Call for Papers: African climate and energy policy
Christopher Gore
Dear all:
The 6th International Conference on Public Policy will take place in Toronto, Canada, June 27th-29th, 2023. I have organized a panel with the following title: Climate change and energy access in Africa: Interrogating policy action (Topic 14, Panel 14). The panel has been accepted. The call for papers is open until January 31, 2023. Please consider submitting a paper to present at the conference and for the panel. Please email me with any questions. Here is a description of the panel:
Papers are invited that consider one or both policy challenges of climate change and/or energy provision in Africa. Papers using a diversity of research methods, from a range of disciplines, and focused on one or more countries on the continent are welcome and encouraged, this includes countries north or south of the Sahara. What should unify the paper submissions is a desire to critically interrogate national policy responses to climate change, energy provision or both. Papers should acknowledge how national policy action is evolving and responding to social, ecological and economic needs of the country. This could include a focus on how policies and programs are: meeting the needs of citizens, thus focusing on equity and justice in policy; mediating the demands or priorities of the global political economic system, thus focusing on questions of policy diffusion, agency, or resistance; and, responding to the domestic political, economic, social and environmental conditions of the country, thus focusing on state capacity and autonomy in policy design and implementation. Ultimately, papers should go beyond describing how climate change is affecting countries, or the state of energy access in one or more countries. Papers should examine the complexity of these policy problems, develop hypotheses about conditions when states act in particular ways to respond to these challenges, and share original knowledge in order to help place African experiences centrally in policy theory.
Professor
Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Graduate Program in Environmental Applied Science & Management
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