Dear gep-ed Members: I've been a regular subscriber to the gep-ed listserve for several years, and greatly value the information and discourse I can reliably find at gep-ed. I hope members will be interested in the information I'm providing. I think this will be especially appropriate at the moment, considering the recent, extensive discussion of interdiscriplinary environmental programs and their potential. I hope this information will be useful and provocative.
I am a member of the Coordinating Committee for the newly-created Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) which was formally launched in mid-2008. The AESS grew from discussions began three years ago at the First "Environmental Summit" held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, under the leadership of William Freudenburg. These initial discussions were continued at two subsequent national meetings of persons sharing a professional interest in interdisciplinary environmental studies. We have recently published our second newsletter and I invite you to view that, and our website, at: www.aess.info At the moment we have approximately 650 registered members and will sponsor our first national meeting concurrently with the Society of Environmental Journalists at Madison, Wisconsin, in October. The website lists our initial Coordinating Committee. The AESS was created to provide a venue for publication, conferences, discourse and advocacy among those of us in academic or governmental positions, research , policy research, policy practice and related fields involved with interdisciplinary environmental studies. We think the AESS is responsive to a widely shared belief among those of us in environmental studies that an association of this kind is needed. At the same time, we do want not duplicate the work of other organizations or compete with them. We are very much a project under creation and welcome new members, expressions of interest, and possible collaborations. I am attaching a more complete description of our expectations for the AESS. We have been discussing with several publishers the creation of a journal of which I would be the Editor in Chief and whose Board of Editors will be broadly representative of the major disciplines, and cross-disciiplines, associated with interdisciplinary environmental studies. Cordially, Tony Rosenbaum Walter A. Rosenbaum, Ph.D., Interim Director, Bob Graham Center for Public Service, 222 Pugh Hall University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-2030 tony...@ufl.edu Ph: 352-846-1575 Cell: 352-682-3226 Fax: 352-846-1576
