Thanks to everyone for the flurry of responses to my query yesterday re: job listings in environmental studies programs (the main message is that there is no one central place to go!). Here's the compilation of responses.
Michele >From Mark Henderson: In addition to gep-Ed, the disccrs list is a good >resource and your student might qualify for their workshops. >(http://www.disccrs.org/) >From DG Webster: For my academic search I used "environment" as a keyword to >limit results in both APSA and ISA databases. It wasn't terribly efficient--I >got a lot of jobs with "a positive working environment"--but a check against a >more general search showed I was at least getting the ones I needed. In any >case, piecemeal may be the only way to go, since jobs would crop up in >different databases at different times. As far as I can tell, there's not a >predictable hiring season in the ES market like there is in other disciplines. >Perhaps it's time for ESS to start a job board like AERE's? The section does >provide a host of links, though: http://environmental-studies.org/?page_id=82 >From Jessica Green: Having just gone through this process, I can tell you that >there's no one central repository. I used the APSA job site (many enviro jobs >were listed in the public policy section), the ISA job site and found that >often, environmental studies positions were listed there. AESS (Assoc for >Environmental Studies and Sciences) might also have some ideas. >From Marc Levy: For academic jobs you can search the Chronicle listings pretty >efficiently. >From David Sonnenfeld: One suggestion is the new Association of Environmental >Studies and Sciences... Not sure they're quite there yet, but that is the >intent. >From Richard Wallace: There is not a good unified jobs site, as far as I am >aware, but there are better lists than GEP-Ed for finding environmental >studies jobs. The NEES list is one (I happen to be list admin at the moment) >and there have been a few positions that have come across it recently, though >I think most were policy-related and got cross-posted on GEP-Ed. The best >source for ES listings is the Chronicle of Higher Ed. In my experience >everyone advertises there and everything else is hit or miss - though NEES and >GEP-Ed are pretty good, thanks to the awareness of the community members. The >AASHE Bulletin is pretty good, too, but also hit or miss depending on whether >folks post there. But it definitely gets some jobs that GEP-Ed doesn't, and >one recently that didn't come across NEES either. >From Shannon Orr: The Chronicle of Higher Education is a good option - check >in both science and social science listings. >From Paul Steinberg: As I recall (from oh so long ago), lots of the >interesting positions showed up in Science or Nature, since that's where >natural scientists at many ES depts/schools think to post when they don't have >a particular social science/humanities discipline in mind. --------- Michele M. Betsill Associate Professor Department of Political Science Colorado State University Clark B-350 Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 USA +1-970-491-5270 Founder and co-leader of the Environmental Governance Working Group http://egwg.colostate.edu<http://egwg.colostate.edu/>
