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Prof

Robyn Eckersley

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
Social and Political Sciences
Climate change policy
International climate governance
Environmental political theory
Democratic theory
The state and the environment
Climate justice
social sciences
government & law
political science
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Robyn Eckersley

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Global environmental politics and governance
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Projects

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Right-wing populism and the political feasibility of climate policy

2021 - 2025
Active
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What Makes a Climate Leader?: Developed Countries' Responsibilities under the International Climate Regime

This project seeks to elucidate the conditions and possibilities for climate leadership by developed states under the international climate ..

2011 - 2018
Completed
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Regime interplay: from conflict to integration in overlapping international regimes

This project furthers the National Research Priority of An Environmentally Sustainable Australia, particularly the subsidiary goal of meetin..

2007 - 2013
Completed
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INTEGRATING INTERNATIONAL REGIMES: THE CASE OF TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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Project Types

3

Research Grant

1

Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

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(Dis)order and (in)justice in a heating world

Robyn Eckersley

Journal article  |  2023  |  International Affairs

Abstract Conventional accounts of the relationship between international order and justice treat order as necessari..

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For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century

Nick Bisley, Robyn Eckersley, Shahar Hameiri, Jessica Kirk, George Lawson, Benjamin Zala

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

What ideas and concepts might be used to reinvigorate a progressive approach to Australian foreign policy? In contrast to the clar..

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Great Expectations: The United States and the Global Environment

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Book Chapter  |  2022

This chapter conceptually disentangles the relationship between environmental leadership and special environmental responsibilitie..

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Convergent evolution: framework climate legislation in Australia

Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley

Journal article  |  2021  |  CLIMATE POLICY

Australia is a well-known climate laggard with a history of political conflict over climate policy and the dubious distinction of ..

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Green Theory

Robyn Eckersley

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Green democracy

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Book Chapter  |  2020

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Greening states and societies: from transitions to great transformations

Robyn Eckersley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environmental Politics

This article examines the limits and potential of the state in orchestrating sustainability transitions from the standpoint of cri..

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Rethinking leadership: understanding the roles of the US and China in the negotiation of the Paris Agreement

Robyn Eckersley

Journal article  |  2020  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The study of leadership in International Relations has followed two different paths: work on hegemony and work on different leader..

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Ecological democracy and the rise and decline of liberal democracy: looking back, looking forward

Robyn Eckersley

Journal article  |  2020  |  ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

The critical environmental political theory (EPT) of ecological democracy emerged in the 1990s when liberal democracy and cosmopol..

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Injustice, power and the limits of political solidarity

R Eckersley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Global Ethics

Brooke Ackerly’s Just Responsibility provides the most significant intervention in the scholarly debates about political responsib..

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Keyword Analysis

Political Science
Expanding Knowledge
Government and Politics
International Relations
Sociology
Policy and Administration
Environmental Management
Adaptation To Climate Change
Anthropology
Applied Economics

News

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'The Australian way': how Morrison trashed brand Australia at COP26

Robyn Eckersley

As the COP26 climate talks wind up in Glasgow, Australia has again proved itself a climate laggard on the world stage. Prime Minister Scott..

November 11, 2021
conversation Article
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The view from Marrakech: climate talks are battling through a Trump tsunami

Robyn Eckersley

Stunned. Shocked. Speechless. Devastated. Political tsunami. These were the key words rising to the surface of the babble of conversations ..

November 11, 2016
conversation Article
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Election 2016: what will a re-elected Coalition government mean for key policy areas?

Jeff Borland, Ben Spies-Butcher, Deborah Ralston, Diana Perche, Emmaline Bexley, Glenn C. Savage, Helen Dickinson, Jago Dodson, Jim Gillespie, Joanna Mendelssohn, John Wanna, Mary Anne Kenny, Merlin Crossley, Nicole Gurran, Robyn Eckersley, Susan Irvine, Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

Labor leader Bill Shorten on Sunday conceded the 2016 election to Malcolm Turnbull, though it remains uncertain whether the Coalition will ..

July 10, 2016
conversation Article
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Historic Paris climate pact reached – experts react

Robyn Eckersley, Catherine Gautier, Cathy Alexander, Clive Hamilton, David Hodgkinson, Frank Jotzo, Jessica Hellmann, Katharine Hayhoe, Matt McDonald, Pep Canadell, Peter Christoff

After two weeks of negotiations in Paris, the world’s nations have reached a global deal to tackle climate change (read the text here). The..

December 12, 2015
conversation Article
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Australia’s climate diplomacy is like a doughnut: empty in the middle

Robyn Eckersley

There is a profound disconnect between Australia’s international climate diplomacy and its national climate and energy policies. The dipl..

December 7, 2015
conversation Article
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What to expect at the Paris climate talks: a mixed bag

Robyn Eckersley

The upcoming Paris climate change conference is being named a major success even before it’s begun. However, its ultimate triumph is depend..

November 30, 2015
conversation Article
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Anthropocene raises risks of Earth without democracy and without us

Robyn Eckersley

This article is part of a series on Biosphere and Energy for the Democracy Futures project, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democ..

March 31, 2015
conversation Article
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Malcolm Fraser: 'we have lost our way'

Robyn Eckersley

Welcome to our “In Conversation” between former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and Melbourne University political scientist Professor Robyn ..

October 9, 2011
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

Best Article of the Year award for 2020 in the journal Environmental Politics
2020

University of Melbourne
2019

Distinguished Scholar Award, Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association
2017

Kerstin Hesselgren Professorship in Social Sciences awarded by the Swedish Research Council.
2005

Woodward Medal for the best research in Humanities and Social Sciences (Co-winner)

University of Melbourne
2005

Joint runner up in the International Studies Association's Sprout Award for the best book in the field of environmental studies
2007

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor

Social and Political Sciences

International Studies Association

International Studies Association

Australian Political Studies Association

Australian Political Studies Association

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Tasmania

Master of Philosophy

University of Cambridge

Bachelor of Laws

The University of Western Australia

Bachelor of Juris

The University of Western Australia

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