Cleaning Up China’s Air: The Effectiveness of the EEP Plan in Beijing
While it is less clear what the exact causal mechanisms are that have led to the reduction in pollution, it is evident that policy-makers have been effective at improving Beijing’s air quality.
Asset Revaluation and Beyond: Theorizing Climate Politics
We face radical uncertainty about whether the world will manage to decarbonize fast enough, and what political strategies can make such an outcome possible.
Opinion – Protest, Interrupted? Climate Activism During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Covid-19’s impact on climate activism is obvious. How can climate activists execute a mass mobilization-based strategy in a social distancing context?
Opinion – Global Environmental Politics in Times of Coronavirus: Lessons from Mexico
The current pandemic exhibits the strong dependency from transnational companies in the food, and medicine supply.
Opinion – Challenges to Kazakhstan’s Transition to the Green Economy
There is still a lack of strategic, long-term vision for environmental protection and many barriers to realizing the goals of sustainable development in Kazakhstan.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change: Why Have Responses Been So Different?
As the COVID-19 crisis recedes some states will be eager to rebuild their economies, even if it means dismissing previously agreed international climate change goals.
Community-Based Natural Resource Management and Global Climate Change in Namibia
It is important to adequately unpack community-based natural resource management as a form of resource governance and to analyze the politics that are involved in it.
The Coming Storm: Crisis, Climate Change, and the Right to Vote
COVID-19 reveals new vulnerabilities in the right to vote. The pandemic has shown that the USA needs actions to avoid ad hoc responses to disruptions of voting rights.
Review – The Age of Illusions
Bacevich argues that the road from American expectations of global supremacy and perpetual prosperity to the economic realities of the US in 2016 led to Trump’s election.
Opinion – The Limits of Humanist Ethics in the Anthropocene
Anthropocene ethics evolve in a contestation between withdrawal and affirmation, and both of these logics develop in antagonisms that they cannot overcome.
