Balancing Green Goals and Competitiveness: Reframing EU Climate Policy
EU policymakers leveraged internal and external political pressures to create a sense of urgency, legitimizing a shift to prioritize economic over environmental concerns.
Climate & Environment
Proliferation Risks Associated with Small Modular Reactors
Small modular reactors offer greater access to nuclear energy, but they also pose novel proliferation risks that international safeguards are not yet ready to address.
Land, Climate, and Conflict: Unravelling the Nexus in Sudan, Syria, and Morocco
Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, contributing to conflict only where weak land tenure governance amplifies drought-induced social and political stresses.
The Colonial Legacy of Climate Vulnerability: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis
Colonialism drives climate change vulnerability in the global South through constructions of race and gender that are embedded in Western modern sustainability practices.
Beyond Apocalypse: Securitization and Exceptionalism in Environmental Politics
The securitization of environmental crises rarely results in extraordinary political measures due to the risks associated with mobilising such actions.
The UNSDGs and Transition to a Sustainable Economy through Post-growth Approach
For the UNSDGs to transcend their self-limiting internal contradictions, they need to be reconceptualized as visions in the making and not as goals or targets.
America the Beautiful, or the Exclusive? The Other in US Nature Conservation
Despite its goals to re-envision nature conservation and to make it more inclusive, the AtB campaign keeps marginalising and silencing Indigenous peoples in the US.