Environmental and Energy Policy

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Protection via Commodification?

Culture, Practice & Europeanization

2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea shows that market-oriented schemes like the EU ETS are better characterized as Polanyian countermovements that are, in fact, helping to “re-embed” the European economy in more ecologically sustainable relationships with nature.

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

2020

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea describes three potential baselines for assessing the nature and impact of Trump’s anti-science rhetoric and (in)action on science, science policy, and politics.

The Eco-Munitionary Subject: Conservation with and of Firearms

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

2023

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the role of the Pittman-Robertson Act in shaping the relationship between firearms and conservation and seeks to understand how this relationship is reproduced.

The Environmental State: Nature and the Politics of Environmental Protection

Sociological Theory

2023

Christopher Rea defines the environmental state and theorizes two structuring forces central to its provision of environmental welfare.

2021

This study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, examines the relationship between network structure and network performance.

2021

This study, published in Public Management Review, proposes four starting conditions that affect the establishment of intergovernmental collaboration: power imbalance, resource imbalance, prehistory of collaboration and participation of superior levels of government.

Collaborative Networks and Environmental Governance Performance: A Social Influence Model

2020

This research, published in Public Management Review, examines how collaborative networks affect the performance of individual policy actors embedded in the network.

Conservation and Society

2022

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea compares the four largest sources of revenue for state wildlife and conservation agencies and demonstrate the growing importance of Pittman-Robertson as gun sales increase.

2016

This study, published in Environmental Politics, questions whether cities’ termination of their ICLEI affiliation diminishes their implementation of sustainability actions.

Theory & Society

2017

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea offers a framework for explaining these processes of regulatory marketization, like cap-and-trade and ecological offsetting.