Aaron Maltais | SEI

Stockholm Environment Institute

SEI Topics

Climate Water Air Land Energy Governance Economy Gender Health

Aaron Maltais is a Research Fellow within the Climate, Energy, and Society unit at SEI Stockholm. He returned to SEI in 2017 after having previously worked at SEI from 2000-2002 and in 2008. His current work focuses on green finance and investment and the political economy of transitions to sustainable societies.

Aaron’s most recent position was as Senior Lecturer in political science at Stockholm University. Prior to that he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stockholm University and a Senior Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Government at Uppsala University.

His academic research has focused on the international cooperation and political economy challenges climate change has generated and their implications for just and effective climate governance. He has also done work on global justice, human rights, legal theory, and democratic theory.

His previous work at SEI involved policy-oriented research on international trade and sustainable development, international environmental policy integration, and environmental security.

Aaron holds a BA honours and MA in Political Science from the University of Alberta, Canada. He has a PhD in Political Science from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Publications authored externally to SEI

2016

Maltais, Aaron. “A Climate of Disorder: What to Do About the Obstacles to Effective Climate Politics”, in Dominic Roser and Clare Heyward (eds) Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2015

Maltais, Aaron & McKinnon, Catriona (eds). The Ethics of Climate Governance. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Maltais, Aaron. “Making our Children Pay for Mitigation”, in Aaron Maltais & Catriona McKinnon (eds) The Ethics of Climate Governance. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

2014

Maltais, Aaron. “Political obligations in a sea of tyranny and crushing poverty”, Legal Theory. Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 186-209.
Maltais, Aaron. “Failing international climate politics and the fairness of going first”, Political Studies. Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 618–633.

2013

Maltais, Aaron. “Radically non-ideal climate politics and the obligation to at least vote green”, Environmental Values, Vol. 22, No 5, pp. 589-608

2008

Maltais, Aaron.“Global warming and the cosmopolitan political conception of justice”, Environmental Politics, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 592-609.
Maltais, Aaron. Global Warming and Our Natural Duties of Justice, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis (Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy).