like riley, i have tremendous respect for the work of the stockholm environmental institute . . .
that said, i would suggest that the issue is at least in part an empirical question . . . think tanks have not been a focus of research for me, but i would expect that for various reasons a think tank does tend to build a brand . . . that is not to say that a think tank does not try to incorporate creative and critical perspectives . . . it is to say that any particular think tank will select for some kinds of creativity and critique, and reject others . . . for me, this implies that a think tank that looks fairly diverse and reflective to a liberal, may look very narrow and insular to a conservative, and vice versa . . . cheers, craig craig k harris associate professor department of sociology michigan agbio research center for regional food systems michigan state university east lansing michigan usa www.msu.edu/~harrisc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Klein Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 5:44 PM To: Dunlap, Riley; AESS MEMBER Listserve ([email protected]); GEP-Ed List ([email protected]); Environmental Governance Listserve ([email protected]) Subject: Re: [gep-ed] FW: 2015 UPenn think tank ratings Okay, cool. I haven't looked at the list in detail and frankly don't know many of the organisations, so wouldn't be able to tell an anti-environment organisation from a any other one. It just wasn't clear to me that the emails below were referring to a selection of the organisations listed in the ranking. Thanks for clarifying! -- Professor Richard J.T. Klein Senior Research Fellow and Theme Leader 'Reducing Climate Risk', Stockholm Environment Institute, www.sei-international.org Co-Director, Nordic Centre of Excellence for Strategic Adaptation Research, www.nord-star.info Editor-in-Chief, Climate and Development, www.tandfonline.com/tcld E-mail: [email protected] Skype, Twitter: rjtklein From: "Dunlap, Riley" <[email protected]> Date: Monday 1 February 2016 at 23:34 To: "AESS MEMBER Listserve ([email protected])" <[email protected]>, "GEP-Ed List ([email protected])" <[email protected]>, "Environmental Governance Listserve ([email protected])" <[email protected]>, Richard Klein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [gep-ed] FW: 2015 UPenn think tank ratings Richard, I and the others I assume are definitely NOT referring to organizations like Stockholm Environment Institute, but the numerous conservative think tanks that, among other things, have an extremely strong anti-environmental agenda--as Mayer and a vast amount of scholarly literature makes clear. We just need more balance along the lines that SEI brings. Riley _____ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Richard Klein <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 4:18 PM To: AESS MEMBER Listserve ([email protected]); GEP-Ed List ([email protected]); Environmental Governance Listserve ([email protected]) Subject: Re: [gep-ed] FW: 2015 UPenn think tank ratings Interesting conversation. You may or may not be surprised to hear that some people on these email lists actually work for organisations featured in this think-tank ranking. I'd like to think that we're not clueless heads-in-the-sand defenders of the status quo appearing out of nowhere and offering for hire a patina of legitimacy to governments. But you may see it differently. All the best, Richard -- Professor Richard J.T. Klein Senior Research Fellow and Theme Leader 'Reducing Climate Risk', Stockholm Environment Institute, www.sei-international.org Co-Director, Nordic Centre of Excellence for Strategic Adaptation Research, www.nord-star.info Editor-in-Chief, Climate and Development, www.tandfonline.com/tcld E-mail: [email protected] Skype, Twitter: rjtklein From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Wil Burns <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday 1 February 2016 at 21:44 To: "Dunlap, Riley" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "AESS MEMBER Listserve ([email protected])" <[email protected]>, "GEP-Ed List ([email protected])" <[email protected]>, "Environmental Governance Listserve ([email protected])" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [gep-ed] FW: 2015 UPenn think tank ratings Yes, and the real danger is that when governments engage in “stakeholder” involvement, it’s often restricted to these kind of organizations. It provides a patina of legitimacy without necessarily reflecting the interests of many sectors of society. wil Dr. Wil Burns Co-Executive Director, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment A Scholarly Initiative of the School of International Service, American University 2650 Haste Street, Towle Hall #G07 Berkeley, CA 94720 650.281.9126 (Phone) <http://www.dcgeoconsortium.org/> http://www.dcgeoconsortium.org Blog: Teaching Climate/Energy Law & Policy, <http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/> http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org Twitter: <https://twitter.com/wil_burns> https://twitter.com/wil_burns Skype ID: Wil.Burns View my research on my SSRN Author page: <http://ssrn.com/author=240348> http://ssrn.com/author=240348 From: Dunlap, Riley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 12:23 PM To: Wil Burns <[email protected]>; [email protected] Cc: AESS MEMBER Listserve ([email protected]) <[email protected]>; GEP-Ed List ([email protected]) <[email protected]>; Environmental Governance Listserve ([email protected]) <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [gep-ed] FW: 2015 UPenn think tank ratings I agree. And you can get a great sense of how this has happened from Jane Mayer's just-released book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionries Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (Doubleday), as these think tanks did not just appear out of nowhere. Riley E. Dunlap Regents Professor of Sociology and Laurence L. and Georgia Ina Dresser Professor Department of Sociology Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078 405-744-6108 Co-Editor, Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives Oxford University Press, 2015 (Report of the American Sociological Association's Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change) _____ From:[email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Kathleen McAfee <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 12:58 PM To: [email protected] Cc: AESS MEMBER Listserve ([email protected]); GEP-Ed List ([email protected]); Environmental Governance Listserve ([email protected]) Subject: Re: [gep-ed] FW: 2015 UPenn think tank ratings How depressing! Most of those listed among the 'top' are heads-in-the-stand defenders of the status quo with little clue about the extent and causes of the turbulence in today's world. Kathy On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Wil Burns <[email protected]> wrote: Always an interesting read! Wil Dr. Wil Burns Co-Executive Director, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment A Scholarly Initiative of the School of International Service, American University 2650 Haste Street, Towle Hall #G07 Berkeley, CA 94720 650.281.9126 (Phone) <http://www.dcgeoconsortium.org/> http://www.dcgeoconsortium.org Blog: Teaching Climate/Energy Law & Policy, <http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/> http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org Twitter: <https://twitter.com/wil_burns> https://twitter.com/wil_burns Skype ID: Wil.Burns View my research on my SSRN Author page: <http://ssrn.com/author=240348> http://ssrn.com/author=240348 From: Rohinton Medhora [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 7:56 AM To: STAFF <[email protected]>; Fellows <[email protected]> Subject: 2015 UPenn think tank ratings Colleagues, please see the attached memo that summarizes the results of the 2015 University of Pennsylvania think tank ratings exercise as they pertain to CIGI. Best, Rohinton. 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