ISA ESS ELECTIONS 2012 The Nominations Committee of the Environmental Studies Section (ESS) requests that ESS members to vote on the list of positions below.
You may vote during the ESS business meeting at the 2012 ISA Convention in San Diego. If you will NOT be at the section meeting, please send your votes (as many as vacancies are available for each committee) via email to [email protected] by Friday, March 29 at 6:00 pm EST, the latest. Mark Axelrod will be collecting votes and will take them to San Diego. Heike (on behalf of the Nominations Committee) --- Executive Committee (6 member, rolling 2-year terms): 3 vacancies Candidates: (1) Sherrie Baver Professor Sherrie Baver received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She teaches at the City College of New York, where she has served as the Director of the CCNY Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. She has written The Political Economy of Colonialism: The State and Industrialization in Puerto Rico (Praeger, 1993) and co-edited Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition (Notre Dame University Press, 1996). In 2006, she co-edited with Barbara D. Lynch), Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms (Rutgers University Press). Her present research focuses on environmental justice/environmental democracy in Latin America, focusing especially on Mexico and Chile. Professor Baver has received various CUNY awards and two Fulbrights to Latin America. (2) Fariborz Zelli Dr. Fariborz Zelli is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. He is also a research fellow of the Global Governance Project, and an associate fellow of the German Development Institute where he served from 2009 to early 2012. From 2006 to 2008, Fariborz was a senior research associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK. Prior to that, he served as a research assistant at the Center for International Relations in Tübingen. Fariborz received the Ph.D. thesis award of the University of Tübingen and the award for outstanding university teaching of the state of Baden-Württemberg. He is a board member of the environment working group of the German Political Studies Association (DVPW), and a member of the environment working group of the British International Studies Association (BISA). His publications include Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012 (Cambridge University Press, 2010 (co-editor). (3) Pia Kohler Pia M. Kohler, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, Environmental Studies Program, Williams College. Pia's main research interest is on the interface of science and politics in the context of global environmental negotiations. She also specializes in international treaties dealing with chemicals and hazardous wastes, including the ongoing negotiations for a global legally-binding instrument on mercury. Pia previously taught in the Political Science Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has been a writer/editor for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin since 2002, and earned her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. (4) Erika Weinthal Erika Weinthal is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Associate Dean for International Programs at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Her research focuses on environmental and natural resources policy in the former Soviet Union and Middle East. Her book -- State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic Politics and International Politics in Central Asia (MIT Press 2002) -- was awarded the 2003 Chadwick Alger Prize and the 2003 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize. She co-authored -- Oil is not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States (Cambridge University Press 2010) and is co-editing a volume on water and post-conflict peacebuilding. Dr. Weinthal is a co-director of the Borderwork(s) Lab in the Franklin Humanities Institute and serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Duke Human Rights Center. She served on the ESS Nominations Committee (2008-2010) and since 2011 is an Associate Editor at Global Environmental Politics. (5) Sara Hughes Sara Hughes is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Her work focuses on environmental politics and institutions, particularly the consequences of their interaction at multiple scales for urban sustainability outcomes. Her current work evaluates whether and how the construction and location of authority determine the level of justice in urban climate change governance. This work focuses on climate change governance in Mexico City and Delhi. Sara received her PhD from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she evaluated the dynamics of policy change in urban water management in California and Australia. She also received M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from Michigan State University. (6) Simon Nicholson Simon Nicholson is Assistant Professor of International Relations in American University’s School of International Service. He also serves there as Associate Director of the innovative Global Scholars program—an accelerated international studies degree program for high-achieving undergraduates. In addition, Simon is a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for Latin American Strategic Studies in Bogota, Colombia. Simon’s recent work focuses on global food politics and the politics of emerging technologies. He was the lead organizer, with Paul Wapner, Sikina Jinnah, and Kate Goodwin, of last year’s pre-ISA workshop, “GEP on a New Earth.” Nomination Committee (4 members, rolling 2-year terms): 2 vacancies Candidates: (1) Sikina Jinnah Sikina Jinnah is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at American University. Her 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. Her recent work has been published in Global Environmental Politics, Berkeley Journal of International Law Publicist, Environmental Research Letters, and Science. (2) Nikki Detraz Nicole Detraz is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. Her research centers on the intersections between the environment, security, and gender. Her work has recently appeared in Security Studies, International Studies Perspectives, and Global Environmental Politics. She has a forthcoming book on International Security and Gender with Polity Press. (3) Frank Alcock Frank Alcock is an Associate Professor of Political Science at New College of Florida where he teaches courses on world politics, international law, climate change, marine policy and sustainable development. He is the former Director of the Environmental Studies program at New College as well as the former Director of a Marine Policy Institute at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota. He is currently on leave from New College working as a Senior Fellow with the Collins Center for Public Policy and serving as a political analyst with ABC News in Sarasota and CBS News in Tampa. Frank holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University, a M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University and a B.A. in Economics from Binghamton University. Sprout Award Committee (5 members, rolling 2-year terms): 2 vacancies Candidates: (1) Paul Harris Paul Harris is Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. His research on global environmental politics has been published widely in scholarly journals. He is author of International Equity and Global Environmental Politics, World Ethics and Climate Change and Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China. He is editor of 12 books that have included chapters by many ESS members. Paul’s forthcoming books include What’s Wrong with Climate Politics (and How to Fix It) and the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, which will include many contributions from ESS members. Paul has served the ESS continuously since the 1990s, including as a member of the Sprout, Nominations and Executive Committees. If elected to the Sprout Committee, he will encourage its members to consider and reward books that approach international environmental studies from the full range of perspectives employed by ESS members. Website: www.ied.edu.hk/links/paul.g.harris (2) Heike Schroeder Heike Schroeder is a senior lecturer in climate change and international development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. Her areas of research include forest governance, cities and climate change and non-state actors and international climate cooperation. She is also a coordinator of the Governance & Behaviour Theme in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the long-term international research project on Earth System Governance under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Previous positions include James Martin senior fellow and Tyndall fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford and post-doctoral researcher and executive officer of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) project at the Bren School, University of California, Santa Barbara. (3) Henrik Selin Henrik Selin is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University. He 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 (MIT Press, 2010) was a Sprout Award runner-up in 2011. He is the co-editor of Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press in 2009, with Stacy VanDeveer) and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate in 2009, with Miranda Schreurs and Stacy VanDeveer). In addition, he is the author and co-author of more than forty peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous reports, reviews and commentaries. He is also Editor for Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy as well as the book review editor for Review of Policy Research, which is affiliated the American Political Science Association’s Science, Technology and Environmental Politics (STEP) section. (4) Lars Gulbrandsen Lars H. Gulbrandsen is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the research program on Global Governance and Sustainable Development at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway, where he has been employed since 2000. Gulbrandsen holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo and an MSc from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was a Visiting Scholar in 2007 at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His research interests are in the area of global environmental politics, with a particular focus on forest politics, climate change politics, eco-certification, corporate social responsibility, and international regimes. He is the author of Transnational Environmental Governance: The Emergence and Effects of the Certification of Forests and Fisheries (Edward Elgar 2010) and more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in international journals. He serves regularly as reviewer for a number of international journals and joins the editorial board of Global Environmental Politics for a five year term, covering the issues to be published from 2013 to 2017. Representative to the Global Environmental Politics editorial board (1 member, 3-year term): 1 vacancy Candidates: (1) Bjorn-Ola Linner Björn-Ola Linnér is professor in Water and Environmental Studies and at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on international policy-making on environment and development. His recent publications analyse integration of policies on climate change, sustainable development and low-carbon energy technologies as well as transnational governance and utopian/dystopian thought in environmental science and policy. He is also author of The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Postwar Population–Resource Crises. He was member of the Swedish delegation at the Adaptation and Approval of the fourth Assessment Report of IPCC. He is currently leading a research program on non-state actors in the new landscape of international climate cooperation and is also one of the co-leaders of the Centre for Excellence for Nordic Strategic Adaptation Research (NORD-STAR). (2) Joerg Balsiger Jörg Balsiger is Senior Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the University of Geneva, and Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for Environmental Decisions of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He was previously a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, received a PhD degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's Degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and worked for several years in international development as an expert on forest policy and administration, capacity building, and donor coordination. Dr. Balsiger is the author of Uphill Struggles: The Politics of Sustainable Mountain Development in Switzerland and California; co-editor, with Stacy VanDeveer, of a forthcoming special issue on regional environmental governance in Global Environmental Politics; co-editor, with Bernard Debarbieux, of Regional Environmental Governance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Theoretical Issues, Comparative Designs; and has published several articles on international, regional, and local environmental governance. (3) Katja Biedenkopf Katja is a postdoctoral research fellow at the research group 'The Transformative Power of Europe' at the Free University Berlin, Germany. Her research centers on EU external governance in various fields of environmental policy such as electronic waste, chemicals and climate change. Her dissertation investigated the external effects of EU electronic waste policy on the United States. Currently, she works on a project that analyses emissions trading systems in North America. In August 2012, Katja will take up a position of Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (4) Elizabeth Havice Elizabeth Havice is an assistant professor of international development and globalization at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the Geography Department. Her research interests are at the intersection of international political economy, development studies and environmental studies with a focus on how regulatory interventions and political economy circumstances (e.g. competition, market access, inter-state, state-firm and firm-firm relations) influence the environment and socio-economies in resource based-industries. Her work emphasizes the multiple dimensions of resources access and investigates how various forms of regulation moderate connections between human and natural systems. She has spent a considerable amount of time researching these dynamics as they apply in the global tuna industry. She holds a PhD in from the University of California-Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy and Management and has published in Global Environmental Politics, Islands Studies Journal, Journal of Agrarian Change and Marine Policy. Dr. Heike Schroeder Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and International Development School of International Development University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ Tel. 01603 591036 Email: [email protected] Profile: http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/schroeder Senior Visiting Research Associate Environmental Change Institute University of Oxford Profile: http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/schroederheike.php
