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Research Cluster
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The Politics of Global and Regional Environmental Governance
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Contact Person
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Dr Lorraine Elliott
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Principal Researchers
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Lorraine Elliott, Katherine Morton
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Cluster Description
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Human activity is changing the environment on a scale unlike that of any other era. This cluster examines the politics and political economy of environmental governance at a global, regional and local level, the latter with a focus on the Asia Pacific including China. In the face of what often seem to be insurmountable environmental and human security challenges, this research addresses theoretical and case study dimensions of how local, regional and global environmental problems are identified and defined, and the politics and ethics of a diverse range of global and regional policy choices and practices.
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Key Research Questions
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What is the relationship between globalization and environmental degradation? How are local, regional and global environmental problems with transboundary consequences governed? What forms of state and non-state authority, including civil society, corporate and illicit authority, are relevant to this governance process? What kinds of institutions are required to overcome transboundary environmental change? How do concerns about justice and ethics relate to environmental challenges and what normative demands are or should be made of the structures and practices of environmental governance?
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Supporting Grants
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International Centre for Excellence in Asia Pacific Studies
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Ongoing Research Cluster Projects
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Transnational Environmental Crime: Global governance and political economy (Lorraine Elliott)
Regional Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia (Lorraine Elliott)
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Key Publications
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Lorraine Elliott, 'Legality and legitimacy: The environmental challenge' in Richard Falk and Ramesh Thakur (eds) Legality and legitimacy in the international order (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, forthcoming).
Lorraine Elliott, 'Sovereignty and the global politics of the environment: Beyond Westphalia?' in Ramesh Thakur and Charles Sampford (eds) The end of Westphalia: Re-envisioning sovereignty (Aldershot: Ashgate, in press).
Lorraine Elliott, 'Globalization and political violence: The environmental connection' in Christopher Hughes and Richard Devetak (eds) The globalization of political violence (London: Routledge, in press).
Lorraine Elliott, 'US policy interests and the challenges of environmental security in Asia’ in Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Willis (eds) Strategic Asia 2007-08: Domestic politics, internal change and grand strategy (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2007).
Lorraine Elliott, 'Environment and security: What's the connection?', Australian Defence Force Journal, no. 174 (2007): 37-50.
Lorraine Elliott, 'Transnational environmental crime in the Asia Pacific: An un(der)-securitised security problem?', The Pacific Review, 20(4) 2007: 499-522.
Lorraine Elliott, 'Improving the global environment: policies, principles and institutions', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61(1) 2007: 7-14.
Lorraine Elliott, 'Pragmatism, prosperity and environmental challenges in Australia' s foreign policy' in James Cotton and John Ravenhill (eds) Trading on alliance security: Australia in world affairs 2001-2005 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press; 2007).
Lorraine Elliott, 'Harm and emancipation: Making environmental security "critical" in the Asia Pacific' in Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald (eds) Critical security in the Asia Pacific (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).
Katherine Morton, 'Transnational Advocacy at the Grassroots in China: Potential Benefits and Risks', China Information, forthcoming 2006.
Lorraine Elliott, 'Cosmopolitan environmental harm conventions', Global Society, vol.20, no.3, July 2006, pp: 345-63.
Katherine Morton, International Aid and China's Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon (London: Routledge Routledge, 2005).
Lorraine Elliott, 'Transnational environmental harm, inequity and the cosmopolitan response' in Peter Dauvergne (ed.) International handbook of environmental politics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2005).
Lorraine Elliott, 'The United Nations and the crisis in environmental governance' in Frank Biermann and Steffen Bauer (eds) A world environment organisation: Solution or threat for effective international environmental governance (Aldershot, HANTS: Ashgate Press, 2005).
Katherine Morton, 'The Emergence of NGOs in China and their Transnational Linkages: Implications for Domestic Reform', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 59, no.4, December 2005.
Lorraine Elliott, The global politics of the environment, 2nd edition (London: Palgrave Macmillan/New York: New York University Press, 2004).
Lorraine Elliott, 'Regional dynamics and environmental governance' in Mark Beeson (ed.) Contemporary Southeast Asia: Regional dynamics, national differences (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Lorraine Elliott, 'Environmental protection and US-Asia relations: a policy of disconnect', The Pacific Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 2004, pp. 291-314.
Lorraine Elliott, 'Imaginative adaptations: a possible environmental role for the UN Security Council?', Contemporary Security Policy, vol. 24, no. 2, 2003, pp. 47-68.
Lorraine Elliott, 'ASEAN and environmental cooperation: norms, interests and identity', The Pacific Review, vol. 16, no. 1, 2003, pp.29-52.
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Projects Underway
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Transnational environmental crime: Global governance and political economy (Lorraine Elliott).
Regional environmental governance in Southeast Asia (Lorraine Elliott).
China: Energy security and the environment (Katherine Morton, Stuart Harris and Bill Tow).
Transnational environmental advocacy in China (Katherine Morton).
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Conferences
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Wildlife Forensics: Science, policy and governance, Workshop, November 2007. |
Transnational environmental crime in the Asia Pacific (February 2007).
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