Biography

In 2008 he was awarded an ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellow to work on The Governance of Clean Development (www.clean-development.com). Prior to this he held posts as Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia; James Martin Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment; Principal Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick; Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex; associate researcher at FLACSO Argentina and researcher and lobbyist for Climate Network Europe in Brussels.

He has worked on issues of environment and development, especially climate change, for over 18 years and conducted research and policy work for the governments of the UK, Sweden and Finland as well as international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Environment Facility and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has been called upon to give presentations and evidence to the UK parliament on a number of occasions and to provide training to commonwealth parliamentarians. He also worked extensively with and for NGOs including Friends of the Earth, Climate Network Europe, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Practical Action, Transparency International, Care and the International Council on Human Rights Policy. He is a trustee of the One World Trust and chairs the group’s Independent Advisory Panel. In addition, he was worked closely with a range of businesses on issues of climate change and Corporate Social Responsibility both as lobbyist and provider of training and advisory services.

He is co-editor of the European Journal of International Relations, associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics and sits on the editorial board of Global Environmental Change, the Journal of Environment and Development and the Journal of Peasant Studies. His publications include the books: Climate for Change: Non State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse;  The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy; Development and the Challenge of Globalization; The Business of Global Environmental Governance; Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability; Climate Capitalism and Governing Climate Change; Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power. He has also published more than 40 journal articles and 40 book chapters as well produced a number of commissioned studies, working papers and policy briefs.

Role

Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex.

I currently teach the following courses: UG 3rd year option- Environment and Development in World Politics & PG option - Political Economy of the Environment

Student Consultation

Mondays 2-4pm Arts C306 or at other times by appointment 

Newell, Peter (2012) Globalization and the environment: capitalism, ecology and power. Polity, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-7456-4723-4

Newell, Peter, Boykoff, Max and Boyd, Emily, eds. (2012) The new carbon economy: constitution, governance and contestation. Antipode book series . Wiley Blackwell, Chichester. ISBN 9781444350227

Newell, Peter (2011) The governance of energy finance: the public, the private and the hybrid. Global Policy, 2 (s1). pp. 94-105. ISSN 1758-5880

Newell, Peter, Bailey, Ian and Gouldson, Andy (2011) Ecological modernisation and the governance of carbon: a critical analysis. Antipode, 43 (3). pp. 682-703. ISSN 0066-4812

Newell, Peter and Paterson, Matthew (2010) Climate capitalism: global warming and the transformation of the global economy. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 9780521127288

Newell, Peter (2010) Governing climate change. Global Institutions Series, 41 . Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780415467681

Newell, Peter (2010) Democratising biotechnology?: Deliberation, participation and social regulation in a neo-liberal world. Review of International Studies, 36 (2). pp. 471-491. ISSN 0260-2105

Newell, Peter (2009) Bio-hegemony: the political economy of agricultural biotechnology in Argentina. Journal of Latin American Studies, 41 (1). pp. 27-57. ISSN 0022-216X

Newell, Peter (2008) The political economy of global environmental governance. Review of International Studies, 34 (3). pp. 507-529. ISSN 0260-2105

Newell, Peter (2008) Trade and biotechnology in Latin America: democratization, contestation and the politics of mobilization. Journal of Agrarian Change, 8 (2-3). pp. 345-376. ISSN 1471-0358

Newell, Peter (2008) Civil society, corporate accountability and the politics of climate change. Global Environmental Politics, 8 (3). pp. 122-153. ISSN 1526-3800

Newell, Peter (2008) Lost in translation? Domesticating global policy on GMOs: comparing India and China. Global Society, 22 (1). pp. 115-136. ISSN 1360-0826

Newell, Peter (2007) Biotech firms, biotech politics: negotiating GMOs in India. Journal of Environment and Development, 16 (2). pp. 183-206. ISSN 1070-4965

Newell, Peter (2007) Trade and environmental justice in Latin America. New Political Economy, 12 (2). pp. 237-259. ISSN 1356-3467

Newell, Peter (2005) Race, class and the global politics of environmental inequality. Global Environmental Politics, 5 (3). pp. 70-94. ISSN 1526-3800

Newell, Peter and Garvey, Niamh (2005) Corporate accountability to the poor? Assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies. Development in Practice, 15 (3-4). pp. 389-404. ISSN 0961-4524

Newell, Peter (2005) Citizenship, accountability and community: the limits of the CSR agenda. International Affairs, 81 (3). pp. 541-557. ISSN 0020-5850

Newell, Peter (2003) Globalisation and the governance of biotechnology. Global Environmental Politics, 3 (2). pp. 56-71. ISSN 1526-3800

Newell, Peter and Levy, David (2002) Business strategy and international environmental governance: toward a neo-Gramscian synthesis. Global Environmental Politics, 2 (4). pp. 84-101. ISSN 1526-3800

Newell, Peter (2001) Managing multinationals: the governance of investment for the environment. Journal of International Development, 13 (7). pp. 907-919. ISSN 0954-1748