Editor-in-Chief: David Konisky – Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
David Konisky is the Lynton K Caldwell Professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He has published widely in the areas of U.S. environmental politics and policy, regulation, federalism, environmental justice, and public opinion. He has authored or edited six books, including Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government’s Response to Environmental Justice (MIT Press, 2015), Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2014, with Steve Ansolabehere), and, most recently, Fifty Years at the US Environmental Protection Agency: Progress, Retrenchment, and Opportunities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, with Jim Barnes and John Graham). At Indiana University, he has affiliations with the Ostrom Workshop, the Department of Political Science, the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, and the Environmental Resilience Institute. He joined the Environmental Politics editorial team in February 2021, and began as Editor-in-Chief in January 2024.
Editor: Prakash Kashwan – Brandeis University, USA
Prakash Kashwan is a scholar of environmental policy and politics, with a specific focus on environmental justice, climate justice, and global climate governance. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and an Affiliated Faculty at the Heller School for Social Policy & Management at Brandeis University. Prior to joining Brandeis in the fall of 2022, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Research Program on Economic and Social Rights at the Human Rights Institute of University of Connecticut, Storrs. His research and teaching builds on his interdisciplinary educational background and a first career in international development. Kashwan is the author of Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (Oxford University Press 2017), which has been reviewed extensively in scholarly journals and popular media.
Editor: Clare Saunders – University of Exeter, UK
Clare is Professor in Environmental Politics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall; and the Environment and Sustainability Institute. Her research interests are primarily related to diverse forms of environmental activism across a range of tactics from practical conservation and litter-picking to protest, cultural change and lifestyles. She has published widely on these issues in major journals. She is (co)author or (co)editor of six books including Politics and the Environment: From Theory to Practice (Routledge 2012, with James Connelly, Graham Smith, David Benson); Environmental Networks and Social Movement Theory (Bloomsbury 2014) and, more recently, Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations (Bristol University Press 2024, with Silke Roth).
Editor: Xue Gao – Florida State University, USA
Xue Gao is an Assistant Professor at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. Her research focuses on the interplay between policy, politics, technology, the marketplace, and society in the energy transition process. Her research encompasses various aspects of the energy transition, including the policy-making process, evaluation of energy programs, innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy technology, and energy justice. Her research has been funded by NSF and the Department of Energy. Currently, she is the principal investigator of the NSF-funded “Energy Efficiency and Energy Justice: Understanding Distributional Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Programs and the Underlying Mechanisms” research project. Her research has been published in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Policy Studies Journal, Technovation, Environmental Politics, Energy Policy, and Energy Research and Social Science.
Editor: Louisa Parks, University of Trento, Italy.
Louisa Parks is Full Professor in Political Sociology at the School of International Studies and the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy. Her research interests centre around citizens’ activism and its links to global environmental governance, and she has published articles and books on themes including climate policy integration at the subnational level; the role of Indigenous Peoples in the Convention on Biological Diversity; benefit-sharing in environmental governance; community protocols and environmental stewardship; the discursive politics of the Convention on Biological Diversity; and social movement campaigns and their impacts on EU policy. Her current projects include research on climate justice activism, critical approaches to the European Green Deal, and transformative environmental governance.
Editor: Liam F. Beiser-McGrath, London School of Economics, UK.
Dr. Liam F. Beiser-McGrath is an Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy in the Department of Social Policy, Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Affiliate of the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. They are also the organiser of EPG Online, an online seminar series covering Environmental Politics and Governance. Their research primarily focuses on the political economy of climate change and the environment, using experimental research designs and machine learning. This research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Climate Change, the Journal of Politics, Science Advances, European Journal of Political Research, Comparative Political Studies, Political Analysis, Climatic Change, Political Science Research & Methods, Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics, Journal of European Social Policy, Regulation and Governance, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Public Policy.
Editor: Amanda Machin, University of Agder, Norway.
Amanda Machin is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. She is interested in the dynamics, theories, discourses, imaginaries, protests, identifications, performances and bodies of ecological and radical democratic transformation. Her books include Bodies of Democracy: Modes of Embodied Politics (Transcript 2022) Nations and Democracy: New Theoretical Perspectives (Routledge 2015), Society and Climate: Transformations and Challenges (co-authored with Nico Stehr, World Scientific 2019) and Negotiating Climate Change: Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus (Zed Books, 2013). With Marcel Wissenburg she is currently editing the collection Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene for Edward Elgar. She is currently working on projects on twin transition, critical mineral extraction and climate populism.
Reviews Editors
Ellie Martus – Griffith University, Australia email: e.martus@griffith.edu.au
(Environmental movements, green parties, IR, public policy, comparative politics)
Ellie is a lecturer in public policy at Griffith University, Australia. Specialising in public policy, Ellie’s research focuses on environmental policymaking in Russia and the former Soviet Union, climate politics and coal transitions, and environmental movements in authoritarian states. She has authored and co-authored papers in journals including Climate Policy, Environmental Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Europe-Asia Studies, and published a monograph, Russian Environmental Politics: state, industry and policymaking, in 2017 with Routledge.
Marit Hammond – University of Warwick, UK; email: marit.hammond@warwick.ac.uk
(Environmental political theory, environmental humanities, sustainability, environmental governance, Anthropocene)
Marit is Associate Professor in the Politics of Climate Change at the University of Warwick, and Co-Investigator of the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). Specialising in political theory, her expertise spans environmental political theory, sustainability governance, critical theory, and normative democratic theory. Recent work includes the book Power in Deliberative Democracy: Norms, Forums, Systems (Palgrave, 2018), co-authored with Nicole Curato and John Min, as well as numerous articles in journals such as Environmental Politics, Environmental Values, Contemporary Political Theory, Policy Sciences, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, and Democratization.
Social Media Editor: Ashok Vardhan Adipudi – Mahindra University, India
Ashok is Assistant Professor at Mahindra University. Ashok’s research explores problem-shifting among multilateral environmental agreements. Ashok’s research interests include network structures and optimisation in global environmental governance, complexity and law, and institutional interplay in multi-level governance structures.
