Dear GEP-ed Colleagues, Thank you for the prompt replies to my query. Appended below is a listing of recommended readings from the listserv, supplemented by a few of my own, on methods in international environmental policy research. This will be very helpful for me & my doctoral student.
Kind regards, David Sonnenfeld *** *Recommended readings on* *Research Methods in International Environmental Policy* GEP-ed listserv, February 2012 Compiled by David A. Sonnenfeld, SUNY-ESF In print Betsill, Michele M., Kathryn Hochstetler, and Dimitris Stevis, eds. 2006. *Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics*. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [esp. Part I, "The context of the study of international environmental politics"] Geddes, Barbara. 2003. *Paradigms and Sandcastles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics*. Ann Arbor: U Michigan Press. Mitchell, Ronald, and Mitchell Bernauer. 1998. "Empirical research on international environmental policy: designing qualitative case studies," *Journal of Environment and Development* 7(1): 4-34. Sartori, Giovanni. 1970. "Concept misformation in comparative politics," *American Political Science Review* 64:1033-53. Sartori, Giovanni. 2001. "Comparing and miscomparing," *Journal of Theoretical Politics* 3(3): 243-257. Steinberg, Paul F. 2007. "Causal assessment in small-N policy studies," *Policy Studies Review* 35(2): 181-204. Steinberg, Paul F. 2010. "Comparative environmental politics: beyond an enclave approach" [book review essay], *Review of Policy Research* 27(1): 95-101. In press Steinberg, Paul F., and Stacy D. VanDeveer. March 2012. *Comparative Environmental Politics: Theory, Practice and Prospects*. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [esp. ch's 1 and 2] Forthcoming Harris, Paul G., ed. (2013, forthcoming) *Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics*. London: Routledge. [will include a chapter on research methods] O'Neill, Kate, Benjamin Cashore, Erika Weinthal, et al., (2012, forthcoming) "New directions in global environmental governance: methods for studying complexity, linkage and scale," *Annual Review of Environment and Resources *37 See also Bahry, Donna. Fall 2010. Syllabus, Political Science 550, " Comparative Politics: Theory and Method," Portland State University. Available: http://polisci.la.psu.edu/docs/syllabi/ Pro_Sem_550_FA10_Bahry_Syllabus.pdf<http://polisci.la.psu.edu/docs/syllabi/Pro_Sem_550_FA10_Bahry_Syllabus.pdf>[especially wks 11/10 and 11/17] Mitchell, Ronald. Winter 2011. Syllabus, PS 477/577, "International Environmental Politics," University of Oregon. Available: http://pages.uoregon.edu/rmitchel/iep/PS477SyllabusWinter2011.pdf [esp. wk 2] ISA Compendium. Available: http://www.isacompss.com -- Prof.dr. David A. SONNENFELD, WIMEK Research Fellow, Environmental Policy Group, Dept. of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The NETHERLANDS, tel. +31.317.484.492/ 452, fax +31.317.483.990 *(18/1/2012 - 29/6/2012) *Professor of Sociology and Environmental Policy, Dept. of Environmental Studies, 106 Marshall Hall, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210–2787, USA, tel. +1.315.470.4931/ 6636, fax +1.315.470.6915, e-mail: [email protected]* (Home Institution) *
