Robyn Eckersley

Robyn Eckersley is Professor in the School of Politics, Sociology and Criminology, University of Melbourne, Australia. She was previously a public lawyer, and a lecturer at Monash University until 2001. She studied at the University of Western Australia, Cambridge University, and did a PhD at the University of Tasmania.

She works on environmental politics and political theory. Her 1992 book was one of the first to argue for a strong, stratified, but ecocentric form of government. "The Green State" (2004) again sets out how a green democratic state could function, as an alternative to the liberal democratic state. These arguments are largely conducted in the domain of political theory, but have proven influential in environmental politics.

Books

*Robyn Eckersley and Andrew Dobson (eds.). 2006. "Political Theory and the Environmental Challenge". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Robyn Eckersley and John Barry (eds.). 2005. "The State and the Global Ecological Crisis". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

*Robyn Eckersley. 2004. "The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty". Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

*Robyn Eckersley. 1992. "Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach". State University of New York Press.