Environmental Politics Specialist Group
Convenor
Dr. Diarmuid Torney , Dublin City University
Email: diarmuid.torney@dcu.ie
Dr. Louise Fitzgerald, University College Dublin
Email: louise.fitzgerald1@ucdconnect.ie
Aims
This PSAI Specialist Group aims to provide a forum for the growing community of scholars researching environmental politics in Ireland and beyond. Ireland and the wider world face significant challenges as a result of a growing variety of environmental stresses. From global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss to local environmental issues such as air and water pollution, an expanding global population coupled with resource-intensive patterns of production and consumption are placing increasing strains on ecosystems and societies. Mitigating these challenges and adapting to the consequences of environmental change are partly technical issues but they are also fundamentally political, with notable economic, social, and governance aspects. PSAI members who work on environmental politics do so from a range of perspectives and approaches (comparative politics, EU studies, International Relations, normative political theory), and focus on a variety of environmental issues (climate change, pollution, ocean and marine politics, energy policy) at multiple scales of governance (local, national, European, international).
Activities
The Specialist Group will hold an annual workshop to provide a venue for ongoing research on environmental politics in and about Ireland. This may be combined with a policy-focused panel involving contributions from practitioners and/or a keynote from a high-profile international speaker. The Specialist Group will also convene at least one panel on environmental issues at each PSAI annual conference. Beyond this, the Specialist Group will act as a springboard for combined panel proposals for international conferences such as PSA, ECPR, APSA, UACES and ISA.
Participants
Viviane Gravey, Queens University Belfast
Conor Little, University of Copenhagen
Diarmuid Torney, Dublin City University
John Barry, Queens University Belfast
Constantine Boussalis, Trinity College Dublin
Brendan Flynn, NUI Galway
Erica Frazier, Queens University Belfast
Sadbh O’Neill, University College Dublin
Fabian Schuppert, Queens University Belfast
Jane Suiter, Dublin City University