Peter Christoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Christoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Christoff |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTOFF P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7826-2401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Reclaiming the Urban Commons: The Past, Present and Future of Food Growing in Australian Towns and Cities
Reclaiming the Urban Commons: The Past, Present and Future of Food Growing in Australian Towns and Cities." Australian Historical Studies, 53(4), pp. 645–646
Ecological Modernisation, Ecological Modernities
Positive aspects of the recent changes have been described by academic observers as evidence of a process of ‘ecological modernisation’ (EM), although their uses of the term vary considerably in scope and meaning. Following discussion of the distinctive uses of EM, this chapter aims to propose a typology for ecological modernisation which emphasises the normative dimensions of the term. In different ways, the types of are presented as contributin…
How geoengineering scenarios frame assumptions and create expectations
Rethinking the green state beyond the Global North: A South African climate change case study
This study focuses on the role of the South African state in environmental governance, with particular reference to transformations in political authority and processes of capital accumulation. Our approach underscores the importance of analyzing state environmental efforts both empirically and normatively, in order to understand the underlying drivers of state policies that perpetuate or ameliorate environmental degradation. The tension between …
Geoengineering governance-by-default: An earth system governance perspective
National contributions for decarbonizing the world economy in line with the G7 agreement
In June 2015, the G7 agreed to two global mitigation goals: 'a decarbonization of the global economy over the course of this century' and 'the upper end of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommendation of 40%-70% reductions by 2050 compared to 2010'. These IPCC recommendations aim to preserve a likely (>66%) chance of limiting global warming to 2 C but are not necessarily consistent with the stronger ambition of the s…
Australia’s sustainable energy transition: The disjointed politics of decarbonisation
Renegotiating nature in the Anthropocene: Australia's environment movement in a time of crisis
The Anthropocene raises two interrelated problems for the Australian environment movement. The first concerns the movement’s normative and political relationship to non-human nature: climate change in particular is forcing an urgent reconsideration of how nature is to be understood and managed. The second problem concerns the implications of full recognition of the rights of First Peoples for environmental justice. These issues may lead to crises…
The promissory note: COP 21 and the Paris Climate Agreement
The 2015 UN climate negotiations in Paris resulted in an inclusive, binding treaty that succeeds the Kyoto Protocol. In contrast to the failure at Copenhagen in 2009, the Paris negotiations are therefore seen as a major diplomatic success that has regenerated faith in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as a forum for dynamic multilateralism. The Paris Agreement provides a robust framework for ratcheting up efforts to combat…
Climate Discourse Complexes, National Climate Regimes and Australian Climate Policy
This paper develops the concepts of the climate discourse complex, and national climate policy regime, in order to analyse significant patterns in Australian national climate politics over the twenty‐five years from 1988 to 2013. Six major discursive fields — scientific, ethical, economic, technological, political/legal, and “everyday life”— contribute to the ensemble of discourses that constitute a climate discourse complex. The climate discours…
In Conversation with Jared Diamond: “Traditional societies are not frozen models of the past”
Comparing State Responses
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society presents an analysis of this issue that draws on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond. Key topics covered include the history of the issues, the social and political reception of climate science, the denial of that science by individuals and organized interests, the nature of the social disruptions caused by clima…
Cold climate in Copenhagen: China and the United States at COP15
The latest round in the UN climate change negotiations, COP15, held in Copenhagen in December 2009, was intended to determine binding goals, targets and measures for the time beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period ends. Instead, it produced a non-binding political agreement – the Copenhagen Accord. To explain why, the key contributions of China and the United States are assessed. Domestic institutions and circumstances inf…
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) (Directed by Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore, Paramount Pictures, USA): Review Symposium
Touching the void: The Garnaut Review in the chasm between climate science, economics and politics
The Bali roadmap: Climate change, COP 13 and beyond
Halfway through the Thirteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 13) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a major earthquake shook Bali.Perhaps it was a sign of what was to come.By the close of the conference a week later, the Earth's geopolitical axis had shifted slightly.The Bush administration discovered that -despite unparalleled US military and economic power -its legitimacy and capacity as a global hegemon had been constr…
Greening the Antipodes’? Environmental policy and politics in Australia and New Zealand
Processes of globalisation, initially in the form of European colonisation, have fundamentally shaped the environmental challenges faced by both Australia and New Zealand. The common heritage and proximate geographical position of these two countries explain many of the similarities in their environmental institutions and responses, and international interventions on environmental issues. But there are also important differences between the count…
Post-Kyoto? Post-Bush? Towards an effective 'climate coalition of the willing
Journal Article Post-Kyoto? Post-Bush? Towards an effective 'climate coalition of the willing' Get access PETER CHRISTOFF PETER CHRISTOFF 1Teaches in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on Australian environmental policy, and on ecological modernization and environmental governance. His most recent works include 'Out of chaos, a shining star? Toward a typology of …
Policy autism or double-edged dismissiveness? Australia's climate policy under the Howard government
(2005). Policy autism or double-edged dismissiveness? Australia's climate policy under the Howard government. Global Change, Peace & Security: Vol. 17, Climate Change and the Reluctant States, pp. 29-44
Symposium - Green Thinking - from Australia
Ecological modernisation, ecological modernities
The concept of ecological modernisation is increasingly being used in policy analysis to indicate deeply embedded and ecologically self‐conscious forms of cultural transformation. Its meaning varies significantly depending on author and context. Without further clarification, there is a danger that the term may serve to legitimise the continuing instrumental domination and destruction of the environment. The normative dimensions of different uses…
The 1993 Australian elections - a fading green politics
(1994). The 1993 Australian elections ‐ a fading green politics? Environmental Politics: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 130-139
An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism: Iu. F. Samarin
A Study in Ideas. Vol. 3. An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism
I. S. Aksakov v obshchestvennoi zhizni poreformennoi Rossii
Ecological modernisation, ecological modernities
The concept of ecological modernisation is increasingly being used in policy analysis to indicate deeply embedded and ecologically self‐conscious forms of cultural transformation. Its meaning varies significantly depending on author and context. Without further clarification, there is a danger that the term may serve to legitimise the continuing instrumental domination and destruction of the environment. The normative dimensions of different uses…
Australia’s sustainable energy transition: The disjointed politics of decarbonisation
Policy autism or double-edged dismissiveness? Australia's climate policy under the Howard government
(2005). Policy autism or double-edged dismissiveness? Australia's climate policy under the Howard government. Global Change, Peace & Security: Vol. 17, Climate Change and the Reluctant States, pp. 29-44
Cold climate in Copenhagen: China and the United States at COP15
The latest round in the UN climate change negotiations, COP15, held in Copenhagen in December 2009, was intended to determine binding goals, targets and measures for the time beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period ends. Instead, it produced a non-binding political agreement – the Copenhagen Accord. To explain why, the key contributions of China and the United States are assessed. Domestic institutions and circumstances inf…
Greening the Antipodes’? Environmental policy and politics in Australia and New Zealand
Processes of globalisation, initially in the form of European colonisation, have fundamentally shaped the environmental challenges faced by both Australia and New Zealand. The common heritage and proximate geographical position of these two countries explain many of the similarities in their environmental institutions and responses, and international interventions on environmental issues. But there are also important differences between the count…
The promissory note: COP 21 and the Paris Climate Agreement
The 2015 UN climate negotiations in Paris resulted in an inclusive, binding treaty that succeeds the Kyoto Protocol. In contrast to the failure at Copenhagen in 2009, the Paris negotiations are therefore seen as a major diplomatic success that has regenerated faith in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as a forum for dynamic multilateralism. The Paris Agreement provides a robust framework for ratcheting up efforts to combat…
Geoengineering governance-by-default: An earth system governance perspective
The Bali roadmap: Climate change, COP 13 and beyond
Halfway through the Thirteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 13) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a major earthquake shook Bali.Perhaps it was a sign of what was to come.By the close of the conference a week later, the Earth's geopolitical axis had shifted slightly.The Bush administration discovered that -despite unparalleled US military and economic power -its legitimacy and capacity as a global hegemon had been constr…
How geoengineering scenarios frame assumptions and create expectations
Rethinking the green state beyond the Global North: A South African climate change case study
This study focuses on the role of the South African state in environmental governance, with particular reference to transformations in political authority and processes of capital accumulation. Our approach underscores the importance of analyzing state environmental efforts both empirically and normatively, in order to understand the underlying drivers of state policies that perpetuate or ameliorate environmental degradation. The tension between …
Renegotiating nature in the Anthropocene: Australia's environment movement in a time of crisis
The Anthropocene raises two interrelated problems for the Australian environment movement. The first concerns the movement’s normative and political relationship to non-human nature: climate change in particular is forcing an urgent reconsideration of how nature is to be understood and managed. The second problem concerns the implications of full recognition of the rights of First Peoples for environmental justice. These issues may lead to crises…
Touching the void: The Garnaut Review in the chasm between climate science, economics and politics
Post-Kyoto? Post-Bush? Towards an effective 'climate coalition of the willing
Journal Article Post-Kyoto? Post-Bush? Towards an effective 'climate coalition of the willing' Get access PETER CHRISTOFF PETER CHRISTOFF 1Teaches in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on Australian environmental policy, and on ecological modernization and environmental governance. His most recent works include 'Out of chaos, a shining star? Toward a typology of …
The 1993 Australian elections - a fading green politics
(1994). The 1993 Australian elections ‐ a fading green politics? Environmental Politics: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 130-139
An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism: A Study in Ideas
I. S. Aksakov v obshchestvennoi zhizni poreformennoi Rossii
The Third Heart: Some Intellectual-Ideological Currents and Cross Currents in Russia, 1800-1830
An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism. A Study in Ideas. Volume I: A. S. Xomjakov
An Introduction to Nineteenth - Century Russian Slavophilism: A Study of Ideas, Vol. I: A. S. Xomjakov
Zamechatelnoe desiatiletie, 1838-1848. [The Extraordinary Decade]
The Third Heart: Some Intellectual-Ideological Currents and Cross Currents in Russia, 1800-1830
An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism: A Study in Ideas
I. S. Aksakov v obshchestvennoi zhizni poreformennoi Rossii
A Study in Ideas. Vol. 3. An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism
An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism: Iu. F. Samarin
The 1993 Australian elections - a fading green politics
(1994). The 1993 Australian elections ‐ a fading green politics? Environmental Politics: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 130-139
Ecological modernisation, ecological modernities
The concept of ecological modernisation is increasingly being used in policy analysis to indicate deeply embedded and ecologically self‐conscious forms of cultural transformation. Its meaning varies significantly depending on author and context. Without further clarification, there is a danger that the term may serve to legitimise the continuing instrumental domination and destruction of the environment. The normative dimensions of different uses…
Symposium - Green Thinking - from Australia
Policy autism or double-edged dismissiveness? Australia's climate policy under the Howard government
(2005). Policy autism or double-edged dismissiveness? Australia's climate policy under the Howard government. Global Change, Peace & Security: Vol. 17, Climate Change and the Reluctant States, pp. 29-44
Greening the Antipodes’? Environmental policy and politics in Australia and New Zealand
Processes of globalisation, initially in the form of European colonisation, have fundamentally shaped the environmental challenges faced by both Australia and New Zealand. The common heritage and proximate geographical position of these two countries explain many of the similarities in their environmental institutions and responses, and international interventions on environmental issues. But there are also important differences between the count…
Post-Kyoto? Post-Bush? Towards an effective 'climate coalition of the willing
Journal Article Post-Kyoto? Post-Bush? Towards an effective 'climate coalition of the willing' Get access PETER CHRISTOFF PETER CHRISTOFF 1Teaches in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on Australian environmental policy, and on ecological modernization and environmental governance. His most recent works include 'Out of chaos, a shining star? Toward a typology of …
The Bali roadmap: Climate change, COP 13 and beyond
Halfway through the Thirteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 13) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a major earthquake shook Bali.Perhaps it was a sign of what was to come.By the close of the conference a week later, the Earth's geopolitical axis had shifted slightly.The Bush administration discovered that -despite unparalleled US military and economic power -its legitimacy and capacity as a global hegemon had been constr…
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) (Directed by Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore, Paramount Pictures, USA): Review Symposium
Touching the void: The Garnaut Review in the chasm between climate science, economics and politics
Cold climate in Copenhagen: China and the United States at COP15
The latest round in the UN climate change negotiations, COP15, held in Copenhagen in December 2009, was intended to determine binding goals, targets and measures for the time beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period ends. Instead, it produced a non-binding political agreement – the Copenhagen Accord. To explain why, the key contributions of China and the United States are assessed. Domestic institutions and circumstances inf…
Comparing State Responses
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society presents an analysis of this issue that draws on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond. Key topics covered include the history of the issues, the social and political reception of climate science, the denial of that science by individuals and organized interests, the nature of the social disruptions caused by clima…
Climate Discourse Complexes, National Climate Regimes and Australian Climate Policy
This paper develops the concepts of the climate discourse complex, and national climate policy regime, in order to analyse significant patterns in Australian national climate politics over the twenty‐five years from 1988 to 2013. Six major discursive fields — scientific, ethical, economic, technological, political/legal, and “everyday life”— contribute to the ensemble of discourses that constitute a climate discourse complex. The climate discours…
In Conversation with Jared Diamond: “Traditional societies are not frozen models of the past”
National contributions for decarbonizing the world economy in line with the G7 agreement
In June 2015, the G7 agreed to two global mitigation goals: 'a decarbonization of the global economy over the course of this century' and 'the upper end of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommendation of 40%-70% reductions by 2050 compared to 2010'. These IPCC recommendations aim to preserve a likely (>66%) chance of limiting global warming to 2 C but are not necessarily consistent with the stronger ambition of the s…
Australia’s sustainable energy transition: The disjointed politics of decarbonisation
Renegotiating nature in the Anthropocene: Australia's environment movement in a time of crisis
The Anthropocene raises two interrelated problems for the Australian environment movement. The first concerns the movement’s normative and political relationship to non-human nature: climate change in particular is forcing an urgent reconsideration of how nature is to be understood and managed. The second problem concerns the implications of full recognition of the rights of First Peoples for environmental justice. These issues may lead to crises…
The promissory note: COP 21 and the Paris Climate Agreement
The 2015 UN climate negotiations in Paris resulted in an inclusive, binding treaty that succeeds the Kyoto Protocol. In contrast to the failure at Copenhagen in 2009, the Paris negotiations are therefore seen as a major diplomatic success that has regenerated faith in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as a forum for dynamic multilateralism. The Paris Agreement provides a robust framework for ratcheting up efforts to combat…
Political science (25 works) · Climate change (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 works)