Panel:
Environmental Policy and Governance in a Comparative Perspective
(The Ecological Crisis, Climate Change, and the Environment)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
Environmental challenges and climate change effects are one of the major pressing issues that populations are facing nowadays. Given this context, the proposed panel evaluates governance preferences for environmental policy from a diverse set of perspectives around the world. The first paper evaluates the relationship between environmental policy salience in east-central Europe and Eurasia and support for more environmental spending and tax increases to tackle climate change. This sample includes members of the European Union, members of the Russia dominated Commonwealth of Independent States, and countries in southeastern Europe who fall in between these two clusters. The second paper investigates the same set of relationships in the context of the United States, but among Latino communities. Latino communities in the US, while diverse, are also the ones experiencing the brunt of negative effects that climate change is bringing to disadvantaged groups. The third paper takes us to the indigenous tribal communities in the Philippines. It assesses how inadequacies and mismatches in the governance system there expose disproportionately indigenous communities to the negative consequences of climate change. Finally, the last paper offers a framework that can be applied to analyzing impacts on different actors from very different contexts. The utility of the framework is demonstrated using cases from India, Spain, Canada, and the US.
