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 williamcgbu...@comcast.net Reply-To: williamcgbu...@comcast.net Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:42:53 -0800 To: 'Radoslav Dimitrov' radoslav.dimit...@uwo.ca, 'Global Environmental Politics Education ListServe' gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 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
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 paul_steinb...@hmc.edu 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 sba...@gc.cuny.edu To: Raul
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 geoff.dabe...@wilsoncenter.org Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:00:36 -0500 To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 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 rmitc...@uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:48:40 -0800 To: GEPED gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 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.
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: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 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: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 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], gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 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 Ludwig et al, about 1993 had a great short piece in either Science or Nature, on failure of fishery policy. - Dimitrov, Radoslav S., Detlef F. Sprinz, Gerald M. DiGiusto, and Alexander Kelle. 2007. International Nonregimes: A Research Agenda. International Studies Review 9 (2):230-258. - Rado S. Dimitrov, Confronting Non-Regimes: Science and International Coral Reef Policy, Journal of Environment and Development, vol. 11, no. 1 (March 2002), pp. 53-78. - EEA (2005) Environmental policy integration in Europe - State of play and an evaluation framework, EEA Technical report No. 2/2005, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, http://reports.eea.eu.int/technical_report_2005_2/ (7/6/05). - OECD (2002) Improving Policy Coherence and Integration
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 gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 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 gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 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=2tid=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 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED
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: 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: 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: 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: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 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
