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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.
To accomplish these goals, the EPP research group aims to:
The Environmental Politics and Policy (EPP) Group was launched at the 2011 APSA Conference at Old Parliament House in Canberra, hosted by the Australian National University, where the inaugural Pete Hay Environmental Politics Prize was announced.
In 2012 the APSA conference was hosted by the University of Tasmania in Hobart where the EPP Group sponsored a Special Panel: Sharing Power with Minority Governments: The Australian Greens. This panel explored the trials, tribulations and achievements of power sharing by the Greens in Australia. It took the form of a critical conversation with the leaders of the Australian, Tasmanian and ACT Greens, all of whom were in a power-sharing arrangement with a minority Labor government, with expert commentary from two leading researchers on green parties in Australia.
There were also two book launches before and after the Special Panel
There was also a pre-conference Round Table on Current Issues and Future Directions in the Discipline. This session included the AGM, the announcement of the Pete Hay Environmental Politics Prize and discussions on current research and teaching practices.
In 2013, APSA was hosted by Murdoch University in Perth, with the conference theme closely aligned with the EPP Group’s interests: The Politics Of Natural Resources: Contemporary Patterns Of Governance And Conflict.
The EPP Group organised a short pre-conference workshop with an informative and engaging presentation from Cameron Poustie, the Energy Transition Officer at the Conservation Council of Western Australia, on ‘Environmental Politics in Western Australia After the Federal Election’.
The 2014 APSA Annual Conference 28 September – 1 October 2014 was hosted by the University of Sydney. Prior to the 2014 APSA Conference, the EPP Group and the Sydney Environment Institute co-hosted a full-day workshop on The Future of Environment Movements.
The 2015 APSA Annual Conference was hosted by the University of Canberra. As well as an Environmental Politics Stream and the annual Pete Hay Prize the EPP Group convened a plenary session to follow on from the workshop in 2014 on the topic of The Future of Environmental Politics.
The 2016 APSA Annual Conference was hosted by the University of New South Wales. There is an Environmental Politics Stream, and all refereed papers in this stream were considered for the Pete Hay Prize.
Byelaws in Addition to the
Group Framework