Section: Staff Profiles

Elizabeth Bomberg

Name
Dr Elizabeth Bomberg
Title
Senior Lecturer & School Deputy Director of UG Teaching
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
3.06 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 4248
E-Mail
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/bomberg_elizabeth
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Office Hours:  Thursdays, 11am-1pm, CMB 3.06

Qualifications

  • BA (California State)
  • MA and Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Biographical Sketch

Elizabeth Bomberg was educated in California before moving to Britain in 1991. She has taught at the Universities of York and Stirling (Britain) and the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium), and has held research posts in Brussels and at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research interests include comparative environmental politics and policy, climate change, sustainable development and US and European Union politics.

Her books include  The European Union: How Does It Work? 3rd edition (OUP, 2011) edited with J Peterson and R Corbett; Environmentalism in the US: Changing Conceptions of Activism (Routledge, 2009), edited with David Schlosberg; Decision-Making in the European Union (with John Peterson, Palgrave 1999) and Green Parties and Politics in the European Union, (Routledge, 1998). She has also published articles in European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics,  Environmental Politics and Political Studies.

She is organiser of environmental politics research groups and the Europa Institute seminar series on The EU, Climate Change and Global Environmental Governance’ ( http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/europa/eucc.aspx ).

Teaching Expertise

Elizabeth has taught on or convened a wide range of postgraduate, honours undergraduate and introductory undergraduate courses. She is a very keen teacher and recipient of EUSA’s teaching award in 2009.  Her primary teaching lies in the following areas:   Environmental Politics, US Politics, EU Politics and Comparative Politics. 

 

Research Interests

 Her primary research activity falls into the broad area of comparative environmental politics, with particular geographic emphasis on the US and the EU. Her jointly authored monographs, edited textbook with OUP, and several journal articles and chapters investigate these various facets of environmental politics and policymaking in these two polities.

 Elizabeth’s expanding interest in climate change allows her to investigate several intersecting areas including green activism and politics, US environmental politics and policy, multi-level politics and cross-national policy learning.   Along with colleague Nicola McEwen, Elizabeth is leading a UKERC-funded project on grassroots mobilization and energy governance in Scotland (EnGAGE) . The 18 month project will provide a comprehensive examination of energy-related grassroots action in Scotland, and uncover the impact different groups have on energy demand and energy governance. See:  http://www.institute-of-governance.org/major_projects/ukerc_-_engage_scotland

 

Sample Publications

Elizabeth Bomberg, John Peterson and Richard Corbett (2011) The European Union.  How Does It Work?, 3rd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).  http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199570805.do

Elizabeth Bomberg and David Schlosberg, (eds) (2009) Environmentalism in the US: Changing Conceptions of Activism (Routledge, 2009).

Elizabeth Bomberg and Betsy Super (2009) 'The 2008 US Presidential Election: Obama and the Environment', Environmental Politics,18 (3):424-430

 Elizabeth Bomberg (2009) ’Governance for Sustainable Development: The US and EU Compared’  in Schreurs, M. Selin, H. And Vand Deveer, S (eds.) Transatlantic Environmental and Energy Politics. (Ashgate Publishing, pp21-40.

 Elizabeth Bomberg and David Schlosberg (2008) ‘US Environmentalism in Comparative Perspective’ Environmental Politics vol 17(2): 337-48.

 Elizabeth Bomberg (2009)  ’Governance for Sustainable Development: The US and EU Compared’  in Schreurs, M. Selin, H. and VanDeveer, S (eds.) Transatlantic Environmental and Energy Politics. (Ashgate Publ), pp21-40.

Elizabeth Bomberg (2007) Policy Learning in an Enlarged European Union:  Environmental NGOs and New Policy Instruments Journal of European Public Policy 14, no2:  (2007)

Elizabeth Bomberg and Neil Carter (2006) Greens in Brussels: Shapers or Shaped? European Journal of Political Research  vol 45 Special Issue, pp S99-125

 Areas of PhD Supervision

Elizabeth is able to offer PhD supervision in environmental politics (especially  US, EU or comparative), climate change politics, EU policymaking, and intergovernmental relations in Europe and the US.

Topics Interested in Supervising

 Environmental politics and politics; climate politics; community energy; EU or US environmental policy; comparative environmental politics; NGOs,  multilevel governance and environment

 

 

 

This page was published on 9 January 2012


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