Dear colleagues, For those of you who cannot attend the International Studies Association (ISA) Environmental Studies Sections (ESS) Business Meeting in Atlanta (and so cannot vote in person), this is the electronic ballot for the ESS 2016 elections. There are vacancies on the Executive Committee, Sprout Committee, and Nominations Committee.
Please reply to [email protected]. Advance/online voting is open from Thursday, March 3 to Thursday, March 17. Please note that the Sprout Committee has a slightly unusual situation this year: given Fariborz Zelli’s early withdrawal from the Committee last year in order to take on the responsibility of Vice Chair, there is an offset term for one of the vacancies. To ensure continuity on the Committee, and to return to the usual pattern of vacancies on the Committee, one of the current Sprout members has agreed to stay on for a third term. We are seeking confirmation from the ESS membership that you approve this term extension. You can fill out the ballot below, or use the attached Word document ballot. In either case, please be sure to mark your choices clearly -- and again, send your completed ballots to Kate Neville: [email protected] . Thanks! Your Nominations Committee Tabitha Benney [email protected], Teresa Kramarz [email protected], Graeme Auld [email protected], Kate Neville [email protected] >> *ESS 2016 Ballot* >> >> >> Please check the boxes to the left of the chosen candidates’ names for >> each position/Committee with an “X.” >> >> *Executive Committee (6 members, rolling 2-year terms): 3 vacancies* >> >> >> *Continuing members: Juliann Emmons Allison (University of California, >> Riverside), Shannon Orr (Bowling Green State University), Samuel Barkin >> (University of Massachusetts Boston) * >> >> >> *___ DG Webster: *Dr. Webster's main research interest is in >> understanding feedbacks within global scale social-ecological systems >> (SESs). She is author of two books. The second, *Beyond the Tragedy in >> Global Fisheries* (2015), explains the evolution of global fisheries >> governance through a responsive governance lens, showing how fisheries all >> over the world cycle through periods of effective and ineffective >> governance in what she calls the management treadmill. Her first book, >> *Adaptive >> Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Tuna Management* (2009 MIT Press) >> posited and tested her vulnerability response framework. It won the >> International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award in >> 2010. She is currently exploring new methods for exploring SESs as the lead >> PI on a multi-institutional project called Fishscape: Modeling the Complex >> Dynamics of the Fishery for Tropical Tunas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, >> which is funded through NSF’s Coupled Natural and Human Systems program, >> and an internally funded project that uses agent based modeling to better >> understand the relationship between Consumer Choice and Sustainability. Her >> homepage can be found here: http://sites.dartmouth.edu/websterlab/ >> >> >> *____ Pia M. Kohler:* I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental >> Studies at Williams College (Williamstown, MA USA). My research and >> teaching interest is in environmental politics and policy, and I specialize >> in science-policy interfaces and the governance of hazardous wastes and >> chemicals. I have conducted research on expert institutions in global >> environmental politics, including the IPCC (climate change), IPBES >> (biodiversity and ecosystem services) and subsidiary bodies under the >> Montreal Protocol on ozone, the Stockholm Convention on POPs, the Ramsar >> Convention on Wetlands and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. My >> recent work on the negotiation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury >> appeared in RECIEL (with Jessica Templeton, LSE). I am originally from >> Switzerland and am also Canadian. I have been a member of ESS since 2006 >> and would look forward to serving on the Executive Committee. >> >> *____ Wil Burns*, Co-Chair, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, >> American University. I currently serve as Co-Director of the Forum for >> Climate Engineering Assessment, a scholarly initiative of the School of >> International Service at American University. My work focuses on >> international climate change law and policy, including climate >> geoengineering and assessment of market-based emissions reduction >> mechanisms. I have served on the ESS¹s Sprout Committee over the past two >> years, including as Chair, as well as Chair and Vice-Chair of the >> International Law Section (in prehistoric times). I would be particularly >> interested in working to enhance collaboration with allied organizations >> and groups, with an eye to increasing interdisciplinary research, as well >> as to help us develop additional outreach strategies to highlight the work >> of our group¹s members. >> >> >> *Nominations Committee (4 members, rolling 2-year terms): 2 vacancies* >> >> *Continuing members: Teresa Kramartz (University of Toronto), Tabitha >> Benney (University of Utah)* >> >> >> *____ Deborah Barros Leal Farias* is from Ceará, a small state in >> Brazil’s Northeastern region. She has Bachelor degrees in Economy and Law, >> a MA in International Relations – all from Brazilian universities – and a >> PhD in Political Science from UBC (Dec/2014). Adding to her >> multidisciplinary interest, she just finished a one-year postdoctoral >> fellowship at UBC’s Wood Science Department, investigating politics and >> policies related to advanced biofuels. Her main current research interests >> center around clean energies in all modes of transportation (especially air >> and maritime), geopolitical aspects of renewable energies, and >> environmental politics & policies of non-OECD G20 countries (particularly >> BRICS countries). Prior to coming to UBC she taught International Law for >> eight years and worked for the Ceara State Government. She is also a >> (guilt-prone) mother, suffers from constant episodes of “impostor >> syndrome”, and boxes for fun. She hopes to expand her network and >> enthusiastically support ESS’ activities. >> >> >> *____ Shana Starobin* is a Regulation Fellow at the University of >> Pennsylvania Law School, with research interests in the politics of >> transnational regulation and institutional innovation in the governance of >> trade in food and natural resources. With broad interests in global >> environmental politics and public policy, her current work examines how >> producers of agricultural commodities—especially smallholder farmers in >> emerging economies—respond as targets of global rules, such as private >> certification schemes for quality, safety and environmental criteria. A >> current PhD candidate at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, Shana >> also holds two Masters degrees from Duke in Environmental Management and >> Public Policy. In 2017, Shana will begin an appointment as Assistant >> Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College. >> >> >> *____ Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya* is an Assistant Professor in the >> Department of Political Science at Purdue University. Kim's research >> examines the interactions between norm diffusion and institution building >> to uncover barriers to justice in global environmental governance. Her >> current book project, The Justice Gap in Global Forest Governance, explores >> the institutional dynamics of justice in forest governance across multiple >> scales, from the household and village levels in Laos to international >> negotiations for the Convention on Biological Diversity. Recent work >> appears in Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, and >> Politics, Groups, and Identities. She also recently launched a new project >> on indigenous representation in global environmental governance ( >> www.presence2influence.org) that seeks to examine the links between >> representation and the pursuit of justice. As a former conservation >> practitioner, Kim is also a member of IUCN's Commission on Environmental, >> Economic, and Social Policy and serves on the executive committee of the >> Purdue Climate Change Research Center. >> >> *Sprout Committee Members (5 members, rolling 2-year terms)* >> >> >> *Continuing members (to 2017): Josh Gellers (University of North >> Florida), Raul Pacheco-Vega (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas >> (CIDE)), Rachel Tiller (SINTEF), Fengshi Wu (Nanyang Technological >> University)* >> >> >> *1 two-year vacancy, 1 candidate* >> >> *____Beth DeSombre: *I'm the Frost Professor of Environmental Studies at >> Wellesley College. I'm a former chair of the ISA Environmental Studies >> Section, and a former ISA Program chair. My work focuses primarily on >> issues of the global commons, most recently various aspects of ocean issues >> (fisheries, pollution, shipping). I've published six books on >> international environmental politics, the first of which won two book >> prizes. I'm also the book review editor of the journal Global >> Environmental Politics, so I'm in touch with a lot of what's being >> published in the field. >> >> >> *1 one-year extension for a current Sprout member (to 2018), 1 candidate* >> >> >> *____Fengshi Wu:* Fengshi Wu (BA from Peking University, PhD from >> University of Maryland), Associate Professor, is specialized in social >> forces in global politics and governance, environmental politics, and >> political transition in China. She is a leading expert on China’s >> environmental politics and social activism. Before joining Rajaratnam >> School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, in >> Singapore, she taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2005-2013) >> and was visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2008-09). >> > -- 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.
