Dear Beth, Last semester a student of mine wrote a very interesting paper on energy and securitization of energy. The issue can be an interest of its own in view on the recent EU initiative to adopt a common energy stratgy. However, the issue can also be viewed as an input to the climate agenda or even a future competing issue with the climate issue in view of the US strategy to develop alternatives to the Kyoto mechnisms based on clean energy technology.
Besides, in line with the Copenhagen school og 'securitizationen' I have in my course this semester introduced the issue of securitization of environment as an answer to the claims on 'death of environmenalism' and the challenges facing the Stockholm-Rio environmental agende from the Millennium goals, fear of terriorism etc. Best regards, Kirsten Worm Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:53:26 -0400, Beth DeSombre wrote > For a committee I'm on (proposing directions for a university > environmental institute) I've been charged with determining what > people in my research community see as emerging environmental > issues. These can be based on topic/issue area (e.g. nanotechnology, > nitrogen pollution), approach (e.g. market mechanisms for > environmental regulation, private regulatory processes), or even > thinking about other ways we might usefully consider environmental > issues (e.g. consumption, sufficiency). > > So, if you're willing to weigh in, where do you see our field going > in the not-too-distant future? What are the things we as scholars > should be gearing up to try to consider? > > Incidentally, this shouldn't be limited to an international focus -- > all scales, from very local, through national and international, are > relevant. > > Thanks in advance to those willing to conceptualize and speculate. > > Beth > > Elizabeth R. DeSombre > Wellesley College
