Michael Mason

Dr Michael Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment and an Associate of the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. His research interests encompass environmental politics and governance, notably issues of accountability, transparency and security.

Alongside articles in a wide range of academic journals, he is the author of Environmental Democracy (1999) and The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility across Borders (2005). He is also co-editor of (with Amit Mor) Renewable Energy in the Middle East (2009) and (with Aarti Gupta) Transparency in Global Environmental Governance (2014).

• Environmental geography

• Environmental politics/policy and democratic governance

• Security, environmental change and (post)conflict societies

Selected recent publications:

• [with Mohamad Khawlie], Fluid sovereignty: State-nature relations in the Hasbani Basin, Southern Lebanon Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Vol. 106, No. 6, pp. 1344-59, 2016.

• ‘Disclosing or obscuring? The politics of transparency in global climate governance’, (with Aarti Gupta), Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Vol. 18, pp. 82-90, 2016

• [with Joan O’Mahony] ‘Post-traditional corporate governance’, in M. McIntosh (ed.) Globalization and Corporate Citizenship: The Alternative Gaze, Leeds: Greenleaf Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-78353-495-1 (hbk.); 978-1-78353-496-8 (pbk.); 978-1-78353-494-4 (e-book), 2016, pp. 74-90

• [with Aarti Gupta] ‘Transparency’, in K. Bäckstrand and E. Lövbrand (eds.) Handbook on Climate Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, ISBN: 978-1-78347-060-0, 2015, pp. 446-457

• Climate insecurity in (post)conflict areas: the biopolitics of UN vulnerability assessments, Geopolitics, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 806-828, 2014

• [co-editor with Aarti Gupta] Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-02741-0 (hbk.); 978-0-262-52618-0 (sbk.), 2014

• [with Aarti Gupta] ‘Transparency and international environmental politics’, in M. Betsill et al. (eds.) International Environmental Politics, 2nd edition, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 978-1-137-33896-9 (hbk.); 978-1-137-33899-0 (sbk.), 2014, pp. 356-380

• ‘Climate change, securitisation and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 179, No. 4, pp. 298-308, 2013

• [with Mark Zeitoun] 'Questioning environmental security',The Geographical Journal. Vol. 179, No. 4, pp. 294-297, 2013

• ‘Climate change and human security: international governance architectures, policies and instruments’, in Michael Redclift and Marco Grasso (eds.) Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, ISBN 978-0857939104 (hbk.); 978-0857939111 (e-book), 2013, pp. 382-401