Professor of International Development
Biography 
Kathy Hochstetler holds a PhD in Political Science (Minnesota), but has always been interested in the interdisciplinary study of environment and development. She has researched this theme from many angles - global environmental negotiations, regional trade agreements (Mercosur), and through the study of national environmental movements, environment policy, and democratic institutions, primarily in South America. She has conducted field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, South Africa, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Her most recent book is the prize-winning Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke University Press, with Margaret Keck). She is currently completing a research project on the role of the BASIC countries (Brazil, China, India, South Africa) in climate negotiations and is writing a book on the adoption of wind and solar power in Brazil and South Africa. In addition, she is researching south-south development finance, with particular focus on Brazil’s BNDES. This research was supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation as well as the University of Waterloo.
Hochstetler previously held academic positions at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Political Science department of the University of Waterloo (Canada), the University of New Mexico (US), and Colorado State University (US). She is part of the editorial team of the Review of International Political Economy, an Associate Editor of Journal of Politics in Latin America, and on the Editorial Boards of Global Environmental Politics and Latin American Politics and Society.
Research Interests / Experience Keywords
DV415 Global Environmental Governance
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Environment and development
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Environmental movements
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Global environmental negotiations
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Development finance
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South America
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Emerging powers
Recent publications:
2016
Environment and Consultation in the Brazilian Democratic Developmental State. Comparative Politics 48(4): 497-516. With J. Ricardo Tranjan.
2015
Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and China: Interests, State-Business Relations, and Policy Outcomes. Global Environmental Politics 15(3): 74-94. With Genia Kostka.
Responsibilities in Transition: Emerging Powers in the Climate Change Negotiations. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 21(2): 205-226. With Manjana Milkoreit.
Brazil in Global Climate Governance. In Handbook on Global Climate Governance, eds. K. Bäckstrand and E. Lövbrand. Edward Elgar Publishers. 237-248. With Eduardo J. Viola
2014
Development Banks of the Developing World. Edited special section of Global Policy 5(3): 344-373.
Advances in International Environmental Politics, Second Edition [first edition 2006]. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan. Co-edited with Michele M. Betsill and Dimitris Stevis.
Emerging Powers in the Climate Change Negotiations. Shifting Identity Conceptions. Political Research Quarterly 67(1): 224-235. With Manjana Milkoreit.
The Brazilian National Bank Goes International: Innovations and Limitations of BNDES’ Internationalization. Global Policy 5(3): 360-365.
Latin America in Global Environmental Governance. In The Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World, eds. J. Domínguez and A. Covarrubias Velasco. London and New York: Rutledge.
Methods in International Environmental Politics. In Advances in International Environmental Politics, Second Edition [first edition 2006], ed. M. Betsill, K. Hochstetler, and D. Stevis. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 78-104. With Melinda Laituri.
Reducing Poverty in Brazil: Finding Policy Space for Meeting Developmental Needs. In Linking Global Trade and Human Rights: New Policy Spaces in Hard Economic Times, eds. D. Drache and L.A. Jacobs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 197-215.
2013
The Renewed Developmental State: The National Development Bank and the Brazil Model. Journal of Development Studies 49(11): 1484-1499. With Alfred P. Montero.
South-South Trade and the Environment: A Brazilian Case Study. Global Environmental Politics 13(1): 30-48.
Civil Society. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, eds. A. Cooper, J. Heine, and R. Thakur. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 176-191.
The Road Traveled. In Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin Americas, ed. E. Silva. New York: Routledge, 186-206. With Eduardo Silva and William C. Smith.
2012
Brazil and the Politics of Climate Change: Beyond the Global Commons. Environmental Politics 21(5): 753-771. With Eduardo J. Viola.
Climate Rights and Responsibilities for Emerging States: The Cases of Brazil and South Africa. Social Research 79(4): 957-982.
The G77, BASIC, and Global Climate Governance: A New Era in Multilateral Environmental Negotiations? Revista Brasileira de Relações Internacionais 55: 53-69.
Civil Society and the Regulatory State in the South – A Commentary. Regulation and Governance 6(3): 362-370.
South-South Trade and the Environment. In The Future of South-South Economic Relations, eds. A. Najam and R.D. Thatcher. London: Zed Books, 161-179.
Social Movements in Latin America. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics, eds. P. Kingstone and D. J. Yashar. New York: Routledge, 237-248.
Democracy and the Environment in Latin America and Eastern Europe. In Comparative Environmental Politics: Theory, Practice, and Prospects, eds. P. Steinberg and S. VanDeveer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 199-229.
2011
The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil. Studies in Comparative International Development 46(4): 349-371.
Crisis and Rapid Re-equilibration: The Consequences of Presidential Challenge and Failure in Latin America. Comparative Politics 43(2): 127-145. With David Samuels.
The Fates of Presidents in Post-Transition Latin America: From Regime Breakdown to Impeachment to Presidential Breakdown. Review essay in Journal of Politics in Latin America 3(1): 125-141.
Regional Environmental Governance in South America. In Comparative Regional Governance: Environment, eds. L. Elliott and S. Breslin. New York: Routledge, 130-146.
CV
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Contact Details
Email: k.hochstetler@lse.ac.uk