Would anyone have handy data or a reference that compares the contributions of
different countries to climate change research? This could be money spent on
climate change science, number of publications by national origin of authors,
or something along these lines. I am doing a short piece for a public radio
program (in a few hours...) and I would like to point to the disparity between
US action and US research in this area.
Thanks for any leads!
Paul
Paul F. Steinberg
Associate Professor of Political Science
Environmental Policy
http://www.hmc.edu/steinberg
Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, the Arts
301 East Platt Boulevard
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA 91711
tel. 909-607-3840
- Original Message -
From: DG Webster d.g.webs...@dartmouth.edu
To: Gep-Ed (gep-ed@googlegroups.com) gep-ed@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 1:22:54 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [gep-ed] Fwd: ISA 2012 panel/paper/poster proposals
Hello again,
I'm happy to see several panels forming up. In hopes of facilitating further,
I've created a simple web-site that 1) has useful information about the ISA
2012 deadlines and San Diego, 2) includes a Panel planning page where people
can post calls for panels, sign up for panels, etc. and 3) also features a few
pages for some of the panel ideas already sent out to the list where people can
comment and attach files. If you'd like me to create a page for your panel
proposal, just e-mail me a short description or I'll be checking posts on the
site periodically. This is an experiment of sorts, if it proves to be useful,
great, if not, no worries. If you'd like to send feedback either way, feel
free.
You'll need this link to access the site:
http://sites.google.com/site/isaess2012/home . It is open to anyone with the
link but should not be available via search engines which provides some
privacy.
Best,
D.G. Webster
-- Forwarded message --
From: DG Webster d.g.webs...@dartmouth.edu
Date: Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Subject: ISA 2012 panel/paper/poster proposals
To: Gep-Ed ( gep-ed@googlegroups.com ) gep-ed@googlegroups.com
Hi Folks,
Here's some pertinent information for those of you who plan to submit panels,
posters, and papers for ISA 2012 in San Diego. The big deadline is June 1,
details on other deadlines can be found below. I've also pasted in the intro to
the call for papers for next year, in case anyone wants to submit for a
cross-over panel with the conference theme: Power Principles and Participation
in the Global Information Age. Suggestions for other cross-over panels (with
other ISA sections) are welcome as well. Below that is a list of possible panel
topics that came up at the ESS meeting in Montreal in March. I strongly
recommend organizing panel submissions, not just because it will make my job
easier but also because panels organized by participants work quite well and
because organizing panels can be a great way to network within the community.
Lastly, please do remember to include accurate keywords in all your submissions
to ensure that your paper/panel comes up when I'm searching for proposals on a
particular topic.
Best,
D.G. Webster
Vice-Chair
Environmental Studies Section
International Studies Association
The 2012 ISA Conference will be in San Diego from 1-4 April 2012. The deadline
for the submission of panels is 1 June 2011.
a. If you are interested in proposing an innovative panel, the deadline is 16
May 2011.
b. If you are interested in proposing a working group, the deadline is 15 June
2011.
c. For more information, go to www.isanet.org
Power, Principles and Participation in the Global Information Age
Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan famously said, “The medium is
the
message,” and coined the term “global village.” McLuhan died in 1980, but his
insights are even more relevant today. The information environment is
drastically different from that of even a decade ago, as new forms of
information flows come into existence almost annually. Facebook now has over
500 million users, and Twitter, a service barely in existence three years ago,
counts over 175 million users. These tools are not only for finding long-lost
school friends or sharing pictures of loved ones: they often are used for
political purposes. For instance, both text messages and tweets served as vital
communication tools during the 2010 post-election protests in Iran. Indeed,
Reuters reported that United States government went so far as to ask Twitter to
postpone maintenance and maintain service during this time. Humanitarian groups
also use these communications technologies to bring attention to events
worldwide: in the wake of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, the Red Cross collected $30
million in SMSbased donations from US phone users. And the 2010 elections
witnessed US political candidates (and their staffs) tweeting and facebooking
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