Join us at the Fenner School for a discussion on the progress of environment policy over the past twenty years, and the launch of the 3rd edition of the book: Environment and Sustainability: A Policy Handbook (Federation Press). Co-authors Emeritus Professor Steve Dovers, Professor Karen Hussey and Associate Professor Sarah Clement will be joined by Tom Sloan to explore the state of public policy theory and practice in the environment field across the span of the book’s 1st edition (2005), 2nd edition (2013) to now, a time of rapid change amidst the onset of substantial environmental change, the rise of populism and authoritarianism, shifts in theories of policy and governance, and great advances in environmental information.

About the Panel

Stephen Dovers is an Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, Fellow of The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and a leading scholar of environmental and natural resource policy, the institutional dimensions of sustainable development, disaster management and climate adaptation. His other works include The Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions (with J Handmer, 2nd edition, Earthscan, 2013) and the edited volume Climate, Energy and Water (with J Pittock and K Hussey, Cambridge, 2015).

Professor Karen Hussey is an academic and practitioner in the area of environmental policy. She has held senior positions at the Australian National University, the University of Queensland and in the Queensland Government in Australia, and is now the full-time chair of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee, the independent statutory committee with responsibility for ensuring the integrity of the methods underpinning the national Australian Carbon Credit Unit Scheme.

Sarah Clement is an Associate Professor at the Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, focusing on environmental governance and policy. She has worked as an environmental policy practitioner in the USA and Australia, and held academic posts at the Universities of Western Australia and Liverpool. Among her works is the book Governing the Anthropocene: Novel Ecosystems, Transformation and Environmental Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Tom Sloan is a Fenner School alumnus, and CEO of the environment and development advisory firm Sustineo. 

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