What is a climate-change novel, and what makes a good one? Andrew Dobson takes time from his day job as professor of politics to read the existing literature and emerge with suggestions about how to do it better.
Paul Kingsnorth’s journey from a degraded environmentalism to nature-centred ways of living and thinking has many echoes for Andrew Dobson, but also clarifies a difference of outlook.
Does the pioneer of “gaia” have a point: could democracy be an obstacle to planetary safety?
The United Nations climate-change summit is a vital moment in the world’s effort to avert catastrophe. openDemocracy authors reflect on what needs to happen and how much Copenhagen can achieve.
On 1 September 2009 a new climate-change campaign called "10:10" was launched at the Tate Modern gallery in London. The campaign aims to commit individuals, organisations and
There are signs that the global financial crisis is giving some solace to forces of the political left. No wonder, for the left has been delivered a plausible story that
It might seem a long way from public toilets to the politics of climate change, but there's an important relationship between what is happening to such public spaces
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Saleemul Huq & Camilla Toulmin
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Oliver Tickell
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John Elkington
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Alun Anderson
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David Steven
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Andrew Dobson
Saleemul Huq & Camilla Toulmin, IIED
Bali's routemap to Copenhagen
The "spin&
The northern hemisphere's late summer began with a renewed period of global financial turbulence which - almost immediately - provoked massive and sustained intervention by governments and central
There is now an overwhelming public as well as scientific consensus that a key driver of contemporary climate change is human beings burning fossil fuels. As a result, the debate
