Colleagues:
We have launched a new listserv, EnvironmentalGovernance, to serve the
community of scholars who place "actors and institutions" at the center of
their research on environmental issues.
Motivation:
Last week, we organized the 2015 Wesley Conference on Environmental Politics
and Governance (EPG) on Bainbridge Island/Seattle. Please review the online
conference brochure here:
http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Wesley2015_Brochure.pdf
In response to Call for Papers, we received 290 submissions from over 400
scholars located in 40 countries. These scholars work in diverse disciplines.
After a double-blind review process, the international steering committee (see
the brochure for details) selected 32 papers.
In addition to the excellent papers and conversations, the conference
constituted an important step towards building the "field" of Environmental
Governance. The participants expressed a strong desire for a platform to foster
excellence (theoretical and empirical rigor) in social science research on
environmental issues. This platform welcomes scholars located in any
discipline, working at any level of aggregation (village, city, province,
country, regional, or global) and studying any sort of actor (individuals,
communities, governments, firms, international organizations, etc.).
We will organize this conference annually with different universities taking
turns in hosting it (also, rotate it across continents). While we have not
established a formal organization yet, we are launching this listserv to serve
as online platform for ALL environmental governance scholars.
How to join? Please follow this link:
https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/environmentalgovernance
Thanks,
Aseem
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Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3530
http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/
http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/
