[gep-ed] Funded PhD Research Assistantship at the University of Illinois in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources

[McKenzie Johnson]

Dear Colleagues,

I’d appreciate your help in circulating this opportunity for a PhD Research 
Assistantship beginning in 2022 at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign.

PhD in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences 

 beginning 
January or June 2022 and working on an NSF-Funded project examining the 
dynamics of nutrient management in rural agricultural communities in 
Illinois.

Details are in the link and attached as a PDF. I encourage interested 
applicants to get in touch with me at m...@illinois.edu.

Thank you!

Best,

McKenzie

*MCKENZIE F. JOHNSON*
*Assistant Professor*
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1102 S. Goodwin Avenue
S-512 Turner Hall | M/C 047
Urbana, IL 61801
217-300-8308 | mf...@illinois.edu 
mckjohnson.nres.illinois.edu/

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[gep-ed] Global metropolitan air pollution abatement analysis

[Ben Leffel]

Dear colleagues,

Apologies for cross posting: I'm happy to share our new article "Metropolitan
air pollution abatement and industrial growth: Global urban panel analysis
of PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and SO2
"
just published in *Environmental Sociology*.

In short: In the world's largest metropolises, (a) air pollution reduction
is associated with local government spending on environment, health,
education & community services, and (b) pollution increases are associated
with growth in local mining, manufacturing industries, controlling for
income in all cases. Think, Environmental Kuznets Curve meets Green New
Deal.

Here's the full abstract:
This study re-scales analysis of global environmental change down to the
city-level, where it is becoming increasingly significant, to examine the
relationship between air pollution abatement and industrial growth.
Treadmill of Production theorists argue that economic growth leads to
increased pollution, while Environmental Kuznets Curve research suggests
that income increases initially lead to pollution increases, but begins to
result in reductions after an economy transitions from manufacturing to
services-based industries. We investigate whether growth in specific
services industries is associated with pollution abatement in the presence
of increasing income. For 96 of the world’s largest metropolitan areas, we
test the effects of panel data on income, growth across several services
industry sectors and other controls on levels of course particulate matter
(PM10), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Sulfur
dioxide (SO2) during 2005–2017. We find that reductions of all four air
pollutants are associated with local growth in public administration,
environmental and health services industry sectors linked specifically to
government spending, while pollution increases are associated with growth
in manufacturing and mining industries. This affords important nuance to
the debate on the reconcilability of economic growth and environmental
protection, and on a more spatially granular scale.

-- 
*Benjamin J. Leffel, Ph.D.*
Postdoctoral Fellow
Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
University of Michigan
Website: benleffel.com | Twitter: @BenjaminJLeffel


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[gep-ed] blog symposium: Glasgow and Beyond - Organizational Response to Climate Change

[Aseem Prakash]

​
Cambridge University Press Elements Series Blog Symposium

Glasgow and Beyond:
Organizational Response to Climate Change

Guest Editors
Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland, College Park
David Konisky, Indiana University, Bloomington
Matthew Potoski, UC Santa Barbara
Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, Seattle


The 26th meeting of the Conference of Parties is scheduled for October 
31-November 12, 2021 in Glasgow. This Blog symposium seeks to explore 
organizational responses – both individual organizations and their networks -- 
to climate change and how the Glasgow summit might reveal and possibly alter 
organizational dynamics.

Since the industrial revolution, the availability of cheap fossil fuels has 
shaped production processes, consumption choices, and household behaviors in 
industrial economies throughout the world. For centuries, all manner of 
governmental, economic, and social organizations adapted to economic systems 
centered on carbon-intensive economic processes. Meanwhile, the physical 
consequences of climate change are becoming manifest, just as pressures for 
action and government policies are mounting.

What is less clear is how these organizations are responding to the robust 
challenges that are growing from this mix of climate, political, social, and 
economic change. Are they resisting, reluctantly changing, or enthusiastically 
incorporating decarbonization in their internal governance systems and external 
advocacy? Is it business as usual with a new focus on climate issues, or are 
they incorporating transformative changes to take advantage of or protect 
themselves from the profound societal changes that decarbonization will bring 
about?

These large-scale structural changes will certainly disrupt the status quo, 
creating winners and losers. Organizations will have diverse experiences of, 
and responses to, the complexities of this new world, depending on both their 
internal and external factors.

The Symposium is organized by the editors of the recently launched Cambridge 
Element Series in Organizational Response to Climate Change: Business, 
Governments, and Nonprofit Business, 
Governments, and Nonprofit. It will be 
hosted on the website of Cambridge University Press.

Logistics

We invite submissions (maximum 1,000 words) that summarize existing research or 
report on new research. All commentaries must be written in an accessible 
style; references, tables, and appendices should be provided as links embedded 
in the text. In order to assure a timely review, please first email the story 
pitch to  in the following format:

(1) What is the story/argument? What is the takeaway? (maximum 100 words).

(2) How does this illuminate organizational dynamics on climate change? 
(maximum 100 words).

Based on these submissions, the guest editors will invite the selected authors 
to submit their commentaries (1,000 words maximum).


Timeline

Submissions of the pitch: September 15-onwards

Invitation to submit commentaries: September 20-onwards

Submission of the Commentary: September 25-onwards

Guest editors revert with comments: September 29

Online publication: October 1-onwards





Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental 
Politics
University of Washington, Seattle
aseemprakash.net



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[gep-ed] New book - The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future

[Craig Kauffman]

Dear Colleagues,



I’m pleased to announce that my new book (with Pamela Martin), *The
Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable
Future* is now out an available through MIT Press who generously agreed to
publish it open access on their website --
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/politics-rights-nature -- (the paperback is
available at Amazon for $35). As the title suggests, the book goes beyond
moral, philosophical, and legal arguments about rights of nature and
instead analyzes the politics behind the creation and implementation of
laws recognizing ecosystems as rights-bearing subjects, as well as the how
these laws are shaping the politics of sustainable development. For people
interested in norms, the book analyzes the process through which new norms
are constructed in practice.


Best,

Craig
-- 
Craig M. Kauffman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Political Science Department
University of Oregon
Member, United Nations Expert Network on Harmony with Nature

*Recent Publications*:

Craig Kauffman and Pamela Martin, The Politics of Rights of
Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future
 (MIT Press, 2021).

Craig Kauffman, "Rights of Nature: Institutions, Law, and Policy for
Sustainable Development,"

in
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics. Sowers,
VanDeveer, and Weinthal, eds. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Craig Kauffman. “Managing People for the Benefit of the Land: Practicing
Earth Jurisprudence in Te Urewera, New Zealand

.” *ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment*, Vol.
27, No. 3, 2020, p. 578-595.

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