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The APSA Environmental Politics and Policy Research Group was the first APSA research group and was formed in 2011 to coordinate the research and activities of environmental politics scholars in Australia and the region and to develop linkages with like-minded international scholars and groups. It is the successor to the Ecopolitics Association of Australasia, which was founded to manage the Ecopolitics Conference Series that began in 1986 and comprised sixteen conferences hosted by universities across Australia and New Zealand. Members of the Research Group focus on areas of environmental politics such as political theory, activism, electoral politics and policy. The main annual meeting of the Research Group occurs during the annual APSA conference, but it also plans ad hoc workshops and seminars for environmental politics academics and research students.

The aim of the Environmental Politics and Policy (EPP) Research Group is to develop a network of researchers working in the broad field of environmental policy and politics – from domestic policy to global governance, from local efforts to global civil society, from empirical research to political theory, we seek to include researchers who address all political aspects of the human/nature interface. The EPP Research Group will attempt to promote an increased awareness among social scientists of this interface, and seek to inform policy-makers of the potential implications of an enriched approach to environmental and ecological perspectives.

The group’s annual meeting at the APSA conference also announces the winner of The Pete Hay Environmental Politics Prize and The Pete Hay Early Career Research Prize.

Anyone with an interest in this field is welcome to join.

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