Benefits or Marginalisation?

Ian Granit • Apr 20 2022 • Essays

(How) can small-scale rural renewable energy projects improve livelihoods of Wayuu people in rural Colombia? This essay explores this issue through the water-energy-food security nexus.

Transforming Global Food Systems: Centering Indigenous Land Returns

Fian Sullivan Sweeney • Apr 15 2022 • Essays

Greater land returns to Indigenous people and recognition of Indigenous sovereignty can address the worsening global food insecurity crises.

Australia: International Agreements as Obligation in the Case of Climate Change

Chris Fitzgerald • Mar 20 2022 • Essays

The high-emitting state of Australia has obligations considering its international agreements: especially vis-à-vis its vulnerable Pacific Island state neighbours.

Practice Theory: How The Consumer’s Limited Agency Hampers Climate Action

Annabel Davies • Feb 2 2022 • Essays

The limited agency of consumers hampers green choices. A force upon the practice instead of the consumer can strengthen climate action.

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