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.bomberg@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/bomberg_elizabeth
Office Hours:
Thursday 11:00-13:00
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 Environmentalism in the US: Changing Conceptions of Activism (Routledge, 2009), edited with David Schlosberg; The European Union: How Does It Work? 2nd edition (OUP, 2008) ed. by E Bomberg J Peterson and A Stubb; 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, and cross-national policy learning. She is a member of the EU/European integration research group and the public policy group
Recent Publications
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, John Peterson and Alexander Stubb (2008) The European Union. How Does It Work?, 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 258 + xix pp.
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.
This page was published on 20 October 2009