Beth Edmondson is a Senior Lecturer in Politics/International Relations and Deputy Head of School, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation University, Australia. Prior to taking up this position in 2014, she was a Senior Lecturer in History
...MoreBeth Edmondson is a Senior Lecturer in Politics/International Relations and Deputy Head of School, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation University, Australia. Prior to taking up this position in 2014, she was a Senior Lecturer in History/Politics at Monash University.
She completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne in 1995, examining Australia’s participation in international treaties for environmental protection. Previous studies included Honours at Flinders University and a BA at Murdoch University.
In 2013, Beth published (with Stuart Levy), Climate Change and Order: the end of prosperity and democracy, Palgrave Macmillan.
Her ongoing research focuses on how the performance of environmental institutions are affected by international and intergovernmental organisational embeddedness, how formal and informal governance mechanisms intersect, and how these might contribute to for institutional effectiveness, durability and flexibility. Her current research in this area entails an examination of the roles of the Clean Development Mechanism and the Adaptation Fund Board with attention to foreseeable problems arising from disjunctures between their respective goals, capacities and bureaucratic structures. This research includes attention to the moral and ethical capacities of states as change agents in progressing mitigation and adaptation strategies to manage the effects of global climate change.
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