Fighting the Environmental Battles: Governance and the Democratic State
Environmental policies have evolved away from the certainties of the 1970s, which reflects a much broader transformation in the nature of the western democratic state.
Lessons for Sustainable Development from the UN’s Global Desertification Regime
There is significant potential to link the global regimes for climate, biodiversity, trade, and water, in order to facilitate a broader sustainable development agenda.
Review – What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It
Harris provides a good introduction to the politics of climate change and sets out a vision of what might occur if a world of states is replaced with one of people.
Australia Should Pursue Ambitious Climate Change Mitigation Policies
A successful transformation of the energy system will ultimately depend on a political agenda that comprises a plurality of efficient climate policy instruments.
Review – China Airborne: The Test of China’s Future
Fallows’ insightful analysis examines not only the Chinese aviation industry, but Chinese politics at large and the inherent limitations to its development model.
Strategies to Influence Outcomes in Long Environmental Negotiations
In long negotiations, things change. Opportunities will arise for actors to influence state behaviour, and in turn negotiation outcomes, by making strategic choices.
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification: Issues and Challenges
Institutionalisation processes and the North-South debate limit the optimal deployment of the Convention in addressing poverty and ensuring sustainable development.
Climate Change, Limits to Adaptation and the ‘Loss and Damage’ Debate
An actor-centered and sustainable development framing would lead to a politically-achievable response to the urgent problem of climate-related crises around the world.
Adapting Agriculture to Changing Landscapes (and Climates)
Integrated landscape policies and climate smart agriculture practices and technologies offer opportunities for finding solutions to some of our most pressing climate problems.
China Dams the World: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Chinese Dams
China’s dam-building in the Greater Mekong is not only a challenge for the host country, but creates wider international concerns about environmental and social practices.
