Podcasts and audio presentations
2021, “International Accountability,” for the Sweaty Penguin podcast on environmental issues, hosted by Ethan Brown.
2020, ‘The Failure of Multilateralism during the COVID-19 Pandemic,’ on the Governing the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic panel for the University of Sydney’s Social Sciences Week (SSW), September 9.
A look at the trends in governing the response to the global pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put governance systems around the world to the greatest test in living memory. The variation in responses and results has opened up the debate as to the ability of different regimes and international institutions to deliver in moments of crisis.
For instance, citizens of democracies have accepted previously unthinkable restrictions on freedoms, federal systems have seen the complex relationship between the federal government and the states increasingly negotiated, and intergovernmental organisations have not been successful at offsetting the unilateral responses such as border closures and beggar-thy-neighbour fights over medical aid.
This podcast brings together experts in the social and political sciences to discuss and highlight the trends in governing the response to the pandemic thus far.
2020, ‘Addressing Environmental and Social Harm through Global Governance,’ Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) at the University of Sydney, 15 August.
As instruments of global governance, Multilateral Development Banks were created to lend developing states capital for economic growth and development that they could not access from private capital markets. Despite their positive aims, these international organisations have often come under fire and received harsh criticism for their lending practices on economic, political, environmental, and human rights grounds. In particular, the Banks have been the focus of attention for being unaccountable for their actions.
Professor Susan Park chats with Dr Natali Pearson about global governance and Multilateral Development Banks, with a specific focus on accountability mechanisms in the Asian Development Bank.
2020, Keynote Presentation: “Addressing Environmental and Social Harm through the Independent Accountability Mechanisms of the Multilateral Development Banks,” Ninth International Workshop on Advances in Cleaner Production,” podcast presentation, Melbourne 26 May. www.advancesincleanerproduction.net
2020, ‘The COVID Crisis: Lessons Learned, What Next?’, University of Sydney: Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) Global Forum, June 3.
2020, ‘Ecosecurity Threats and Challenges: COVID19 and Beyond,’ organised and moderated for CISS Global Forum. Featuring Simon Dalby (Waterloo), Prof Lorraine Elliott (ANU), A/Prof Matt McDonald (UQ), and Dr Robert Macneil (Sydney University), June 3.
On the air
Park, S. 2020 “One of the Country’s Leading Environmental Research Bodies…” Radio National News, August 10.
Park, S. 2016 "Former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres expected to become next UN Secretary-General", The World Today, Program, ABC Radio, 6 October, available online here.
Park, S. 2014 “The BRICS nations open their own Development Bank - could it rival the IMF?” The Wire Program 2SER Sydney, 28 July 2014.
Park, S. 2013 “UN Security Council Criticised for Failing to Stop Violence in Syria,” ABC Radio National Drive, 18 July 2013.
Park, S. 2012 "Analysts Say UN Security Council Seat Delivers Bang for Buck", The World Today, Program, ABC Radio National, 19 October 2012, online here.
Park, S. 2012 "Security Council", ABC Midday Report, News Television Program, 19 October 2012.
Park S. 2012 “New President for the World Bank” interview. SBS World News, 17 April 2012.
Park, S. 2012 “IMF misses an opportunity” interview. inFinance, August 2011.
Park, S. 2008 “Climate Change Related Conflict Forecast”, ABC Radio National The World Today, 11 March 2008.
Academic Blog Posts
Park S. 2020 “Social Impact Assessment Guidelines: The Devil is in The Implementation”, Sydney Environment Institute, 13 November 2020, with Rebecca Lawrence and Gemma Viney. https://sei.sydney.edu.au/opinion/social-impact-assessment-guidelines-the-devil-is-in-the-implementation/
Park S. 2020 “Can We Uphold Environmental Rights in International Development?” Sydney Environment Institute, 20 October 2020.
Park S. 2020 “What’s at Stake in Approving the Narrabri Gas Project?” Sydney Environment Institute, with Rebecca Lawrence and Madeline Taylor 7 August, 2020: http://sydney.edu.au/environment-institute/opinion/whats-at-stake-in-approving-the-narrabri-gas-project/
Park S. 2019 “How the World Bank Facilitates Burning in the Amazon,” Australian Institute of International Affairs Australian Outlook, 17 October, 2019. https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/how-the-world-bank-facilitates-burning-in-the-amazon/
Park, S. 2019 “Electing the World’s Banker: What does Mr Jim Kim’s resignation mean for the World Bank?” Australian Institute of International Affairs Australian Outlook, 18 February 2019.
Park, S. 2018 “Power, Intergovernmental Organisations and the International Political Economy,” Progress in Political Economy, 4 October 2018.
Park S. 2017 "Accountability, Policy and Environmental Governance". Sydney Environment Institute, Published 25 January 2017, online here.
Park S. 2016 "Making Environmental Issues Accountable". Sydney Environment Institute, Published 15 February 2016, online here
Policy
2020 “San Francisco just banned gas in all new buildings. Could it ever happen in Australia?” The Conversation, 18 November, with Madeline Taylor: https://theconversation.com/san-francisco-just-banned-gas-in-all-new-buildings-could-it-ever-happen-in-australia-150171
2020 “A Contentious NSW Gas project is Weeks Away from Approval. Here are 3 Reasons why it should be Rejected,” The Conversation, 11 August, with Madeline Taylor: https://theconversation.com/a-contentious-nsw-gas-project-is-weeks-away-from-approval-here-are-3-reasons-it-should-be-rejected-144201.
2020 Bourne, G., Currell, M., Fiedler, T., Lawrence, R., Park, S., Pelle, N., Taylor, M., Viney, G., Ziller, A. (2020), Submission to The Independent Planning Commission on the Proposed Narrabri Gas Project.
2020 Wyndham, Susan. “Talking about disasters.” University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences News. Written about the Environmental Disasters 2019 Symposium organised by Professor Susan Park and the Sydney Environment Institute with funding from SSSHARC and the Office of Global Engagement, held on November 21-22, 2019.
2019 Park, S., Kramarz, T., Johnson, C., VanDeveer, S.C. “Globalizing the Global Green New Deal: Harmful Extractives in the Clean Energy Shift,” Public Administration Review’s “The Green New Deal: Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy Bully Pulpit Symposium,” 19 July 2019.
2019 Park, S. “Holding new forms of development finance to account: an action plan for multilateral development banks,” Global Economic Governance Programme policy brief, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.