TY - JOUR
T1 - Reversing the Marginalization of Global Environmental Politics in International Relations
T2 - An Opportunity for the Discipline
AU - Green, Jessica F.
AU - Hale, Thomas N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017Â.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - Despite the increasing urgency of many environmental problems, environmental politics remains at the margins of the discipline. Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project, this article identifies a puzzle: The majority of international relations (IR) scholars find climate change among the top three most important policy issues today, yet fewer than 4% identify the environment as their primary area of research. Moreover, environmental research is rarely published in top IR journals, although there has been a recent surge in work focused on climate change. The authors argue that greater attention to environmental issues-including those beyond climate change-in IR can bring significant benefits to the discipline, and they discuss three lines of research to correct this imbalance.
AB - Despite the increasing urgency of many environmental problems, environmental politics remains at the margins of the discipline. Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project, this article identifies a puzzle: The majority of international relations (IR) scholars find climate change among the top three most important policy issues today, yet fewer than 4% identify the environment as their primary area of research. Moreover, environmental research is rarely published in top IR journals, although there has been a recent surge in work focused on climate change. The authors argue that greater attention to environmental issues-including those beyond climate change-in IR can bring significant benefits to the discipline, and they discuss three lines of research to correct this imbalance.
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U2 - 10.1017/S1049096516003024
DO - 10.1017/S1049096516003024
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85016805549
SN - 1049-0965
VL - 50
SP - 473
EP - 479
JO - PS - Political Science and Politics
JF - PS - Political Science and Politics
IS - 2
ER -