Dear All:
The current slate of nominations is below. At minimum we 2 more for Spout and
1 more for nominations. As an FYI, Pam has spoken to DG about being
Vice-Chair. She will send me a bio. Also, I would stand down for election to
the executive committee if we get more nominations. Please forward more
nominations to me and I will continue to compile them.
ISA ESS NOMINATIONS - 2011
I. Chair
Please vote for 1.
(1) Pamela Chasek, Associate Professor of Government and Director of the
International Studies Program, Manhattan College in New York City (US). She is
also co-founder and executive editor of the International Institute for
Sustainable Development's Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a reporting service on
United Nations environment and development negotiations. She has been a
consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations
Development Programme, the United Nations Forum on Forests and the United
Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs. In 2007 she was awarded a
Fulbright Senior Scholarship to study environmental politics in the South
Pacific at Victoria University of Wellington. The results of this research were
published as a monograph by the East-West Center in May 2010. In 2009 she
participated in the first ever scientific conference of the UN Convention to
Combat Desertification as a co-author of one of the background papers on
knowledge management for land degradation, desertification and drought and a
panelist. She is the author of numerous articles and publications on global
environmental politics, the UN system and negotiations, including Global
Environmental Politics, 5th edition (Westview, 2010), Ten Days in Johannesburg:
A Negotiation of Hope (Struik, 2004) and Earth Negotiations: Analyzing Thirty
Years of Environmental Diplomacy (UNU Press, 2001). She currently serves as ISA
ESS Vice-Chair.
II. Vice Chair
Please vote for 1. The primary responsibility of the vice-Chair is selecting
panels and papers and working on the program for the annual conference.
(1) D.G. Webster, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program,
Dartmouth College ([email protected])
III. Executive Committee.
Please vote for 2 positions. Executive Committee members assist with issues
regarding the governance of the ESS and choose the best graduate student paper
award.
(1) David Downie, Associate Professor of Politics, Director, Program on the
Environment, Fairfield University. His research focuses on the creation,
content, and implementation of national and international environmental policy.
His recent work includes Global Environmental Politics, 5th Edition (2010),
written with lead author Pamela Chasek, Climate Change: A Reference Handbook
(2009), written with Kate Brash and Catherine Vaughan, and The Global
Environment: Institutions, Law & Policy, 2nd Edition (2005), co-edited with
Regina Axelrod and Norman Vig; and Northern Lights against POPs: Combating
Toxic Threats in the Arctic (2003). He is currently working on a book on the
ongoing mercury convention negotiations, at which he is working for the UN as a
report writer. Prior to joining Fairfield University in 2008, Dr. Downie taught
courses in environmental politics at Columbia University from 1994-2008. While
at Columbia he also served as Director of the Global Roundtable on Climate
Change (2004-2008), Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Climate and
Society (2004-2008), Director of the Earth Institute Fellows Program
(2002-2004), and Director of Environmental Policy Studies in the MIA program at
the School of International and Public Affairs (1994-2000), and among other
activities.
(2) Sikina Jinnah, Assistant Professor, School of International Service,
American University. [email protected]. Dr. Sikina Jinnah's research focuses
on the changing dynamics of power and influence in global environmental
politics. Her most recent projects examined the role of international
bureaucracies in managing the politics of overlapping international regimes in
the areas of biodiversity, climate change and international trade. Prior to
coming to SIS she was a visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute
for International Studies. Dr. Jinnah is also a consultant for the
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), where she covers
CITES and UNFCCC processes for IISD's Earth Negotiations Bulletin. She earned a
PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of
California, Berkeley; an MS in Environmental Studies at the University of
Montana, Missoula; and a BA in Environmental Science at University of
California, Berkeley.
(3) Erika Weinthal, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, Nicholas
School of the Environment at Duke University. Dr, Weinthal's research focuses
on environmental and natural resources policy in the former
Soviet Union and the Middle East. Her book -- State Making and Environmental
Cooperation: Linking Domestic Politics and International Politics in Central
Asia (MIT Press 2002) -- was the recipient of the
2003 Chadwick Alger Prize and the 2003 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize. She has
co-authored -- Oil is not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in
Soviet Successor States (Cambridge University Press 2010). Currently, she is
co-editing a volume on the role of water in post-conflict recovery and
peacebuilding. She serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Duke Human
Rights Center. She is a member of the UNEP Expert Advisory Group on
Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. She has also served on the
Nominations Committee of the
Environmental Studies Section of ISA (2008-2010).
IV. Nominations Committee
Please vote for 2 positions. The nominations committee solicits nominations
for election to ESS Offices.
(1) Pia Kohler, Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of
Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), [email protected]. Dr. Kohler, on the UAF faculty
since 2006, has a B.Sc. from McGill University (physical geography and
environmental science), a masters from Yale's School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies (environmental sciences) and a Ph.D. from MIT
(international environmental policy). Her research examines ways in which
knowledge (both western science and traditional knowledge) is incorporated into
policymaking. In particular, she has focused on science advisory bodies to
several multilateral environmental agreements including the Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Ozone regime, the Convention
on Biological Diversity, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
(2)
V. Sprout Award Committee
Please vote for 3 positions. This committee select the book(s) for Harold and
Margaret
Sprout Award.
(1) Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations. (MA, Lund
University; PhD, Linköping University). ([email protected]) Dr. Selin conducts
research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making
on environment and sustainable development. His book Global Governance of
Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management was recently published
by MIT Press. He is the co-editor of two books, Changing Climates in North
American Politics: Institutions, Policy Making and Multilevel Governance (MIT
Press, with Stacy VanDeveer) and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics:
Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate, with Miranda Schreurs and
Stacy VanDeveer). He is also the author and co-author of more than two dozen
peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Selin is the faculty
coordinator for the IR & Environmental Policy program. He is also a Core
Faculty member of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston
University; a Fellow with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of
Longer-Range Future, Boston University; and an Affiliated Researcher with the
Center for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University. Prior to
joining the faculty at Boton University, Selin was a Wallenberg Research Fellow
in Environment and Sustainability in the Environmental Policy and Planning
Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (2001-04), an Associate with the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
(2001-03), and an Associate with the Center for International Development, John
F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2003-04).
(2)
(3)
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David Downie
Director, Program on the Environment
Associate Professor of Politics
Fairfield University
Fairfield University, Donnarumma 217
1073 North Benson Road
Fairfield, CT 06824
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; 203-254-4000, ext 3504
________________________________
From: Miranda Schreurs [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sun 1/23/2011 12:18 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; Downie, David; Hans
Bruyninckx; [email protected]
Subject: Nominations sought for officers of the ISA Environmental Studies
Section
Dear all,
The Nominations Committee of the Environmental Studies Section invites
nominations for a number of Section Offices. Self-nominations are
welcome. Please ensure that the person you are nominating is willing to
stand for election and do provide us with her/his professional
affiliation and full contact information. When self-nominating, please send
also a short biographical sketch (100-150
words). Nominated colleagues will be contacted by the committee to request
short biographical sketches
Send nominations to any of the current members of the
Nominations Committee (and for safety sake with a cc to
[email protected] by February 15, 2011:
This years nomination committee is:
Hans Bruyninckx [email protected]
David Downie [email protected]
Heike Schröder [email protected]
Jeannie Sowers (2012) [email protected]
The Committee is seeking nominations for the following positions (all with two
year terms):
ESS Chair (Pam Chasek, the current vice-chair is running for chair.).
Vice Chair (Primary responsibility is selecting panels and papers and
working on the program for the annual conferences)
Executive Committee 3 positions (Help deal with issues regarding the
governance of the ESS and chooses the best graduate student paper award)
Nominations Committee 2 positions (Helps select people to serve as ESS
Officers)
Sprout Award 3 positions (Select book(s) for the Harold and Margaret
Sprout Award)
Current Officers of the Environmental Studies Section (Anyone listed
with a 2011 after their name will have served out their term)
Chair: Miranda Schreurs (2011)
Environmental Policy Research Centre, Free University Berlin, Ihnestr.
22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 - 30 - 838 56654
Vice Chair: Pamela Chasek (2012)
International Studies, Manhattan College
Phone: 718-862 7248; fax: 718-862-8044
Executive Committee (6 member, rolling 2-year terms):
Sherrie Baver (2011)
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Radoslav Dimitrov (2011)
Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, Social
Science Centre, Room 4154, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2
Phone: 519-661-3266; fax: 519-661-3904;
Rodger Payne (2011)
Department of Political Science, University of Louisville, Louisville,
KY 4029
Phone: 502-852-3316; fax: 502-852-7923;
Norichika Kanie (2012)
Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Japan
Lorraine Elliott (2012)
Australian National University
Barbara Connolly (2012)
University of Notre Dame
Nomination Committee (4 members, rolling 2-year terms):
Hans Bruyninckx (2011)
David Downie (2011)
Heike Schröder (2012)
Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford,
Oxfordshire, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 1865 275894;
Jeannie Sowers (2012)
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Sprout Award Committee (5 members, rolling 2-year terms):
Steinar Andresen (2011)
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, P.O. Box 326, 1326 Lysaker, Norway
Phone: +47 67111922;
Matthias Finger (2011)
EPFL-CDM-TPI-MIR, BAC 103, Station 5, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Matthew Hoffmann (2011)
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 100 St. George
Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada
Phone: 416-978-6804;
Paul G. Harris (2012)
Department of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education, 10 Lo
Ping Road, Tai Po, Hong Kong, China
Phone: +852 2948 6763;
Jörg Balsiger (2012)
Institute for Environmental Decisions, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich, CHN K78, Universitätsstrasse 22, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Representative to the Global Environmental Politics editorial board
(3-year term): Gabriela Kuetting (2012)
Thanks! Miranda
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Prof. Miranda Schreurs
Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU)
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Freie Universitat Berlin
Ihnestr. 22 / D - 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
phone: (+)49 - 30 - 838 56687
fax: (+)49 - 30 - 838 566 85
web: www.fu-berlin.de/ffu
