Elizabeth Bomberg

Professor of Environmental Politics

e.bomberg@ed.ac.uk

https://www.linkedin.com/in/linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-bomberg-8b0477130/

https://twitter.com/eebomberg/

3.06

Chrystal Macmillan Building

15a George Square

Edinburgh

EH8 9LD

Research interests

Elections, public opinion and parties Energy & Sustainability Energy, environment and sustainability Environment and energy

Environment, climate change politics, US politics, shale governance, community energy

Topics interested in supervising

Environmental politics and politics; climate politics and activism; community energy; religion and environment; EU or US environmental policy; comparative environmental politics; NGOs, multilevel governance and environment.

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Background

Qualifications

BA, California State University; MA and PhD, University of California

Elizabeth Bomberg was educated in California before moving to Britain. She has taught at several Universities in the UK and US and has held research posts in Brussels and at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research interests include comparative environmental politics and policy, climate change activism, shale governance and US politics.

Current responsibilities

Elizabeth is cohort lead for Year 2 IR Students, Programme Co-Director for the MSc Global Environment, Politics and Society, and SUS+ steering group https://susplus.ed.ac.uk/

Teaching expertise

Elizabeth has a keen interest in teaching methods, approaches and innovation. She is recipient of multiple University's Student Association's teaching awards as well as the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme, the Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, and the national Political Studies Association Award for Outstanding Teaching. Her core teaching covers Environmental Politics, US Politics, and Sustainable Development.

Elizabeth also helps coordinate PIR’s expanding initiatives to widen participation and has a list of suggestions for strengthening the links between teaching and research.

Research interests

Elizabeth's primary research activity falls into the broad area of comparative environmental politics, with particular substantive emphasis on activism, climate change, shale politics and community energy, and a geographic focus on Scotland, the UK , the EU and the US. Her monographs, edited textbook, and several journal articles and chapters investigate environmental politics and policymaking in these different polities.

Along with colleague Nicola McEwen, Elizabeth led a UKERC-funded project on grassroots mobilization and energy governance in Scotland (EnGAGE). She was Co-I on a major AHRC–funded study of faith-based activism and climate change, joining a multi-disciplinary team from Divinity, Economic and Social History, Philosophy and Geography.

Works within

Politics and International Relations

My guidance hours are Monday, 2-4pm.

Publication	Research Explorer link
Bomberg E. Global climate action: A political stocktake. Political Insight. 2023 Dec;14(4):31-33. Epub 2023 Nov 21. doi: 10.1177/20419058231218325	View
Bomberg E, Eichhorn J. Age and Climate Concerns. Why Climate Action Is Not Just for the Young. Berlin: D Part Think Tank, 2023. 30 p.	View
Hague A, Bomberg E. Faith-based actors as climate intermediaries in Scottish climate policy. Policy Studies. 2022 Oct 24. Epub 2022 Oct 24. doi: 10.1080/01442872.2022.2137122	View
Bomberg E. The environmental legacy of President Trump. In James TS, editor, The Trump Administration: The President’s Legacy Within and Beyond America. London: Routledge. 2022. p. 184-201 doi: 10.4324/9781003259923-15	View
Bomberg E. Joe Biden’s climate change challenge. Political Insight. 2022 Mar 21;13(1):30-33. Epub 2022 Mar 21. doi: 10.1177/20419058221091636	View
Bomberg E. The 2020 US Election and its climate consequences. Environmental Politics. 2021 Jul;30(5):854-862. Epub 2021 Jul 5. doi: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1920769	View
Bomberg E. The environmental legacy of President Trump. Policy Studies. 2021 May 16. Epub 2021 May 16. doi: 10.1080/01442872.2021.1922660	View
Bomberg E. US environmental politics under Trump: Domestic and global implications. Political Insight. 2020 Mar 1;11(1):38-40. Epub 2020 Feb 24. doi: 10.1177/2041905820911749	View
Porter S, Reay D, Bomberg E, Higgins P. Avoidable food losses and associated production-phase greenhouse gas emissions arising from application of cosmetic standards to fresh fruit and vegetables in Europe and the UK. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018 Nov 10. Epub 2018 Aug 11. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.079	View
Bomberg E, Hague A. Faith-based climate action in the Christian congregations: Mobilization and spiritual resources. Local Environment. 2018 May;23(5):582-596. Epub 2018 Mar 26. doi: 10.1080/13549839.2018.1449822	View
Porter S, Reay D, Bomberg E, Higgins P. Production-phase greenhouse gas emissions arising from deliberate withdrawal and destruction of fresh fruit and vegetables under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. Science of the Total Environment. 2018 Mar 28. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.089	View
Kidwell J, Ginn F, Northcott M, Bomberg E, Hague A. Christian climate care: Slow change, modesty and eco-theo-citizenship. Geo: Geography and Environment. 2018;5(2):1-18. e00059. Epub 2018 Oct 3. doi: 10.1002/geo2.59	View
Bomberg E. Environmental politics in the Trump era: An early assessment. Environmental Politics. 2017 Sept;26(5):956-963. Epub 2017 May 30. doi: 10.1080/09644016.2017.1332543	View
Bomberg E. ‘Trump’s First 100 Days: The Curious Case for Climate Optimism'. 2017. 1 p.	View
Bomberg E. Fracking and framing in Transatlantic perspective: A comparison of shale politics in the US and European Union. Journal of Transatlantic Studies. 2017 Jan 10;15(2):1-20. doi: 10.1080/14794012.2016.1268789	View
Bomberg E. Shale we drill? Discourse dynamics in UK fracking debates. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 2017 Jan 2;19(1):72-88. Epub 2015 Jun 10. doi: 10.1080/1523908X.2015.1053111	View
Porter S, Reay D, Higgins P, Bomberg E. A half-century of production-phase greenhouse gas emissions from food loss & waste in the global food supply chain. Science of the Total Environment. 2016 Nov 15. Epub 2016 Jul 16. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.041	View
Bomberg E. Greening the state, American style. In Bäckstrand K, Annica K, editors, Rethinking the Green State: Environmental Governance Towards Climate and Sustainability Transitions . Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 2015. p. 122-137. (Routledge Studies in Sustainability). doi: 10.4324/9781315761978	View
Small M, Stern P, Bomberg E, Christopherson S, Goldstein BD, Israel AL et al. Risks and Risk Governance in Unconventional Shale Development. Environmental Science and Technology. 2014 Jul 1;48(15):8289-97. doi: 10.1021/es502111u	View
McEwen N, Bomberg E. Sub-State Climate Pioneers: The Case of Scotland. Regional & Federal Studies. 2014;24(1):63-85. Epub 2013 Sept 11. doi: 10.1080/13597566.2013.820182	View
Bomberg E. Governing shale gas development : The European Experience: Issues in Energy and Environmental Policy Report, CLOSUP Series. Gerald Ford School of Public Policy. 2014.	View
Haggett C, Creamer E, Harnmeijer J, Parsons M, Bomberg E. Community Energy in Scotland: the Social Factors for Success. Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, 2013. 25 p.	View
Bomberg E. Moving beyond the impasse: climate change activism in the US and the EU. In Meadowcroft J, Langhelle O, Ruud A, editors, Governance, Democracy and Sustainable Development: Moving Beyond the Impasse. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2013. p. 123-44	View
Bomberg E, McEwen N. Mobilizing Community Energy. Energy Policy. 2012 Dec;51(December 2012):435-444. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.08.045	View
Bomberg E. Mind the (Mobilization) Gap: Comparing Climate Activism in the United States and European Union. Review of Policy Research. 2012;29(3):408-430. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2012.00566.x	View
Peterson J, Bomberg E, Corbett R, (ed.). The European Union: How Does it Work? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.	View
Bomberg E. Governance for sustainable development: The United States and the European Union compared. In Schreurs MA, Selin H, VanDeveer SD, editors, Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2009. p. 21-40. (Global Environmental Governance).	View
Bomberg E, Super B. The 2008 US Presidential Election: Obama and the Environment. Environmental Politics. 2009;18(3):424-430. Epub 2009 Sept 9. doi: 10.1080/09644010902823782	View
Bomberg E, Stubb A, Peterson J. Conclusion. In Bomberg E, Peterson J, Stubb A, editors, The European Union: How Does It Work?. Oxford University Press. 2008. p. 222-234	View
Bomberg E, Stubb A, Peterson J. Introduction. In Bomberg E, Peterson J, Stubb A, editors, The European Union: How Does It Work?. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008. p. 3-21	View
Bomberg E, Stubb A. The EU's Institutions. In Bomberg E, Peterson J, Stubb A, editors, The European Union: How Does It Work?. Oxford University Press. 2008. p. 45-70	View
Bomberg E, Schlosberg D, (ed.). Environmentalism in the US: Changing Conceptions of Activism. Routledge, 2008. 169 p.	View
Bomberg E, Schlosberg D. US Environmentalism in Comparative Perspective. Environmental Politics. 2008;17(2):337-48. doi: 10.1080/09644010801936263	View
Schlosberg D, Bomberg E. Perspectives on American Environmentalism. Environmental Politics. 2008;17(2):187-99. doi: 10.1080/09644010801936073	View
Bomberg E. ‘Policy Learning in an Enlarged European Union: Environmental NGOs and New Policy Instruments’. Journal of European Public Policy. 2007;14(2):248-68.	View
Bomberg E, Carter N. Greens in Brussels: Shaping or shaped? European Journal of Political Research. 2006 Oct;45(Issue Supplement s1):S99-S125. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2006.00651.x	View
Bomberg E. Adapting form to function?: From economic to sustainable development governance in the European Union’. In Lafferty W, editor, Governance for Sustainable Development : The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function . Edward Elgar Publishing. 2004. p. 61-94 doi: 10.4337/9781845421700.00011	View
Cram L, Bomberg E, Martin D. The EU's institutions: The European Union: How Does it Work? In Stubb A, editor, The European Union: How Does it Work?. Oxford, Uk: Oxford University Press. 2003	View
Bomberg E. The Europeanisation of Green parties: Exploring the EU's impact. West European Politics. 2002 Jan 1;25(3):29-50. doi: 10.1080/713601613	View
Bomberg E, Burns C. The environment committee of the European Parliament: New powers, old problems. Environmental Politics. 1999 Jan 1;8(4):174-179. doi: 10.1080/09644019908414500	View
Bomberg E, Peterson J. European Union decision making: The role of sub-national authorities. Political Studies. 1998 Jun 1;46(2):219-235. doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00137	View
Bomberg E. Green Parties and Politics in the European Union. 1 ed. London: Routledge, 1998. 240 p. doi: 10.4324/9780203982228	View
Bomberg E. Greens in the European Parliament. Environmental Politics. 1996 Jan 1;5(2):324-331. doi: 10.1080/09644019608414267	View
Bomberg E. Policy networks on the periphery: EU environmental policy and Scotland. In Baker S, Milton K, Yearly S, editors, Protecting the Periphery: Environmental Policy in Peripheral Regions of the European Union. 1 ed. London: Routledge. 1994. p. 45-61 doi: 10.4324/9780429199622-3	View
Bomberg E. The German greens and the European community: Dilemmas of a movement-party. Environmental Politics. 1992 Dec 1;1(4):160-185. doi: 10.1080/09644019208414050	View

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