David Schlosberg

David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. His publications include The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2011) and Climate-Challenged Society (2013), both with John Dryzek and Richard Norgaard. He co-edited Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (2016).

David Schlosberg reviews 'How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, equality, nature' by George Monbiot

August 2017, no. 393 • 23 July 2017

In reviewing this broad retrospective of George Monbiot’s Guardian columns, How Did We Get Into This Mess?, it is difficult to focus solely on the actual content of those commentaries. Yes, we need to understand the problems that illustrate that central question – the clear mess we’re in. From Monbiot’s position, the symptoms range, impressively, from individual loneliness to the ecologica ... (read more)

'Sabotage: How the attack on renewables undermines government' by David Schlosberg

October 2015, no. 375 • 24 September 2015

‘Pathetically inadequate’ was probably the most frequent description of the government’s voluntary emissions proposal for the United Nations Climate Change Conference; the description fits their climate and energy policies more generally. Clearly, the wholly inadequate aspects are deliberate – but the problem is much broader. Members of the government have used the term ‘sabotage’ to d ... (read more)