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The Rise of Anti-Net Zero Populism in the UK: Comparing Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Policy Dismantling
2024-06-22 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThis article explores a backlash against the net zero greenhouse gas emissions target within the UK. It introduces the term “anti-net zero populism” to analyse ideological and opportunistic counter...
Climate justice in more-than-human worlds
2023-10-23 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsTheories of climate justice retain a persistent tension between transcorporeal entanglement and coherent individuality. The ontology of bodily separation required for accountability for polluters a...
Tagged under: Climate Justice
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam and its consequences
2023-08-26 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsPublished in Water International (Vol. 48, No. 5, 2023)
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Stumbling towards collapse: coming to terms with the climate crisis
2023-08-25 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsLeading sociologists have approached the climate crisis by emphasising a way forward and identifying hopeful directions. What sense is to be made of suggestions that we are instead on the brink of ...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism | Collapse
The liberal limits to transformation in the Green Climate Fund
2023-08-20 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsInternational climate finance institutions increasingly articulate their goals as catalyzing transformation, but can these institutions bring about deep structural change when they reflect the same...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Justice | Finance
Landscape of conquest: frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival, 1652–1780
2023-08-17 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries European settlers ousted the Khoikhoi and San from much of the land they inhabited in south‐western Africa using a strategic combination of technology an...
Tagged under: Africa
The evolution of climate justice claims in global climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC
2023-08-14 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsA growing body of research suggests that the global conception of climate change is increasingly taking a justice-focus. However, the justice-framings of different actors in the UNFCCC process and ...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Justice
Effects of temperature on feeding and digestive processes in fish
2023-07-22 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsAs most fish are ectotherms, their physiology is strongly affected by temperature. Temperature affects their metabolic rate and thus their energy balance and behavior, including locomotor and feedi...
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Beyond colonial futurities in climate education
2023-07-04 in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsMany pedagogies that seek to address the climate and nature emergency (CNE) promise hope and solutions for an idealized future. In this article, we suggest these pedagogies are rooted in the same m...
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay
2023-07-04 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThe role of particular scientists in opposing policies to slow and halt global warming has been extensively documented. The role of economists, however, has received less attention. Here, I trace t...
Tagged under: Economics
Provisioning for sufficiency: envisaging production corridors
2023-06-09 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThis article deepens the framework of a sufficiency economy, defining sufficiency as the space between a floor of meeting needs and a ceiling of ungeneralizable excess. This framework can be applie...
From Luddites to limits? Towards a systematization of growth critiques in historical perspective
2023-05-06 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsWhile economic growth is still at the centre of politics around the world, driven by economic crises and ecological breakdown critiques of growth as well as calls for post-growth or degrowth are on...
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth
Spiral-scaling climate action: lessons from and for the academic flying less movement
2023-03-30 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThe notion that scholars should reduce consumption of workrelated flight travel as a form of climate action has become common in academia. Proponents of this idea have coalesced into a sectoral mov...
Rationing and Climate Change Mitigation*
2023-03-08 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsIn this paper, we argue that rationing has been neglected as a policy option for mitigating climate change. There is a broad scientific consensus that avoiding the most severe impacts of climate ch...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Mitigation
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2023-02-05 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsAnti-environmentalism and the natural ‘wages of whiteness’
2023-01-31 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsW.E.B. Du Bois’ theorization of the ‘wages of whiteness’ has factored prominently into recent scholarship examining the roots of Trumpism and resurgent right-wing movements in the United States. Ho...
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2022-03-23 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsTransition, hedge, or resist? Understanding political and economic behavior toward decarbonization in the oil and gas industry
2022-01-19 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsMany oil and gas firms claim they are going green. But are they actually walking the talk? We analyze the political and economic behavior of publicly traded oil majors to understand the degree to w...
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2022-01-12 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThe tragedy of climate change science
2022-01-12 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThe science-society contract is broken. The climate is changing. Science demonstrates why this is occurring, that it is getting worse, the implications for human well-being and social-ecological sy...
Tagged under: Climate Change
Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement
2022-01-12 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsClimate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices is more urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics
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2021-11-15 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsIs Green Growth Possible?
2021-09-27 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThe notion of green growth has emerged as a dominant policy response to climate change and ecological breakdown. Green growth theory asserts that continued economic expansion is compatible with our...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Economics | Economic Growth
The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change
2021-07-25 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsForecasts by economists of the economic damage from climate change have been notably sanguine, compared to warnings by scientists about damage to the biosphere. This is because economists made thei...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics
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2021-02-06 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsClimate change, fragmentation and collective trauma. Bridging the divided stories we live by*
2021-01-16 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThis article explores psychological responses to climate change with the lenses of brain hemisphere imbalance, the fragmentation process of collective trauma and the Jungian maturation theory of tw...
Tagged under: Climate Change
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2020-07-29 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsClimate change communication and public engagement in interpersonal deliberative settings: evidence from the Irish citizens’ assembly
2020-06-23 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsCitizens are being increasingly called upon to participate in climate change policymaking. Citizen assemblies have been proposed as a viable and effective way of boosting public support for ambitio...
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2020-06-16 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsAvoiding cultural trauma: climate change and social inertia
2019-7-29 in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThe failure of societies to respond in a concerted, meaningful way to climate change is a core concern of the social science climate literature. Existing explanations of social inertia display litt...
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