Dear Colleagues,
The Nominations Committee of the Environmental Studies Section (ESS) invites ESS members to vote for officers using the ballot copied below. Please note that some offices have more than one opening, as noted on the ballot. You may vote for as many candidates as there are vacancies. If you will be in attendance at the annual ESS business meeting, you may vote in person during the 2014 ISA Convention in Toronto (the ESS business meeting will be held on Friday, March 28, 12:30-1:30pm in Civic North Sheraton Centre Toronto). However, if you will NOT be able to attend the section meeting in Toronto, please send your votes via email to *[email protected] <[email protected]> *by *Monday, March 24, 6:00 pm EST*, at the latest. The committee will tabulate email votes and bring them to the business meeting to be counted together with in-person ballots. Thank you for your continued support of the Environmental Studies Section, ESS Nominations Committee *ESS 2014 Ballot* *Executive Committee (6 members, rolling 2-year terms): 3 vacancies* *Candidates:* (1) Peter Jacques Peter J. Jacques is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida where he teaches environmental politics and sustainability, he received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Arizona University under Zachary A. Smith in 2003. He is the Managing Executive Editor for the flagship journal of Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. He has been attending the ESS at ISA at least since 2001. He is coauthor, with Sharon Ridgeway, of a book on the world indigenous movement, The Power of the Talking Stick: Indigenous Politics and the World Ecological Crisis(Paradigm Press 2013), as well as the forthcoming primer, Sustainability: The Basics, via Routledge (2014). He continues to work on two central areas, the politics of civil society--such as the climate denial counter-movement-- and the study of integrated social-marine systems, or "social oceanography." He has recently published with Riley Dunlap -- first through American Behavioral Scientist and then through the Yale Forum on Climate and the Media an analysis of 108 English language books that reject mainstream climate science, and has presented this work at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in 2013. Peter is also the lead author of a 2008 study on environmental skepticism that is the most read article in Environmental Politics, and a book on the topic via Ashgate, Environmental Skepticism: Ecology, Power, and Public Life. His work in interdisciplinary marine studies has been published in the ISA-Blackwell Compendium for Ocean Pollution and Fisheries, has been published in Progress in Oceanography, is part of a working group on food security for AESS, and in other two books on ocean politics. He also runs the Political Ecology Lab @ the University of Central Florida, a training ground for undergraduate research. (2) Sherrie Baver Professor Sherrie Baver received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She teaches at The City College of New York-CUNY, where she has served as Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and as Acting-Chair of the Department of Political Science. She also teaches in the Program in Political Science at The Graduate Center-CUNY. Among her publications are the 2006 co-edited volume, Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms (Rutgers Univ. Press). Since then, she has published articles on competing environmental discourses in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, environmental justice struggles in New York City, and the environmental mechanisms of NAFTA and CAFTA-DR. Her present research examines the diffusion of environmental justice/environmental democracy ideas and institutions in the Latin American region, with specific case studies on Mexico and Chile. Prof. Baver has received numerous CUNY awards and two Fulbrights to Latin America. Her email is: [email protected]. (3) Todd Eisenstadt Todd Eisenstadt's research focuses on the intersection of formal institutions and laws with informal institutions and practices, including in the envrionmental area, mostly in democratizing countries in Latin America. He is presently PI (along with Karleen West) of a National Science Foundation (NSF) project "Lawsuits for the Pacha Mama [Mother Earth] in Ecuador: Explaining the Determinants of New Indigenous Movements to Mitigate Environmental Impacts." Using a survey conducted with Ecuadorian partners, he and his co-author are studying poor, rural, indigenous communities to understand how they overcome socioeconomic and geographic barriers to launch new forms of social movements relying on Western science and international collaboration. The project stems from an earlier book, Politics, Identity, and Mexico's Indigenous Rights Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2011). That 2011 book won the 2012 Van Cott Award from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and American University's 2013 LeoGrande Award for the best book on Latin American studies during the prior two years. Related to his work on public opinion relating to climate change in the Andes, Eisenstadt and several doctoral students are studying the international legal figure of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and its selective application in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in conflicts between resource extracting multinationals, indigenous communities, and the state. Along with Sikina Jinnah and Steve McAvoy, Eisenstadt in the fall of 2014 will be pioneering American University's first interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar in its new honors program, on international climate change politics and policy. (4) Joanna Lewis Joanna Lewis is an assistant professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research focuses on energy and environmental issues in China, including renewable energy industry development and climate change policy. She has published many journal articles, book chapters and reports and her book, Green Innovation in China: China's Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy was recently published by Columbia University Press. Dr. Lewis serves as an international advisor to the Energy Foundation China Sustainable Energy Program in Beijing, has worked for several governmental, non-governmental and international organizations and is a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report. She holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University. *Nominations Committee (4 members, rolling 2-year terms): 2 vacancies* *Candidates:* (1) Tim Ehresman Tim Ehresman received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University in 2012 in international relations, comparative politics and environmental politics. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of the South--Sewanee, Tennessee. Tim teaches courses in IR, CP and environmental politics. His research interests focus on international environmental justice and the green economy. (2) Kate Neville Kate J Neville is a Canadian SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, and splits her time between North Carolina and her home/research base in an off-grid cabin in northern British Columbia. Kate's research focuses on the insights that international relations and comparative politics can bring to discussions of ecological protection, sustainability, and environmental change. Her current work looks at contestation over non-conventional energy developments--including hydraulic fracturing--in remote areas, with a focus on the Canadian north. She has published in journals including Political Geography (2012), Environmental Politics (2011), and The Journal of Peasant Studies (2010). Kate holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia and a Master's of Environmental Science from Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. (3) Graeme Auld Graeme Auld is an Associate Professor at Carleton University in the School of Public Policy and Administration, with a cross appointment in the Institute of Political Economy. He is a Research Fellow with the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation and a Faculty Associate at the Governance, Environment, and Markets Initiative at Yale University. With broad interests in comparative environmental policy and global environmental governance, his research examines the emergence, evolution and impacts of non-state and hybrid forms of global governance across economic sectors, particularly fisheries, agriculture and forestry. Secondary interests include the design and efficacy of information disclosure and transparency policies and climate change policy. He has published widely on environmental certification programs and environmental policy and governance. He is co-author (with Benjamin Cashore and Deanna Newsom) of *Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-state Authority* (Yale University Press, 2004), and the author of *Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification* (Yale University Press, Forthcoming 2014). (4) Radoslav S. Dimitrov Rado S. Dimitrov is associate professor at Western University (Canada), member of the EU delegation to UN climate negotiations and consultant on climate diplomacy to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. His academic research on global climate politics, environmental regimes, norms and the science-policy connection appear in *International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Global Environmental Politics, Review of Policy Research, and the Journal of Environment and Development*, as well as in numerous handbooks. *Sprout Committee Members (5 members, rolling 2-year terms): **2 vacancies* *Candidates:* (1) Fariborz Zelli Fariborz Zelli is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. He served as member of the Executive Committee of the ISA Environmental Studies Section from 2012 until 2014. He is also a board member of the Environmental Policy working group of the German Political Science Association. He received the outstanding Ph.D. thesis award of the University of Tübingen, and the award for outstanding teaching performance of the state of Baden-Württemberg. He was awarded research grants from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and from the Swedish Research Council Formas. His major publications include the latest special issue of Global Environmental Politics (as guest editor) and Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012 (2010, Cambridge University Press). Fariborz served as a reviewer for leading journals, expert panels (including IPCC) and conferences (e.g. Berlin Conferences of Global Environmental Change, Earth System Governance conferences). (2) Rachel Tiller Rachel Tiller is a Post Doc in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Techonology (NTNU). Her work focuses on interdisciplinary marine research, and she has published articles on among others regime management and interplay in the Northeast Atlantic, methodologies on modelling stakeholder future perceptions, and the challenges of integrated coastal zone management. In 2011-2012, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working on a project on stakeholder conflicts and adaptive capacity with regards to offshore aquaculture developments in California. She has been the ESS Web Master since 2012. (3) Stefanie Rixecker Stefanie Rixecker, Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Scholarship and Research at Lincoln University, New Zealand, has over 20 years' academic, research and leadership experience. Stefanie's research explores the intersections of environmental security and environmental justice focusing on local peoples' and minorities' use of natural resources. The research themes (e.g., geopolitics of energy, genetic engineering, indigenous property rights, the human dimensions of climate change and policy design) were drawn from research undertaken in over twenty countries in the northern and southern hemispheres. She has published book chapters and in various journals, including Policy Sciences, Society & Natural Resources, World Archaeology and the Journal of Genocide Research. She was on the Editorial Advisory Board of Local Environment: The international journal of justice and sustainability for a decade and has delivered various Keynote Addresses, including a Public Lecture at Cambridge University on Human Rights and Climate Change. Stefanie's work is also informed by her extensive governance experience, including serving as a current or former Director on New Zealand's Centre of Research Excellence in Bio-Protection, the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (a Partner and Contributor to the Global Research Alliance), AgriOne Ltd. and as the former Chair of Amnesty International New Zealand. (4) Fengshi Wu Fengshi Wu, Ph.D. (University of Maryland), associate professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, is specialized in transnational relations, environmental politics and Chinese politics. She has published in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Issues and Studies, and China Environment Series. With long-term field work, she has written many articles on China's environmental movement and the rise of environmentalism in East Asia. (5) Wil Burns Wil Burns is currently the Associate Director of the Energy Policy & Climate program at Johns Hopkins University, as well as the President of the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences. His background is in international environmental law, and his research focuses on the intersection of law, policy, and science. He has experience with the logistical process of the selection process, having served on the Sprout Committee in the past. It is his objective to help select a book that highlights the value of interdisciplinary inquiry and practical applications of environmental policy and science to addressing contemporary environmental challenges. -- Sikina Jinnah Asst. Professor of International Relations Global Environmental Politics Program American University School of International Service 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington DC 20016 http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/jinnah.cfm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
