Climate and Environment

Interview – Christiane Fröhlich

E-International Relations • Jun 29 2023 • Features

Christiane Fröhlich explores the relationship between climate change, human mobility and conflict, as well as the role governments and policymakers play.

Process Sociology and the Global Ecological Crisis

André Saramago • Mar 31 2023 • Articles

In light of the global ecological crisis, Process Sociology offers a framework encompassing the role of human/non-human nature relations in world politics.

Colombia’s ‘Total Peace’ and Climate Change

Never has the Colombian government had as much leverage to negotiate the climate crisis than the present, with the new president and his total peace initiative.

Environment and Climate

Raul Pacheco-Vega • May 19 2022 • Online resources

Our planet carries 8 billion people. Yet its capacity to provide for each of us is threatened by population growth, climate change, deforestation, collapse of fisheries, desertification, air pollution and scarcity of fresh water.

Global Governance: Human Rights and Environmental Governance

Kevin Bloor • May 19 2022 • Articles

The international community faces a number of issues and barriers that are integral towards the fight against climate change, running up against questions of power and influence over the system as a whole.

Agroecology, Climate Change Induced Polycrisis and the Transformation of Food Systems

Miguel A Altieri • Apr 20 2022 • Articles

Heroic efforts displayed by peasants and indigenous people represent spaces of hope against the weight of ecological breakdown and social injustice.

Decolonizing Environmental Politics: Sumak Kawsay as a Possible Moral Foundation for Green Policies

Valeria Victoria Rodríguez Morales • Apr 1 2022 • Articles

Sumak kawsay constitutes an axiological system that could morally base international agreements in order to preserve the environment in Abya Yala.

Opinion – Black and Southern Feminisms Matter in the Global Climate Struggle

Lydia Ayame Hiraide • Nov 12 2021 • Articles

Black and Southern feminists challenge us to consider the climate and environmental crisis as a crisis tied up in global histories of race, gender, and class as embedded in European empire.

Opinion – The Responsibility to Protect the Amazon

Gustavo Macedo • Mar 31 2021 • Articles

Applying responsibility to protect ideas to environmental threats would not only set off the alarm for Brazil by staining its international image, but also potentially shake up other states.

The Subsidiarity Principle in EU Environmental Law

Sian Affolter • Mar 26 2021 • Articles

The principle of subsidiarity in EU environmental law suggests a distinction between actions aiming for genuine environmental protection and actions aiming primarily at market integration.

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