Raul Pacheco
Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:09:04 -0800
And to avoid Ron tooting his own horn, I will vouch for his website as a great opportunity to teach your students about GEP. In my graduate course, I used the datasets on international environmental agreements to make my students create tables and graphs that gave quantitative assessments of the evolution of IEAs. One trend that struck me was that we have tended to see an increasing emphasis on chemicals management in the past few years, in terms of IEAs. With all the emphasis on climate change, I would have expected that interest on chemicals management might have waned but it hasn't, really. At least, that's what the data seem to say. Best, Raul ------------------------------------------- Raul Pacheco-Vega Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability The University of British Columbia On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Ronald Mitchell wrote: > Colleagues, > I will take Maria's email as an opportunity for shameless > self-promotion to remind most (and inform a few) that my course website at: > http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/iep/ > has my current syllabus and current lecture notes. > All are also welcome when on travel (to ISA, for example) to have a > teaching assistant use online videos of any of my course lectures > that I gave while visiting at Stanford 5 years ago -- they are posted > at http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayseries.aspx?pID=868&fID=1619 > And, an online simulation of the Tragedy of the Commons game that I > wrote which works reasonably well for about 20-40 students is available at: > http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/commons/ > Best, > Ron > > At 08:22 AM 2/25/2007, Maria Ivanova wrote: > > >Dear All, > > > >There have been several efforts to create online resource databases > >for syllabi on various environmental topics. The Global > >Environmental Governance Project run by the Yale Center for > >Environmental Law and Policy and The College of William and Mary is > >working on creating a virtual space where faculty teaching global > >environmental politcs and governance can share resources - syllabi, > >bibliographies, assignments, simulations. Over time, we plan to > >expand the resource to include a virtual forum on teaching that > >could integrate inputs from faculty, researchers, and students. > > > >We currently feature a few syllabi - > ><http://www.gegdialogue.org/teaching/>http://www.gegdialogue.org/teaching/ > >- and will organize the page better and make it searchable as soon > >as we have a critical mass of resources. I would like to invite you > >to submit syllabi, assignments or simulations that you would be > >willing to share to > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] We are mostly > >looking for materials directly related to teaching global > >environmental politcs and governance but could possibly include > >other environmental topics if there is interest in such a resource. > >Thank you! > >maria > > > >Maria Ivanova > >Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Policy > >The College of William and Mary > >Williamsburg, VA 23187 > >Phone 1-757-221-2039 > >Mobile 1-203-606-4640 > ><http://mxivan.people.wm.edu/>http://mxivan.people.wm.edu > > > >Director, Global Environmental Governance Project > >Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy > >New Haven, CT 06511 > ><http://www.gegdialogue.org/>http://www.gegdialogue.org > > > > > > > >---------- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murat Arsel > >Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:17 AM > >To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu > >Subject: Re: RE: "the american way of life is not up for negotiation" > > > >This one's from the Atlantic Monthly: > > > >Prior to the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio, President George Bush > >produced a lapidary sentence that his son will be hard pressed to > >surpass if global warming becomes an issue in 2000: "The American > >way of life is not negotiable." > > > ><http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp9904.htm>http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp9904.htm > > > >best, > >Murat > > > >Murat Arsel > > > >Lecturer in Environment & Development > >Institute of Social Studies > >The Hague > > > > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >I was interesting in sourcing the quote, too, so I searched around > >for a couple > >minutes this morning. The GHW Bush library has the public statements on which > >that NY Times story was based . . . but no mention of the phrase in question. > > > ><http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/papers/1992/toc9206.html>http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/papers/1992/toc9206.html > > > >The closest I came to finding a contemporaneous source was an > >article in a June > >1992 issue of the popular US newsmagazine, Time. Unfortunately (for present > >purposes), it attributes the phrase "the American lifestyle is not up for > >negotiation" to U.S. delegates generically - not specifically to Bush Sr. > > > ><http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975656-1,00.html>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975656-1,00.html > > > >Maybe this helps. Best of luck finding a source that attributes the statement > >directly to Bush. > > > >Best, > > > >Chris > > > >Christopher Marcoux > >Ph.D. Candidate > >Department of Political Science > >University of Massachusetts > >Amherst, MA USA > > Ronald Mitchell, Professor > Department of Political Science > University of Oregon > Eugene OR 97403-1284 > Phone: 541-346-4880/Fax: 541-346-4860 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/ > International Environmental Agreements Database: http://iea.uoregon.edu/ > Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate-Change > (DISCCRS): http://www.disccrs.org/ > New Book: Global Environmental Assessments: Information and > Influence, Edited by Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W. > Cash and Nancy M. Dickson > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11038 >