Hayley Stevenson, Ph.D.

hstevenson@utdt.edu

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires

Country: Argentina

About Me:

I am Associate Professor of International Relations at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), and also hold the post of Reader in Politics at the University of Sheffield (UK). My research crosses the areas of global governance, global environmental politics, green political economy, and democratic theory. Overall I am concerned about the democratic quality of global governance, which involves questioning which voices are represented in debate, planning and decision-making, as well as how organisations make themselves accountable to people affected by their policies and practices. I am the author of two books on global climate change politics: Institutionalizing Unsustainability (2013) and Democractizing Global Climate Governance (2014, with John S. Dryzek), and a new textbook, Global Environmental Politics: Problems, Policy and Practice (2018). 

Research Interests

Energy And Climate Policy

Environmental Policy

Political Participation

Publications:

Books Written:

(2018) Global Environmental Politics: Problems, Policy and Practice, Cambridge University Press

Concern about humanity's impact on the planet has never been greater, but what are the drivers of environmental change? This wide-ranging introductory textbook outlines the competing explanations of why environmental problems occur and examines the different political approaches taken to address them. Adopting a case study approach, Hayley Stevenson enables students to gain a detailed understanding of how theories and concepts are applied in practice. Diverse perspectives on a variety of contemporary environmental challenges, from climate change to hazardous waste, as well as various responses, from multilateral diplomacy to consumer-focused campaigns, provide students with an in-depth understanding of the merits and limitations of different forms of political action. Refined on the basis of classroom feedback, features include textboxes, key points, a glossary of key terms, questions, further reading suggestions and supplementary online resources. This lively book is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on global environmental politics and environmental policy.

(2014) Democratizing Global Climate Governance, Cambridge University Press

Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated and experienced internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action depends crucially on questions of democratic legitimacy. Spanning topics of multilateral diplomacy, networked governance, representation, accountability, protest and participation, this book charts the failures and successes of global climate governance to offer fresh proposals for a deliberative system which would enable meaningful communication, inclusion of all affected interests, accountability and effectiveness in dealing with climate change; one of the most vexing issues of our time.

(2013) Institutionalizing Unsustainability, University of California Press

Climate change is a global phenomenon that requires a global response, and yet climate change governance depends on the ability of individual states to respond to a long-term, uncertain threat. Although states are routinely criticized for their inability to respond to such threats, the problems that arise from their attempts to respond are frequently overlooked. Focusing on the experiences of India, Spain, and Australia, Hayley Stevenson shows how these countries have struggled to integrate global norms around climate change governance with their own deeply unsustainable domestic systems, leading to profoundly irrational ecological outcomes.