Re: Copenhagen result
Wil, you raise a lot of issues here, we could end up with a long (and interesting debate). A few reactions, following your numbering. 1. we did know that it was highly likely that we¹d only get a political agreement, although it is worth noting there was always an (outside) chance that enough KP parties might say it was worth inserting new numbers into a second KP commitment period, alongside this political declartation including non-KP countries, notably the US. But this declaration is a hell of a lot weaker than many observers expected, and I¹d say was absolutely possible before the start of the Copenhagen talks. The numbers in terms of emissions reductions already on the table were (while obviously inadequate to deal with Tuvalu¹s problems or to get to a 2C overall goal) were broadly consistent enough that you could imagine a deal aroudn them even those weren¹t in the final version, although they say they¹re going to put numbers in by Feb. The US-China monitoring spat seems incomprehensible from the outside, since the US itself wants a relatively light multilateral monitoring of emissions reporting (consequently it¹s not certain that your point 4a is correct). And so on on every issue a deal seemed possible, they¹ve come up with the weakest version. 2. on legally binding. You¹re right of course that international law is weak in terms of enforcement. But you¹re wrong that many¹ Annex B countries will fail to meet their Kyoto targets the EU will get there easily enough, as will (for hot air reasons) most ex-soviet countries. NZ still has some to do but has set up a system which will mean it will buy hot air in effect. Australia and Japan aren¹t too far off. Only really Canada is way off, and I despair at the idiots in charge of the country I moved to. So the q to my mind is not about enforcement, but rather about (a) the set of expectations that the term legally binding¹ sets up amongst states that they tend to behave differently in the context of such a status to an agreement here I¹d claim that if Kyoto had just been a political declaration¹ then I can¹t see the EU having set about achieving its targets so thoroughly without the legal status (although that¹s a judgement call of course), and (b) you can¹t set up any sort of institutional arrangements such as the CDM without the legal¹ status of an agreement. And Kyoto compliance overall for the Annex B countries (they will get there collectively, canadian rubbishness being outweighed by russian hot air) has been driven by the Kyoto-CDM-EU ETS relationship, which couldn¹t have existed without a legal agreement. 3. I tend to agree on this realist¹ point, although one thing this misses is that the multilateral process has become much more focused on adapation in recent years, and there those countries (not venezuela, but the AOSIS and african states) are crucial. 4. I¹ll just raise two points here one is that the money is totally unclear on details whether it¹s additional money from states, whether its expectations of flows from offset markets (CDM or otherwise), wheher its additional to existing aid, etc. And while forest people love REDD, if it¹s included in an offset mechanism like the CDM, which it looks like it will be, this could be a disaster, taking away incentives for actual emissions reductions in the Annex I/B countries. An interesting aside here is that while in the negotiations much was being heralded for REDD, in the carbon market meetings IETA was running, there were workshops on how the hell you might make money out of a REDD project they are of the view it¹s probalby not a very cheap option. That might save us in fact. Enough for now. Mat -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 And http://matpaterson.wordpress.com/ Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep Latest books "Climate capitalism: global warming and the transformation of the global economy" (with Peter Newell) http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521194857 And "Cultural Political Economy" (edited, with Jacqueline Best) http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Cultural-Political-Economy-isbn978041 5489324 From: Wil Burns Reply-To: Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:42:53 -0800 To: 'Radoslav Dimitrov' , 'Global Environmental Politics Education ListServe' Subject: RE: Copenhagen result I think amidst all of the (legitimate) gloom about the results at Copenhagen, we should emphasize a couple of things: 1. It was known well before the meeting that we were likely to only get a political declaration from Copenhagen; in many ways, I think the media hyped the final stages of the meeting as some kind of unraveling of consensus, when most folks expected no more than a broad-brushed agreeme
FW: [Nocarbontrade-l] animation: cap-n-trade crique (story of stuff)
Hi all A great animation on cap and trade, would be perfect for teaching purposes. Cheers Mat -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 And http://matpaterson.wordpress.com/ Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep Latest books "Climate capitalism: global warming and the transformation of the global economy" (with Peter Newell) http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521194857 And "Cultural Political Economy" (edited, with Jacqueline Best) http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Cultural-Political-Economy-isbn978041 5489324 > -- Forwarded Message > From: Julian Rodríguez-Drix > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:49:18 -0500 > To: > Subject: [Nocarbontrade-l] animation: cap-n-trade crique (story of stuff) > > http://storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/ > > a critique of cap-and-trade from the woman who made the story of stuff > animation (http://www.storyofstuff.com/) > > > > > ___ > Nocarbontrade-l mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nocarbontrade-l > To unsubscribe, email nocarbontrade-l-unsubscr...@fern.org -- End of Forwarded Message
RE: Do we have an equivalent to GEP-ED in comparative politics and/or public policy?
Hi all This bounced the first time- my fault for a confusion in my email address. Cheers Mat Hi all Just a quick comment on the GEP journal part of this point by Jeannie. She is probably right that we have fewer comparative¹ than international¹ papers published, although we haven¹t counted to monitor such things, and the boundary is in any case often blurred in the context of a specific paper. But I would strongly suspect that if we did count we also get fewer comparative papers submitted to the journal perhaps because as she says, comparativists have perhaps other outlets like EP. Our policy is only not to accept papers which are single country case studies which don¹t attempt to make any broader claims comparative, international, theoretical or empirical. So we¹d certainly welcome more comparative submissions to the journal! Cheers Mat From: owner-gep...@listserve1.allegheny.edu [mailto:owner-gep...@listserve1.allegheny.edu] On Behalf Of Sowers, Jeannie Sent: Wednesday November 11, 2009 5:05 PM To: Paul Steinberg; Sherrie Baver Cc: Raul Pacheco; gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Subject: Re: Do we have an equivalent to GEP-ED in comparative politics and/or public policy? Hello all, Very glad to see this discussion start, and I look forward to participating in whatever forum, listserv, or ongoing discussion ensues. While I enjoy the GEP journal, I don¹t think it has highlighted the work of comparativists very much, and instead other journals, like the Journal of Environment and Development, Environmental Politics, etc have filled that niche. Best, Jeannie On 11/11/09 12:45 PM, "Paul Steinberg" wrote: Dear Sherrie, Raul and All, I would be very supportive of any efforts to raise the profile of comparative work within GEP. I am not sure that a separate list is the way to go, though I'm certainly open to it. I think it might be more fruitful to encourage more discussion of comparative themes within the GEP list (and other GEP fora), recognizing - as has long been recognized within IR more broadly - that a clear account of international politics requires a solid understanding of domestic politics, and often vice-versa. I think the GEP journal has done a good job of highlighting comparative work, though the connections to theories and methods of comparative politics remain tenuous. On that note, Stacy VanDeveer and I are co-editing a new book, Comparative Environmental Politics, that is due to appear through MIT Press next summer. The idea is to build bridges between GEP and comparative politics, with an emphasis on identifying theoretical frameworks that can illuminate applied environmental problems and facilitate a cumulative research agenda. It is designed for classroom use at the upper-division and graduate level. The Table of Contents is below. All the best, Paul Comparative Environmental Politics Paul F. Steinberg and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. Table of Contents Part I. Building Bridges: Comparative Politics and the Environment 1. Comparative Environmental Politics: An Introduction -- Paul F. Steinberg and Stacy D. VanDeveer 2. Bridging Archipelagos -- Paul F. Steinberg and Stacy D. VanDeveer Part II. Greening States and Societies 3. Greening the State? -- James Meadowcroft 4. The Globalization of Environmental Concern: A Challenge to the Post-Materialist Thesis -- Riley Dunlap and Richard E. York Part III. Nonstate Actors and Social Mobilization 5. Environmentalism in Political Context: The Comparative Study of Environmental Movements -- Kate O'Neill 6. Corporate Social Responsibility: Out of the Shadow of Environmental Regulation -- Deborah Rigling Gallagher & Erika Weinthal 7. Explaining the ³meaning of greening² in European politics: A Theoretical Overview -- Michael O'Neill Part IV. Institutional Effectiveness across Political Systems 8. Comparative Environmental Politics and Democracy: Latin America and Eastern Europe Compared -- Kathryn Hochstetler 9. Institutional Change and Environmental Governance in Authoritarian Regimes: Water and Authority in Egypt -- Jeannie Sowers 10. Surviving the Storm: Environmental Governance amid Social Instability -- Paul F. Steinberg Part V. Comparative Multilevel Governance 11. The Internationalization of Domestic Environmental Politics in Central and Eastern Europe -- Liliana B. Andonova & Stacy D. VanDeveer 12. The Governance of Forest Commons and Comparative Environmental Politics -- Arun Agrawal Part VI CEP Conclusions and Futures 13. Distinguishing Comparative Environmental Politics: Conclusions, Comments and Research Agendas -- Paul F. Steinberg and Stacy D. VanDeveer Paul F. Steinberg Visiting Scholar Environmental Science, Policy & Management University of California at Berkeley 510-526-4090 Associate Professor of Political Science & Environmental Policy Harvey Mudd College http://www.hmc.edu/steinberg - Original Message - From: "Sherrie Baver" To: "Raul Pacheco" , gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny
Re: Rethinking global climate governance
Dear Paul A problem many of us are struggling with. They way I am currently thinking about this to avoid despair (easy to slip into) is thinking across the whole range of things which need to be thought of as a global climate governance complex¹ - i.e. Not just the UN, not just national governments, not just the plethora of private governance projects or multilevel, translocal, etc., forms of what Matt Hoffmann is calling climate governance experiments¹ - but at the whole as a complex and look at where the key structural linkages between different types of governance might exist. They may not at present, because the dots haven¹t been joined up or because one of the forms is underdeveloped, but they could. So the idea is not to find the grand bargain¹ which can solve things once and for all, but the little synergies that could create bigger ones i.e. The potential for non-linear effects, tipping points, and the like. My preferred heuristic example (no stronger than this at the moment) is between price-based governance systems for the moment mostly carbon markets and disclosure based governance projects the Carbon Disclosure Project, most notably (and this could well be feeding into compulsory carbon disclosure in some jurisdictions). The higher the carbon price, the greater the importance to investors of good quality information about emissions-intensity, and so on... Just one thought. I¹ll be hoping to elaborate on such things in some work Steven Bernstein, Matt Hoffmann and Michele Betsill and I are just starting on, in the next few years. Cheers Mat -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 And http://matpaterson.wordpress.com/ Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep From: "HARRIS, Paul Gordon" Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:04:51 +0800 To: GEP List Conversation: Rethinking global climate governance Subject: Rethinking global climate governance Dear GEP Colleagues, I am trying to rethink global environmental governance, and to encourage my students to do likewise, especially in the context of climate change. While I know that some of you won't agree, it's my feeling the practice of global environmental governance surrounding climate change has been a failure. This is not to discount positive developments and steps forward, but is (by my estimation) a fact revealed by warnings of natural scientists and apparently by ongoing environmental changes. Thanks to hard work by many governments and nongovernmental actors, etc., things won't be as bad as they might have been. But I think they'll be very bad nevertheless, especially for the world's poor. Assuming I am correct (even if you don't agree), do you have ideas for how we might rethink global governance and climate change, or conceive of global governance in this context in very new ways? What are you saying to your students in this regard? What do you say when they ask for alternatives to the incrementalism of climate change diplomacy? Are their practical alternatives, or desirable ones that may appear to be impractical today? Many thanks for your ideas. All best, Paul -- P.G. Harris Department of Social Sciences Hong Kong Institute of Education 10 Lo Ping Road Tai Po, HONG KONG General Office Tel.: +852 2948 7707 Direct Tel.: +852 2948 6763 Fax: +852 2948 8047 Email: pharris @ ied.edu.hk http://www.ied.edu.hk/ssc/en/index.htm
Re: how green is your bailout?
This is brilliant, thanks David. It¹ clearly based on a report by HSBC Global Research. I can¹t find it on their website; if anyone¹s come across a copy it¹d be great to share it. Cheers Mat -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep From: "David L. Levy" Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:14:02 -0500 To: GEPED Conversation: how green is your bailout? Subject: how green is your bailout? A cute graphic in today¹s FT provides some international comparisons http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc207678-0738-11de-9294-77b07658.html and some other related stories today (you will see links from above story) David David L. Levy Professor and Chair Department of Management and Marketing University of Massachusetts, Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125, USA http://www.faculty.umb.edu/david_levy/ <http://www.faculty.umb.edu/david_levy/>
Re: Grist for off-sets debate at ESS business mtg
An interesting way in, thanks Geoff. the limit is he assumes offsets are only about planting trees. Only around 30% of projects in the voluntary carbon markets are forestry, and about 1% in the CDM. How would the numbers look if we were to say how many windfarms¹ to offset a NASCAR event? I¹ve no idea what the answer is. Mat -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep From: Geoff Dabelko Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:00:36 -0500 To: Subject: Grist for off-sets debate at ESS business mtg Many on this listserv were privy to a short but spirited back and forth on the utility of carbon off-sets during the ISA Environmental Studies Section business meeting in NYC last week. This column in the new environmental website Mother Nature Network made me think of that debate and the potential utility this piece may have for raising questions with students. http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-change/stories/political-habitat-st uck-in-climate-neutral The column is by Peter Dykstra, former executive producer of CNN's Science and Environment Unit, who is a visiting fellow at the Wilson Center this month. CNN, if you missed it, canned its entire Science and Environment team in December. As Peter puts it, if you primary goal is competing with Fox News, do you really need a science and environment unit? Best, Geoff * Geoffrey D. Dabelko Director Environmental Change and Security Program Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20004-3027 Tel. 202 691-4178 Fax. 202 691-4184 Email geoff.dabe...@wilsoncenter.org Web http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ecsp New Security Beat Blog http://newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com
Re: articles that overview climate policy issues for diplomacy students
Hi ron This might work: Joanna Depledge, Crafting the Copenhagen Consensus: Some Reflections, RECIEL 17 (2) 2008. Shame you¹re not here in NY Cheers Mat -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep From: Ronald Mitchell Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:48:40 -0800 To: GEPED Subject: articles that overview climate policy issues for diplomacy students All, This from a friend please email me with responses. I will collate and return to list, as always. Thanks, Ron Any recommendations for a session in a 'diplomacy' class on the climate issue? The ideal piece would sketch "the challenges to the international community to develop an effective response, and a good overview of the central policy issues involved."
Re: thesis and dissertation "writing" -- noted without comment
The problem with massive retaliation is that, as in MAD, it is particularly difficult to enforce. It was my experience at Keele in the UK because the only sanction was to kick the student out, the university never backed us up on plagiarism cases. I stopped sending it thorugh the process, just gave the student 15 for the essay and just called it a bad essay, unacceptably sloppy referencing, and so on. Here at OttawaU we have flexible response a graduated series of penalties, starting with a zero on the course (which stays on the transcript even when the course or an other is retaken), then the same plus 3 credits (a one semester course), then plus 6, then plus 9 credits. There is a kicking out option but I don¹t think we ever get there. As a result, the university backs us up every time (in fact the public choice folks among you will be quick to notice that the unviersity gets more money for finding people guilty ...). Mat -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep From: Michael Maniates Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:51:59 -0500 To: Subject: Re: thesis and dissertation "writing" -- noted without comment As most of you know, I was away during the Spring of 2007 with Semester at Sea. I served as Dean, hired the faculty, dealt with academic problems...the usual Deanly stuff. We had ~ 700 students on the ship, from maybe 200+ institutions, from Ivy League to schools that required only a pulse for admission, if that. Additionally, we were running under the Univ. of Virginia's Honor Code, which is probably the strongest in the land: One strike and you're out Code. Any "cheating, lying, or stealing," and you're expelled. This code was explained to students, and discussed in class by faculty. Despite all of this, we had several instances of plagiarism, mostly involving the cutting and pasting of material from web sources. When confronted, students seemed to be genuinely shocked. They thought, at least many did, that this was how one did research: cutting and pasting, with some bracketed commentary throughout. One student was expelled for this sort of behavior on a marginal assignment. Others (for whom we couldn't did up definitive proof) were read the riot act. I leave that experience thinking that there's something seriously amiss in the educational/socialization process, as opposed to a decline in the ethical bearing of our students. That so many students could think that what we regard as plagiarism is AOK, even in the face of daunting sanctions, was alarming. Mike Maniates At 01:04 PM 1/7/2009, you wrote: > On cheating, great discussion, thanks to those who have been posting. A few > random thoughts: > > Rational choice/incentive model: People cheat when the stakes are high and the > sanctions are low/unlikely. I read of one study in which MBA students were > found more likely than JD students to cheat, attributed to the latter's fear > of not being allowed to sit for the bar exam if caught. I try reasonably to > catch them, but do my students really fear being caught? I doubt it. > > Socialization/norms model: I will speak only for the USA. (1) Studies show > that young people here increasingly crave fame and acclaim (I blame American > Idol, seriously). (2) Neoliberal commodification of education has made > teachers at lower levels into accomplices, which must send a powerful message > to the kids. We have seen MANY staff-facilitated cheating scandals on the > No-Child-Left-Behind standardized tests by which teachers and schools are > increasingly evaluated, including my own kids' former elementary school, with > nobody fired as a result. (3) "Pay to play" politics and financial Ponzi > schemes are pretty much the heart of our political economy, as recent events > have shown. It is not too strong to say that the dominant norms in public life > have become "be famous or you are a loser", "it's the outcome, not the path to > it, by which you will be judged", and "don't get caught." > > Information/transaction costs model: The line as to what constitutes > plagiarism has been blurred with online resources, web-sites that interlink > and reproduce without attribution, etc, and students in K-12 are not taught > seriously where the line is; and the transaction costs have dropped greatly > with cut-and-paste, Google, Wikipedia, and online buy-a-paper sites. > > In other words, all our social-science approaches lead in the same direction. > Too bleak? > > On a lighter note, veterans will recall that GEPED had its own experience > several ye
Re: book recommendations
Another one from me. I second also the Weart book, a great history of the science (Bert Bolin has one out also but while very authoritative, is pretty dry). But I admit to not liking the weathermakers at all. It does depend what you want the book to do, but it's 18 chapters on the latest evidence on why we've probably had it, and one chapter on responses and politics. The last chapter on what is in my view (and I suspect I'm not the only one on this list!) the most important bit is truly awful - factual errors all over the place and a really htin understanding. The journalists (the Linden book I mentioned, Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Monbiot, Lynas, probably Friedman but I haven't read him yet) are all bette on the politics than the scientists. Cheers Mat -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep > From: Deborah Davenport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:18:58 -0600 > To: "'Betsill,Michele'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu" > Conversation: book recommendations > Subject: RE: book recommendations > > Hi, Michele, > > How about Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet, by Chris > Spence (2005, Palgrave Macmillan), perhaps? > > The book draws from Spence's experiences with the International Institute for > Sustainable Development (Earth Negotiations Bulletin) and takes issue with > some of the Bush Administration's policies on climate change. > > Debbie > > Deborah S. Davenport, Ph.D. > Director, MA Programme in Global Affairs > Lecturer in International Political Economy > Department of Economics and International Studies > University of Buckingham > Hunter Street > Buckingham, Bucks. MK18 1EG > U.K. > Tel: +44-1280-820-122 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Betsill,Michele > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:30 PM > To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu > Subject: book recommendations > > I had an interesting request from a couple of students taking my undergrad > climate change politics course. They want to buy a book for their parents for > Xmas that will help open up a conversation on climate change. They want > something that is written for the lay public and not too "in your face". The > first books that came to my mind were Speth's RED SKY AT MORNING and > Doughman's edited volume CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT IT MEANS FOR US, OUR CHILDREN > AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN. Any other suggestions? > > Thanks, > M > > > ___ > Michele M. Betsill > Associate Professor > Department of Political Science > Colorado State University > Fort Collins, CO 80523 > USA > 970.491.5270 > >
Re: book recommendations
I've read a lot of the popular books over the last year and a half. Here's 3.5 possibilities: Kate Evans, Funny Weather. This is a cartoon rendition, so it depends on your audiences, but it is absolutely excellent, something in the vein of George Monbiot's Heat (also very good, but might be 'in your face', although it is very mild for George, and very technology focused - how might we decarbonise). I'm planning on using it (Funny Weather) next tiem I teach, it's very solid as well as accessible. Mark Lynas, 6 Degrees. It thinks through what the implications of 1, through to 6 degrees of warming. Excellent on the latest stuff about thresholds, positive feedbacks, and also htinking about what the world was like the last time the world was that much warmer (crocodiles at the north pole, etc) Eugene Linden, The Winds of Change - the best one I read which uses the historical material (Jared Diamond having started that genre) - collapse of the Mayans, of the Norse in Greenland, etc - as a possible guide to what we might expect. He's a NYT journalist so fairly mainstream. Cheers Mat -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep > From: "Betsill,Michele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:29:54 -0700 > To: "gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu" > Conversation: book recommendations > Subject: book recommendations > > I had an interesting request from a couple of students taking my undergrad > climate change politics course. They want to buy a book for their parents for > Xmas that will help open up a conversation on climate change. They want > something that is written for the lay public and not too "in your face". The > first books that came to my mind were Speth's RED SKY AT MORNING and > Doughman's edited volume CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT IT MEANS FOR US, OUR CHILDREN > AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN. Any other suggestions? > > Thanks, > M > > > ___ > Michele M. Betsill > Associate Professor > Department of Political Science > Colorado State University > Fort Collins, CO 80523 > USA > 970.491.5270 >
Book based on GEP articles
Dear all We are writing to ask your views on articles published in Global Environmental Politics. We are planning to propose a volume to MIT Press based on articles published in the journal, to be published in time to celebrate the first ten years of the journal. The journal has become well-established, in the social science citations index at the first attempt, and its success is worth celebrating. The aim would to produce a volume which would be used in teaching, while also showcasing the best of the work published in the journal. We wonder therefore if you could help us by sending short responses to the questions below, so that we can try to reflect the judgements of the GEP community as a whole. 1) Which 3-4 pieces from the journal do you assign to students most often? 2) What other pieces do you think you be included in any anthology of GEP publications? 3) Are there particular themes that you think a GEP collection should include? 4) Any other comments, for example about why particular pieces are great in class, or important to include. We¹d appreciate any responses you might have to some or all of these questions by the end of November, as we would like to have a proposal to MIT early in the New Year. Could you send any responses to Mat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks for your help. Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne, Matthew Paterson and Stacy VanDeveer. -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep
Re: Solar Energy and the Middle East
The most prominent such scheme is this one. Abu Dhabi has announced an enormouse project focusing on renewables, named MASDAR. The details are at http://www.masdaruae.com/. Not clear how fast it¹ll be rolled out. As to the CDM, they are certainly developing countries in Kyoto parlance, and eligible for CDM projects. They have at best a tiny number of projects however in 2007, 5% of all CDM projects were in the rest of Asia¹, that is taking india and China out (which have 79% of all CDM projects between them China having 73%!) (World Bank figures State and trends of the carbon market 2008). So OPEC countries have at best a handful of projects. Apart from the MASDAR proejct, their interest at the moment has been in promoting Carbon Capture and Storage in the CDM, that would probably get them much more interested in the Kyoto mechanisms (after 2012 however). Much of their interest is that CCS can enable you to pump even more oil and gas out of the ground of course, and then get lovely CDM credits for it. Cheers Mat -- Matthew Paterson Professor of Political Science School of Political Studies Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 55, rue Laurier est / 55 Laurier East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Fax +1 613 562-5371 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep From: William Hipwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: VUW Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:00:21 -0400 To: Subject: Solar Energy and the Middle East Dear Colleagues: I am conducting research into alternative energy, in part for the purposes of developing a distance-learning course and am wondering if anyone could provide guidance in one particular area. I am interested in identifying recent sources of information about the use of solar energy in the Middle East, including such things as government policies, applications, public perceptions, multinational corporations active in the area and so forth. I have been given to understand that despite their oil wealth, most ME countries are designated as "developing" for the purposes of Kyoto mechanisms. Is this true? Thanks for any assistance. I will compile responses and re-release a compendium to the list. Cheers, Bill
Re: Crichton's "State of Fear"
If you’re using the ‘great global warming swindle’, it’s worth knowing that Channel 4, the UK channel which produced it, is currently being done by the TV regulators there for blatantly distorting things scientists they interviewed said, and various other specious claims in the film. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/19/channel4.climatechange. Of course being done by the regulators only proves how deep the conspiracy is :-) It’s also worth noting that Martin Durkin has been behind a series of ‘controversial’ documentaries, many of which have ended up in the courts for telling lies about all sorts of things, notably one which denied there was a concentration camp at Srebrenica, as well as an earlier anti-green one called ‘against nature’. There’s an interesting political twist in that Durkin is closely associated with a group which was formerly the Revolutionary Communist Party in the UK. They were a weird group, officially lefty but held a bizarre highly libertarian line which aligned them well with what you might expect from the Heritage Foundation et al. they still get extraordinary exposure in the UK given how tiny they have always been. Mat -- Matthew Paterson Professor of Political Science School of Political Studies Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 55, rue Laurier est / 55 Laurier East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Fax +1 613 562-5371 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep From: Michael Maniates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:55:51 -0400 To: Subject: Re: Crichton's "State of Fear" (Ooops. I posted this earlier note this morning, but inadvertently sent it only to Michelle. MM) Michelle and others, I've used portions of the book, along with showing the short "documentary" titled The Great Global Warming Swindle. I then invite my students to burrow into the natural science record and critically evaluate the claims and uncover the "cherry picking" of the natural-science record present in both sources. I've found this to be a useful exercise. In my experience (and I've come to learn this the hard way), if we don't teach students about the pseudo-science (i.e. all warming is due to variations in sun-spot activity, etc.), they're utterly flummoxed the first time they hear these arguments and critiques. I do this in my global environmental politics course as an example of how public perception can be easily swayed by pseudo-science, but how it can also be significantly swayed in the other direction by coherent rebuttal. I like the outcomes: students are empowered to "check up" on all sort of claims, mainstream and skeptic, around climate change and other topics. I'd be far less satisfied with this exercise if it didn't ask the students to assess the veracity of the skeptic arguments (and write a tight, referenced paper), drawing on an array of sources (print and Internet) to which I point them, and which they discover on their own. Mike Maniates At 06:58 PM 7/18/2008, you wrote: > Has anyone used Michael Crichton‚s STATE OF FEAR book in a course? I was > thinking of having students read it the same week we watch AN INCONVENIENT > TRUTH in my climate politics class. > > Thoughts? > Michele > > > Michele M. Betsill, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > Department of Political Science > Clark B350 > Colorado State University > Fort Collins, CO 80523 > USA > 970-491-5270 > 970-491-2490 (fax) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: Environmental Policy Failures compiled list
There's a good discussion of the rebound effect in: Energy Policy 2000. On the rebound?¹, Special Issue edited by Lee Schipper, Energy Policy 28, 6-7. The rebound effect is effectively a special case of the 'Jevons paradox' expounded by Stanley Jevons in the 1865. Cheers Mat -- Matthew Paterson Professor of Political Science School of Political Studies Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 55, rue Laurier est / 55 Laurier East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Fax +1 613 562-5371 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep > From: Steven Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:05:49 -0400 > To: "VanDeveer, Stacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Ruba Marshood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Subject: RE: Environmental Policy Failures compiled list > > In regard to Stacy's comments, there is a literature on the "rebound > effect" that might be of interest. I.e., the idea that increased > efficiencies can have the perverse effect of encouraging people to consume > more. Sorry I don't have citations offhand. I gather there is also a > debate about its robustness. > > Steven > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, VanDeveer, Stacy wrote: > >> Hi - I'll add on too. >> >> I think you might look for several examples of policies that improved >> environmental efficiency (if way use such language), bur failed to >> protect the environment. For example, neither US CAFÉ standards nor >> European style petrol taxes have stopped the growth in vehicle miles >> traveled or the growth in aggregate demand for gasoline (with all of >> the incumbent environmental implications). In other words, I think >> one might pay special attention to policies that were successful in >> meeting some of their goals, but still failed to curb significant >> aspects of environmental damage. >> >> --sv >> >> >> >> >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruba Marshood >> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:05 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu >> Subject: Re: Environmental Policy Failures compiled list >> >> >> >> I would suggest adding - to the note on sharks - that they are not only >> harmed via by-catch, but also in targetted fisheries. the biggest threat is >> practice in which they are treated after being caught (whether incidentally >> or not) - in that they are finned and dumped back to sea. Essentially, this >> is cost-effective practice as the market values fins over the rest of the >> body by the tenfold...so for the fishers, it is much greater profit to take >> only the fins of as many sharks as possible rather than take the whole shark >> on board, with limited space, and have fewer fins. >> >> >> >> thanks for sharing! >> >> ruba >> >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Shannon K. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thank you so much to everyone who replied with examples of >> environmental policy failures. It was depressing but useful. >> Below is the compiled list: >> >> Shannon >> >> - collapse of the cod fishery in Newfoundland >> - European emissions trading scheme >> - Yellowstone Wildfires >> - Sharks are being torn out the ocean, but as by-catch, and no-on >> pays attention to by-catch and beyond that sharks have little >> salience in policy circles (here CITES has been neutered-- we >> only have 4 sharks listed, one on the strict list but almost all >> the great sharks have collapsed). >> >> - Coral reefs, mangroves, and sea grass communities are getting >> shredded. Mangroves have many domestic laws protecting them as >> commons, but the same countries sanction enclosure and tearing >> them down for shrimp ponds. >> - US failure to sign Kyoto >> - the fizzle of the National Acid Precip. Assess Project... >> - why the local public utility commission doesn't promote least >> cost procurement that includes energy efficiency and/or renewable >> energy, and internalizes true socio-environmental costs of all >> energy alternatives >> >> Other References: >> - Paul F. Steinberg "Understanding Policy Change in Developing >> Countries: The Spheres of Infuence Framework" Global >> Environmental Politics 3:1, February 2003 >> >> Ludwi
Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI
Following what Willett says, however, is that the earlier books, I think of Soft Energy Paths in particular, were clear that the technological choices about energy were absolutely political and social. Choosing a soft energy future was also choosing a decentralised, potentially libertarian, society, while hard energy technoloies necessitated massive security apparatuses and so on. This is different to thinking through the social obstacles to the uptake of new technologies, admittedly, but at least in his earlier incarnations, there was this recognition of technology as social, before he got his free-market boosterism somewhere in the 1980s. Mat -- Matthew Paterson Professor of Political Science School of Political Studies Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 55, rue Laurier est / 55 Laurier East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Fax +1 613 562-5371 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp From: willett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:39:59 -0500 To: Bram Büscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Global Environmental Education Subject: Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI Two decades ago, Denton Morrison published a couple of aritlces in the sociological literatuares laying out all of Lovin's social science assertions found in earlier books. He wasn't really critical but it was clear that even the earlier work had huge numbers of unproven assertions about society, combined with a pretty good (if optimistic) analysis of emerging technologies. I haven't loooked for anything more recent. Willett Kempton On 24 Feb 2008, at 15:22, Bram Büscher wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > I was at the Berlin conference of the Human Dimensions of Global Change > yesterday and attended a (video conference) presentation by dr. Amory Lovins > of the Rocky Mountain institute. I have seen few people so bluntly reduce all > environmental problems (and the politics around it) to technological fetishes > (apparently accessible to all?). > > He also advocated another book of his and colleagues entitled 'Natural > Capitalism' that again combines all the good and the ugly into a 'profitable' > 'win-win' mix for all of humankind and nature... On the website of the book > (natcap.org) it says that they want to publish cheers and jeers, but that 'so > far, the book has received almost pure praise and that frankly, this is a bit > embarrassing'. > > Now, personally, I cannot imagine this, and wonder whether anybody on the > list has some suggestions for critical literature/articles. Basically, I'm > looking for some more practical armour in the face of people who so > optimistically go about selling such grand illusions. > > Thanks, > > Bram > > > > >
Re: ecofeminist readings?
Here is a list of htings I used to use. It's a little out of date but still some good things. In a narrower IR context the Bretherton article is a good overview. I particularly like Mellor's breaking the boundaries and mies and shiva's ecofeminism, and Joni Seager's Earth Follies. Mat Paterson *Janet Biehl (1991) Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics, Black Rose, Montreal. HQ1154.B4 Bretherton, C, ‘Global Environmental Politics: Putting Gender on the Agenda?’, Review of International Studies, 24, 1, 1998; 85‑100 *Charlotte Bretherton, ‘Gender and environmental change: are women the key to safeguarding the planet?’, in Vogler and Imber, The Environment and International Relations. Collard, Andre (1988) Rape of the Wild, The Women's Press, London. GF75.C6 Eckersley, Robyn (1992) Environmentalism and political theory: towards an ecocentric approach, UCL Press, London, pp63-71. Griffin, Susan (1978) Woman and nature: the roaring insider her, Harper & Row, New York. PS3557.R44W6 Wendy Harcourt (ed.) Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development, Zed, London, 1994. *Mary Mellor (1992) Breaking the boundaries: towards a feminist green socialism, Virago, London. GF50.M3 Carolyn Merchant (1992) Radical Ecology: The search for a livable world, Routledge, New York. QH540.5.M3 Carolyn Merchant (1982) The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution, Wildwood House, London. Q130.M3 Carolyn Merchant, (1996) Earthcare: Women and the environment, Routledge, London *Mies, Maria and Vandana Shiva (1993) Ecofeminism, Zed Books, London. *Plant, Judith (ed.) (1989) Healing the Wounds: the promise of ecofeminism, Green Print, London. Plumwood, Val (1988) `Women, humanity and nature', Radical Philosophy, Spring. *Plumwood, Val (1993) Feminism and the mastery of nature, Routledge, London. HQ1233.P5 Runyan, Anne Sisson (1992) `The "State" of Nature: A Garden unfit for women and other living things', in V Spike Peterson Gendered States, Lynne Rienner, Boulder CO, Ch 5. JX1255.P3 Geraldine Reardon (ed.) Women and the Environment, Oxfam Publications, Oxford, 1993. *Seager, Joni (1993) Earth Follies: feminism, politics and the environment, Earthscan, London. *Shiva, Vandana (1988) Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, Zed Books, London. Sontheimer, Sally (ed.) (1991) Women and the Environment: A Reader, Crisis and Development in the Third World, Earthscan, London. (borrow from MP) Warren, Karen (1987) `Feminism and Ecology: Making Connections', Environmental Ethics, 9, Spring. Warren, Karen (1990) `The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism', Environmental Ethics, 12, pp125-146. -- Matthew Paterson School of Political Studies Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 55, rue Laurier est / 55 Laurier East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Fax +1 613 562-5371 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp > From: Adil Najam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:49:07 -0400 > To: Ronald Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GEPED > > Conversation: ecofeminist readings? > Subject: Re: ecofeminist readings? > > Ron > > Vandana is always a good read for a more activist take. If you want a > more academic take I would suggest the writings of Bina Agarwal. > > Adil Najam > > - > ADIL NAJAM > Associate Professor of > International Negotiation & Diplomacy > The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy > Tufts University > > 160 Packard Avenue > Medford, MA 02155, USA > > Phone: 617 627 2706 > Fax: 617 627 3005 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://fletcher.tufts.edu/faculty/najam/profile.asp > > > > > On 9/19/07 5:28 PM, "Ronald Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> All, >> I want to provide a theoretical piece on ecofeminism, hopefully with >> a close link to the international. Vandana Shiva's stuff comes to >> mind, but I am not well-read in this area. I would welcome suggestions for: >> recent >> international >> ecofeminist >> works that would be worth assigning. >> Thanks, and I can take these off-list, compile, and post to the list >> in a week or so. >> Ron >> >> >> >> Ronald Mitchell, Professor >> Department of Political Science >> University of Oregon >> Eugene OR 97403-1284 >> Phone: 541-346-4880/Fax: 541-346-4860 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/ >> International Environmental Agreements Database: http://iea.uoregon.edu/ >> Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change >> Research (DISCCRS): http://www.disccrs.org/ >> New Book: Global Environmental Assessments: Information and >> Influence, Edited by Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W. >> Cash and Nancy M. Dickson >> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11038 >> > > >
RE: envlawprofessors: Climate Change Survey
I'd make a much bigger emphasis on a cultural explanation here I think. the issue seems to me more about the cultural status of automobility than perceived differences in the determination of prices. car use has become associated with the way that core Western values (where the US is merely th most extreme version) such as freedom, individualism, mobility, are articulated, in a way that heating (or cooling) your home has not. So increases in such gas prices figure as threats to core values in ways that incraeses in utility bills don't, and are thus resisted. If you look for example at all the anti-Kyoto activism by corporate front groups and neocon thinktanks (Heritage, Cato, et al), it is almost exclusively focused on car-driving and the threat to this by climate action, not the threat to embattled homeowners desperate to heat their homes ... remember the 'they're trying to take away my SUV' ad in late 1997? you couldn't imagine this about an airconditioner. Mat Matthew Paterson Professeur titulaire École d'études politiques Université d'Ottawa 75 rue Laurier Ottawa K1N 6N5 Canada 613 562 5800 x 1716 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/fra/profdetails.asp?login=mpaterson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Wil Burns Sent: Sun 24/06/2007 6:12 PM To: 'Craig Oren' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Subject: RE: envlawprofessors: Climate Change Survey It's also fascinating to watch this psychology in action: folks will queue at a gas station with hyper cut-rate gasoline for hours despite what that must translate into in terms of opportunity costs, yet won't do highly cost-beneficial retrofitting in their home. I hope communications experts like Susie Moser can help us craft some effective messages for public consumption. wil Dr. Wil Burns Senior Fellow, International Environmental Law Santa Clara University School of Law 500 El Camino Real, Loyola 101 Santa Clara, CA 95053 USA Phone: 408.551.3000 x6139 Mobile: 650.281.9126 Fax: 408.554.2745 [EMAIL PROTECTED] SSRN Author Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=240348 International Environmental Law Blog: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/intlenvironment/ -Original Message- From: Craig Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 9:29 AM To: Wil Burns Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Subject: RE: envlawprofessors: Climate Change Survey not to my knowledge. I think the difference is that gasoline prices are more visible to consumers than are utility bills, partly because gasoline prices are paid more often and affect an important daily activity. But that's just my guess. On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Wil Burns wrote: > Hi Craig, > > Thanks for responding. You obviously know a lot more about utilities issues > than I do; however, my question would be whether there's any empirical > evidence that the general public comprehends the regulatory environment > faced by utilities. wil > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of harrisc > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:30 PM > To: 'Wil Burns'; gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: envlawprofessors: Climate Change Survey > > i don't think anyone on gep-ed responded to wil burns re-post of craig > oren's message on the environmental law professors list . . . if someone > did, i apologize for missing it . . . > > it occurs to me that u.s. citizens are willing to accept higher utility > rates because those rates are largely controlled by state and (indirectly) > federal public service commissions, but u.s. citizens are not willing to > accept higher gasoline prices because those prices are not subject to any > formal controls . . . i would suggest that u.s. consumers perceive gasoline > wholesalers and retailers as already having set prices at a level that > ensures a large profit, so consumers do not feel that they should have to > pay any more . . . > > cheers, > > craig > > craig k harris > department of sociology > michigan agricultural experiment station > national food safety and toxicology center > institute for food and agricultural standards > michigan state university > http://www.msu.edu/~harrisc/ > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wil Burns > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:17 PM > To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu > Subject: FW: envlawprofessors: Climate Change Survey > > FYI. wil > > Dr. Wil Burns > Senior Fellow, International Environmental Law Santa Clara University School > of Law 500 El Camino Real, Loyola 101 Santa Clara, CA 95053 USA >
RE: Carbon offsets
I'd be keen on such a panel. I was going to propose it a little wider, on 'climate capitalism'. I,m happy to put this together if people are interested. Mat Matthew Paterson Professeur titulaire École d'études politiques Université d'Ottawa 75 rue Laurier Ottawa K1N 6N5 Canada 613 562 5800 x 1716 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/fra/profdetails.asp?login=mpaterson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ronnie Lipschutz Sent: Tue 3/13/2007 2:47 PM To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Carbon offsets Dear All: Apropos the article just circulated by Stacy V., is anyone interested in assembling one or more panels on carbon offsets for next year's ISA? Ronnie Lipschutz P.S.: Stacy--in case this gets bounced back to me, could you circulate the question to the GEP list? * Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, Dept. of Politics, 234 Crown College University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: 831-459-3275/Fax: 831-459-3125; http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/home.html *
RE: Clean-car regime?
If it counts as a regime (dependent on your perspective on the EU), then the various directives from the EU - phasing out lead, enforcing catalytic converters, and now enforcing life-cycle manufacturer responsibility for vehicles, could count. The theoretical question for him would be why would you expect this to be resolved internationally rather than through national regulation/policy change. It isn't a "public good" in the same way as climate is for example, in fact you might expect countries to promote divergent policies to favour their industries (some of the EU history follows htis - as Germany has been able to Europeanise its own regulations favouring its own industry - and Germany is now whining that the newly proposed CO2 per km limits to meet the EU Kyoto target are competitive strategies by French and Italian firms). One thought is to push him towards the "private regimes" literature (Cutler, Porter, Clapp classically on the ISO, etc) then he could look at the various R&D partnerships to develop fuel cells (or much less ambitious ones - such as GM's short lived alliance with Fiat which seems to me was a way for GM to get decent designs for small cars, now appearing on North American streets) as such a regime. Given globalisation of the industry, you mgiht then expect inter-firm collaboration more than inter-state collaboration, and that is in fact what we see. Mat Matthew Paterson Professeur titulaire École d'études politiques Université d'Ottawa 75 rue Laurier Ottawa K1N 6N5 Canada 613 562 5800 x 1716 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/fra/profdetails.asp?login=mpaterson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Wendy Jackson Sent: Tue 2/27/2007 8:17 PM To: Robert Darst Cc: GEP-Ed Subject: Re: Clean-car regime? Hi Robert- Check out the website for the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (www.unep.org/pcfv), a global partnership organised by the United Nations Environment Programme, with active participation by governments, non-governmental organisations, and the fuels and vehicles industries. They have been proponents of improving fuel quality in developing countries (i.e. phasing out leaded petrol), as well as promoting adoption of cleaner vehicle technologies (such as catalytic converters). It recently won a UN 21 Award in the category of "substantive programmes". If you have any questions, let me know - I used to work with the Partnership and still consult for them. Hope this helps! Cheers, Wendy Jackson PhD Candidate Lincoln University New Zealand On 2/28/07, Robert Darst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Here's one in the "dog that didn't bark" category. One of my students in GEP > has proposed writing his research paper(s) on the international regime to > promote cleaner automobiles. When I read his proposal, I realized (a) that > there certainly should be such a regime, given the vast number of problems > that it would solve all over the world, and (b) that there was no such > regime that I knew of. I told him that the question was worth asking, even > if it would be hard to answer. Do any of you have any pointers for him and > his clueless instructor? > > Thanks, > Rob > Assistant Professor of Political Science > Associate Director of the Honors Program > University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
RE: "the american way of life is not up for negotiation"
He was quoted in the Guardian at the time as saying: We cannot permit the extreme in the environmental movement to shut down the United States. We cannot shut down the lives of many Americans by going extreme on the environment President Bush at UNCED, quoted in The Guardian, June 1 1992 Not quite the phrase, but definitely the sentiment. Mat Matthew Paterson Professeur titulaire École d'études politiques Université d'Ottawa 75 rue Laurier Ottawa K1N 6N5 Canada 613 562 5800 x 1716 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/fra/profdetails.asp?login=mpaterson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Adil Najam Sent: Thu 2/22/2007 11:46 PM To: Pam Chasek; Dale W Jamieson; gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Subject: Re: "the american way of life is not up for negotiation" My understanding is that he said it to the press and not in an official speech... I have seen him being quoted as such in the immediate post Rio issue of Down to Earth (published by CSE, New Delhi, India) On 2/22/07 8:07 PM, "Pam Chasek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the speech from Rio: > http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/papers/1992/92061200.html but he didn't > say the American way of life is not negotiable there.Nor did he say it when > signing the Climate Change Convention > http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/papers/1992/92061201.html At least > according to the text of the speeches at the Bush Library. > > I'll keep looking. I probably have it in my notes from Rio in New York, but > that won't help me now. > > Pam > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dale W Jamieson > Sent: Thu 2/22/2007 7:42 p.m. > To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu > Subject: "the american way of life is not up for negotiation" > > > > we all know that bush said this or something like it at the rio earth > summit, but does anyone have a good source for it? > > thanks > > dale > > ** > Dale Jamieson > Director of Environmental Studies > Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy > Affiliated Professor of Law > New York University > http://www.esig.ucar.edu/HP_dale.html > > Contact information: > Steinhardt School, HMSS > 246 Greene Street, Suite 300 > New York NY 10003-6677 > 212-998-5429 (voice) 212-995-4832 (fax) > > "Knowing what we know now, that you could vote against the war and > still be elected president, I would never have pretended to support > it."--Hilary Clinton parody on Saturday Night Live > > - Original Message - > From: Beth DeSombre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thursday, February 22, 2007 6:38 pm > Subject: Re: Compendium -- where we are > >> "Wright, Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thursday, February >> 22, 2007 >> at 5:55 PM -0500 wrote: >>> I am struck--and I hope I have not missed anything here--by the >> lack of >>> anything about agriculture and the environment. Is that a considered >>> judgment or just a slip-up? >> >> Well, as I indicated in the message introducing the list, it was >> generatedentirely from suggestions from people on this list >> responding to my first >> call for suggestions. >> >> It simply means that no one suggested it the first time around -- >> precisely the reason I posted the list of suggestions I *had* >> received, so >> that people could look at what had not been suggested and speak up. >> >> Beth >> >> > > > - ADIL NAJAM Associate Professor of International Negotiation & Diplomacy The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy Tufts University 160 Packard Avenue Medford, MA 02155, USA Phone: 617 627 2706 Fax: 617 627 3005 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fletcher.tufts.edu/faculty/najam/profile.asp
RE: discourse analysis
A student of mine found this very useful as an introduction. David Howarth, Discourse. Buckingham: Open UP, 2000 Matthew Matthew Paterson School of Political Studies University of Ottawa 75 Laurier East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada (613) 562-5800 x1716 Fax (613) 562-5371 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Bernstein Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:58 AM To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Cc: Bruyninckx, Hans Subject: Re: discourse analysis These suggestions are not from global environmental politics, but are about the best I've seen on "how to" do discourse analysis. Perhaps you've already gone this literature? Anyway, hope they help. Jennifer Milliken has readable piece in European Journal of International Relations: "The Study of Discourse in Itnernational Relations: A Critique of Research and Methods," EJIR 5 (2) (1999), 225-254. Norman Fairclough (2001), "Critical Discourse Analysis as a Method in Social Scientific Research," in Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer, eds., "Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis" (London: Sage), 121-138. You should also try to get a hold of the newsletters from APSA's new qualitative methods section. The second newsletter had a symposium on Discourse and Content Analysis. "Qualitative Method" 2 (1), 15-40. It's quite good. You might also look at Roxanne Lynn-Doty (1993), "Foreign Policy as Social Construct," ISQ 37 (3), 297-320, which has a nice section on the method she uses, rooted in discourse analysis. Cheers, Steven On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Raul Pacheco wrote: > Hello Hans, > > Here are some recommendations for discourse analysis work. > > I don't know if you have heard of the work of Angela Oels. I met her at the > Global Environmental Change conference in Berlin in 2001. Her website is > > http://www.angelaoels.de/ > > Circa 2001 she was using discourse analysis, maybe she still does. You may > want to contact her. > > You've probably heard of Hajer's work on discourse analysis. I came across > this a few weeks ago (I am also interested in discourse analysis) > > http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/publications/eps/onlineissues/autumn2002/researc h/mottier.htm > > And I don't have my EndNote references here for discourse analysis but you > can extract Hajer's two main contributions from this paper's bibliography. > > http://www.ncl.ac.uk/guru/Working%20Papers/EWP%2028.pdf > > Hope this helps, > R. > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Bruyninckx, Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:13 AM > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a researcher who is looking at China in the post-Kyoto talks. The > > main argument is that two discourses play in the debate about China: 1. > > China as a developing nation (UNDP and WB approach) and 2. China as a > > large and swiftly industrializing state with potentially very large > > emissions. > > China and other actors use these discourses in different forums, for > > different audiences and for different strategic goals. > > > > My question is: do you know of any articles that explain the use of > > discourses and discourse analysis in light of this issue. It is > > surprisingly difficult to find a text that really explains the 'how to > > make use of discourse analysis' in this type of questions. Most things I > > have seen just start from the assumption that the disourse is there, > > that one has looked at it, and ... here are the conclusions. A more > > methodological approach to the use of discourse analysis in GEP seems > > less easy to find. Or have I just not looked in the right spot? > > > > Friendly greetings, > > > > Hans Bruyninckx > > Associate Professor of International Environmental Politics > > Environmental Policy Group > > Wageningen University > > > > > > > > Steven Bernstein Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Toronto 100 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M5S 3G3 Phone: 416-978-3345 (St. George) 905-828-3913 (Mississauga) Fax: 416-978-5566
RE: Green "identity" of states?
John Dryzek et al, Green States and Social Movements, Oxford UP, 2003, and a series of articles related to that book, would be the other major work developing this notion. Matthew Matthew Paterson School of Political Studies University of Ottawa 75 Laurier East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada (613) 562-5800 x1716 Fax (613) 562-5371 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elizabeth R. DeSombre Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:47 AM To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Subject: Green "identity" of states? I have a thesis student who is doing some work with the idea of states having a "green identity." Other than our Sprout runner-up, Eckersley (The Green State), any suggestion for general readings on the idea that states might have green identities? Beth
RE: Sci-Fi and the Environment
Title: Re: Sci-Fi and the Environment Sorry to come in late to this. I don’t use them in teaching but a v good idea, and thanks for the ideas about book reading. I’d put in a word for JG Ballard. His first book was The Drowned World, which imagines (in 1957, the IGY) a warmed world to the extent that sea-levels are up by a hundred feet or so … Depending on the boundaries of the genre, Crash seems to me apposite, but his better dystopian book about cars is Concrete Island, which is a desert island story set in the middle of a motorway roundabout which someone falls into and cannot escape. And his recent ones like Supercannes and Cocaine Nights are updated Brave New World dystopias (except they’re about a world which currently exists, and thus in my view more interesting) about the hyper-distanciation from ‘nature’ (he’d probably hate the word) and its social consequences. He also has a novel, Rushing to Paradise, which is about when a US environmental group takes over an island due, if memory serves, to be destroyed by a French nuclear test, but which then ends up itself destroying it in a Lord of the Flies sort of scenario. Perhaps less comfortable for us. There will be a book out in a couple of years or so by Piers Stephens on dystopian fiction and Green theory which might be worth keeping an eye out for. Cheers Mat Matthew Paterson School of Political Studies University of Ottawa 75 Laurier East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada (613) 562-5800 x1716 Fax (613) 562-5371 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kate O'Neill Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 10:26 AM To: Robert Darst; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sci-Fi and the Environment Thanks, all - I also recommend Earth Abides (I picked up an old copy on the street here, someone had left out a box of sci-fi books, glad to know it's still around), and On the Beach. In the short story category, Vanishing Acts, edited by Ellen Datlow (2000), is a collection all about species extinction. (Specifically, also, on losing biodiversity, Sheri S. Tepper's latest, The Companions, is terrific) On cloning technology, Kate Wilhelm's Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, is a classic. cheers, Kate At 9:45 AM -0500 11/19/04, Robert Darst wrote: Following on the suggestion of Earth Abides, let us not forget the voluminous literature dealing with nuclear war! My personal favorites in this genre are: Failsafe (which focuses on the way in which an accidental nuclear war might begin), and On the Beach (which focuses on the slow death of the human race in the aftermath of an all-out exchange). I won't say "enjoy"; these are in the "read 'em and weep" category. Rob Colleagues: I'll second the nomination for Oryx and Crake; it deals with global environmental issues (e.g. the consequences of climate change), medicine, disease, and the issue of losing control of technology, as well as GMOs. To that I would add (sorry of it has been mentioned) Earth, by David Brin, which still lives in my imagination more than 15 years after I read it. Finally, a classic from the late forties is Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. It was re-released in 1986. In this story, a geographer (!) travels through the United States after a disease has wiped out almost the entire population. A fascinating perspective on how the Earth might bounce back once humanity has passed. Happy reading. Cheers, Bill P.S. The response to this thread confirms for me what I have long suspected: scholars are starving for enjoyable reading material! At 21:55 17/11/2004, John M. Meyer wrote: One more possibility might be a new novel by Margaret Atwood, *Oryx and Crake*. I'm only about 1/2 way through it, but it's v. good so far. It's about a genetically engineered future seemingly gone wrong... John --- John M. Meyer, Associate Professor Department of Government and Politics Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521 phone: 707.826.4497; fax: 826.4496 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Wil Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GEP-Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:53 PM Subject: Fwd: Sci-Fi and the Environment - Kate, et al. Here's an interesting recent paper you might find germane also: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/pik_web/publications/pik_reports/reports/pr.92/pr92.pdf DOUBLE IMPACT THE CLIMATE BLOCKBUSTER 'THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW' AND ITS IMPACT ON THE GERMAN CINEMA PUBLIC Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, No. 92. Not what usually comes out of the PIK shop : wil = William C.G. Burns, Co-Chair American Society of Internat
RE: Book review assignments ??
Stacy I have just doen this in my IPE (not GEP class, but the logic is the same). This is what I put in the course outline on it. 2. Review of textbook (20%, maximum 1500 words). This exercise will help you develop early on a broad knowledge of themes within IPE, and to decide which specific areas, theories, or themes, interest you for your long paper (see below), but its primary purpose is to help you develop your critical analytic skills. You should aim to pick out the conceptual framework informing the work, identify strengths and weaknesses in their arguments, analyses, scope of coverage, or (often most importantly) the sorts of questions they ask of IPE. The piece should not therefore simply be a summary of the book's coverage or argument, but should be a vehicle for you to develop your own ideas in response to the book's content. You should write a review of one of the following textbooks in IPE: Robert O'Brien and Marc Williams, Global Political Economy (Palgrave, 2004); Robert Gilpin, Global Political Economy (Princeton University Press, 2001); Stephen Gill and David Law, The Global Political Economy (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988); David Balaam and Michael Veseth, Introduction to International Political Economy (2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2001); Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill, Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, (2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2000); Ronen Palan (ed.) Global Political Economy: Conntemorary theories (Routledge, 2000); Ralph Pettman, Understanding International Political Economy (Lynne Rienner, 1996). Copies of these have been ordered at Benjamin Books, 122 Osgoode St. For examples of book reviews, look at the journals International Affairs, Political Studies, Mershon International Studies Review, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Millennium, in particular. This seemed to work in terms of communicating what I wanted them to do. The main weakness I found with this particular one was giving them textbooks - if I do this next year (either in GEP or IPE) I will give them something which has a more obvious narrative or argument that they can engage with. Hope this is vaguely helpful. Mat Matthew Paterson School of Political Studies University of Ottawa 75 Laurier East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada (613) 562-5800 x1716 Fax (613) 562-5371 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stacy vandeveer Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 9:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Book review assignments ?? Colleagues, I have assinged a book review in my upper level GEP seminar. In the past, I have been only moderately succussful in giving the students enough information to help them produce decent book reviews. Do any of you have a handout or description -- or any tips -- about how to describe to students what a book review should entail. --Stacy Stacy D. VanDeveer 2003-06 Ronald H. O'Neal Professor Department of Political Science University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 T: 603-862-0167 F: 603-862-0178 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
