
Climate change, energy and sustainability
The work we publish creates an understanding of the connection between global discourses on climate change facts, specific policy responses and environmental law, contributing to ongoing debates in academia and beyond.
Our publishing provides a solid foundation for international and domestic policies around global warming, to support building impactful democratic solutions.
Bristol University Press and Policy Press are signed up to the UN SDG Publishers Compact. In climate change, energy and sustainability, we aim to address the following goals:
Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As climate change accelerates, our window for action is closing. This book explores the technological and legal changes needed to keep global warming below 2°C. Revealing the controversies of rapid technological adoption and legal reform, experts provide solutions for a complex future.

Governing Climate Mobility in Africa
Explorations of Adaptation in Ethiopia and Ghana
Climate change is often understood as a main driver of human mobility in Africa, but this book demonstrates the factors — from governance to household finance — that come into play in household mobility practices in Ethiopia and Ghana.

The Eco-Social Polity?
Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Issues
This vital book brings together scholars from interconnected disciplines to discuss the eco-social debate, providing a critical overview on extant scholarship and reflecting on future research pathways on the eco-social nexus from a variety of analytical perspectives.

Global Development and Environment
This book develops a theoretically rigorous and politicized concept of the planetary to intervene in contemporary debates on global development, and to enhance our critical understanding of development as we approach the second quarter of the twenty-first century.

Theorising Justice
A Primer for Social Scientists
Justice is becoming increasingly important to climate change and economic development discussions. This book combines justice theories with their applications in policy and practice, to address the social, political, economic and ecological challenges we face today.

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Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course
Evidence from Longitudinal Research
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal studies that responded to the Agenda 2030 commitment to “leave no-one behind”.It provides actionable strategies for policy makers and practitioners to strengthen the global Sustainable Development Goals framework.

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Arctic Justice
Environment, Society and Governance
Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection highlights the practical consequences of postcolonial legacies and climate change while championing a sustainable future for Arctic development and governance.

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Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume brings together an international team of contributors to provide a much-needed examination of climate litigation in Africa. The book outlines how climate litigation in Africa is distinct as well as pinpointing where it connects with the global conversation.

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Planetary Justice
Stories and Studies of Action, Resistance and Solidarity
This accessible book features the diverse voices of scholars and activists working towards climate justice. The collection explores the politics and practices of moving towards solidarity and flourishing in the face of climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction.

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What Is Veganism For?
Catherine Oliver shows why the veganism movement has become a powerful social, political and environmental force. She discusses the health and environmental benefits of veganism, explores the practical and social impacts of the shift to eating plants, and explains why veganism is not just a diet, but a way of life.

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What Is Veganism For?
Catherine Oliver shows why the veganism movement has become a powerful social, political and environmental force. She discusses the health and environmental benefits of veganism, explores the practical and social impacts of the shift to eating plants, and explains why veganism is not just a diet, but a way of life.

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What Are Animal Rights For?
How should we treat animals? The field of animal rights raises pressing questions about how humans treat the other animals as livestock farming exerts an increasing toll on the planet, and we learn more about their capacity to think and experience pain. This book shows what the world might look like if animals had greater rights.

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A selection of related journal articles
Volume 7, Number 1 of Global Discourse featuring:
Paris: optimism, pessimism and realism
On the obsolescence of human beings in sustainable development
On preparing for the great gift of community that climate disasters can give us
Voluntary Sector Review themed section on 'Re-reading civil society action for environmental sustainability' featuring:
Shoots and leaves: exploring the impacts and fragile sustainability of sustainable place-making projects working with marginalised people
A part and yet apart: how third sector visions of carbon reduction are both welcomed and marginalised
The community economies of Esch-sur-Alzette: rereading the economy of Luxembourg [Open Access]
Assembling community energy democracies
Extinction Rebellion: social work, climate change and solidarity in Critical and Radical Social Work
Extinction Rebellion: a social worker’s observation in Critical and Radical Social Work
The gender dynamics of climate change on rural women's agro-based livelihoods and food security in rural Zimbabwe: implications for green social work in Critical and Radical Social Work
Climate change and food: a green social work perspective in Critical and Radical Social Work
Evidence reviews in energy and climate policy in Evidence & Policy
Contested knowledge in Dutch climate change policy in Evidence & Policy
Does risk-based decision-making present an ‘epistemic trap’ for climate change policymaking? in Evidence & Policy
British political values, attitudes to climate change, and travel behaviour in Policy & Politics
Policies, politics and organisational problems: multiple streams and the implementation of targets in UK government in Policy & Politics
Electricity market reform: so what's new? in Policy & Politics
What’s the Use of Green Shame? from the Global Discourse blog
Green shame: the next moral revolution? from Global Discourse