Dear All: On behalf of the EGSG committee, I am pleased to announce this year's best dissertation award winner. The winner is Elizabeth Shapiro for her dissertation entitled "To Revalue the Rural? Transformation of the Mexican Federal Payments for Ecosystem Services Programs from Neoliberal Notion to Development Dogma". Elizabeth completed her Ph.D. at the University of California Berkeley and is now assistant professor at Duke University.
Congratulations to Elizabeth. Thanks to those who submitted a dissertation for this stiff competition, and to judges Julie Silva and Jun Zhang. For further details of EGSG awards and competitions, please visit our web site,http://www.geography.uconn.edu/aag-econ/ and go to the "competitions" page. Norma -- Norma Rantisi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Geography, Planning & Environment Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Tel.: 514-848-2424, ext. 2018 Fax: 514-848-2032 E-mail: norma.rant...@gmail.com -- Norma Rantisi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Geography, Planning & Environment Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Tel.: 514-848-2424, ext. 2018 Fax: 514-848-2032 E-mail: norma.rant...@gmail.com