Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States

Susan Buckingham is a writer, researcher, consultant, campaigner and activist. She edits the Routledge series on Gender and Environments, and her work develops the understanding of links between gender and environment and applies this to different contexts. Most recently, this has been in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and through consultancies with the European Commission, including EIGE. She has edited and written extensively, is on the editorial board of the environmental justice journal Local Environment, and is currently writing a book on Ecofeminism. As an activist-academic, Susan has worked with women's organisations, and was a trustee and collaborator with Women's Environmental Network from 2000-2012. Susan co-founded Friends of the Cam in 2020 which campaigns against destructive, masculinist planning and water pollution practices which are destroying the chalk streams of SE England. She is also an activist in climate and social justice campaigns.

Martin Hultman is Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Hultman leads three research groups analysing 'masculinities and environment, 'rights of nature' and 'climate change denial'. He heads the global research network Center for Studies of Climate Change Denial (CEFORCED) and was appointed the most influential academic in Gothenburg 2019 and awarded Linkoeping University alumnus of the year 2021. As part of his academic work he publishes chronicles in a wide range of newspapers and gives public lectures commenting on contemporary politics. Recent books include Ecological Masculinities (2018), Men, Masculinities and Earth (2021), Climate Obstruction (2022) and the forthcoming Survival: Rights of Nature, Degrowth and Ecological Masculinities at the end of Anthropocene.

Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmoe University. Her main field of research is climate policy-making, in particular, how governmental authorities in Scandinavia and the European Union understand and work with gender and other issues related to the social dimensions of climate change and climate justice. Magnusdottir has published extensively on climate authorities, their practices, institutional norms and policy-making at different levels of governance. She currently leads a comparative research project on Gendered Norms and Practices in Nordic and Baltic Climate Policy Institutions: Implication for the Climate Transition (Nordforsk), exploring Nordic and Baltic governmental authorities and their institutional practices. She has previously been involved in various research projects financed by the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development and the Swedish Energy Agency, which circle around justice in climate and energy policy-making.

Karen Morrow has been Professor of Environmental Law at Swansea University (2007-date), and has formerly worked at Leeds University, Durham University, the Queen's University of Belfast and the University of Buckingham. Her research interests centre on public participation in environmental law and policy-making, and in particular on gender in the global climate governance regime. Her work spans theory and practice and multiple levels of law and governance, from the global/international to national and subnational levels. She also works on environmental law and policy in cross-border contexts in the UK. She is a member of the Earth Systems Governance Tipping Point subgroup. She was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and the IUCN e-journal. She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, the Environmental Law Review and the University of Western Australia Law Review and on the International Advisory Board for the Gender and Environment book series (Routledge).