Representation, Inequality and Geography in Environmental and Climate Governance

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Contemporary environmental problems increasingly intersect with central themes in political science. This proposal brings together empirical scholarship that tests theoretical propositions about the role of representation, inequality and geography on managing problems ranging from climate change to watershed protection to wildfire management. Each paper in this panel reports on novel data collected by the authors to investigate how government agencies, local communities or individuals respond to manage problems in the face of competing incentives and varying political, ecological, and institutional contexts. In so doing, the papers individually, and the panel collectively, illustrate new advances in the literature on environmental politics, and make broader contributions to literatures in the political science field.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 39: Science, Technology & Environmental Politics

Individual Presentations

• Policy Devolution and Cooperation Dilemmas - Robert J. Carroll, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Konisky, Indiana University, Bloomington; Christopher M. Reenock, Florida State University

• Inequality and Government Responsiveness: Evidence from Salient Wildfire Events - Sarah Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Reshaping Communities: The Local Politics of Managed Buyouts - Megan Mullin, Duke University

• Filling the Governance Gaps: Coordination for Adaptation to Sea Level Rise - Francesca Pia Vantaggiato, University of California, Davis; Mark N. Lubell, University of California, Davis

Chair

• David Konisky Indiana University, Bloomington

Discussant

• Parrish Bergquist Yale University