RE: envlawprofessors: Climate Change Survey

2007-06-25 Thread Wil Burns 
Not entirely, however. When Gore was testifying last time, the primary photo
op charts from Senate Kyl and Bond were freezing children in their homes …
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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
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Sent: Sun 24/06/2007 6:12 PM
To: 'Craig Oren'
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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
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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
> Se

RE: envlawprofessors: Climate Change Survey

2007-06-25 Thread Matthew Paterson 
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
> 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/intlenvironme

FW: CASE PhD studentship at the Stockholm Environment Institute(Oxford) and University of Kent, UK

2007-06-25 Thread Wil Burns 
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

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/

 

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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 2:58 AM
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Subject: CASE PhD studentship at the Stockholm Environment Institute(Oxford)
and University of Kent, UK

 


Apologies for cross-postings

Dear all, 

in collaboration with the University of Kent, we at SEI-Oxford are inviting
applications for candidates for a CASE funded PhD position. Please pass this
on to those you think may be interested.

Kind regards,
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For more information, please see
 
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 &item=5612 


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Project Title: A comparison of social learning and local decision making in
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climate envelopes and knowledge elicitation


Institutions: Anthropology, University of Kent. Stockholm Environment
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Supervisors: Prof. Michael Fischer (Kent), Dr. Thomas E. Downing (SEI
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The research for the CASE award relates to an existing EU project, (ADAM),
within which the Oxford unit of the Stockholm Environment Institute is
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CASE studentship is comparison of social learning and local decision making
in change adaptation to water scarcity issues in South Africa and the UK
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The CASE student will also develop their own research that will contribute
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We are looking for a dynamic individual who is interested in independent
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Stockholm Environment Institute
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