Robyn Eckersley is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Discipline of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
She has published widely in the fields of environmental political theory, politics and the state; ecology and democracy; and International Relations and global environmental governance, with a special focus on the ethics, politics and governance of climate change. Her books include Environmentalism and Political Theory (SUNY 1992); The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2004); The State and the Global Ecological Crisis (MIT Press, 2005, co-edited with John Barry); Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge (CUP, 2006, co-edited with Andrew Dobson); Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power (2012, co-author); Globalization and the Environment (2013, co-authored with Peter Christoff) and The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory (2018, co-edited with Chris Brown).