Ian Bailey

Teaching interests

European Union and international environmental policy

Sustainable development

European, Australian and international climate politics waste management

Research interests

Environmental policy and politics

Climate policy and carbon markets

European Union integration and environmental policy

Renewable energy policy

Education for sustainable development

Waste management

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Grants & contracts

2012 Santander scholarships: Community perceptions of marine renewable energy developments, £5000.

2011 MERIFIC: Marine energy in far peripheral and island communities, total budget €4,941,361, €693,298 to Plymouth.

2010 Intelligent Energy Europe Study of Ocean Wave Farm Impacts Assessment (SOWFIA), total project €2 million, University of Plymouth €327,000; (UoP bid leaders D Greaves and D Conley).

2009 British Academy Political strategies for future climate policy: engaging energy-intensive industries in emissions reduction programmes, £7,500

2007 Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) Socio-economic impacts of the Cornish Wave Hub, £291,175 (co-PI with JJ Xu, G Glegg and I Whitehead).

2007-2010 (led by Dan Charman) Policy and practice for sustainable carbon management of moorlands. Duchy of Cornwall, Natural England, National Trust, Dartmoor National Park and Great Western Research. £57,600.

2006 (with R Gehrels) Great Western Research, Network Rail, Devon County Council, Cornwall County Council, Impact of future sea-level rise on the London-Penzance railway line, PhD studentship, £55,200.

2006 (led by Geoff Wilson) Great Western Research and Moor Trees, Towards a partnership approach in environmental governance: the case of voluntary carbon offset programmes, £55,200.

2006 Environmental Managers Group, Voluntary and market-based approaches to climate policy in Australia, £4000.

2005 British Academy, Voluntary and market-based approaches to environmental policy: a comparative assessment of climate policy in the United Kingdom and Australia, £7254.

2005 Centre for Sustainable Futures, Awareness and attitudes towards education for sustainable development in higher education, £5000.

2005 Higher Education Funding Council for England, Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Centre for Sustainable Futures, £5 million (bid leaders D Selby and A Dyer).

2003 National Europe Centre, Australian National University, New environmental policy instruments and environmental policy integration, £1045.

2002 Royal Geographical Society/HSBC Holdings, Implementing the Kyoto Protocol: energy-intensive industries, voluntary agreements and carbon leakage, £1400.

2002 SterileTech Inc. The use of tradable permits to promote the recycling of sterilized clinical waste, £960.

2001 ESRC (Award Ref.: R000223774) Climate change and industry reactions to new environmental policy instruments, £37,344.

1999 Chartered Institute of Wastes Management Implementation of the UK packaging regulations, £2,000.

1998 Chartered Institute of Wastes Management Implementation of the UK packaging regulations, £2,000.

Creative practice & artistic projects

Publications

Books and major reports 

Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (2012) Climate Clever: how governments can reduce emissions and still win elections, Abingdon: Routledge.

Bailey, I. and Compston, H. (eds) (2012) Feeling the heat: the politics of climate policy in rapidly industrialising countries, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (eds) (2008) Turning down the heat: The Politics of Climate Policy in Affluent Democracies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Bailey, I. (2006) The Greenhouse Challenge Plus: an evaluation, Report for the Australian Greenhouse Office/Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra.

Bailey, I. (2003) New environmental policy instruments in the European Union, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Refereed Articles

Bailey, I., MacGill, I., Passey, R. and Compston, H. (2012) The demise of the Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: A Political Strategy Analysis, Environmental Politics, 31 (5): 691-711.

Passey, R., Bailey, I., Twomey, P. MacGill, I. (2012) The inevitability of ‘flotilla policies’ as complements or alternatives to emissions trading schemes, Energy Policy, 48 (1): 551-561.

Bailey, I. (2012) Global commons, domestic decisions: the comparative politics of climate change, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 6 (2): 174-175.

Cotton, D., Winter, J. and Bailey, I. (in press 2012) Researching the hidden curriculum: intentional and unintended messages, Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Bailey, I., Gouldson, A. and Newell, P. (2011) Ecological modernisation, policy networks and the governance of the new carbon economy, Antipode, 43 (3), 682-703.

Bailey, I., West, J. and Whitehead, I. (in press 2011) Out of sight but not out of mind? Public perceptions of wave energy and the Cornish Wave Hub, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning.

Bailey, I. 2011 Australian climate politics 2010, Arena 110, 32-35.

Bailey, I. 2010 Guest editorial: Copenhagen and the new political geographies of climate change, Political Geography 29 (3): 127-129.

West, J. and Bailey, I. 2010 Renewable energy policy and public perceptions of renewable energy: a cultural theory approach, Energy Policy, 38 (10), 5739-5748.

Bailey, I. and Compston, H. 2010 Serendipity is still not a strategy: geography and the politics of climate policy, Geography Compass, 4 (8), 1097-1114.

Bailey, I. 2010 The European Union emissions trading scheme, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1 (1), 144-153.

Bailey, I., Hopkins, R. and Wilson, G. 2010 Some things old, some things new: the spatial representations and politics of change of the peak oil relocalisation movement, Geoforum, 41 (4), 595-605.

Bailey, I. and Maresh, S. (2009) Scales and networks of neoliberal climate governance: the regulatory and territorial logics of European Union emissions trading, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34 (4), 445-461.

Cotton, D., Bailey, I., Warren, M. and Bissell, S. (2009) Revolutions and second-best solutions: education for sustainable development in higher education, Studies in Higher Education, 34 (7), 719-733.

Bailey, I. and Wilson, G.A. (2009) Theorising transitional pathways in response to climate change: technocentrism, ecocentrism and the carbon economy, Environment and Planning A, 41 (10), 2324-2341.

Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (2009) The politics of climate policy in affluent democracies, Policy Network Politics of Climate Change Series, http://www.policy-network.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Publications/Hugh_Compston_and_Ian_Bailey.pdf.

Bailey, I. and Ditty, C. (2009) Energy markets, capital inertia and the steering effect of economic instruments: an assessment of UK climate policy, Climate Policy, 9 (1) 22-39.

Murrall, S. and Bailey, I. (2009) Policy learning in UK renewable energy policy: a methodology, Energy, EN0, 1–9, doi: 10.1680/ener.2008.000.0.1.

Bailey, I. (2008) Geographical work at the boundaries of climate policy: a commentary and complement to Mike Hulme, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33 (3) 420-423.

Bailey, I. (2008) Industry environmental agreements and climate policy: learning by comparison, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 10 (2) 153-173.

Bailey, I. (2007) Editorial introduction: Climate policy implementation: geographical perspectives, Area, 39 (4): 415-417.

Bailey, I. (2007) Neoliberalism, climate governance and the scalar politics of EU emissions trading, Area, 39 (4): 431-442.

Bailey, I. (2007) Market environmentalism, new environmental policy instruments and climate policy in the United Kingdom and Germany, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97 (3): 530-550. 

Gray-Donald, J., Cotton, D., Warren, M., Bailey, I. and Kagawa, F. (2007) The Story of the Sustainability Surveys at Plymouth: From Local to Global, International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability 3 (5): 205-216

Cotton, D.R.E. , Warren, M.F. , Maiboroda, O. , and Bailey, I. (2007) Sustainable development, higher education and pedagogy: a study of lecturers’ beliefs and attitudes, Environmental Education Research 13 (5): 579–597.

Bailey, I., Rupp, S. (2006) The evolving role of trade associations in negotiated environmental agreements: the case of United Kingdom Climate Change Agreements,
Business Strategy and the Environment, 15 (1), 40-54.

Bailey, I., Rupp, S. (2005) Geography and climate policy: a comparative assessment of new environmental policy instruments in the UK and Germany, Geoforum, 36 (3), 387-401.

Bailey, I., Rupp, S. (2004) Politics, industry and the regulation of industrial greenhouse-gas emissions in the UK and Germany, European Environment, 14, 235-250.

Bailey, I., Haug, B., O'Doherty, R. (2004) Tradable permits without legislative targets: a review of the potential for a permit scheme for sterilized clinical waste in the UK, Waste Management and Research, 22, 202-211.

Bailey, I. and Rupp, S. (2004) New environmental policy instruments: opportunities and barriers for UK and German climate policy, ERP Environment Business Strategy and the Environment, September 2004, 8-17.

Bailey, I. and Rupp, S. (2004) The evolving role of business associations in negotiated environmental agreements: the case of United Kingdom climate change agreements, ERP Environment Business Strategy and the Environment, September 2004, 18-27.

O’Doherty, R., Bailey, I., Collins, A. (2003) Regulatory failure via market evolution: the case of UK packaging recycling, Environment and Planning C, 21, 579-595.

Bailey, I. and Rupp, S. (2003) Energy taxes, environmental agreements and emissions reduction: climate-change policy and industry in the European Union, ERP Environment Corporate Social Responsibility, July 2003, 9-18.

Bailey, I. (2002) National adaptation to European integration: institutional vetoes and goodness-of-fit, Journal of European Public Policy, 9 (5), 791-811.

Bailey, I. (2002) European environmental taxes and charges: economic theory and policy practice, Applied Geography, 22 (3), 235-251.

Bailey, I. (2000) Principles, policies and practice: assessing the environmental sustainability of Britain’s packaging policies, Sustainable Development, 8 (1), 151-64.

Bailey, I. and O’Doherty, R. (2000) Paper chases and glass houses: tradable permits and EU recycling targets, IWM Scientific and Technical Review, 2 (2), 13-17.

Bailey, I.G. (2000) The role of economic instruments in environmental policy as a means of influencing industry behaviour, ERP Environment International Sustainable Development, April 2000, 26-34.

Bailey, I. (1999) Flexibility, harmonization and the single market in EU environmental policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, 37 (4), 549-71.

Bailey, I.G. (1999) Principles, policies and practice: assessing the sustainability of Britain’s packaging policies, ERP Environment International Sustainable Development, April 1999, 22-27.

Bailey, I. (1999) The development of the packaging regulations: reviewing the reprocessing industry, Wastes Management, March, pp. 38-9.

Bailey, I. (1999) Competition, sustainability and packaging policy in the UK, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 40 (1), 83-102.

Bailey, I. (1999) The development of the packaging regulations II: the response from packaging producers, IWM Scientific and Technical Review, 1, 10-19.

Book Chapters

Bailey, I. and Compston, H. 2012 Introduction, In Bailey, I. and Compston, H. (eds) Feeling the Heat: The Politics of Climate Change in Rapidly Industrialising Countries, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-16.

Afionis, S. and Bailey, I. 2012 Ever closer partnerships? European Union relations with rapidly industrializing countries on climate change, In Bailey, I. and Compston, H. (eds) Feeling the Heat: The Politics of Climate Change in Rapidly Industrialising Countries, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-74.

Bailey, I. and Compston, H. 2012 Political strategy and climate policy in rapidly industrializing countries, In Bailey, I. and Compston, H. (eds) Feeling the Heat: The Politics of Climate Change in Rapidly Industrialising Countries, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 205-230.

Bailey, I., Gouldson, A. and Newell, P. 2012 Ecological moedrnisation and the governance of carbon: a critical analysis, in Boykoff, M. and Boyd, E. (eds) The new carbon economy: constitution, governance and contestation, London: John Wiley and Sons, pp. 85-106.

Bailey, I. and Compston, H. 2011 Resource exchange, political strategy and the ‘new’ politics of climate change. In Pelling, M., Navarrete, D.M., Redclift, M. (eds) Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature, Abingdon: Routledge, pp 173-186.

Compston, H. and Bailey, I.G. 2011. The politics of climate policy in developed countries. In Ansohn, A., Pleskovic, B. (eds) Climate governance and development: Berlin workshop series 2010.Washington DC: World Bank, pp. 149-157.

Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (2009) How can we build political support for action on climate change in Western democracies? in Giddens, A. and Liddle, R. (eds) The politics of climate change, London: the Policy Network, pp. 53-62.

Bailey, I. and Maresh, S. (2008) Facing up to the Greenhouse Challenge: Australian climate politics, in Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (eds) Turning down the heat: the politics of climate policy in affluent democracies, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 202-222.

Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (2008) Introduction: The political problem of climate change, in Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (eds) Turning down the heat: the politics of climate policy in affluent democracies, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-14.

Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (2008) Political strategy and climate policy, in Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (eds) Turning down the heat: the politics of climate policy in affluent democracies, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 263-288.

Potter, S., Bailey, I. (2008) Transport and the environment, in R. Knowles, J. Shaw and I. Docherty (Eds) Transport geographies: an introduction, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 29-48.

Bailey, I., Rupp, S. (2006) New environmental policy instruments and industry: opportunities and barriers to effective climate policy in the UK and Germany, in A.K. Pain, S.L. Anand and A. Sen (Eds) Corporate carbon trading: strategies and key issues, Kolkata: ICFAI Books, pp. 151-183.

Bailey, I. (2001) Competition, sustainability and packaging policy in the UK, in R.K. Turner, I. Bateman and J. Powell (Eds) Waste Management and Planning, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 374-93.

Reports & invited lectures

Conference and Seminar Papers

Uncooperative countries, unruly markets and middle-class energy bling: transition theorisations and carbon commodification in Europe, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, March 2010 (with S Murrall)

Representations and materialities of space in energy transitions: reflections on the EU emissions trading scheme and the relocalisation movement, ESRC Seminar Series Geographies of energy transition: security, climate, governance. University of Leicester, 26 Nov 2009, http://www.le.ac.uk/gg/research/seminar_bradshaw_GET_seminar1.html.  

Policy learning and policy change in UK Renewable Energy Policy, Royal Geographical Society/IBG Annual Conference, Manchester University, August 2009 (with S Murrall)

Stakeholder Perceptions of Marine Renewable Energy in the Southwest of England, Royal Geographical Society/IBG Annual Conference, Manchester University, August 2009 (with J West)

Political Strategy and Climate Policy, 5th European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, Potsdam University, September 2009 (with Hugh Compston) http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/potsdam/paper_details.asp?paperID=156

Stakeholder Perceptions of the Wave Hub Development in Cornwall, Proceedings of the 8th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 2009 (with J West) http://www.ewtec2009.se/

How can we build political support for action on climate change in western democracies? Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, University of Manchester, April 2009 (with H Compston) http://www.psa.ac.uk/2009/pps/Compston.pdf

Policy learning and policy change in UK Renewable Energy Policy Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March 2009 (with Sally Murrall)

The politics of climate policy in affluent democracies, Policy Network Politics of Climate Change Series, The Policy Network, London School of Economics, October 2008. (with H Compston)

Political Strategies for Future Climate Policy, World Bank 2010 World Development Report, Berlin, 29 September 2008 (with Hugh Compston)

The neoliberalisation of European Union climate policy: the emerging market-led governance logics of emissions trading Royal Geographical Society, September 2008

The geographies of ‘peak oil Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008

Long markets and short change, or how market actors are running a coach and horses through international emissions trading regimes Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008 (with Sam Maresh)

Sustainability in higher education: The search for a ‘second best’ solution All Our Futures Conference: Centre for Sustainable Futures, Plymouth, UK, September 2008 (with D Cotton, S Bissell and M Warren)

Bailey, I. and Hopkins, R. (2007) Re-thinking the climate change 'seven wedges' for peak oil, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, 17-21 April 2007.

Gray-Donald, J., Cotton, D., Bailey, I., Warren, M, Kagawa, F. and Bissell S. (2007) Understandings, Attitudes and Experiences of ESD: Results of Research at the University of Plymouth and an Invitation to an International Research Project, Third International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Chennai 4-7 January 2007.

Bailey, I. (2006) The Neoliberalisation of Climate Policy, James Martin Institute/Said Business School invited seminar, University of Oxford, 14 November 2006.

Bailey, I. (2006) When worlds collide: top-down and bottom-up perspectives on neo-liberalism, market environmentalism and climate policy, Theorising the Carbon Economy, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, 20 September 2006.

Bailey, I. (2006) Voluntary environmental agreements and climate policy: learning from comparison, ERP Environment Corporate Social Responsibility Conference, University of Leeds and University College Dublin, 4-5 September 2006.

Bailey, I. (2006) Recapturing the geographical contingency of climate policy, RGS-IBG Academic Conference 2006, Royal Geographical Society, 30 August-1 September 2006.

Bissell, S, Cotton, D, Warren, MF, Bailey, I, Maiboroda, O (2006) Transforming an institution: integrating sustainable eveloment into teaching and learning in higher education. Sustainable Development and Higher Education: conference of the International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9-12 November 2006 Washington DC.

Warren, M., Cotton, D., Maiboroda, O. Bailey, I and Bissell, S. (2006) Embedding an ethical issue in the curriculum: lecturers and the sustainabilty agenda, 8th European Conference On Higher Agricultural Education (ECHAE) Prague, 13-16 September 2006.

Bailey, I. and Rupp, S. (2004) New environmental policy instruments: opportunities and barriers for UK and German climate policy, ERP Environment Business Strategy and the Environment Conference, University of Leeds, September 2004, 8-17.

Bailey, I. and Rupp, S. (2004) The evolving role of business associations in negotiated environmental agreements: the case of United Kingdom climate change agreements, ERP Environment Business Strategy and the Environment Conference, University of Leeds, September 2004, 18-27.

Bailey, I. and Rupp, S. (2003) Environmental policy integration beyond the state: the politics and economics of new environmental policy instruments in Europe, National Europe Centre Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy Integration Conference, Canberra: Australian National University, November 2003.

Bailey, I. and Rupp, S. (2003) Pragmatic approaches to policy devolution: waste management and climate change policy in the United Kingdom and Germany, European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference, Marburg, August 2003.

Bailey, I. and Rupp, S. (2003) Energy taxes, environmental agreements and emissions reduction: climate-change policy and industry in the European Union, ERP Environment Corporate Social Responsibility Conference, University of Leeds, July 2003, 9-18.

O’Doherty, R, Bailey, I. and Collins, A. (2003) Regulatory failure via market evolution: the case of UK packaging recycling, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Annual Conference, Bilbao.

Bailey, I.G. (2002) New environmental policy instruments and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in the European Union, RGS/IBG Annual Conference, Queens University Belfast, January 2002.

Bailey, I.G. (2001) The incentive effect, hypothecation and industry responses to environmental charges, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Workshop Sessions, Grenoble, April 2001.

O’Doherty, R. and Bailey, I.G. (2000) Tradable permits and EU recycling targets, International Centre for the Environment Invited Seminar Series, University of Bath, July 2000.

Bailey, I.G. (2000) The role of economic instruments in environmental policy as a means of influencing industry behaviour, ERP Environment International Sustainable Development Conference, University of Leeds, April 2000, 26-34.

Bailey, I.G. (1999) Can environmental taxes save the planet? Clues from EU environmental policy, RGS/IBG Annual Postgraduate Conference, RGS, September 1999.

Bailey, I.G. (1999) Principles, policies and practice: assessing the sustainability of Britain’s packaging policies, ERP Environment International Sustainable Development Conference, University of Leeds, April 1999, 22-27.

Other research papers

Bailey, I., Gouldson, A., & Newell, P. (2010) Ecological Modernisation and the Governance of Carbon: a Critical Analysis [PDF 206 KB]. Working Paper 009, The Governance of Clean Development Working Paper Series / Working Paper No. 24, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper Series. School of International Development, University of East Anglia UK and CCCEP, Leeds, UK http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/gcd/workingpapers.

Bailey, I. & Compston, H. (2010) Resource exchange, political strategy and the ‘new’ politics of climate change, Climate change beyond resilience: Living with crisis without resorting to the very mechanisms that created it, ESRC workshop, Dept of Geography, King’s College London, 8-9 July.

Maresh, S. and Bailey, I. (2007) Climate Change: Fear of Flying, New Matilda 25 October 2007, 1-4 http://www.newmatilda.com/home/articledetailmagazine.asp?ArticleID=2542&HomepageID=229.

Bailey, I. & Rupp, S. (2004) Politics, industry and the regulation of industrial greenhouse-gas emissions in the UK and Germany, School of Geography working paper, http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/climatepolicy/Politics,%20Industry%20and%20the%20Regulation.pdf.

Bailey, I. & Rupp, S. (2004) Geography and climate policy: a comparative assessment of ‘new’ environmental policy instruments in the UK and Germany, Geography working paper, http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/climatepolicy/Geography%20and%20Climate%20Policy_%20A%20Com.pdf.

Bailey, I. & Rupp, S. (2003) Public interest, public choice and the regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions in the UK and Germany, School of Geography working paper, http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/climatepolicy/Bailey%20and%20Rupp,%20European%20Environment.pdf.

Bailey, I. & Rupp, S. (2003) New environmental policy instruments, governance and environmental policy integration: climate policy in the United Kingdom and Germany, School of Geography working paper, http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/climatepolicy/EPA%20paper1.pdf.

Bailey, I. & Rupp, S. (2003) New environmental policy instruments: opportunities and barriers to effective climate policy in the UK and Germany, School of Geography working paper, http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/climatepolicy/Opportunities%20and%20barriers.pdf.

Bailey, I. & Rupp, S. (2003) German climate change policy report: new environmental policy instruments and German industry, School of Geography working paper, http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/climatepolicy/german%20climate%20change%20policy%20report.pdf.

Bailey, I.G. (2001) The incentive effect, hypothecation and industry responses to environmental charges, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Workshop Sessions, Grenoble, April 2001.

O’Doherty, R. and Bailey, I. (2000) Paper chase: tradable permits and EU recycling targets, University of the West of England, Department of Economics, Working paper No. 36.

O’Doherty, R. and Bailey, I.G. (2000) Tradable permits and EU recycling targets, International Centre for the Environment Invited Seminar Series, University of Bath, UK, July 2000.

Conferences organised
Session Convenor, 2006 Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) annual conference: Implementing Climate Policy: Geographical Perspectives