Environmental Politics

Environmental Politics

The Environmental Politics cluster brings together world-leading experts in the field, exciting early career scholars and talented PhD researchers. Cluster members include researchers 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 field 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 ‘Climate Justice and the Transition to a Sustainable World’, 'The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development and Security', ‘The Politics of Climate Change’, ‘Energy Security’, and '9 Ideas in Climate Politics’.

PAIS hosts the MA on the Politics of Climate Change.