[gep-ed] New Chapter on AI, Design, and More-than-Human Justice

2024-07-19 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

I’m pleased to share with you my chapter in the newly published Handbook on the 
Ethics of 
AI,
 edited by David Gunkel. This chapter, “AI, Design, and More-than-Human 
Justice,” makes the following 3 contributions:


  1.  Argues that AI ethics should adopt a theory of justice inclusive of the 
more-than-human world;
  2.  Marks the first effort to compare multispecies justice, planetary 
justice, and socio-ecological justice;
  3.  Prescribes design criteria for developing AI in a way that strives to 
achieve more-than-human justice.

If you’d like a digital copy, please let me know and I’d be happy to send one 
along.

Best,

Josh

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[gep-ed] Talk Series on Fundamental Rights for Non-Humans

2023-10-24 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

[Apologies for x-posting]
Below you will find information about a series of talks organized by the Forum 
for Decentering the Human that may be of interest to members of this listserve. 
I hope you’ll be able to attend!

Talk Series - Fundamental Rights for Non-Humans: Foundations, Faults, and 
Future

In this talk series several prominent and early career scholars consider the 
recent phenomenon whereby courts and legislatures are asked to grant 
fundamental rights to non-human entities, such as animals, nature, and 
artificial intelligences (‘AI’).

[Focus on Decentering the Human logo]

The speakers consider the theoretical foundations of this phenomenon. Is it an 
assault on the centrality of the human or merely a way to use the common legal 
tool of fundamental rights to protect entities which some humans value? Are 
there any faults in this phenomenon? A prominent branch of critical theory 
scholarship, for example, has long been sceptical about the desirability of 
fundamental rights being used to bring about social justice. Is this branch of 
scholarship correct? Do we need something other than fundamental rights for a 
more just world for non-humans? Finally, they consider whether this phenomenon 
has a future. Is it merely a fad, likely to fade away as it encounters 
resistance, or will this phenomenon redefine the very notion of what is a 
fundamental right and who is entitled to it?

There are four main papers, respectively by Jeff Sebo, Patricia 
Wiater-Hellgardt, John Adenitire, and Raffael Fasel. A response to each of 
these papers is provided respectively by Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Visa Kurki, 
Macarena Montes Franceschine, and Joshua Gellers.

Programme of events

  *   Are there any animal 
rights?
 - 17 November 2023
  *   A governance perspective on non-human rights. Comparing anthropocentric 
and physiocentric approaches to protecting 
nature
 - 24 November 2023
  *   Insects, AI systems, and the future of legal 
personhood
 - 1 December 2023
  *   Robot rights without human 
frights
 - 15 December 2023

Best,

Josh


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[gep-ed] Panel on Tech & Environmental Philosophy @ WPSA

2023-08-22 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Greetings All-

I am putting together a panel submission on the intersection of technology 
(broadly construed) and environmental philosophy for WPSA 2024 in Vancouver. If 
you’re interested in presenting a paper on this topic and would like to be 
considered for the panel, please email me with your tentative title and a brief 
description of the paper. Thanks!

Best,

Josh

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Re: [EXTERNAL] [gep-ed] Best environmental alternative to Twitter

2022-11-10 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
I’m leading a faculty workshop series on promoting research through social 
media and the only thing I’d add to what Shannon already wrote is that for the 
very ambitious there is TikTok, which relies mainly on short videos that can be 
augmented with words and images and is geared towards a youth audience (for 
what it’s worth #BookTok seems to be an effective way of promoting fiction and 
non-fiction works). However, given that this format is dynamic, it can also be 
time-intensive, as you need to produce each video if you’re interested in 
maximizing its chance of spreading widely.

There have been ethical questions regarding how China utilizes TikTok (ie 
surveillance), but if you’re interested in engaging young people, this is the 
platform to use. I hope this helps!

Josh

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On Nov 11, 2022, at 1:15 AM, 'Shannon Kathryn Orr' via gep-ed 
 wrote:


I just taught a grad class on social media last week. Here’s a quick summary of 
my class! I’m sure others will have other thoughts based on their experiences.

Twitter – easy to engage the broader public, but also lots of space for trolls. 
Good for engaging in conversations and debates. And it is easy to share content 
made by others. Works well with images, text and links.

Instagram – skews to a much younger demographic. Instagram is really about 
original content – sharing of posts is not a thing (although you can with the 
story feature), and you can’t post clickable links in posts. So it is great for 
sharing content more intended for passive scrolling. Comments are possible, but 
in terms of engagement, there is much less compared to other social media.

Facebook – very hard now to develop a Facebook page from scratch and get lots 
of followers unless you already have a known audience. But, Facebook groups are 
very active and a great way to find people who are interested in similar 
issues. Very easy to share images, text and links.

LinkedIn – easy to write and share posts, the expectation of the site though is 
professional content. Not a lot of engagement and debate or resharing of posts.

Snapchat – younger and much more about person to person communication.

Shannon


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From: gep-ed@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Charles 
Chester
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2022 1:56 PM
To: gep-ed 
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gep-ed] Best environmental alternative to Twitter

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been asked before…but as a social media Neanderthal, I’m 
wondering what might be the most important/visible/ethically-unchallenged 
social media platform for the "environmental community" writ large.

At least in terms of visibility, I’m assuming it’s Twitter because, well, it’s 
just been Twitter for everything. Given recent developments, or one might say 
“regressions,” seems like there’s plenty of justifications to be looking for 
alternatives…and a quick search came up a large number of alternatives out 
there….

Happy to take answers direct to me and I'll collate them for the list.

Additional apologies if my question is too similar to: “What’s the best 
Internet search engine—Google??”

Justifiable answer: "No, it’s Altavista, you medeival Yahoo….”

Thanks,

Charlie Chester
~
EarthWeb.info
 • Native 
Land
 • 
he·him·his

[gep-ed] Now Online: OA Earth System Governance Special Issue on AI & Digitalization

2022-10-28 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

I’m pleased to share the newly completed virtual special issue of Earth System 
Governance on AI & Digitalization. Below you will find the list of articles 
with links to each. I hope you find it interesting! Have a great weekend.

Emerging technologies and earth system governance in the anthropocene: 
Editorial
Joshua C. Gellers
Download 
PDF

A portrait of the different configurations between digitally-enabled 
innovations and climate 
governance
Pierre Chuard, Jennifer Garard, Karsten Schulz, Nilushi Kumarasinghe, David 
Rolnick, & Damon Matthews
Download 
PDF

Smart Oceans: Artificial intelligence and marine protected area 
governance
Karen Bakker
Download 
PDF

Can AI transform public decision-making for sustainable development? An 
exploration of critical earth system governance 
questions
Mitzi Bolton, Rob Raven, & Michael Mintrom
Download 
PDF

Digitalizing environmental governance for smallholder participation in food 
systems
Sake R.L. Kruk, Sanneke Kloppenburg, Hilde M. Toonen, & Simon R. Bush
Download 
PDF

Digitalization between environmental activism and counter-activism: The case of 
satellite data on deforestation in the Brazilian 
Amazon
M. Cecilia Oliveira & Leandro Siqueira
Download 
PDF

Arrays and algorithms: Emerging regimes of dispossession at the frontiers of 
agrarian technological 
governance
Ryan Stock & Maaz Gardezi
Download 
PDF


Best,

Josh

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Re: [gep-ed] Faroe Islands dolphin slaughter

2021-09-24 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Not to hijack this thread, but sentience is merely one of several uni-criterial 
properties-based approaches to moral standing. The problem with all of them is 
that they lack definitional clarity and are difficult to demonstrate 
empirically. The philosophical concept known as the argument from marginal 
cases exposes the trouble that inheres in attempting to promote a single 
ontological property that justifies moral concern when it might not even apply 
to some humans (ie mentally incapacitated, those with congenital birth defects, 
etc.). While animal rights are often tethered to sentience, intelligence, or 
autonomy, the rights of nature are philosophically and legally premised on an 
entirely different set of considerations. We should strive for consistency.

I suggest a more complex, relational approach to moral and legal standing in my 
book, Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law 
(Routledge 2020) derived from critical environmental law and sensitive to 
non-Western and Indigenous worldviews. The book is free to download via open 
access here: 
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780429288159/rights-robots-joshua-gellers

Best,

Josh

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On Sep 24, 2021, at 4:36 AM, georgette matthews  wrote:




Hi Henrik,
Perhaps I would use this documentary review in The Guardian before exposing the 
students to the complex and raw issues presented in the documentary:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/29/faroes-whale-hunts-the-islands-and-the-whales-mike-day

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/15/horror-at-the-faroes-dolphin-slaughter-is-only-human-but-it-risks-hypocrisy

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/17/faroes-pm-pledges-dolphin-hunt-review-amid-outcry-at-carnage

I am the 176,927th person to sign the petition, and my great-grandfather was 
born in Streymoy.

Best wishes,
Georgette

We all have a variety of understandings and thresholds for the degrees of 
sentience of life forms. There is also a quite evolved plant sentience in spite 
of their greater invisibility and lesser charisma (than the one we grant to the 
dolphins and whales).

Every life form is witnessing our (as human beings) 'criminal' acts as 
individuals and collectivities on a daily basis for millennia, in the name of 
survival or tradition or other human values.

Perhaps we could start our dialogue with students on the above issues, with 
animal and plant sentience as presented by Eduardo Kohn in “How Forests Think: 
Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human”?

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520956865/html

Georgette Matthews
PhD Candidate, International Relations
& Casual Academic Physics,
University of Sydney
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mailto:se...@bu.edu>> wrote:
And if you do, this documentary can also add to class discussions:

[gep-ed] GNHRE-UNEP Summer/Winter School: Critical Perspectives in Human Rights and the Environment

2021-05-24 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues:

The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and the United 
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are delighted to invite you to participate 
in their first online Summer/Winter School, which will take place in the week 
21-25 June 2021.

This year's Summer/Winter School is on the theme “Critical Perspectives in 
Human Rights and the Environment” and features more than 30 leading experts, 
practitioners and scholars presenting 14 classes over 5 days. The classes 
explore a wide range of fascinating and critical topics related to 
environmental and human rights, including 
decolonisation,
 
pandemic,
 
crime,
 children as political 
actors,
 artificial 
intelligence,
 climate 
change,
 
participation,
 the rule of 
law,
 
resistance,
 
business,
 human 
dignity,
 and human rights in the marine 
environment.
 Participants will have an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of 
many of the most pressing issues of our time, discover and engage with the 
latest research, and participate in discussions and debates.

Registration for all classes is available 
here.

The Summer/Winter school programme includes a Work-In-Progress (WIP) Seminar 

 which will take place on 22 June. We welcome all graduate students and junior 
scholars working on human rights and the environment to give a ten minute 
presentation of their work in the WIP. This is both an opportunity to get 
feedback from peers and established scholars, and to meet and engage with 
scholars working across the globe. If you are interested in participating in 
the WIP, please send a brief biography and 150 word abstract to Astrid Bernal 
at gnhrewebs...@gmail.com. Please note: we only 
require an abstract and biography for the WIP.

You can read more about the GNHRE-UNEP Summer/Winter School and register for 
the classes here: 
https://gnhre.org/critical-perspectives-on-human-rights-and-the-environment-the-2021-gnhre-unep-summer-winter-school/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Dina Lupin Townsend and Angela Kariuki

The 2021 Summer/Winter School is co-hosted by the GNHRE and UNEP in 
collaboration with the project "Giving Groups a Proper Say: The Pragmatics and 
Politics of Group Speech" funded by 
the Austrian Science Fund (FWF project no P33682-G).

Best,

Josh
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[gep-ed] VAP in European Politics + IPE at UNF

2021-03-30 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

My Department is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor for next year. Although 
the position is focused mainly on European Politics and IPE, I thought it might 
be of interest to some on these networks and their extended contacts. As search 
chair, I’d be happy to answer any questions potential candidates may have.

Job Title: Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science & Public 
Administration

Position Number: 319141

Job Description:

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: Visiting Assistant Professor

The Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University 
of North Florida seeks candidates for a one-year appointment as a Visiting 
Assistant Professor in the areas of international relations and comparative 
politics starting August 2021. Main teaching responsibilities include providing 
instruction for undergraduate courses in European politics and international 
political economy.

The department welcomes the use of innovative teaching technologies including 
distance learning and hybrid classes. Candidates should demonstrate teaching 
excellence. The teaching load is four courses per semester. A PhD in Political 
Science, Government, Public Administration, or a related field is preferred but 
we will consider highly qualified ABD candidates. UNF faculty are expected to 
maintain the highest standards of academic excellence in all phases of 
instruction.

UNF is a Carnegie Community Engaged institution. This designation celebrates 
the University’s collaboration with community partners from the local to the 
global level. It reflects UNF’s mission to contribute to the public good and 
prepare educated, engaged citizens. We are especially interested in candidates 
who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community 
through their teaching. The successful candidate will be able to excel at 
teaching courses throughout the curriculum and be committed to increasing the 
participation of the members of underrepresented groups.

UNF enrolls about 17,000 students and is located in Jacksonville, Florida, a 
rapidly growing metropolitan area with a population of over one million. 
Jacksonville is part of northeastern Florida’s historic “First Coast” and there 
are significant historical, cultural, and recreational resources in the 
immediate area including access to rivers and beaches. Further information is 
available at www.unf.edu/coas/pspa.

Direct Link: http://www.unfjobs.org/hr/postings/15994
Best,

Josh

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[gep-ed] Survey on AI & Sustainable Development Research

2021-03-22 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of The European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) 
https://esssr.eu/
 and the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research programme (IUSDRP)
https://www.haw-hamburg.de/ftz-nk/programme/iusdrp.html,
 I invite you to contribute to a study entitled, "Deploying Digitalisation and 
Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Development Research."

Below you will find a link to the survey:

https://forms.gle/uhNqYTU3aHBqkMD47

Its completion is expected to take about 10 minutes. The details provided are 
all confidential, and the fact this instrument is anonymised (i.e. it contains 
no names or personal addresses) means that no details can be traced back to any 
respondents.

If you wish to receive a copy of the results, please send an email to: 
valerija.kozl...@riseba.lv.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

The ESSSR and IUSDRP Teams


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[gep-ed] Reminder: Earth System Governance Special Issue Abstracts Due 30-Nov

2020-11-27 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Greetings All-
This is just a gentle reminder to submit your work for consideration in a 
special issue of Earth System Governance focused on AI & digitalization that I 
will be editing. Below you will find the full call for papers.

Earth System Governance Special Issue: AI & Digitalization
You are invited to contribute to an upcoming Special Issue of Earth System 
Governance 

 on artificial intelligence and digitalization. Josh 
Gellers
 (University of North Florida) will serve as guest editor.
Technology and the environment have long been associated with one another. 
Thousands of years ago, technological advancements in agriculture led to the 
development of hand-held tools used to improve the human capacity to cultivate 
land. Today, new technologies present significant opportunities to better 
manage natural resources and safeguard the environment. For instance, 
artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied in the context of 
agriculture, climate finance, renewable energy, and transportation in order to 
achieve operational efficiencies that vastly exceed those achievable through 
human decision-making. However, at the same time, their introduction and the 
speed with which they are introduced pose serious governance challenges to a 
planet in the throes of a human-induced climate crisis. Distributed ledger 
technology threatens to undermine state sovereignty while presenting a 
decentralized form of financial transparency. Facial recognition algorithms are 
being used to identify activists participating in social justice protests. 
Digital devices such as ‘wearables’ and social media applications collect 
petabytes of personal data that can be weaponized to influence the outcomes of 
elections or place private information in the hands of technology companies or 
governments. Therefore, central to the task of maximizing the environmental 
benefits and mitigating the potential pitfalls of novel technologies is 
understanding how their use is governed, by whom, and to what end(s).
The Earth System Governance project’s latest research framework presents a 
number of themes relevant to this task, including Democracy & Power, 
Architecture & Agency, Justice & Allocation, Anticipation & Imagination, and 
Adaptiveness & Flexibility (see Burch et al. 
2019).
 With these research lenses in mind, this Special Issue seeks to attract 
previously unpublished work that probes the promises and perils of AI and 
digitalization from an Earth System Governance perspective (broadly construed). 
Submissions may take the form of Perspectives of 2-4k words, Reviews of up to 
12k words, and Research Articles of 8-10k words (see explanations 
here).
 Theoretical, empirical, critical, and summative papers are all welcome. 
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  *   Artificial intelligence and environmental decision-making
  *   Digitalization and human rights in the context of environmental issues
  *   The digital divide and Earth system governance
  *   Robots used for and operating in the environment
  *   Blockchain and climate change
  *   Digital surveillance and environmental activism
  *   Big Data and natural resource exploitation
  *   Unmanned aerial vehicles and environmental crimes
  *   New technologies and renewable energy
If you are interested in contributing to this Special

[gep-ed] C4P: Special Issue of Earth System Governance on AI & Digitalization

2020-10-19 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-
Below you will find the call for papers regarding a special issue of Earth 
System Governance focused on AI & digitalization:

Earth System Governance Special Issue: AI & Digitalization
You are invited to contribute to an upcoming Special Issue of Earth System 
Governance  on 
artificial intelligence and digitalization. Josh 
Gellers (University of North Florida) will serve as 
guest editor.
Technology and the environment have long been associated with one another. 
Thousands of years ago, technological advancements in agriculture led to the 
development of hand-held tools used to improve the human capacity to cultivate 
land. Today, new technologies present significant opportunities to better 
manage natural resources and safeguard the environment. For instance, 
artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied in the context of 
agriculture, climate finance, renewable energy, and transportation in order to 
achieve operational efficiencies that vastly exceed those achievable through 
human decision-making. However, at the same time, their introduction and the 
speed with which they are introduced pose serious governance challenges to a 
planet in the throes of a human-induced climate crisis. Distributed ledger 
technology threatens to undermine state sovereignty while presenting a 
decentralized form of financial transparency. Facial recognition algorithms are 
being used to identify activists participating in social justice protests. 
Digital devices such as ‘wearables’ and social media applications collect 
petabytes of personal data that can be weaponized to influence the outcomes of 
elections or place private information in the hands of technology companies or 
governments. Therefore, central to the task of maximizing the environmental 
benefits and mitigating the potential pitfalls of novel technologies is 
understanding how their use is governed, by whom, and to what end(s).
The Earth System Governance project’s latest research framework presents a 
number of themes relevant to this task, including Democracy & Power, 
Architecture & Agency, Justice & Allocation, Anticipation & Imagination, and 
Adaptiveness & Flexibility (see Burch et al. 
2019).
 With these research lenses in mind, this Special Issue seeks to attract 
previously unpublished work that probes the promises and perils of AI and 
digitalization from an Earth System Governance perspective (broadly construed). 
Submissions may take the form of Perspectives of 2-4k words, Reviews of up to 
12k words, and Research Articles of 8-10k words (see explanations 
here).
 Theoretical, empirical, critical, and summative papers are all welcome. 
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  *   Artificial intelligence and environmental decision-making
  *   Digitalization and human rights in the context of environmental issues
  *   The digital divide and Earth system governance
  *   Robots used for and operating in the environment
  *   Blockchain and climate change
  *   Digital surveillance and environmental activism
  *   Big Data and natural resource exploitation
  *   Unmanned aerial vehicles and environmental crimes
  *   New technologies and renewable energy
If you are interested in contributing to this Special Issue, please send an 
abstract of no more than 250 words to Josh Gellers at 
josh.gell...@unf.edu by 30 November 2020. Full 
manuscripts will be due by 1 May 2021. The Special Issue is slated for online 
publication by the end of 2021 or early 2022. All articles will be subject to 
double-blind, peer review. The editorial staff places high priority on 
obtaining submissions from authors representing diverse backgrounds (i.e. in 
terms of gender, region, seniority).

Best,

Josh


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Re: [Ext] [gep-ed] Tragedy of the Commons

2020-09-05 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
As a coda for those of you interested in the rights of nature, I leave you with 
an observation about another famous and widely-cited article:

Stone’s (1972) law review article, “Should Trees Have Standing?”, refers to 
Pantheism, Shintoism, and Taoism as “quaint, primitive and archaic” (p. 498).

Joshua C. Gellers, PhD
Associate Professor
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University of North Florida
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On Sep 5, 2020, at 4:40 PM, Cristina Inoue  wrote:


Thank you all for this interesting thread discussion to make us think, look 
for, uncover what is hidden in our own theoretical/epistemological perspectives.

Cristina

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:39 AM Amy Freitag 
mailto:afreita...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thank you for this call Rebecca and curious what you come up with. While y'all 
are digging, if you could also prioritize non-white authors and perspective, 
that would be great. Since the white European perspective is what got us in 
this mess in the first place.
Amy

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On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 8:14 AM Gruby,Rebecca 
mailto:rebecca.gr...@colostate.edu>> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for this excellent discussion! I Tweeted about this issue yesterday 
and it’s receiving quite a bit of attention, including from many non-social 
scientists who are learning about ToC critiques for the first time. I promised 
to share a reading list with anyone who emailed me and I’m getting flooded with 
requests. What an awesome opportunity, and I don't want to waste it.  What are 
your favorite ToC critiques written for public and non-specialist audiences? 
Ideally open access. Looking for material that is accessible to everyone.

Thanks in advance!

Rebecca


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On Sep 3, 2020, at 6:54 PM, kashwan 
mailto:kash...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Dear GEP Colleagues,

Thank you for such an insightful thread  -- I couldn't agree more with the 
suggestion from Dimitris that there is definitely an ISA Workshop and 
potentially a writing project that would be extremely valuable in the classroom.

There is a common that between two recent comments that I would like to build 
on: 1) DG Webster's insightful comments on the contingency of the tragedy of 
commons related to the nature of power distribution, and 2) Jen's fantastic 
solution to the racist legacies of Hardin's life and work. I think both these 
comments show us a way out of what I see as the confounding of analytical and 
empirical arguments related to the tragedy of commons. Let me explain.

At the core of it, tragedy is a behavioral argument. As many have pointed out, 
the pasture was used as a metaphor, not as an empirical example (though it may 
have been inspired by misinformed writings on the historical British commons). 
Ostrom took on the core behavioral argument and exposed the 
contingency/incompleteness of the arguments that informed Hardin's arguments 
(and still do for much of the work in game theory and rational-choice theory in 
mainstream Economics and Public Choice literature). That's why I believe that 
Jen's solution to the problem is brilliant, because if  one talks about 
Ostrom's work in its totality, the analytical core of Hardin's argument is 
fully covered. We don't miss anything at all by not discussing Hardin's 
writings, with the advantage that one doen't have to make students read such an 
obviously racist piece. And, by the way, correct me if I am wrong, no matter 
how hard one tries, some students will invariably use the written word to 
reinforce their pre-existing biases (and label the professor as a liberal 
brain-washer in the

Re: [gep-ed] American environmentalism’s racist roots have shaped global thinking about conservation

2020-09-05 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Thanks, Prakash, for that excellent contribution to this discussion. It’s a 
timely piece that sheds light on an uncomfortable/inconvenient truth about the 
origins of the movement that spurred our field. We would be wise not to forget 
it.

In the spirit of thinking about diversity more broadly, I’d also like to note 
that other disciplines have begun reckoning with their own troubled pasts, as 
evidenced by critiques in computer science of the famed “Turing Test” (Turing 
1950) and Searle’s (1980) “Chinese Room” argument. These illustrative thought 
experiments, intended to probe whether or not computational systems could 
replicate human-like intelligence, have recently come under fire for being 
sexist (in the case of the former) and racist (in the case of the latter).

Thinking about, designing, and analyzing institutions intended to improve life 
on this planet requires a sustained commitment to diversity and inclusiveness, 
issues that seem to be having a(n overdue) moment in this country. Thanks to 
everyone for pushing this conversation forward.

Best,

Josh

Joshua C. Gellers, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Political Science + Public Admin.
University of North Florida
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32224

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 4, 2020, at 11:21 PM, Prakash Kashwan  wrote:


Dear Colleagues,

The following piece in the Conversation speaks to some of the recent 
discussions we have had here. It is a challenging topic -- colleagues at  the 
Conversation and I worked hard to  walk a delicate line. Please take a look

https://theconversation.com/american-environmentalisms-racist-roots-have-shaped-global-thinking-about-conservation-143783

Best,
Prakash

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Institute

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Book: Democracy in the 
Woods
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Rethinking power and institutions in the shadows of 
neoliberalism
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Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment: A Cross-National 
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[gep-ed] Call for Submissions: Journal of Human Rights and the Environment Special Issue

2020-06-25 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Special Issue: 'Posthuman Legalities: New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human'



The Journal of Human Rights and the 
Environment
 (JHRE) warmly welcomes submissions for the upcoming Special Issue: 'Posthuman 
Legalities: New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human'.

Contemporary pressures emerging from both climate change and the Covid-19 
pandemic suggest the urgent need to move beyond the longstanding centrality to 
law of the human subject that acts upon ‘the world’ as object. Such juridical 
humanism is now clearly not only unsustainable and increasingly implausible, 
but profoundly dangerous to all life.

How might law, then, in the words of Gustavo Wilshes, ‘learn how to come to 
terms with other agents of the territory that are not resources’? How can legal 
systems move beyond reductive objectifications and learn to negotiate (or not) 
with soils, hydro-meteorological dynamics, volcanoes, viruses, and ecosystems 
as lively, agentic, more-than-human participants in world-making? Wilshes’ call 
is an invitation to reflect on rights, responsibilities, agreements, and other 
legal concepts in an entirely different way. It invites probing new 
epistemological and ‘ontological openings’ for legal thought and practice in 
times of planetary crisis. What kind of law is a law after the Human? What 
posthuman legalities might alternative onto-epistemic reflection make possible?


This Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment invites 
reflections on posthuman legalities drawing primarily upon two lively 
approaches to other kinds of law that might emerge from an ‘ontological 
otherwise’.

The first approach is the ‘law beyond the human’ approach; the second is new 
materialism. How might tracing ontological plural legalities through these 
related but distinctive thought-ways open new puzzles and possibilities for the 
legal? How might drawing upon indigenous cosmovisions, cutting-edge 
science-inspired complexity-sensitive openness, and diverse 
onto-relationalities re-story law in a way that enables a posthuman 
capaciousness of concern—a passionate legal ethics of the more-than-human?

The editors invite submissions for this issue that engage with the need to 
speak both beyond and in excess of ‘the human’ so as to hold open spaces of 
more-than-human meaning in the legal field.

For more information, visit the JHRE 
homepage
 on 
Elgaronline,
 and for details on how to submit please see below.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Anna Grear, Julia Dehm & Samvel Varvastian
Editor-in-Chief, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor

Special Issue Submission Process

If you are interested in submitting to this edition, please in the first 
instance send abstracts for consideration to the editors via email (listed 
below).

Full and final submissions for the edition should be made via the Journal of 
Human Rights and Environment submission portal, and should not exceed 10,000 
words (including references).

The submission deadline is December 1st 2020. The issue is scheduled for 
publication in June 2021.

Guest Editors (‘Law Beyond the Human’):

Emille Boulot
Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio
Joshua Sterlin

McGill University / Leadership for Ecozoic Program

Editor: (‘New Materialist Approaches’):

Anna Grear

Forthcoming Issues

JHRE
 invites contributions along the following themes:

Human Rights and Climate Litigation (12.2)
(ed. Annalisa Savaresi) Submissions for this issue should be sent by 1st 
January 2021.
States, Corporations and Commons: Dissonance and Disaccord (13.1)
(ed.

[gep-ed] GNHRE Webinar Series 'Human Rights Strategies in Climate Litigation' 8 June 16:00 CEST

2020-06-03 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Dear Colleagues:



On Monday 8 June 16:00 CEST, the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights 
and the Environment (GNHRE) will launch a series of monthly webinars on ‘Human 
Rights Strategies in Climate Litigation’. The series will bring together 
academic experts and practitioners involved in human-rights based climate 
change litigation, drawing on comparative insights from different regions. Each 
webinar will provide a perspective on how human rights-based climate litigation 
in India, Latin America, Europe, North America, the Pacific, and Africa.



The series will kick-start with a 
webinar
 on Monday 8 June 16:00 CEST (10:00 AM NY time) where renowned experts will 
introduce human rights strategies in climate litigation.



Joana Setzer 
(LSE) will shed light on the state of play on climate litigation globally, 
based on data gathered in the Grantham Institute litigation 
database.



Hari Osofsky (Penn Law School) 
will describe the rights turn in climate litigation, explaining what human 
rights strategies are and what they are being used for.



Tessa Khan (Urgenda) will reflect on 
successes in human rights-based climate change litigation and their 
implications for future litigation.



David Boyd will share insights from his 
interventions in climate change litigation, as part of the mandate of the UN 
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment.



To read the blogpost introducing the series, see: 
https://gnhre.org/2020/06/02/webinar-series-human-rights-strategies-in-climate-change-litigation-what-is-it-all-about/



To register for the kick-off webinar, see: 
https://widener.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkd–trD0oHdwQ6iiOyGmwejEZGX6dphpt

Best,

Josh
GNHRE Core Team, Membership


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[gep-ed] New issue: Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

2020-03-27 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of Journal of Human Rights and 
the 
Environment 
is now available. Below you will find a list of articles contained within.

Editorial Frames and contestations: environment, climate change and the 
construction of 
in/justice
 (free)
Anna Grear and Julia Dehm
Contesting human rights and climate change at the UN Human Rights 
Council
M Joel Voss

Climate change denial as far-right politics: How abandonment of scientific 
method paved the way for 
Trump 
(free)
Gavin Byrne

Human rights vs. eco-justice: conflicts and other futures in urban open spaces 
in Cali, 
Colombia
Sabina Cardenas and Esteban Angulo

Climate change and displacement: protecting ‘climate refugees’ within a 
framework of justice and human 
rights
Sumudu Atapattu

The swarm that we already are: artificially intelligent (AI) swarming ‘insect 
drones’, targeting and international humanitarian law in a posthuman 
ecology
Matilda Arvidsson

Book review: Hope Johnson, International Agricultural Law and Policy: A 
Rights-Based Approach to Food Security (New Horizons in Environmental and 
Energy Law, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2018) 202 
pp.
Jonathan Verschuuren

Book review: James R May and Erin Daly (eds), Human Rights and the Environment: 
Legality, Indivisibility, Dignity and Geography (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2019) 
585 
pp.
Áine Ryall

Best,

Josh
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Re: [gep-ed] Re: just a thought

2020-03-19 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Hello All-

The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment 
(www.gnhre.org) recently recorded a terrific webinar on 
“The Outcomes of COP25- Implications for the Climate Vulnerable.” You can find 
a link to the video here: 
https://gnhre.org/2020/02/13/outcomes-of-cop25-watch-the-gnhre-webinar/

In solidarity,

Josh

From:  on behalf of Kathleen McAfee 
Reply-To: "kmca...@sfsu.edu" 
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 2:13 PM
To: "shapsh...@gmail.com" 
Cc: gep-ed 
Subject: Re: [gep-ed] Re: just a thought

You may list me for possible guest lecturing on climate policy, mainly 
California's (what's working and why cap-&-trade and offsets are not), problems 
of offsetting as a climate solution (why forest carbon offsets won't "save the 
Amazon", etc.), and the environmental injustice aspects of all this. Of course 
the content would be different for undergrads and postgrads, but I try to 
include hopeful directions, either way.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:59 AM shapshapj 
mailto:shapsh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi I write and teach on China, some of you may know my textbook China’s 
Environmental Challenges.  I would actually be very happy to offer guest 
lectures via zoom or skype as it would enliven my days, if anyone has a unit 
that fits.  Email me directly at 
shap...@american.edu.

And by the way, I have a new book coming out this summer, coauthored with Yifei 
Li, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet, from 
Polity.  Maybe some of you would like a review copy. Let me know.

Judy



On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 11:31:08 PM UTC-4, Ronald Mitchell wrote:
One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for 
streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest 
speakers.  We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the 
lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures 
for us while giving our students better content.

I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks 
it’s a good idea.

Ron

Ronald Mitchell, Professor
Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies
University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
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[gep-ed] Environmental Rights in PA and FL

2020-03-09 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

I write to share news about a successful community-led effort in Pennsylvania 
to push back against construction of an injection well designed as a fracking 
water waste disposal site, highlighting the importance of using home rule 
charters to protect the local environment. You can read the article 
here.
In a related development, a Florida House Bill (HB 
1343)
 on environmental resource management includes a provision that would ban 
rights of nature 
laws
 at the municipal level.

Lots of action on environmental rights at the subnational level here in the US.

Best,

Josh
(with Chris Jeffords)


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[gep-ed] CfP: Special Issue of JHRE on New Environmental Protest Movements

2019-10-01 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues:

The Journal of Human Rights and Environment (JHRE), in conjunction with Edward 
Elgar Publishing, calls for papers for a special edition of the journal and an 
accompanying monograph to explore new environmental protest movements, 
including their goals, tactics and leverage in advancing political and legal 
action on climate change and other planetary crises. Across many countries 
recently, thousands of school children have taken to the streets to demand 
action on global warming. While lacking power at the ballot box, these youth 
have generated considerable media coverage and public debate. Similarly in the 
spotlight, the Extinction Rebellion (XR), which began in 2018, has used civil 
disobedience and nonviolent protest, including occupying public spaces and 
interrupting legislative proceedings, in seeking to rally support for urgent 
action to tackle biodiversity loss and climate breakdown. Some recent protest 
movements are focused on specific developments and policies within individual 
countries, such as the anti-pipeline protests at Standing Rock Indian 
Reservation in the United States. Conversely, the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) 
movement in France rallies against climate policy measures associated with 
rising fuel costs costs and higher costs of living.

These developments build on a long tradition of grassroots activism, notably 
the Occupy Movement, and the anti-globalization and anti--nuclear movements of 
recent decades, but bring into focus the role of new participants, like school 
children, and distinctive tactics, such as the hyper-aesthetic character
of protest actions. Concurrently, some governments have recently introduced 
measures aimed at thwarting environmental activism, including anti-protest laws 
that criminalize some forms of protest that occupy civic spaces or disrupt 
businesses.

This JHRE calls for articles that address the role of protest movements shaping 
our future, and in particular welcomes contributions that critically 
investigate one or more of the following issues:

·  The grievances of new protest movements relating to democratic deficits in 
government decision making that have provoked such activism.

·  The framing of a climate or planetary ‘emergency’ that XR and other 
activists are pushing.

·  Protest tactics, including as moral crusaders and aesthetic activists.

·  The efficacy of protest in leveraging change and forcing climate change 
action into the mainstream.

·  Case studies on specific protest events or groups.

·  The role and impact of anti-protest laws challenging environmental activism.

Ideas for reform of political and legal institutions to represent youth and 
future generations in environmental governance today.

All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed, and should be no more than 
10,000 words inclusive of references and prepared in accordance with the 
journal’s house style guidelines:
JHRE Guidance. Authors of articles accepted for publication will be asked to 
sign the journal’s standard Contributor Agreement: JHRE License to Publish

Submission of final articles should be via the journal’s webpage,

https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/jhre/jhre-overview.xml

All accepted submissions will concurrently also be published by Edward Elgar in 
a separate monograph, edited by Professor Richardson.

The deadline for submission of articles is 31st March 2020, and prospective 
authors are welcome to contact in advance the guest editor Professor Benjamin 
J. Richardson for advice: 
b.j.richard...@utas.edu.au
Best,

Josh
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[gep-ed] New Article on SDGs and Environmental Justice

2019-09-10 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

I’m pleased to announce publication of an article I co-authored with a former 
UNF graduate student, Trevor Cheatham: Sustainable Development Goals and 
Environmental Justice: Realization through 
Disaggregation?
 36 Wisconsin International Law Journal (2019). In this paper, we empirically 
examine the extent to which principles of environmental justice can be found in 
the SDGs and voluntary national reviews. You can download the preprint on 
ResearchGate or I can send along a copy at your request. Thanks!

Best,

Josh


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[gep-ed] New Issue of Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

2019-03-28 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Now available: Volume 10, Issue 1

ToC and Free articles

We are delighted to share with you Volume 10 Issue 
1 of the 
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 
(JHRE) 
on "Coloniality, Neoliberalism and the Anthropocene."

Anna Grear & Julia Dehm
Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor

Table of Contents 10.1

Editorial
• FREE ARTICLE: Coloniality, neoliberalism and the 
Anthropocene
Louis Kotzé

Articles
• FREE ARTICLE: Colonialism in the Anthropocene: the political ecology of the 
money-energy-technology complex 

Alf Hornborg
• Loyalty to the planet: a matter of justice or of 
love?
Mary Warnock
• The idea of (Climate) justice, neoliberalism and the Talanoa 
Dialogue
Rosemary Lyster
• The Anthropocene, Earth system vulnerability and socio-ecological injustice 
in an age of human 
rights
Louis Kotzé
• Personhood, jurisdiction and injustice: law, colonialities and the global 
order
Elena Blanco and Anna Grear
• Participation as exclusion: Māori engagement with the Crown Minerals Act 1991 
Block Offer 
process
Maria Bargh and Estair van Wagner

Book Reviews
• Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Victoria Brooks (eds), Research 
Methods in Environmental Law: A Handbook (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 
Cheltenham 
2017) 
608 pp.
Reviewed by Benjamin J Richardson
• Bård A. Andreassen, Hans-Otto Sano and Siobhán McInerney-Lankford (eds), 
Research Methods in Human Rights: A Handbook (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 
Cheltenham 2017) 
 496 pp.
Reviewed by Kathryn McNeilly

Connect with JHRE
Follow the Journal's designated Twitter account 
@JournalHRE
 for more details.

Best,

Josh
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[gep-ed] New Article on Environmental Determinants of Chinese Investment in Africa

2019-02-08 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

I'm pleased to announce publication of my latest article, "Environmental 
Determinants of Chinese Development Finance in Africa," in the Journal of 
Environment and Development. Continuing in the spirit of the excellent book 
Greening Aid, we conduct what we believe to be the first quantitative analysis 
of the relationship between environmental factors and aid allocation between 
developing countries. We find that Chinese development assistance grows 
commensurate with a country’s environmental performance, but only to a point. 
After a state achieves a certain level of environmental quality, Chinese 
investments decline. Here is a link to the article: 
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1070496518825282. If you would like me 
to send you a full digital copy, please let me know. Thanks and I hope everyone 
has a great weekend!

Best,

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[gep-ed] Announcing publication of Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism

2018-11-12 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-


I am pleased to announce publication of a new volume edited by Erin Daly and 
Jim May, Implementing Environmental 
Constitutionalism
  (Cambridge University Press). Below you will find a description of the book 
along with the table of contents.


Description

Constitutions can play a central role in responding to environmental 
challenges, such as pollution, biodiversity loss, lack of drinking water, and 
climate change. The vast majority of people on earth live under constitutional 
systems that protect the environment or recognize environmental rights. Such 
environmental constitutionalism, however, falls short without effective 
implementation by policymakers, advocates and jurists. Implementing 
Environmental Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges explains and 
explores this 'implementation gap'. This collection is both broad and deep. 
While some of the essays analyze crosscutting themes, such as climate change 
and the need for rule of law that affect the implementation of environmental 
constitutionalism throughout the world, others delve deeply into geographically 
contextual experiences for lessons about how constitutional environmental law 
might be more effectively implemented. This volume informs global conversations 
about whether and how environmental constitutionalism can be made more 
effective to protect the natural environment.


Table of Contents

Foreword: filling the implementation gap in environmental constitutionalism 
Justice

Antonio Herman Benjamin


Introduction: implementing environmental constitutionalism

Erin Daly and James R. May


1. Six constitutional elements for the implementation of environmental 
constitutionalism in the Anthropocene

Louis J. Kotzé


2. Implementing substantive constitutional environmental rights: a quantitative 
assessment of current practices using benchmark rankings

Chris Jeffords and Joshua C. Gellers


3. Implementing constitutional environmental rights in the Amazon rainforest

Maria Antonia Tigre


4. Climate change and environmental constitutionalism: a reflection on domestic 
challenges and possibilities

Ademola Oluborode Jegede


5. Natural resources, powersharing, and peacebuilding in post-conflict 
constitutions

Carl Bruch, Aleksandra Egorova, Katie Meehan and Yousef Bugaighis


6. Implementing environmental constitutionalism in Brazil

Marcelo Buzaglo Dantas


7. Judicial implementation of environmental constitutionalism in France: a 
fertile ground from the charter of the environment

Jochen H. Sohnle


8. The procedural right of access to information as a means of implementing 
environmental constitutionalism in South Africa

Melanie Murcott


9. Challenges and opportunities for the implementation of environmental 
constitutionalism in Nigeria

Ngozi Finette Stewart


10. Implementing environmental constitutionalism in Colombia: tensions between 
public policy and decisions of the constitutional court

Ana Lucía Maya Aguirre


11. Listening to the silence: implementing constitutional environmentalism in 
the United States

Irma S. Russell


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Best,


Josh


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Book: The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental 
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[gep-ed] Journal of Human Rights and the Environment Vol. 9(2) Now Available

2018-09-21 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

The editorial staff of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 
(JHRE) 
 is 
delighted to announce that Volume 9, Issue 
2 is now 
available. See below for a list of contents.

Editorial
• FREE ARTICLE: Editorial: Indigenity, Environment and 
Rights  
Evadne Grant

Articles
• FREE ARTICLE: Aboriginal relationships to the natural world: colonial 
‘protection’ of human rights and the 
environment
   Irene 
Watson
• Spaces for local voices? A discourse analysis of the decisions of the 
Convention on Biological 
Diversity
  Louisa Parks
•  ‘Eaten by the sea’: human rights claims for the impacts of climate change 
upon remote subnational 
communities
  Miriam Cullen
• OPEN ACCESS: 
KlimaSeniorinnen:
 lessons from the Swiss senior women's case for future climate 
litigation
  Cordelia Christiane Bähr, Ursula Brunner, Kristin Casper and Sandra H. Lustig

Book Reviews
•  Lakshman Guruswamy, Global Energy Justice: Law and Policy (West Academic 
Publishing, St Paul, MN 2016) 214 
pp.  
Reviewed by Carmen G. Gonzalez
•  Louis J Kotzé, Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene 
(Hart Publishing, Oxford 2016) 304 
pp.  
Reviewed by James R. May

Best,

Josh
Assistant Editor, JHRE

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[gep-ed] New Issue of Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

2017-10-04 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

We are delighted to share that issue 8.2 of the Journal of Human Rights and the 
Environment on the theme "Crisis, injustice and response" is now available (see 
here).

In particular, the issue features a co-authored article discussing "The 
Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change" which was developed by the 
Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment.

The issue contains the following articles:

Beyond anthropocentrism and ecocentrism: a biopolitical reading of 
environmental 
law,
 Vito De Lucia

Climate dreaming: negative emissions, risk transfer, and 
irreversibility,
 Henry Shue

The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change: a new legal tool for global 
policy 
change, 
Kirsten 
Davies, Sam 
Adelman, Anna 
Grear, Catherine 
Iorns 
Magallanes,
 Tom Kerns and S 
Ravi Rajan

Normative guidance for energy governance: sustainable development and human 
rights,
 Vincent 
Bellinkx 
and Wouter 
Vandenhole

Post Paris reflections: fossil fuels, human rights and the need to excavate new 
ideas for climate 
justice,
 Julia Dehm

Book review: Shawkat Alam, Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen G Gonzales and Jona Razzaque 
(eds), International Environmental Law and the Global South (Cambridge 
University Press, New York 2015) 656 
pp.,
 Rebecca 
Bratspies

Book review: Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei, The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal 
System in Tune with Nature and Community (Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc, 
Oakland CA 2015) 264 
pp.,
 Roxana 
Vatanparast

Best,

Josh
Assistant Editor, JHRE

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University of North Florida
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[gep-ed] New Book on Constitutional Environmental Rights

2017-05-25 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-


I'm pleased to announce publication of my book, The Global Emergence of 
Constitutional Environmental Rights (Routledge, 2017). Below you will find a 
synopsis and link to the book. i'd be happy to answer any questions you may 
have about the work.


"Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted 
human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national 
constitutions. Interestingly, these countries vary widely in terms of 
geography, politics, history, resources, and wealth. This raises the question: 
why do some countries have constitutional environmental rights while others do 
not? Bringing together theory from law, political science, and sociology, a 
global statistical analysis, and a comparative study of constitutional design 
in South Asia, Gellers presents a comprehensive response to this important 
question. Moving beyond normative debates and anecdotal developments in case 
law, as well as efforts to describe and categorize such rights around the 
world, this book provides a systematic analysis of the expansion of 
environmental rights using social science methods and theory. The resulting 
theoretical framework and empirical evidence offer new insights into how 
domestic and international factors interact during the constitution drafting 
process to produce new law that is both locally relevant and globally resonant. 
Scholars, practitioners, and students of law, political science, and sociology 
interested in understanding how institutions cope with complex problems like 
environmental degradation and human rights violations will find this book to be 
essential reading."


https://www.routledge.com/The-Global-Emergence-of-Constitutional-Environmental-Rights/Gellers/p/book/9781138696495?


Best,


Josh


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[gep-ed] New Issue of Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

2017-03-27 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-


I write to inform you of the publication of the latest issue of the Journal of 
Human Rights and the 
Environment?. 
In this edition, you will find the following works:


Editorial
 (Free download)

Jeanette Schade and Dimitra Manou



Soft law, migration and climate change 
governance
 (Free download)

Elizabeth Ferris and Jonas Bergmann



The abstract subject of the climate migrant: displaced by the rising tides of 
the green energy 
economy

Dayna Nadine Scott and Adrian A Smith



Human rights and the clean development mechanism: lessons learned from three 
case 
studies

Wolfgang Obergassel, Lauri Peterson, Florian Mersmann, Jeanette Schade, Jane 
Alice Hofbauer and Monika Mayrhofer



EU accountability for the due diligence failures of the European Investment 
Bank: climate finance and involuntary resettlement in Olkaria, 
Kenya

Jeanette Schade



Operationalizing extraterritorial obligations in the context of climate project 
finance - the Barro Blanco 
case

Jane A Hofbauer



Geoengineering: rights, risks and 
ethics

Sam Adelman



The logic of industrial capitalism versus the logic of Inuit thinking - denied 
interconnectedness and how it inhibits broad-based action in the human rights 
and environmental 
spaces

Joe Alizzi



Review
 of Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection by Henry Shue (Oxford 2014)

Defne Gonenc



Review
 of Water and Law: Towards Sustainability edited by Michael Kidd, Loretta 
Feris, Tumai Murombo, and Alejandro Iza (Edward Elgar 2015)

Joseph W Dellapenna


Best,


Josh Gellers

Book Review Editor, JHRE


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Re: [gep-ed] Not US centric ... Teaching in the Trump era

2017-01-30 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
​Great discussion and a timely one. This semester, for the first time, I 
started off my classes with a lecture on cognitive biases, logical fallacies, 
and identifying fake news. Tomorrow I will be leading off a lecture on the 
relationship between identity and conflict with an exercise in which students 
are charged with revising the list of countries under Trump's executive order 
based on social science research (Fragile States Index, Freedom House scores, 
and Global Terrorism Index) and electoral/diplomatic concerns. I'd be happy to 
share any of my slides with those interested.


Here is a link to my presentation on "How to be a Smart Consumer of News": 
http://www.slideshare.net/jgellers/how-to-be-a-smart-consumer-of-news​


Best,


Josh


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Jacksonville, FL 32224

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Twitter: @JoshGellers
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From: gep-ed@googlegroups.com  on behalf of Jonathan 
Rosenberg 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 4:40 PM
To: aarti.gu...@wur.nl
Cc: jg3...@nyu.edu; gep-ed@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [gep-ed] Not US centric ... Teaching in the Trump era

Thanks to Jessica for initiating this discussion.  At the risk of sounding 
passive about this (I am anything but) there is a great deal of merit in 
continuing to do what we already do in the classroom.  This semester I am 
teaching a Global Political Economy economy course (general, not environmental) 
to upper level undergraduates.  So far we have covered the basics of the 
standard theoretical and policy paradigms and a brief history of the current 
"system."  Armed with those concepts and some historical knowledge the students 
have been developing insights of their own.  Several were quick to comment on 
Trump's domestic neoliberal tendencies and his aggressive neomercantilism in 
global economic relations.  And they see this as a toxic combination for the 
environment, social justice, etc.  Not only are my students concerned but they 
are analyzing the problems.  This gives me hope that they will come up with a 
better answer to the "what is to be done" question than I could ever provide.

Best wishes,
Jonathan

"An’ here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice."
-- Bob Dylan

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Gupta, Aarti 
> wrote:
Great initiative Jessica.
Just to say, your request is not US centric, we are all engaged and concerned 
and stand with you (just back from a protest at Schiphol airport relating to 
immigration, where police pushed us out but we had our say ?)
On environment, certainly global ramifications...
Here's to fighting the good fight, inside and outside the classroom!
All best
Aarti

Sent from my iPhone

On 29 Jan 2017, at 21:16, Jessica Green 
>>
 wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

Forgive the US-centric nature of my request.  For many of us in the US, this is 
a very difficult time. Our country is being riven in two.  The implications of 
a Trump presidency for the environment look bleak, to say the least.

I feel that it's critical to discuss this in the classroom, but would welcome 
some suggestions for how. Right now, my tack has pretty much been: local 
leadership is still possible!  But this feels unsatisfactory, and quite 
frankly, dishonest.

If any of you have suggestions for structuring discussions about the new 
administration vis-a-vis the environment (or just more generally), I would be 
very grateful.  I am, of course, happy to compile and distribute if anyone is 
interested.

Many thanks in advance.  Sending thoughts of peace and understanding to you and 
yours,
Jessica



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New York University
Author, Rethinking Private 
Authority
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[gep-ed] New Issue of Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

2016-10-03 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

I'm pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Journal of Human 
Rights and the Environment. Below you will find a list of articles contained 
within.

Editorial: Questioning the constructs: ‘the environment’ and ‘(human) 
rights’
Anna Grear

Indigenous peoples and REDD+ safeguards: rights as resistance or as 
disciplinary inclusion in the green economy? 

Julia Dehm

Bridging constitutional dignity and environmental rights 
jurisprudence
Erin Daly and James R. May

The great indoors: linking human rights and the built 
environment
Joshua C. Gellers

Review of Douglas Fisher, Legal Reasoning in Environmental Law: A Study of 
Structure, Form and Language (Edward Elgar 
2013)
Tiina Paloniitty

Best,

Josh

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[gep-ed] ISA 2017 Panel on China and Environmental Governance

2016-05-13 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

I'm writing to solicit submissions for a panel I'm co-organizing with Yifei Li 
on China and Environmental Governance at ISA 2017 in Baltimore. Please see the 
panel description below. We look forward to receiving your abstracts.

Panel Title: Domestic and International Dimensions of Chinese Environmental 
Governance

Description: How is China (re)shaping current thinking about environmental law 
and policy in the developing world, and state responsibility toward the 
environment? Domestically and internationally, what are the consequences of 
China's rise as an important environmental actor? This panel takes stock of the 
evolving knowledge regarding China's environmental governance at home and the 
environmental implications of the Middle Kingdom's growing influence abroad. 
Possible topics include (but are not limited to) China's approach to domestic 
environmental policies, China's environmental civil society, China's role in 
post-Paris climate politics, potential environmental impacts of a changing 
Chinese economy, China and the SDGs, and the environmental aspects of Chinese 
development assistance.

Co-chairs:  Josh Gellers (University of North Florida, 
josh.gell...@unf.edu) and Yifei Li (New York 
University Shanghai, yeefee...@gmail.com)

If you are interested, please send an abstract (~250 words) with a working 
title, along with your name and institutional affiliation to the co-chairs 
listed above, by Friday May 
20th.

Best,

Josh

Josh Gellers, PhD, LEED Green Associate
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Political Science and Public Admin
University of North Florida
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32224

Email: josh.gell...@unf.edu
Website: www.joshgellers.com

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Re: [gep-ed] Fwd: 8-year-old takes US government to court over climate change

2015-08-19 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
I hate to be a wet blanket, but I really question the wisdom of an action like 
this for a few reasons.


1) Obama just rolled out the Clean Power Plan and we're 4 months away from 
COP21 in Paris. Is this issue likely to be resolved in the court system prior 
to the US making new climate change commitments?


2) This plays right into the hands of conservatives who think liberals use 
children as political pawns in an attempt to further their agenda. Thus, this 
will move is unlikely to curry favor with those across the aisle. Further, the 
complaint seems to be geared towards compelling the executive to take action. 
We have already observed how the right reacts to what they consider to be 
executive overreach on issues like Cuba, Syria, immigration, etc.


3) The US is not the Netherlands. If this case somehow made it to SCOTUS, it 
would be a hard sell. Scalia in particular abhors recreational/aesthetic claims 
regarding the environment, and I'm not sure Kennedy would be more sympathetic 
(albeit for different reasons).


As a scholar of environmental law, a student of climate change science, and an 
observer of US politics, I wonder what the end-game is in this situation. Will 
this innovative approach to climate change litigation muster more than 
symbolism and flash-in-the-pan media coverage? I'm curious what others think 
about the utility of pushing for greater emissions reductions at the Federal 
level using tactics like this.


Best,


Josh


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Young Americans from Oregon!

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http://www.rtcc.org/2015/08/14/8-year-old-takes-us-government-to-court-over-climate-change/


By Freya Palmerhttps://twitter.com/94Freya

This week a group of young Americans aged 8-19 filed a lawsuit against the US 
Federal Government to demand greater action on climate change.

The 21 young plaintiffs sought an order from the District Court of Oregon, 
requiring Obama to implement a national plan for the reduction of atmospheric 
concentrations of CO2 to 350 ppm by the year 2100.

This is in line with the international target to keep warming below 2 degrees 
on pre-industrial levels.

The 
Complainthttp://ourchildrenstrust.org/sites/default/files/15.08.12YouthComplaintAgainstUS.pdf,
 submitted on Wednesday to to coincide with International Youth Day, further 
accuses Obama and the Federal Government of knowingly risking “harm to human 
life, liberty and property” through intensive fossil fuel use.

“The Federal Government has known for decades that CO2 pollution from burning 
fossil fuels was causing global warming and dangerous climate change,” said 
Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh Martinez, one of the young claimants and Youth Director of 
Earth Guardians.

“Defendants did nothing to prevent this harm. In fact, my Government increased 
the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere to levels it knew were unsafe.”

Report: Climate alarm bells ringing, says Arctic-bound Obama 
http://www.rtcc.org/2015/08/14/climate-alarm-bells-ringing-says-arctic-bound-obama/

In particular, it highlights the disproportionate impact that today’s emissions 
will have on young people.

Also included in the complaint are the plaintiffs’ individual stories, each 
aiming to show how climate change has already begun to affect them, as well as 
expressing fears for the future.

The stories centre around rural Oregon, where the majority of the young 
claimants reside.

One of the group’s major concerns is for the natural beauty and recreational 
value of Oregon.

Already, they said, increased temperatures, droughts and wildfires have made 
the state’s age-old pastimes of swimming, kayaking, camping and hiking 
unpredictable.

[Levi_800]Rafting enthusiast Zealand reports having to regularly cancel his 
downriver trips due to unfavourable climactic conditions.

Meanwhile, the group said the Oregon coast is suffering from increasing ocean 
temperatures and acidification due to higher levels of atmospheric CO2.

11-year-old Hazel spends a

[gep-ed] Announcement: Release of Environmental Rights Map 2.0

2015-08-18 Thread Gellers, Joshua 
Colleagues-

I am pleased to announce the release of Enviro Rights Map v2.0 
(www.envirorightsmap.orghttp://www.envirorightsmap.org/), a Google Maps-based 
visualization tool for locating constitutional environmental rights around the 
world.

Thanks to a collaborative partnership between Widener University Delaware Law 
School and the University of North Florida, along with helpful suggestions from 
conference attendees at Yale and Widener, Enviro Rights Map has been thoroughly 
updated to include solidarity environmental rights, procedural environmental 
rights, and statements of public policy for national constitutions across the 
globe.

I welcome you to visit the site, share this resource with others who might be 
interested, and feel free to provide me with any comments you may have. Thanks!

Best,

Josh?



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