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BESI climate affiliate Meg Mills-Novoa and Boise State human-environment geographer Sophia Borgias human-environment geographer conduct a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles and atlas profiles to understand the nature of contest hydropower development and the dynamics of social resistance. They find that in most cases, contested projects were backed by multiple types of funders, with a notable shift toward public-private and bilateral finance.

In this article for the journal Political Philosophy, BESI climate affiliate Anna Stilz argues that to make climate governance legitimate and compatible with collective self-determination, future legislation should be voted on and authorized by a global assembly and enforced via carbon tariffs applied by cooperating states.

In this monograph, BESI faculty affiliate David J. Vogel and CUNY political scientist Roger Karapin offer an original analysis of the federal government’s sectoral climate policy accomplishments over the last five decades with concrete recommendations for policy makers.