Climate change, energy and sustainability
The work we publish creates an understanding of the connection between global discourses on climate change facts, specific policy responses and environmental law, contributing to ongoing debates in academia and beyond. It addresses the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 15: Life on Land.
Our publishing links to the global project, including the UN Agenda 2030 and provides a solid foundation for international and domestic policies around global warming, to support building impactful democratic solutions.
Bristol University Press and Policy Press are signed up to the UN SDG Publishers Compact. In Climate change, energy and sustainability, we aim to address the following goals:
A Climate Pact for Europe
How to Finance the Green Deal
The COVID-19 pandemic gives an opportunity to relaunch global economic systems. A bestseller in France, this book offers a Climate Pact for the EU, providing the causes, solutions and financial options of climate deregulation and challenging current policy and practice.
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The Forgotten City
Rethinking Digital Living for Our People and the Planet
Phil Allmendinger takes a critical approach to the role of ‘smart’ in future cities and the relationship with city development. Considering how technology can support active citizenship, he challenges the commercial drivers of big tech and warns that these, not developments for ‘social good’, may dominate.
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Sustainable Hedonism
A Thriving Life that Does Not Cost the Earth
Drawing on modern science and ancient Greek philosophy, this book calls on us to explore our collective and personal convictions about success and good life. It challenges the mainstream worldview, rooted in economics, that equates happiness with pleasure, and encourages greed, materialism, egoism and disconnection.
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The Struggle for Social Sustainability
Moral Conflicts in Global Social Policy
Leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the ‘social’ of social policy. This ground-breaking volume tackles pressing ‘social questions’ and critically engages with contested conceptions of ‘the social’ which are increasingly deployed by international institutions and policy makers.
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Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course
Evidence from Longitudinal Research
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal studies that responded to the Agenda 2030 commitment to “leave no-one behind”.It provides actionable strategies for policy makers and practitioners to strengthen the global Sustainable Development Goals framework.
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The Age of Low Tech
Towards a Technologically Sustainable Civilization
A best-seller in France, this English language edition introduces readers to an alternative perspective on our technological future. Bihouix skilfully goes against the grain to argue that ‘high’ technology will not solve global problems and envisages a different approach to manage our resources and build a more resilient and sustainable society.
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Responsibility Beyond Growth
A Case for Responsible Stagnation
Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this book sparks new debate on the role of responsible innovation.
Drawing on insights from economics, politics, and science and technology studies, it proposes the concept of 'responsible stagnation' as an expansion of present discussions about growth, responsibility and innovation.
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Comparative Urban Research From Theory To Practice
Co-Production For Sustainability
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Reports on the innovative, transdisciplinary co-production on sustainable urbanisation undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures, a highly influential research centre based in Sweden (2010-19), this book makes a significant contribution to evolving theory about comparative urban research.
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Too Hot to Handle?
The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change
This book explores why climate is such a challenge for political systems, even when policy solutions exist. It argues that more democracy, not less, is needed to tackle the climate crisis, and suggests practical ways forward.
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Cities Demanding the Earth
A New Understanding of the Climate Emergency
Unless we make drastic changes, the climate damage that we are causing by living in cities will result in terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption towards making cities spaces for activism.
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Legal Perspectives on Sustainability
The intersections of law and sustainability are explored in new ways in this interdisciplinary volume by legal experts in a variety of fields. Offering analysis of sustainability at land and sea alongside trade, labour and corporate governance perspectives, this book articulates important debates about the role of law.
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Negotiating Migration in the Context of Climate Change
International Policy and Discourse
Assessing migration in the context of climate change, Nash draws on empirical research to offer a unique analysis of policy-making in the field. This detailed account is a vital step in understanding the links between global discourses on human mobilities, climate change and specific policy responses.
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A selection of related journal articles
Volume 7, Number 1 of Global Discourse featuring:
Paris: optimism, pessimism and realism
On the obsolescence of human beings in sustainable development
On preparing for the great gift of community that climate disasters can give us
Voluntary Sector Review themed section on 'Re-reading civil society action for environmental sustainability' featuring:
Shoots and leaves: exploring the impacts and fragile sustainability of sustainable place-making projects working with marginalised people
A part and yet apart: how third sector visions of carbon reduction are both welcomed and marginalised
The community economies of Esch-sur-Alzette: rereading the economy of Luxembourg [Open Access]
Assembling community energy democracies
Extinction Rebellion: social work, climate change and solidarity in Critical and Radical Social Work
Extinction Rebellion: a social worker’s observation in Critical and Radical Social Work
The gender dynamics of climate change on rural women's agro-based livelihoods and food security in rural Zimbabwe: implications for green social work in Critical and Radical Social Work
Climate change and food: a green social work perspective in Critical and Radical Social Work
Evidence reviews in energy and climate policy in Evidence & Policy
Contested knowledge in Dutch climate change policy in Evidence & Policy
Does risk-based decision-making present an ‘epistemic trap’ for climate change policymaking? in Evidence & Policy
British political values, attitudes to climate change, and travel behaviour in Policy & Politics
Policies, politics and organisational problems: multiple streams and the implementation of targets in UK government in Policy & Politics
Electricity market reform: so what's new? in Policy & Politics
What’s the Use of Green Shame? from the Global Discourse blog
Green shame: the next moral revolution? from Global Discourse