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Overview

Simon Dalby is affiliated with Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and is active in the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology, political science, and environmental issues. Their research spans multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Political Science and International Relations, and Geography, Planning and Development.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Global Security and Public Health

Simon Dalby has published research in several venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Environment and Security
  • Borders in Globalization Review
  • Political Geography
  • Geoforum
  • Geopolitics

Recent scholarly articles include:

  • Unsustainable Borders: Globalization in a Climate-Disrupted World, 2021, Borders in Globalization Review
  • Reframing climate security: The "planetary" as policy context, 2024, Geoforum
  • La destrucción asegurada: la potencia de fuego, el cambio climático y los dilemas de seguridad, 2023, Geopolítica(s) Revista de estudios sobre espacio y poder

Other recent papers with frequent coauthors include:

  • Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on, 2021, Political Geography (coauthored with Sara Koopman)

Frequent collaborators in research are:

  • Sara Koopman
  • Nick Megoran
  • Joanne Sharp
  • Gerry Kearns
  • Rachael Squire

Simon Dalby is also an author of books published through various presses. These include works published by University of Ottawa Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, and Agenda Publishing eBooks.

Notable book titles include:

  • Anthropocene Geopolitics, 2020, University of Ottawa Press
  • Rethinking Environmental Security, 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Pyromania, 2023, Agenda Publishing eBooks

Best Publications

  • Security and Environmental Change

    Simon Dalby

  • Creating the Second Cold War: The Discourse of Politics

    Simon Dalby

  • Critical Geopolitics: Discourse, Difference, and Dissent

    S Dalby

  • The Geopolitics Reader

    Gearóid Ó Tuathail;Simon Dalby;Paul Routledge

  • Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR

    Anthony Burke;Stefanie Fishel;Audra Mitchell;Simon Dalby

  • Framing the Anthropocene: The good, the bad and the ugly:

    Simon Dalby

  • Security, Modernity, Ecology: The Dilemmas of Post-Cold War Security Discourse:

    Simon Dalby

  • INTRODUCTION: RETHINKING GEOPOLITICS : Towards a critical geopolitics

    Gearóid Ó Tuathail;Simon Dalby

  • Geopolitical Discourse: The Soviet Union as other:

    Simon Dalby

  • The geopolitics of climate change

    Simon Dalby

  • American security discourse: the persistence of geopolitics

    Simon Dalby

  • Rethinking Geopolitics: Climate Security in the Anthropocene

    Simon Dalby

  • Recontextualising violence, power and nature: The next twenty years of critical geopolitics?

    Simon Dalby

  • Imperialism, Domination, Culture: The Continued Relevance of Critical Geopolitics

    Simon Dalby

  • Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalisation, Empire, Environment and Critique

    Simon Dalby

  • After the Anthropocene Politics and geographic inquiry for a new epoch

    Elizabeth Johnson;Harlan Morehouse;Simon Dalby;Jessi Lehman

  • Biopolitics and climate security in the Anthropocene

    Simon Dalby

  • Gender and Critical Geopolitics; Reading Security Discourse in the New World Disorder

    Simon Dalby

  • Ecopolitical discourse: 'environmental security' and political geography:

    Simon Dalby

  • Reconceptualising local community: environment, identity and threat

    Simon Dalby;Fiona Mackenzie

  • Anthropocene Formations: Environmental Security, Geopolitics and Disaster:

    Simon Dalby

  • Book Review Essay: Conflict, Ecology and the Politics of Environmental Security

    Simon Dalby

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Paterson
Matthew Paterson University of Manchester
John Agnew
John Agnew University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott University of Waterloo
Ray Hudson
Ray Hudson Durham University
Liz Bondi
Liz Bondi University of Edinburgh
David Bell
David Bell University of Leeds
George C. S. Lin
George C. S. Lin University of Hong Kong
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Roger Keil
Roger Keil York University

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