Kate Crowley

Experience

• 1995–present
  Associate Professor Public and Environmental Policy, UTAS

Education

• 1995 
  University of Tasmania, PhD

Publications

• 2025
  Kate Crowley & Akihiro Nakamura – Regional Climate Leadership Challenge in East Asia and the Pacific, Routledge: London ISBN 9780367772352 156 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
• 2025
  Kate Crowley and Brian Head - Ch 44 - Reconsidering advice, and advisory systems in the governance era’., In The Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems. (Eds) Capano, G., Craft, J. and Howlett. M. London: Routledge, pp. 645-656.
• 2023
  Kate Crowley and Cath Hughes, Minority Government in Australia: Lesson Learning and Making it Work, In: Minority Governments in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Bonnie N. Field and Shane Martin, Oxford University Press. © Kate Crowley and Cath Hughes. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192871657.003.0014
• 2021
  Fighting the Future: the politics of climate policy failure in Australia (2015-2020), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.725
• 2021
  The Polycentric Approach to the Climate Action in the Asia Pacific region: The Role of Carbon Markets’ [with A Nakamura], Environmental Management, 57(3): pp.73-79 [in Japanese]
• 2020
  The Politics of the Environment in Australia, In J. Lewis and A. Tiernan The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics, Melbourne: Oxford University Press. DOI - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198805465.013.16
• 2020
  Reconsidering Policy: Complexity, Governance and the State Kate Crowley, Jenny Stewart, Adrian Kay and Brian Head , Policy Press, Bristol.
• 2020
  Independents in Tasmania’s Legislative Council: Analysing strategies to achieve influence’ [with J Lippis], Australasian Parliamentary Review, 34(2), pp. 101-120.
• 2020
  Australia's climate change mitigation policy towards the Paris Agreement [with A Nakumura], Environmental Management, 56(3), pp.65-71 [in Japanese]
• 2020
  Regional Action and Carbon Trading in the East Asia Pacific [with A Nakamura], In Sustainable Regional Development: Theoretical and Practical Issues. In Ho Viet Hanh & Phan Thi Song Thuong (Eds). Ha Noi, Vietnam: Social Sciences Publishing House (pp. 519-550).
• 2019
  Stepping Stone, Halfway House or Road to Nowhere? Green Support of Minority Government in Sweden, New Zealand and Australia [with S Moore], Government and Opposition http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gov.2018.55
• 2018
  G Kennedy and K Crowley - Re-framing utilization focused evaluation: lessons for the Australian Aid programme? , Journal of Asian Public Policy https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2018.1501172.
• 2018
  Assessing Regional Climate Leadership in the East-Asia-Pacific Region: A Case Study on Australia and Japan [with A Nakamura], Environmental Management, Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (JEMAI). 54 (10): 59-65 [in Japanese]
• 2018
  Designing a Community Renewable Energy (CRE) Strategy [with V Hann & A Nakamura], Environmental Management (JEMAI). 54 (11): 67-71 [in Japanese].
• 2018
  Defining Regional Climate Leadership: Learning from Comparative Analysis in the Asia Pacific [with A Nakumura], Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 20(4):387-403.
• 2017
  Where Greens Support Conservatives: Lessons from the Rundle Minority Government in Tasmania 1996-98 [with M Tighe], Australian Journal of Politics & History 63(4): 572-587.
• 2017
  The enduring challenge of "wicked problems": Revisiting Rittel and Webber [with BW Head], Policy Sciences. 50(4), 539-547.
• 2017
  Up and down with climate politics 2013–2016: the repeal of carbon pricing in Australia, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (Online) pp. 1-13. Vol 8(3).
• 2016
  Looking for a Way Out - backing away from dangerous climate change, Australian Review of Public Affairs (1/3) pp. 1-6.
• 2016
  Assessing Regional Climate Leadership [with A Nakamura], Environmental Management, 52 (5) pp. 64-69 [in Japanese]
• 2015
  Regional Climate Leadership [with A Nakamura], Environmental Management (Kankyou kanji - http://www.e-jemai.jp) 51(5), 44-48 [in Japanese]
• 2015
  Policy Analysis in Australia [with Brian Head], Policy Press, Bristol [edited book]
• 2013
  Pricing Carbon: The Politics of Climate Change in Australia, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 4(6): 603–613.
• 2013
  The Super Politics of Climate Change, Australian Journal of Political Science Vol 48(4): 528-535.
• 2013
  'Irresistible Force? Achieving Carbon Pricing in Australia, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol 59:3, 368-381.
• 2012
  Environmental Policy Failure: The Australian Story [with Ken Walker], Tilde University Press, Melbourne [edited book]
• 2012
  Minority Government: The Liberal-Green Experience in Tasmania, Australasian Study of Parliament Group (Tasmanian Chapter), Hobart [DOI: 10.13140/2.1.3404.9926]. [edited book]
• 1999
  Australian Environmental Policy: Studies in Decline & Devolution [with Ken Walker], UNSWPress, Kensington, NSW

Research Areas

• Public Policy (160510)
• Environment Policy (160507)
• Environmental Politics (160605)

Honours

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Engagement in the Category of General Engagement with the Community (Climate Change and Sustainability), 2008, University of Tasmania.