Dear colleagues, We hope that you are all in good health and doing well under the circumstances. In light of the cancellation of ISA and an official ceremony during the reception that was scheduled for today, we wished to send a message to members of the Environmental Studies Section (ESS) and the larger GEP-ed community to announce and congratulate our award winners! The winner of this year’s Harold and Margaret Sprout Award is Professor Jessica Steinberg (Indiana University) for Communities, Mines and States: The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mines-communities-and-states/6906F981847B43E83E2CCE272605668F>. Published by Cambridge University Press, Steinberg’s path-breaking book develops a novel theory and sophisticated data to explore dynamics of public goods provision, protest and government repression surrounding mines in Africa. It marks a significant advance in our understanding of the politics of natural resource extraction that should be of enduring interest to scholars of environmental politics. This year we also have a runner-up for the Sprout Award: Professor Cristina Balboa (Baruch College, CUNY) for her book The Paradox of Scale: How NGOs Build, Maintain, and Lose Authority in Environmental Governance <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/paradox-scale>. Published by MIT Press, Balboa’s remarkable book is based on extensive fieldwork and sheds new light on the drivers of NGO effectiveness. It explains why what works at one scale can be problematic at another, and sets a promising new agenda for work in this field.
Congratulations to you both, Jessica and Cristina! Of course, we are not able to properly celebrate these accomplishments at this time. However, they will all be officially recognized again during the ESS reception at the next ISA meeting. Until then, stay healthy everyone! Your Sprout Award committee members, Thomas Hickmann, Elizabeth Nyman, Kim Marion Suiseeya, Charles Roger <http://www.ibei.org/> Charles Roger Assistant Professor +34 935 423 028 Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals Campus de la Ciutadella (UPF) Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27. 08005 Barcelona (Spain) www.ibei.org <http://www.ibei.org/> -- 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 gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/0F8691B8-23C0-49F2-A612-ACC3EDA7DDEC%40ibei.org.
