Julia Szulecka | AFINO Blog There are strong tensions between seeing food as a right and as a commodity. Taking into account that this is a limited resource, it seems obvious that we cannot rely on the food markets alone. But how far can regulation and pressure to reduce waste go without impeding civic liberties […]
Conspiracy theories and the energy transition
Kacper Szulecki gave a keynote lecture at a webinar hosted by TU Delft, entitled “Conspiracy theories and the energy transition Russian oil conspiracies, The blackout myth and Governance through fear” The effects of conspiracy thinking on climate change attitudes are larger than previously argued (Uscinski and Olivella 2017). Yet the impact of conspiracy theories onto […]
European Green Deal: between ambition and feasibility
The Von der Leyen Commission displays unprecedented environmental policy ambitions and appears to be the greenest in EU history. However, it is also facing challenges of overwhelming magnitude, and it will work under societal pressure unseen in this policy area. Can its flagship European Green Deal deliver? by Kacper Szulecki —16 January 2020 Image courtesy of Fridays […]
A new article on the history of Poland’s environmental movement
ESPRi’s Julia Szulecki and Kacper Szulecki published an article entitled “Between domestic politics and ecological crises: (De)legitimization of Polish environmentalism” in the high impact journal Environmental Politics. The article is available in Open Access. An earlier version of the paper, richer in historical detail, appeared in 2017 as an ESPRi Working Paper 6/2017.
Europe’s largest political science conference comes to Wroclaw, ESPRI will be there
The annual European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference will be held at the University of Wroclaw on 4-7 September 2019. The event is the largest gathering of political scientists in Europe, and the City of a Hundred Bridges looks forward to hosting some 2000 scholars on this occasion. Of course, ESPRi cannot miss […]
Food waste: seeking best practices for limiting it
The alarming food waste scale puts the issue among the most pressing global problems. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has been estimated that at least 30% of the food grown worldwide is lost before or wasted while reaching the consumer. Saving 50% of the food wastes would allow nourishing more than 1.6 billion people, […]
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Anti-nuclear movement in Poland: book launch [in Polish]
The European Solidarity Center hosted a book launch for the first monograph of Poland’s anti-nuclear movement, with Janusz Waluszko and Kacper Szulecki talking to ECS’ Dr. Grzegorz Piotrowski (an expert on social movements). The full recording is available in Polish.
“Politics and Governance” special issue on EU climate and energy policy
ESPRI’s Kacper Szulecki has co-edited (with Dag Harald Claes) the special issue of Politics and Governance on “EU Energy Policy: Towards a Clean Energy Transition?”. The entire issue is available in open access on the journal’s website. For over a decade, the EU has displayed an interest and political motivation to integrate climate policy priorities into […]
ESPRi’s research director with best Environmental Politics article prize!
Kacper Szulecki won the Award for the article Conceptualizing energy democracy. The prize-winning article can be downloaded for free until the end of 2019. You can read it here The Editorial Board Jury describe their reasons for selecting this article: “Dr. Szulecki’s article represents a tour de force effort to shape the academic and political […]
Analyzing Poland’s carbon forestry initiatives: strengthening or replacing climate policy?
On 18 February, Julia Szulecka and Kacper Szulecki presented a paper entitled “A Climate Skeptical Mitigation Policy? Explaining Poland’s Carbon Forestry Two-Level Game” at the international workshop “Anatomy of Disbelief – Analysing Climate Scepticism” hosted by the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. After 2015, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party, most notably the environment minister Jan […]