Environmental Politics

The Environmental Politics cluster brings together world-leading experts in the field, exciting early career researchers and talented PhD researchers. Cluster members include scholars taking quantitative and qualitative empirical approaches to environmental politics, as well as political theorists.

In recent years, PAIS researchers have focused their work on several key areas in the fields of environmental politics. Firstly, ethical questions including how to apply the concepts of rights and justice to the environment, the politics of the Anthropocene, and the interaction between climate change and democracy. Secondly, the relationship between energy, geopolitics and environmental policy. Thirdly, the role of environmental policy in elections and party politics. Finally, the political economy of energy.

Read more about PAIS's work on climate change specifically here.

The cluster engages with a series of topical and fraught societal challenges related to climate change, and the environment more broadly. The cluster runs regular activities including work-in-progress research workshops, impact activities and seminars with external speakers.

The cluster also coordinates PAIS’s active programme of undergraduate and postgraduate modules on the environment, such as ‘Normative Analysis, Justice and Future Generation’, ‘The Politics of Climate Change’, ‘Energy Security’, and '9 Ideas in the Politics of Climate Change’.

PAIS hosts the MA on the Politics of Climate Change.