This superb article - Nye, M., & Owens, S. (2008). Creating the UK emission trading scheme: motives and symbolic politics. European Environment, 18(1), 1–15. doi:10.1002/eet.468 has really helped me get my head around both some key events (my brain seems to work on empirics/timelines first, theory second, at least sometimes) but also key debates and actions... I will... Continue Reading →
Article 5 of 20 – Hot Air and Cold Feet
So, a book chapter rather than an article per se, and another good'un... Lorenzoni, I. O'Riordan T. and Pidgeon, N. 2008. Hot Air and Cold Feet: The UK Response to lLimate Change. in eds Compston H. and Bailey, I. 2008 Turning Down the Heat: the Politics of Climate Policy in Affluent Democracies.London: Palgrave Macmillan Thanks... Continue Reading →
Article 4 of 20 – “Industrial Policy in the Context of Climate Emergency”
Not an article, this time, but a report- Bailey, Daniel (2019) Industrial Policy in the Context of Climate Emergency: the case for a Green New Deal. Project Report. Future Economies UCRKE, Manchester Metropolitan University. This is a clear and compelling report, written in plain English, written at a very very specific moment (any report is,... Continue Reading →
Article 3 of 20- “The politics of climate change in the UK”
Another stonkingly good piece, which helped me further contextualise the history of climate policy in the UK. Particularly good on the shift from 2005 onwards... Carter, N. 2014. The politics of climate change in the UK WIREs Clim Change 2014, 5:423–433. doi: 10.1002/wcc.274 Before 2005–2006, the environment (including climate change), was low on the national... Continue Reading →
Article 2 of 20- “Charting Climate Governance in the UK”
So, I was looking for an article that explained "this is how UK climate policy has developed - here are the important policy [and other] documents, and here is how key points played out". And ... I found it. Bulkeley, H. 2015. Charting Climate Change Governance in the United Kingdom. ACCOMPLISHING CLIMATE GOVERNANCE, 24–53. Cambridge... Continue Reading →
Article 1st of 20: “A hard Act to follow?”
For reasons that will become clear, I am planning to read 20 academic articles (that may include sections of a thesis or two) over the coming month, and to blog about them. First up is Matthew Lockwood (2021): A hard Act to follow? The evolution and performance of UK climate governance, Environmental Politics, DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1910434... Continue Reading →
“Participation? Show don’t tell” #egofodder #insultation #AcademicCulture #ActivistCulture #Smugosphere
A few examples spring to mind. In 2007, while my eyes were opening wider and wider to the reality of Climate Camp, I was at an event in Manchester aimed at getting university students involved in the "non-hierarchical" organisation. And two self-described "non-hierarchical leaders designed the meeting that involved rather a lot of talking... by... Continue Reading →
“Nuclear electricity” – 1978 booklet by Australian Mining Industry Council
So, the Australian government has torn up a contract it made with the French for some submarines and is now going to buy some nuclear ones. Smarter people than me (Laura Tingle, Guy Rundle etc etc) have written about the geopolitics of all this. One point, made by various commentators, is that building/operating nuclear subs... Continue Reading →
Podcasts schmodcasts – the good, bad and indifferent
Am late to this party, since I didn't get a smart phone until 18 months ago, and even then just didn't bother. But, thanks to, well, Dr Termagant, I finally started listening them, usually on long yomps up hills and around cities. I listened to a bunch of politics ones, Meh. I listened to a... Continue Reading →
Incumbency own goals – accidents will happen…
Proportional representation is not the global panacea that some of its more excitable proponents would have you believe. It's not the "one weird trick" that will usher in a golden age of reasonable and reasoned governance. But the current system - a cartel of major parties guarding the mechanisms by which they keep their position... Continue Reading →
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