Environment & Sustainability
Policy research on Environment & Sustainability within the IPR sits alongside the broader agenda of I-SEE, the University’s Institute of Sustainable Energy & the Environment.
This policy research encompasses international negotiations on climate change through the IPCC, national environmental politics, the functioning and limitations of carbon markets, corporate social responsibility, and the scope for action and behaviour change within local communities. It also attends to the philosophical, cultural and educational underpinnings of social and political action on environmental matters.
New research is concerned with the costs and benefits of policies to mitigate climate change, spread over the coming decades, and the time discount rate that should be applied, taking both economic and political considerations into account.
Policy Briefs
Research summaries
Videos
Publications
- Safeguarding livelihoods or exacerbating poverty? Artisanal mining and formalization in West Africa (Maconachie, 2011)
- The Governance of Unsustainability: ecology and democracy after the postdemocratic turn (Bluhdorn, 2013)
- The Politics of Unsustainability: COP 15, post-ecologism, and the ecological paradox (Bluhdorn, 2011)
- Context Change and Travel Mode Choice: combining the habit discontinuity and self-activation hypotheses (Verplanken, Walker, 2008)
- Environmental Policy in the United Kingdom and Germany (Lees, 2007)
- Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies: learning to live with the future (Gough, Stables, 2008)
- Frame Analysis and the Literature of Climate Change (Goodbody, 2012)
- International Environmental Agreements Under Uncertainty: does the veil of uncertainty help? (Finus, 2011)
- Stability and Success of Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (Finus, 2010)
