Political Science
Main research areas
- Environmental politics with a particular focus on climate change and biodiversity
- Policy process analysis
- International relations and development
Current research and teaching
Yi hyun Kang is a post-doc researcher at Lund University since January 2024. She carries out a BECC research project on global climate and biodiversity governance with attention to institutional responses and interactions.
Her research interests center around the decision-making processes of environmental politics. She has developed her interests through work experiences in journalism, international development and research sectors.
Before joining Lund University, Yi hyun was a post-doc researcher at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles in Belgium and investigated youth actors in international environmental politics.
She received her PhD from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, with her dissertation on Climate change adaptation in river management: A comparative study of Germany and South Korea.
Publications
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Les jeunes dans les négociations climatiques internationales entre marginalisation et contestation
Maxime Gaborit, Amandine J Orsini, Yi Hyun Kang
(2024) Études internationales, 53 p.405-432
Journal articleForum: Youth as Boundary Actors in International Studies
Amandine Orsini, Yi Hyun Kang, Emmanuel Ampomah, Adam Cooper, Laura Gomez-Mera, et al.
(2024) International Studies Perspectives , p.1-35
Journal articleYouth at international climate negotiations: profiles, motivations and impacts
Yi Hyun Kang, Riham Helmy, Amandine Orsini
(2024) Youth and Democracy in the Climate Crisis , p.71-85
Book chapterA multi-level analysis of youth climate activism in South Korea
Yi Hyun Kang, Amandine J Orsini
(2023) National Identity and Millennials in Northeast Asia : Power and Contestations in the Digital Age
Book chapterEuropean leadership and European youth in the climate change regime complex
Amandine J Orsini, Yi Hyun Kang
(2023) Politics and Governance, 11 p.84-96
Journal articlePolicy translation and dynamics : The role of Dutch ideas in developing South Korea's coastal management policies
Yi Hyun Kang, Carel Dieperink, Dries Hegger
(2022) Ocean and Coastal Management, 221
Journal articleClimate Change Adaptation in River Management : A Comparative Study of Germany and South Korea
Yi Hyun Kang
(2022) Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice
BookToward a more expansive discourse in a changing world : An analysis of political leaders’ speeches on biodiversity
Sang Hun Lee, Yi Hyun Kang, Rong Dai
(2021) Sustainability (Switzerland), 13 p.1-10
Journal articleClimate‐influenced migration in Bangladesh: The need for a policy realignment
Maxmillan Martin, Yi hyun Kang, Motasim Billah, Tasneem Siddiqui, Richard Black, et al.
(2017) Development Policy Review, 35 p.357-379
Journal articlePolicy analysis: Climate change and migration Bangladesh
Maxmillan Martin, Yi Hyun Kang, Motasim Billah, Tasneem Siddiqui, Richard Black, et al.
(2013)
Working paper
Introduction
Yi hyun Kang is a post-doc researcher interested in the political decision-making processes on climate change and biodiversity at multiple levels.