{"title":"Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives","authors":"Julie Gilson","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2274750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2274750","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"19 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135684240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative","authors":"Yixian Sun, Joanna I. Lewis, Johannes Urpelainen","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2251372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2251372","url":null,"abstract":"On the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), we present this special symposium to advance knowledge on environmental governance of China’s overseas engagement. While China’s fast-growing investments across the world have large implications for global and local environmental politics, this phenomenon has so far received insufficient attention of students of environmental politics. Moreover, China has become increasingly proactive in promoting green development in the BRI, but little research has assessed relevant governance initiatives. Recognising this research gap, contributors to the symposium provide rigorous analysis on institutional interactions involving China and host country actors as well as forces driving new governance initiatives aiming to green the BRI. Building on the insights drawn from the symposium, we propose a research agenda to focus on the effects of China-US geopolitical rivalry, institutional evolution, and agency of host countries to understand the evolving system governing environmental impacts of China’s overseas engagement.","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"2017 27","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135813459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women and climate change: examining discourses from the global north <b>Women and climate change: examining discourses from the global north</b> , by Nicole Detraz, London, MIT Press, 2023, ix – 258 pp., index £40 (paperback), ISBN: 9780262542074","authors":"Joanna Flavell","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2274762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2274762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136067352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Letourneau, D. Davidson, C. Karsgaard, D. Ivanova
{"title":"Proud fathers and fossil fuels: gendered identities and climate obstruction","authors":"A Letourneau, D. Davidson, C. Karsgaard, D. Ivanova","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2274271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2274271","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"18 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134909838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Failing forward: the rise and fall of Neoliberal conservation <b>Failing forward: the rise and fall of Neoliberal conservation</b> , by Robert Fletcher. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2023, xviii + 318 pp., index. £71 (hardback), £25 (paperback), £25 (e-book), ISBN: 9780520390690","authors":"Sylvain Maechler","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2274761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2274761","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135169091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"André Gorz: A Life <b>André Gorz: A Life</b> , by Willy Gianinazzi, translated by Chris Turner, London, Seagull Books, 2022, ix + 394 pp., index. $30/£21.99 (hardback), ISBN 978 0857429889","authors":"Robert Gottlieb","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2274768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2274768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"38 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135316007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat <b>Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat</b> , by Sarah Marie Wiebe. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press, 2023, vii + 273 pp., $35.95 index CAD (paperback), ISBN 9780774867887","authors":"Hannah Ascough","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2274769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2274769","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135316021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working sunset to sunrise: union strategies in three California climate transitions","authors":"Keith Brower Brown, Sara Holiday Nelson","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2265279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2265279","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWe evaluate the conditions and consequences of union strategies in three industrial transitions in California, all driven by its globally influential climate policies: in construction (solar power plants), electricity (nuclear power retirement), and manufacturing (electric vehicles). Building on recent, global frameworks in environmental labor studies, we grow the field’s attention towards unions with workers transitioning between ‘sunset’ industries like fossil energy and ‘sunrise’ sectors like clean energy. Using original ethnographic and archival data, we analyze the conditions that shaped union strategies in transitions, and how these in turn impacted union power and coalitions. We argue that union strategies embraced climate transitions when they organized leverage to define a shift on their members’ terms, independently from employers, often by turning environmental regulation to the advantage of labor and its allies.KEYWORDS: climate politicsunionsjust transitionsolar powerelectric vehicles Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Ethics declarationThis research received ethics approval from the University of California, Berkeley Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (Protocol ID 2022-06-15,404) and the University of British Columbia Behavioral Research Ethics Board (Protocol ID H20–01510 and H16–00271-A009). Informed consent was obtained with an oral script, as approved in the protocols.Notes1. In a review of the following solar energy-related legislation, no references to union, labor, or wage standards were found, except for noted outliers. SB-100 California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (2018); SB-1078 Renewable energy: California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (2002). US HR 1 American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (2009) implemented a prevailing wage requirement for its temporary loan guarantees to renewable developers and manufacturers.2. EV legislation reviewed: SB-129 Budget Act of 2021 (Citation2021). SB-551 California Zero-Emission Vehicle Authority (2022). SB-1014 California Clean Miles Standard and Incentive Program: zero-emission vehicles (2018). AB-615 Air Quality Improvement Program: Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (2017), HR 8 American Taxpayer Relief Act of 20123. CCUE is a coalition of unions, including IBEW 1245, representing approximately 43,000 utility employees4. The agreement included retention bonuses equalling 25% of the employee’s base salary are paid annually for up to 7 years (PG&E 2016, Ch. 7 p. 4).5. We use progressive and conservative to signal stances that embrace change vs. those that protect the status quo. These are not necessarily aligned with partisan politics associated with these termsAdditional informationFundingThis work was supported by the University of California Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor & Employment [Graduate Student Research Award]; University of British Columbia [Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship].","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136185376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development. An Innovative Solution for Environment, Economy and Society <b>Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development. An Innovative Solution for Environment, Economy and Society</b> by Franz Lehner, London & New York, Routledge, 2023, xiii+207 pp., index. 104£ (Hardback), ISBN: 978103219842231.19£ (e-book).","authors":"Manuel Arias-Maldonado","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2264989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2264989","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials","authors":"Dylan Bugden","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2265278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2265278","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTRecent scholarship argues that racial oppression by the state is central to the formation of environmental inequalities, calling into question reliance on the state to achieve environmental justice. Others argue that the state is not monolithic and is the only institution capable of wielding sufficient power to address environmental inequalities. I engage with this discussion through a survey of US local government officials (N = 691). I find that officials tend to engage in color-blind environmental racism; that is, officials tend to understand issues of environmental inequality through the lens of color-blind racial ideology. Findings support the arguments of critical environmental justice scholars who question the state’s inherent capacity to respond to issues of environmental racism. However, variance in officials’ views also suggest that the state is a site of political contestation with many officials both recognizing the reality of environmental inequality and racism and supporting government intervention to address it.KEYWORDS: Environmental justicegovernment officialspolicy supportcolor-blind environmental racism Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1. While attitudinal survey researchers often treat ‘I’m not sure’ or equivalent answers as missing, in this case the measure is not attitudinal. Because this is a question of accuracy – the ability to identify factually correct statements – ‘I’m not sure’ in this case is, in fact, inaccurate. To evaluate the appropriateness of this decision, I (a) ran a set of sensitivity analyses in which the ensuing regression analyses were re-run with an accuracy measure that treats ‘I’m not sure’ as missing and (b) examined a series of t-tests that compared the number of ‘I’m not sure’ responses by demographic characteristics of education, political identity, gender, and income. Regarding the former, the new regression results did not yield any meaningful differences in coefficients, standard errors, or statistical significance. Regarding the latter, respondents without a college degree (compared to those with a college degree) and Republicans (compared to Democrats) had slightly (.4 and .5, respectively) more ‘I’m not sure’ responses, indicating what was likely a form of social desirability bias: avoiding answering ‘no’ by answering ‘I’m not sure’. But in this case this would justify rather than challenge the coding used here.2. A significant caveat to the finding that a majority of respondents support environmental justice policy is that the question used to evaluate support does not distinguish between universalistic, poverty-based, or race-based policies. That is, by using a more generically framed question, respondents were able to infer a number of possible forms that policy could take. Given the strong relationship between color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality – especially support for policy – it is likely th","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135141342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}