Changes to the Gep-ed List

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

Early in the New Year, the gep-ed list will migrate from its current
location (at ) to a new address, likely at
Google or Yahoo.  As a result, the list will go dark from ~ January 5th to
January 12th.  At some point, likely around the 4th or 5th of January,
messages sent to  will bounce back to you
as undeliverable.

Look for another email from me around January 12th informing you of the new
location of the gep-ed list.

Best wishes to all,
Michael Maniates

Radoslav's Copenhagen update Dec. 16 15:30 pm

[Michael Maniates]

Colleagues,

What follows is a repost of Radoslav's 16 December 2009 posting to the list,
without the original photos.  I'm sending it again without the photos in
order to get it into the list archives (photos apparently prompt the
archiver to reject the message -- who knew?)

Yours,
Michael Maniates

-- Forwarded message --
From: Radoslav Dimitrov 
Date: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Subject: Copenhagen update Dec. 16 15:30 pm
To: Global Environmental Politics Education ListServe <
gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu>




UPDATE EXCLUDES POLITICALLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION
PLEASE DO NOT "REPLY TO ALL"

Dear colleagues,

Starting today, access to the global conference is severely restricted. Only
4 people from each government delegation is allowed in the high-level
segment with special silver passes. The Brazilian delegation is 900 people!
Only 90 (ninety) of the thousands from civil society are allowed. Protests
and clashes with police are raging outside, and public transportation to the
Bella center was cancelled – due to “crowd control”. I walked on foot but
even government delegates were not allowed in the Bella Center for two hours
– at least 300 of us were waiting in the cold before police let us in.
 Attached photos I took within last 12 hours.

As royalty and heads of states are making speeches, negotiations have ground
to a halt. This morning, the conference president Connie Hedegaard resigned.
Formal expert negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol finished late last night.
The group failed to resolve differences and many delegations said the text
is not suitable to give to ministers. Disagreements include baseline year,
length of Kyoto II, and approach to fixing country obligations (top-down
versus bottom-up approach). This morning they asked the Plenary for one
extra day. Everyone is frantic to give heads of state something to adopt.

The second negotiations track, on global long-term cooperation, is even
worse. After two years of work, they had no text to present to COP this
morning. During the night there was a 6-hour delay with everyone waiting
around, developing countries huddled in the corner for consultations (see my
photos attached). Major differences on level of ambition and division of
labor. Among the many conflicts are whether to limit global temperature rise
to 1.5 or 2 degrees; cut emissions by 50 or 80-95% by 2050; and whether to
demand developing countries to report all their voluntary actions in a
registry - or only those funded internationally. One South American country
proposed 100% cuts by developed countries by 2040.

At night, the US rejected the draft text. Reasons: they object to aggregate
emission cuts from industrialized countries (broadly supported 25-40%) and
prefer individual national targets. the US also insists on common elements
on reporting actions to apply uniformly to both developing and developed
countries. On finance, Mexico and Norway who tabled the main proposals for
international climate finance, objected that the text does not fully reflect
their proposals. The meeting resumed at 4:45 am – and concluded the entire
text is “unfinished business.”

Last night, Saudi Arabia described Copenhagen as already a success - a
telling reflection on the state of affairs.

Best,
 Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Western Ontario
Social Science Centre
London, Ontario
Canada N6A 5C2
Tel. +1(519) 661-2111 ext. 85023
Fax +1(519) 661-3904
Email: rdimi...@uwo.ca

Radoslav's 10 December 2009 report from Copenhagen

[Michael Maniates]

Colleagues,

I'm reposting Radoslav's 10 December 2009 report from Copenhagen because it
wasn't picked up by the list archive.  This, I think, is because of the
picture he embedded in his original message.

Sorry for the repost -- sending this to the list is the only way I can get
it into the archive.

Yours,
MM

-- Forwarded message --
From: Radoslav Dimitrov 
Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Subject: Copenhagen highlights
To: Global Environmental Politics Education ListServe <
gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu>





Dear colleagues,

Here are Copenhagen highlights excluding politically sensitive information.
Photo courtesy of The Guardian.

Negotiations came to a complete stalemate two hours ago. A session on KP
emission reductions was cancelled altogether. The biggest fight in
Copenhagen remains whether to negotiate a new single global treaty covering
all nations – or renegotiate the Kyoto Protocol separate from a second
agreement involving everyone. Developing countries favor keeping Kyoto in
order to leave the policy burden primarily on developed countries. Most
Western countries want a single new global agreement involving all major
emitters (read China, India) to replace Kyoto.

Japan, Russia and Canada oppose keeping Kyoto alive and want a single brand
new global accord. Developing countries gave an ultimatum. They stated a
discontinuation of the Kyoto Protocol would be a deal-breaker here, and left
no doubt they will block any Copenhagen agreement without a second
commitment period for Kyoto. Hence the current deadlock.

In a major development, yesterday the developing country coalition split
openly. The Alliance of Small Island States and some Latin American
countries supported Tuvalu’s proposed "Copenhagen Protocol" that imposes
obligations for major developing countries as well as the West. The
ambitious protocol would limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees (instead of
the 2 degrees supported by others) and carbon concentrations to 350 ppm
(instead of 450). Civil society is ecstatic and staged massive
demonstrations in support that triggered security measures. Tuvalu is their
hero.

Progress on 1990 as the baseline year to measure emission reductions. Global
consensus on 1990, with Canada the only country against.

Security is interfering with the work. On day one, security guards clashed
with government delegates. Yes indeed. During the opening ceremony, security
closed the Plenary Hall doors and would not allow anyone new to enter -
including negotiators with government badges. Some delegates tried to
physically force their way through. Security is tight. Police officers run
16-hour shifts for 14 days in a row. Some warn they are bound to snap when
the real protests begin next week when 100 heads of states arrive.
Regards from Denmark,

Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Western Ontario
Social Science Centre
London, Ontario
Canada N6A 5C2
Tel. +1(519) 661-2111 ext. 85023
Fax +1(519) 661-3904
Email: rdimi...@uwo.ca

IR Conflict analysis PhD Programs?

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

I have an unusually gifted former
student<http://www.tedxatlanta.com/event/speakers-performers/justin-de-leon/>,
now settled in the Philadelphia area, who is looking to join a doctoral
program in conflict studies/conflict analysis.  He holds a BA in Political
Science and Communication Arts from my institution (Allegheny College), and
a Masters in IR (with a focus on conflict/conflict resolution in SE Asia).

IR (qualitative) conflict studies/conflict analysis isn't my field, so I'm
at some loss as to how to advise him.  He's inclined to stay in the
Philadelphia area, and has been investigating Temple and Penn, but I wonder
if someone with his abilities should be casting a wider net.  (Or perhaps
Penn or Temple are just right for his interests and abilities...?)

This fellow is something special, which is why I'm troubling you all with
this.  Do any suggestions or observations come to mind?  Kindly respond to
me off-list, if you would.

My thanks in advance,
Michael Maniates

Duke Environmental Leadership Position

[Michael Maniates]

*Apologies for Cross-Listing*
*
*
*For further info, contact:  Dr. Deborah Rigling Gallagher (**
deb.gallag...@duke.edu**), Chair, Environmental Management Search Committee,
Nicholas School **of** the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708*

Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor of the Practice
ofEnvironmental Management, beginning August, 2009. The Duke
Environmental
Leadership (DEL) program, a combination on-line and face-to-face master of
environmental management degree program for experienced, working
professionals, seeks an individual to teach graduate courses and conduct
research in program management. The primary focus of this position is on
issues of environmental management. A successful candidate would also
develop a research program centered on critical issues at the intersection
of environmental public policies and business practice. Teaching
responsibilities include graduate instruction in program management for both
the DEL program and the residential masters program and in the successful
candidate’s area of specialization (75%), with a secondary emphasis on
research (25%). Although not tenure-track, the position is intended to be
long-term (renewable multi-yr contracts) with comparable compensation and
benefits to that of the tenure track. The ideal candidate will be an
interdisciplinary scholar with at least 5 years of demonstrated work
experience, analytic skills in public policy analysis and business
management and a specific research focus in an area of environmental science
and management. An interest and ability to teach in an on-line learning
environment and effectively work across disciplinary boundaries is highly
desirable as is professional management experience.


The Nicholas School offers a stimulating teaching and research environment,
undergraduate, professional and graduate programs, and is recognized as one
of the leading institutions for scholarly activity in the field
ofenvironmental science and policy. The Nicholas School has particular
strength in the areas of conservation science, ecosystem management,
watershed ecology, environmental health, environmental economics and policy,
energy and earth sciences. Excellent opportunities exist for collaboration
with faculty in a wide range of disciplines within the Nicholas School, the
Duke University community and the larger Research Triangle regional
consortium of universities and research centers (Duke, UNC, NCSU, and NCCU).

Applicants must possess a doctoral degree in a relevant field such as
environmental management, sociology, business administration, public policy
analysis, anthropology or public administration and have demonstrated
excellence in teaching, research, and communication. The successful
candidate will be expected to teach graduate courses, develop a productive
research program and actively supervise professional students.

The Nicholas School and Duke University are committed to equal opportunity
in employment. Applications are strongly encouraged from qualified women and
members of underrepresented minorities.

Please send any inquiries by email to: Dr. Deborah Rigling Gallagher (
deb.gallag...@duke.edu), Chair, Environmental Management Search Committee,
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.
Please send application documents to include a letter of interest,
curriculum vitae, and names and contact information for three references to:
Sherri Nevius (sherri.nev...@duke.edu). Consideration of applicants will
begin December 7, 2010, and will continue until the position is filled.

Last Call For Sprout Award Nominations

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

I share below a post to the gep-ed list from 27 July 2009 from Susan Park,
Chair of this year's Sprout Award Committee.  If you or your colleagues have
published a book that may be eligible for the Sprout Award, you may wish to
check with your publisher to confirm that your book has been submitted for
consideration.

Note that the deadline for submissions is 15 December 2009.

Yours,
Michael Maniates
(member of the 2010 Sprout Award Committee)




Dear Colleagues,

Please note that the nominations for next year's Sprout Award for the
best environmental book are now being accepted. If you or someone you

know has just published a book please ask the publisher to submit it for
the award. The details are below.

Best,
Susan


*Harold and Margaret Sprout Award*

ESS members who know of books, or have published books of their own,

that they wish to see nominated for the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award
are encouraged to contact publishers as soon as possible.

The award is sponsored by the Environmental Studies Section, and is
given to the best book in the field, one that makes a contribution to

theory and interdisciplinarity, shows rigor and coherence in research
and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance. Nominated
books should address some aspect of one or more environmental, pollution

or resource issues from a broadly international or transnational
perspective, including works in (for example) global, interstate,
transboundary, North-South, foreign policy, comparative or area studies.
Environmental subjects of books can include (for example) environmental

law, diplomacy, transnational activism, natural resource use, global
change, sustainable development, biodiversity, transboundary pollution
control, and the like.

Nominated works must be published during 2008 or 2009. Books with a 2010

copyright date are welcome provided that they are released by year's
end. Each publisher may nominate more than one book, and books nominated
last year can be re-nominated. The committee members will begin reading

the books as soon as they arrive. The committee must complete its review
and reach its decision by early 2010 in time for presentation of the
award at the annual meeting of the ISA in New York in February 2010.
Therefore, we need to RECEIVE notice of nominations and receive copies

of nominated books by 15 December 2009.

 Publishers wishing to nominate books should send one copy of each book
to EACH member of the Sprout Award Committee. The names and addresses of
committee members are listed below.


Steinar Andresen
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
P.O. Box 326, 1326 Lysaker,
NORWAY
Tel: (+47) 67111900

 Matthias Finger
EPFL-CDM-TPI-MIR
BAC 103, Station 5
1015 Lausanne
SWITZERLAND

Matthew J. Hoffmann
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
CANADA
St. George (SS 3053)
Tel: 416-978-6804
Scarborough (B-542)
Tel: 416-287-7307

Michael Maniates
Allegheny College
Dept. of Political Science
520 N. Main Street
Meadville, PA 16335
USA
Tel. +1-814-332-2786

Susan Park
Dept. of Government
and International Relations

Room 264, Merewether Building H04
The University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA
Tel. +61 2 9351 6593

Re: Do we have an equivalent to GEP-ED in comparative politics and/or public policy?

[Michael Maniates]

Hello all,

I think that this is a great idea.  If people are interested in joining
together to create a comparativist list (though you might want to first
check the comparativist resources on the APSA website), why don't they
coordinate with Raul directly rather than post their expression of interest
to the entire list.  If someone among your merry, growing gang could then
update the entire list later on your progress, that would be great.

At the same time, building on Paul's suggestion, the gep-ed list is surely
open to comments and contributors with a distinctly comparativist
perspective.

With thanks,
Mike Maniates

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Baver, Sherrie  wrote:

> Dear Raul and Others on the List,
> Perhaps it's time to start another list for comparativists.  I've been
> thinking (admittedly fitfully) about this for several years.  Perhaps other
> comparativists on the GEP-ED list might identify themselves and we could
> begin talking among ourselves.  I would be willing to explore what my
> college might do in terms of hosting a list unless Raul or someone else is
> already experienced in setting up listserves.
>
> Best,
> Sherrie Baver
> The City College and The Graduate Center-CUNY
>
> 
> From: owner-gep...@listserve1.allegheny.edu [
> owner-gep...@listserve1.allegheny.edu] On Behalf Of Raul Pacheco [
> pache...@interchange.ubc.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:17 PM
> To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu
> Subject: Do we have an equivalent to GEP-ED in comparative politics and/or
> public policy?
>
> Dear all,
>
> An in-depth Google search of listservs in the field of political science
> and public policy yielded pretty much zero results. Do we have an equivalent
> to GEP-ED in the fields of comparative politics and in public policy? Any
> guidance would be much appreciated.
>
> Best wishes, and thanks in advance!
> Raul
>

Fwd: Innovations Special Issue

[Michael Maniates]

Apologies for Cross-posting...

Just in case you didn't see this,

Yours,
Michael Maniates
Allegheny College

P.S.  For the Schelling essay, click on the associate link below, treat with
disdain the ensuing web page that tells you that no such article exists,
remove the "%20" in the web link in the address at the top of your web
browser for the Schelling piece, then resend the modified URL.


-- Forwarded message --
From: MIT Press Journals 
Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Subject: Innovations Special Issue
To: mmani...@allegheny.edu


*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
*MIT Press releases Holdren, Schelling, and Bonvillian essays from “Energy
for Change: Creating Climate Solutions,” the Fall issue of Innovationsjournal
*

In conjunction with the clean energy address that President Obama is
delivering at MIT today, MIT Press is releasing essays from the soon to be
published fall special issue of *Innovations* journal on energy and climate
solution. The pre-released essays are authored by White House Science
Adviser John Holdren, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics Thomas Schelling, and
the Director of MIT’s Washington office, William Bonvillian.

In his introduction to the special issue, Holdren states that the
forthcoming publication is “as thorough a survey of energy and climate
solutions as has yet been compiled.” Of the climate challenge, he writes:

“Without energy, there is no economy. Without climate, there is no
environment. Without economy and environment, there is no material
well-being, no civil society, no personal or national security. The
overriding problem associated with these realities, of course, is that the
world has long been getting most of the energy its economies need from
fossil fuels whose emissions are imperiling the climate that its environment
needs.”

Schelling, a leader in the study of climate change for over three decades,
advances a new proposal for international coordination. Writing with
reference to next month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Copenhagen, Denmark, Schelling states,

“Among the ideas that I do not believe will get serious attention in
Copenhagen is one I see as critical to addressing the climate challenge:
creating a new institutional structure to coordinate assistance from
advanced industrialized countries to developing countries with the objective
of transforming the way that people in the developing world produce and
utilize energy.”

Bonvillian’s essay, co-authored with Georgetown University’s Charles Weiss,
summarizes and advances the core arguments presented in the authors’ MIT
Press book titled *Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution*. Bonvillian
and Weiss argue that the transformation of the energy technology
infrastructure represents an unprecedented challenge for policy-makers as
well as for technological innovators:

“Where complex technology sectors like energy are involved, we need to have
Congress legislate standard packages of incentives and support across common
technology launch areas, so that some technology neutrality is preserved and
the optimal emerging technology has a chance to prevail.”

The Director of the MIT Press, Ellen Faran, states that “The
*Innovations*special issue reflects the commitment of MIT and the MIT
Press to promote
innovative solutions to global issues and to encourage the widest
dissemination of its scholarship.”

Sample articles from the issue follow below. Members of the media wishing to
see an advance copy of the issue should contact:
edit...@innovationsjournal.net
.

Schelling:
http://mitpressjournals.org/userimages/ContentEditor/1256243031168/INNOV0404_schelling.pdf<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=17157406&msgid=297854&act=MQV9&c=237986&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fmitpressjournals.org%2Fuserimages%2FContentEditor%2520%2F1256243031168%2FINNOV0404_schelling.pdf>

Holdren: 
http://mitpressjournals.org/userimages/ContentEditor/1256243017670/INNOV0404_holdren.pdf
<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=17157406&msgid=297854&act=MQV9&c=237986&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fmitpressjournals.org%2Fuserimages%2FContentEditor%2F1256243017670%2FINNOV0404_holdren.pdf%2520>

Bonvillain-Weiss:
http://mitpressjournals.org/userimages/ContentEditor/1256243006055
INNOV0404_bonvillian-weiss.pdf<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=17157406&msgid=297854&act=MQV9&c=237986&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fmitpressjournals.org%2Fuserimages%2FContentEditor%2F1256243006055%2FINNOV0404_bonvillian-weiss.pdf>

Others wishing to receive this special issue upon publication are encouraged
to subscribe to Innovations at:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/order/default.asp?issn=1558-2477<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=17157406&msgid=297854&act=MQV9&c=237986&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fmitpress.mit.edu%2Fjournals%2Forder%2Fdefault.asp%3Fissn%3D1558-2477>

A request from Ronnie Lipschutz

[Michael Maniates]

Dear GEP-eders:

I'm forwarding along the following message from Ronnie Lipschutz, which
didn't make it to the list due to an obscure technical glitch.  Please
respond directly to Ronnie at the email addresses noted at the bottom of his
note.

Many thanks,
Mike Maniates

---


Dear All:

I am here in the UK trying to find an electronic version
of one my articles which appeared in Global Governance.
 It is on HeinOnline, but I cannot find a way to access it
and I do not have a paper copy at hand. Any help would be
appreciated.

The article is: Ronnie D. Lipschutz, ‘From Place to
Planet: Local Knowledge and Global Environmental
Governance’, Global Governance 3, #1 (Jan.-Apr.
1997):83-102

Thanks,

Ronnie


--
Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Professor of Politics, UC Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA  95064

 From Sept. 2, 2009 - March 26, 2010
Dept. of Politics and Int'l Relations
Founders West 119
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX  UK
e-mail: rlip...@ucsc.edu;  ronnie.lipsch...@rhul.ac.uk
Phone: 44 (0)1784 443148

Non si puo lasciare la tavola fino che hai finito la
frutta.

Job Announcement: Case Western Reserve University

[Michael Maniates]

Colleagues,

FYI,

Mike Maniates



The Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at
Case Western Reserve University invites applications from outstanding
scholars for a tenure-track position in the general areas of environmental,
energy, and/or sustainability politics and policy.  Rank is open, but
appointment at the rank of assistant professor is preferred.  The successful
candidate will teach both within the department and for CWRU’s Environmental
Studies Program.  We would like our new colleague to be able to teach about
the public policy process, but further teaching and research interests could
include any other subfield, including political theory, American politics,
comparative politics, and international relations.  The normal teaching load
is two courses per semester.  She or he should also be able to contribute to
the College initiative in Sustainability, and perhaps to the university’s
Great Lakes Energy Institute.  We appreciate scholars with broad interests,
and seek excellence in research within the fields of environment, energy and
sustainability with no presumptions about the location or political
processes or institutions studied.

Case Western Reserve University offers the student quality and class size of
a strong liberal arts college, within one of the nation’s major research
universities.  Compensation is competitive and commensurate with
qualifications.  Junior applicants should submit a letter of application
stating research and teaching interests, a curriculum vitae, and at least
two writing samples to Professor Karen Beckwith; Department of Political
Science, Case Western Reserve University; Mather House 111, 11201 Euclid
Avenue; Cleveland, OH 44106-7109.  Please e-mail these materials to
lauren.galli...@case.edu.  They should also arrange for three letters of
reference to be sent as hard copies to Professor Beckwith.  Senior
applicants should submit to the e-mail address listed above a letter of
application indicating research and teaching interests and a curriculum
vitae with a list of references.  Appointment at the level of Associate
Professor or Professor will require a national reputation for expertise in
the candidate’s line of research and a distinguished record of publication,
in accord with the qualifications necessary for tenure and promotion at our
institution as stated in the Faculty Handbook and in the tenure and
promotion standards of the Department of Political Science.

A Ph.D. in Political Science or comparable degree in a related field is
required for appointment to the tenure track.  In employment, as in
education, Case Western Reserve University is committed to Equal Opportunity
and World Class Diversity.  CWRU is a recipient of a National Science
Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant to increase the
participation of women in Science and Engineering.  Review of applications
will begin on October 12, 2009, and continue until the search is concluded.
We prefer that our new colleague start with the 2010-11 academic year.

Fwd: eco-songs suck, or do they?

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

The following note comes from Beth Chalecki.  I'm forwarding it along
because of some technical issues that Beth and I weren't able to overcome
for this note.  Please respond directly to Beth with questions, comments, or
further suggestions.

Rock on (in keeping with the spirit of Beth's message),
Mike Maniates

-

Dear gep-eders-

Of course we all subscribe to Grist Magazine for the news and eco-puns, but
for those who don't, they just published a piece on how badly songs about
climate change suck.  Which, if the list of songs they provided is any
indication, they largely do.  However, if Melissa Etheridge can win an Oscar
for the forgettable "I Need to Wake Up", some of these more home-grown
offerings might rock the students in your Intro to the Environment class:


"CO2"
three white guys from Vermont stick it to the governor for vetoing a clean
energy bill
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-05-songs-climate-change-cringeworthy-madonna-miley-jared-leto/P7

"Take Our Plane Back"
will.i.am's homage to Al Gore
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-05-songs-climate-change-cringeworthy-madonna-miley-jared-leto/P8

"Melting Ice"
10-year-old "king of eco-rap" Lil Peppi is worried about the Arctic
(honestly, if Lil Peppi gets it, why can't Sarah Palin?)
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-05-songs-climate-change-cringeworthy-madonna-miley-jared-leto/P9

"In My Prius"
Casual Mafia shows us that tree humping never goes out of fashion
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-05-songs-climate-change-cringeworthy-madonna-miley-jared-leto/P10


Peer-reviewed papers and journal articles are all very scholarly.  But
sometimes ya just gotta rap.

-Beth

--
Elizabeth L. Chalecki
Visiting Asst. Professor, International Studies Program
Boston College
213 Carney Hall
140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA  02467
chalecki [at] bc.edu
elizabeth.chalecki [at] gmail.com

Fwd: Looking for faculty in Environment & Development at ATREE

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

And here's an announcement for research/faculty positions in Bangalore,
India.

Yours,
Mike Maniates

-- Forwarded message --
From: Sharachchandra Lele 
Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Subject: Looking for faculty in Environment & Development at ATREE
To: "sha...@atree" 


 Dear Friends,

We are looking to recruit faculty at ATREE in the broad area of Environment
& Development, specifically in the programmatic areas of

   - land and water resources
   - forests and livelihoods
   - energy and climate change


I am attaching an one-pager with all the details. I request you to give this
as much publicity as possible within your organization and network of
friends.

It has been our experience that good candidates are most often identified by
through personal contacts. Hence, if you know of any persons who might be
appropriate for these positions, please bring this advertisement to their
notice. Alternatively, if you write to me with their contact information, I
would be most happy to contact them myself.

Thanking you in advance for your help, and with regards,

Sincerely,

Sharad

p.s. Apologies for cross-posting, if any.


-- 

Sharachchandra Lele
-
Senior Fellow
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Royal Enclave
Srirampura, Jakkur Post
Bangalore-560064

Tel: Office: +91-(80)-2363- - ext. 317
 Mobile: +91-94800-15850
 Fax: +91-(80)-2353-0070

Email: sl...@atree.org   Skype ID: sharad_lele
Website: www.atree.org
Personal webpage: http://www.cised.org/sharadhomepage.htm
-


Faculty positions in Environment and Development-full-final.doc
Description: MS-Word document

A reminder...

[Michael Maniates]

Hello All,

Just a gentle reminder that when you post a message to the list, it goes 
out to ~ 350 people who already get wy too much email. And, thus, 
while I don't wish to stifle the rich conversations we're having here 
(the "skeptics" exchange being the most recent), I do ask that you 
consider, before posting to the list, if your message is better directed 
to one or more specific individuals, or best shared with all of us.  A 
bit of intentionality on this point will go a long way.

My reminder is not prompted by any particular recent posting -- so if 
you've posted in the last day or two, please do not take this message as 
any sort of reprimand.  I'm merely reminded that the virtue of this list 
is our collective self-restraint, which has led to a great quality-
quantity ratio over time (I learn more from this list per word posted to 
it than any other of the many lists to which I belong).  

All my best,
Mike Maniates

Re: Ongoing issue -- responding to 'skeptics'

[Michael Maniates]

Steve,

A good place for an overview on this stuff is http://www.realclimate.org/

The arguments in the web link you provide have 
been around, in varied forms, for some time, even 
though they're regularly contextualized and 
refuted.  There's a nice literature on the 
political strategy and forces driving the stuff 
of the website you've posted here, a literature 
that others on the list may wish to 
illuminate.  In my experience, the first best 
entry point into much of this is realclimate.org


Mike Maniates

 At 06:41 PM 7/2/2009, Steve Hoffman wrote:

Dear All –

While discussing climate change with ‘skeptics’, 
I’ve been presented with the following article:


http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=10fe77b0-802a-23ad-4df1-fc38ed4f85e3

Would love to know how those on this list would 
respond, since I haven’t crunched the numbers myself.


That notwithstanding, my response would probably touch on the following:

a)   For the record, to play the numbers 
game for a moment, how many IPCC scientists are 
in this group of 700?  On the other hand, how 
many IPCC scientists believe that climate change 
is both a serious problem and human-caused?
b)  Knowing what I do about Japan, I don’t 
put an enormous amount of stock in the statement 
that 90% of participants in a Japan Geoscience 
Union symposium didn’t believe the IPCC report – 
the language barrier is large, and cultural 
factors, e.g., what one might call ‘cultural 
push-back’ [reflex skepticism], as well as 
‘follow the leader’, and the particular nature 
of this group, may be important here.   Quite a 
bit may have been lost in the translation, so to 
speak – in both directions.  [Also, how many 
participants were there at this 
“symposium”?]  Yet that is the lead ‘fact’ in the article.

c)   How many of the 700 are on the payroll of ‘interested parties’?

As an interdisciplinary environmental scientist 
who does carry a healthy degree of skepticism w/ 
regard to scientific data of all kinds, I do 
have a certain amount of sympathy with anyone 
who professes to be skeptical.  However, my 
sense on climate change is that the scientific 
consensus has become near-overwhelming, and 
while politics are of course not 100% divorced 
from this, the data are very compelling.


But again, I’m most curious to know what sort of 
response might come from folks on this list who 
are much more well informed on this set of issues than I.



Best Regards,

 --
Steven Hoffman, Ph.D.
Environmental Consulting and Innovation
Bow (Samish Island), WA
shoff...@hoffman-and-associates.com
(360) 720-4378

ISA 2010 panel on comparative regional environmental governance

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

I'm posting this note on behalf of Jörg Balsiger, 
who was unable to post this himself because of a 
technical glitch with the gep-ed list.  Please 
reply directly to Jörg or Miriam at the email addresses they provide below.


Yours,
Mike Maniates
occasional gep-ed troubleshooter

---

We're planning to propose a panel on comparative 
regional environmental governance for ISA 2010 
and are looking for people who might like to participate.


The panel proposal, which is part of a larger 
effort to organize a workshop on the topic, is 
roughly the following:  "As climate change 
negotiators prepare for Copenhagen to decide on 
the outlines of a future global climate change 
regime, there is growing recognition that actual 
mitigation and adaptation will have to take place 
much closer to home. In other environmental issue 
areas as well, the transaction costs of global 
regimes, as well as a creeping "global convention 
fatigue," are producing a shift in the locus of 
impetus, implementation, and innovation to regional levels.


Compared to global approaches, regional 
initiatives can benefit from enhanced 
commonalities and familiarity among key actors, 
and the ability to tailor actions to a specific 
constituency.  Yet, research in the emergent 
sub-discipline of regional environmental 
governance suffers from some distinct flaws. 
Central among them is the almost complete absence 
of comparative work. There is, for instance, 
little reflection on how a 'region' is defined 
across the globe, nor do the prevailing 
single-case studies contribute to systematic 
theory development. The proposed panel will 
address these shortcomings through an explicit 
emphasis on the comparative study of some of the 
central analytical elements: the nature of 
regions, the interplay between the regional and 
other levels of governance, and the specifically 
regional nature of actors and interactions between them."


If you're interested, please write to me (joerg.balsi...@env.ethz.ch)
or Miriam Prys (miriam.p...@ir.gess.ethz.ch)

Best regards,

Jörg Balsiger, Institute for Environmental Decisions, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology Zurich Miriam Prys, Center for Comparative and
International Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

[no subject]

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

I'm posting this note on behalf of Jörg Balsiger, 
who was unable to post this himself because of a 
technical glitch with the gep-ed list.  Please 
reply directly to Jörg or Miriam at the email addresses they provide below.


Yours,
Mike Maniates
occasional gep-ed troubleshooter

---

We're planning to propose a panel on comparative 
regional environmental governance for ISA 2010 
and are looking for people who might like to participate.


The panel proposal, which is part of a larger 
effort to organize a workshop on the topic, is 
roughly the following:  "As climate change 
negotiators prepare for Copenhagen to decide on 
the outlines of a future global climate change 
regime, there is growing recognition that actual 
mitigation and adaptation will have to take place 
much closer to home. In other environmental issue 
areas as well, the transaction costs of global 
regimes, as well as a creeping "global convention 
fatigue," are producing a shift in the locus of 
impetus, implementation, and innovation to regional levels.


Compared to global approaches, regional 
initiatives can benefit from enhanced 
commonalities and familiarity among key actors, 
and the ability to tailor actions to a specific 
constituency.  Yet, research in the emergent 
sub-discipline of regional environmental 
governance suffers from some distinct flaws. 
Central among them is the almost complete absence 
of comparative work. There is, for instance, 
little reflection on how a 'region' is defined 
across the globe, nor do the prevailing 
single-case studies contribute to systematic 
theory development. The proposed panel will 
address these shortcomings through an explicit 
emphasis on the comparative study of some of the 
central analytical elements: the nature of 
regions, the interplay between the regional and 
other levels of governance, and the specifically 
regional nature of actors and interactions between them."


If you're interested, please write to me (joerg.balsi...@env.ethz.ch)
or Miriam Prys (miriam.p...@ir.gess.ethz.ch)

Best regards,

Jörg Balsiger, Institute for Environmental Decisions, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology Zurich Miriam Prys, Center for Comparative and
International Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Re: Fwd: a blast from the past

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Charlie (and others),

Some spray cans sold in the United States continue to sport this 
claim.  I have one here in my office (shaving cream) that I picked up 
a few weeks ago for a classroom demonstration (of greenwashing, not 
shaving).  This practice, then, lives on.


Mike Maniates

At 11:04 AM 4/21/2009, Charles Chester wrote:

Hi all,

Attached is a photo of a spray can with the claim across the front: 
"Contains No Ozone-damaging CFC's." A biology professor here at 
Brandeis found the can in his mother's house, and passed the photo 
on to me asking what time period such labels existed (its his own 
photo, which he said anyone can use). I couldn't say more than "late 
'70s," but now I'm thinking that such claims may have lasted up to 
the late 1980s? Even later? Thanks for any perspectives on this (and 
please email me, and I'll compile for the list).


-Charlie

Charles C. Chester, Ph.D.
9 Lowell Street, Cambridge, MA  02138  USA
wk 617.304.9373   fx 617.245.4613
The 
Conservation & Climate Change Clearinghouse (new URL)
Brandeis - 
Y2Y - Root Capital
Conservation 
Across Borders - 
Peace Parks
Biodiversity Links @ 
The Fletcher School

Hysterical Housewives?

[Michael Maniates]

Colleagues,

I recall showing a few years back a video or video clip on the 
history of Montreal Protocol that featured a spokesperson from 
industry referring to aerosol-can activists of the 1970s as 
"hysterical housewives."  I'm trying to (re)locate that 
video/clip.  Does this ring a bell for anyone?  I've searched my 
collection but have come up empty.


Confessing publicly to my advancing senility is not an easy thing to do.

My thanks,
Mike Maniates

Consumption piece worth a look

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

Definitely worth a look: A nice integration of the economics and 
politics U.S. consumption re: our current economic woes:



Post-Consumer Prosperity
Finding new opportunities amid the economic wreckage.
Robert H. Frank | March 24, 2009
The American Prospect
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=postconsumer_prosperity


Cheers,
Mike Maniates

Re: Stockholm, Rio, JoBurg: Helpful video resources?

[Michael Maniates]

Dear All,

Thank you all for this and other great suggestions, many of which were 
sent to me off-list.  I'll compile them after the ISA meetings and send 
out a list.

In the meantime, keep 'em coming.

Yours,
Mike Maniates


> Hi Mike,
> 
> I have recently shown this old-time favorite. I find it summarises very
> neatly the idea of precautionary principle, global perspective and many
> other things besides.
> 
> Severn Suzuki, Rio 1992
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cmWZOX8Q
> 
> best,
> 
> Olivia
> 
> 2009/2/7 Jonathan Rosenberg 
> 
> > Hi Mike,
> > Here's a short video that gives a street-level view of the 
preparations
> > for Jo'burg.  I've used it in my IPE class with pretty good results,
> > discussion-wise.  I've pasted the info. and description from my 
library's
> > catalog.
> >
> > Best,
> > Jonathan
> >
> > Title:  The road from Rio [videorecording]
> > TVE International ; BBC Worldwide ; written and directed by Steve 
Bradshaw
> > ; co-director, Khalo Matabane.
> > Publication info: Olney, PA : Bullfrog Films, c2002.
> > Physical descrip: 1 videodisc 27 (min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
> >
> > General Note:   Series title and number from container.
> > Credits:Series editor, Jenny Richards.
> > Summary:Part of a series examining the issue of globalization 
and
> > its
> > effect on ordinary people around the world. This segment questions the
> > relevance and success of the World Summit on Sustainable Development 
which
> > opened in August 2002 in Johannesburg. As world leaders prepared for 
the
> > meeting, hard questions were raised -- when governments had failed to
> > deliver on so many of the promises they made in Rio -- why should the
> > world believe they'd be any more responsive at the second summit?
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I'm soon in that part of my GEP course where we talk about 
Stockholm,
> > > Rio, Jo'Burg -- the "international conference" part of the course, 
in
> > > other words.
> > >
> > > I wouldn't mind pumping up the discussion with some video footage 
of,
> > > well, anything that might work to get people thinking a bit more
> > > vigorously and creatively about international env. conferences.
> > >
> > > Have any of you out there had good experience with YouTube videos, 
or
> > > slices of video productions on DVD or VHS, that focus on Stockholm,
> > > Rio, JoBurg, etc.?
> > >
> > > My thanks,
> > > Mike Maniates
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg
> > Department of Political Science
> > P.O. Box 756420
> > University of Alaska Fairbanks
> > Fairbanks, AK 99775-6420
> > 907-474-6502
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ***
> Olivia Bina
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Geography and Resource Management
> The Chinese University of Hong Kong
> Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong S.A.R.
> 
> work: (00852) 2609 6647
> email: o.c.bina...@cantab.net
> skype: oliviabina
> ***
> 

Stockholm, Rio, JoBurg: Helpful video resources?

[Michael Maniates]

Hello All,

I'm soon in that part of my GEP course where we talk about Stockholm, 
Rio, Jo'Burg -- the "international conference" part of the course, in 
other words.


I wouldn't mind pumping up the discussion with some video footage of, 
well, anything that might work to get people thinking a bit more 
vigorously and creatively about international env. conferences.


Have any of you out there had good experience with YouTube videos, or 
slices of video productions on DVD or VHS, that focus on Stockholm, 
Rio, JoBurg, etc.?


My thanks,
Mike Maniates

RE: Schools offering joint environmental science/policy degree

[Michael Maniates]

Well, it's nicely accumulating on the list archive, at 
http://www.mail-archive.com/gep-ed%40listserve1.allegheny.edu/ 
Perhaps, once this discussion string settles down, the Webmaster of 
the ESS website could cut and paste the responses into one place?


Is that Webmaster on gep-ed...or, if not, can someone who is forward 
this note to her/him?


Perhaps this would be a good, quick point of discussion at the ESS 
business meeting later this month in NYC.


MM

At 11:33 AM 2/2/2009, you wrote:
Is anyone compiling all of this information? Seems this would be 
useful to update the Environmental Studies Section website on 
graduate programs.


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)
m.bets...@colostate.edu


-Original Message-
From: owner-gep...@listserve1.allegheny.edu 
[mailto:owner-gep...@listserve1.allegheny.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Axelrod

Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:13 AM
To: Kenneth Wilkening
Cc: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu
Subject: Re: Schools offering joint environmental science/policy degree

Dear all,

At Michigan State, we have the Doctoral Specialization in Environmental
Science and Policy.  Students in the specialization come from a wide
range of disciplines in the humanities, social and natural sciences.
They all take a core of four courses in the specialization. Although
there is no official specialization for Masters students, students in
all affiliated departments can take the core courses as well I believe.
More information is available at
http://environment.msu.edu/specialization/index.html

The University of Michigan has excellent Masters and PhD programs in its
School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Best wishes,
Mark

Kenneth Wilkening wrote:
> Dear GEP-EDers:
>
> I have an undergraduate student who is interested in pursuing a joint
> environmental science and policy MA. She will be completing a BS in
> environmental science. She wishes to study policy and at the same time
> continue her science training.
>
> Can you suggest school/programs (anywhere in the world) with such
> combined study? Self-interested promotion of your own school/program
> is welcomed.
>
> Thank you,
> Ken Wilkening
>
> International Studies Program
> University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)
>  University Way
> Prince George, BC
> Canada V2N 4Z9
>
> Tel: (250) 960-5768
> Fax: (250) 960-5545
> Email: k...@unbc.ca 

Fwd: Re: thesis and dissertation "writing" -- noted without comment

[Michael Maniates]

From Ronnie Lipschutz...I think he's on to something

MM




All rather ironic (or pathetic), in light of the sanctity of 
intellectual property rights, no?


I suspect this all goes along with downloading music, film, etc. from the web.

Ronnie

Michael Maniates wrote:
As most of you know, I was away during the Spring of 2007 with 
Semester at Sea.  I served as Dean, hired the faculty, dealt with 
academic problems...the usual Deanly stuff.


We had ~ 700 students on the ship, from maybe 200+ institutions, 
from Ivy League to schools that required only a pulse for admission, if that.
Additionally, we were running under the Univ. of Virginia's Honor 
Code, which is probably the strongest in the land: One strike and 
you're out Code.  Any "cheating, lying, or stealing," and you're 
expelled.  This code was explained to students, and discussed in 
class by faculty.


Despite all of this, we had several instances of plagiarism, mostly 
involving the cutting and pasting of material from web 
sources.  When confronted, students seemed to be genuinely 
shocked.  They thought, at least many did, that this was how one 
did research: cutting and pasting, with some bracketed commentary throughout.
One student was expelled for this sort of behavior on a marginal 
assignment.  Others (for whom we couldn't did up definitive proof) 
were read the riot act.
I leave that experience thinking that there's something seriously 
amiss in the educational/socialization process, as opposed to a 
decline in the ethical bearing of our students.  That so many 
students could think that what we regard as plagiarism is AOK, even 
in the face of daunting sanctions, was alarming.


Mike Maniates

At 01:04 PM 1/7/2009, you wrote:
On cheating, great discussion, thanks to those who have been 
posting. A few random thoughts:


Rational choice/incentive model: People cheat when the stakes are 
high and the sanctions are low/unlikely. I read of one study in 
which MBA students were found more likely than JD students to 
cheat, attributed to the latter's fear of not being allowed to sit 
for the bar exam if caught. I try reasonably to catch them, but do 
my students really fear being caught? I doubt it.


Socialization/norms model: I will speak only for the USA. (1) 
Studies show that young people here increasingly crave fame and 
acclaim (I blame American Idol, seriously). (2) Neoliberal 
commodification of education has made teachers at lower levels 
into accomplices, which must send a powerful message to the kids. 
We have seen MANY staff-facilitated cheating scandals on the 
No-Child-Left-Behind standardized tests by which teachers and 
schools are increasingly evaluated, including my own kids' former 
elementary school, with nobody fired as a result. (3) "Pay to 
play" politics and financial Ponzi schemes are pretty much the 
heart of our political economy, as recent events have shown. It is 
not too strong to say that the dominant norms in public life have 
become "be famous or you are a loser", "it's the outcome, not the 
path to it, by which you will be judged", and "don't get caught."


Information/transaction costs model: The line as to what 
constitutes plagiarism has been blurred with online resources, 
web-sites that interlink and reproduce without attribution, etc, 
and students in K-12 are not taught seriously where the line is; 
and the transaction costs have dropped greatly with cut-and-paste, 
Google, Wikipedia, and online buy-a-paper sites.


In other words, all our social-science approaches lead in the same 
direction. Too bleak?


On a lighter note, veterans will recall that GEPED had its own 
experience several years ago, when someone posted a paragraph from 
a paper that a student couldn't possibly have written, and I 
recognized it as being from Nancy Peluso's chapter in the edited 
volume Ronnie Lipschutz and I did some years back. I reproduced 
that e-mail exchange in my syllabi for a while, as a warning to studentskc






>>> Susanne Moser  1/7/2009 11:24 AM >>>
Good morning everyone -

I don't know about you all - maybe you're used to this, maybe you're
cynical, maybe you've given up but I find all these posts rather
disturbing to read. I don't teach at a colleague or university so don't
have first-hand experience. Thus forgive if this is a totally dumb
question, but can someone please offer some hunches as to the reasons
for why such services exist?

Are professors placing too many demands on students (either or both in
quantity or quality)? Are students too dumb or ill-educated so that, by
the time they get to college they can't perform what is asked of them?
Is there a lack of mentoring, lack of writing assistance (because
professors have papers to publish or perish, and advisory staff got
cut)? Is there too much parental pressure to be a 

Re: thesis and dissertation "writing" -- noted without comment

[Michael Maniates]

As most of you know, I was away during the Spring of 2007 with 
Semester at Sea.  I served as Dean, hired the faculty, dealt with 
academic problems...the usual Deanly stuff.


We had ~ 700 students on the ship, from maybe 200+ institutions, from 
Ivy League to schools that required only a pulse for admission, if that.


Additionally, we were running under the Univ. of Virginia's Honor 
Code, which is probably the strongest in the land: One strike and 
you're out Code.  Any "cheating, lying, or stealing," and you're 
expelled.  This code was explained to students, and discussed in 
class by faculty.


Despite all of this, we had several instances of plagiarism, mostly 
involving the cutting and pasting of material from web sources.  When 
confronted, students seemed to be genuinely shocked.  They thought, 
at least many did, that this was how one did research: cutting and 
pasting, with some bracketed commentary throughout.


One student was expelled for this sort of behavior on a marginal 
assignment.  Others (for whom we couldn't did up definitive proof) 
were read the riot act.


I leave that experience thinking that there's something seriously 
amiss in the educational/socialization process, as opposed to a 
decline in the ethical bearing of our students.  That so many 
students could think that what we regard as plagiarism is AOK, even 
in the face of daunting sanctions, was alarming.


Mike Maniates

At 01:04 PM 1/7/2009, you wrote:
On cheating, great discussion, thanks to those who have been 
posting. A few random thoughts:


Rational choice/incentive model: People cheat when the stakes are 
high and the sanctions are low/unlikely. I read of one study in 
which MBA students were found more likely than JD students to cheat, 
attributed to the latter's fear of not being allowed to sit for the 
bar exam if caught. I try reasonably to catch them, but do my 
students really fear being caught? I doubt it.


Socialization/norms model: I will speak only for the USA. (1) 
Studies show that young people here increasingly crave fame and 
acclaim (I blame American Idol, seriously). (2) Neoliberal 
commodification of education has made teachers at lower levels into 
accomplices, which must send a powerful message to the kids. We have 
seen MANY staff-facilitated cheating scandals on the 
No-Child-Left-Behind standardized tests by which teachers and 
schools are increasingly evaluated, including my own kids' former 
elementary school, with nobody fired as a result. (3) "Pay to play" 
politics and financial Ponzi schemes are pretty much the heart of 
our political economy, as recent events have shown. It is not too 
strong to say that the dominant norms in public life have become "be 
famous or you are a loser", "it's the outcome, not the path to it, 
by which you will be judged", and "don't get caught."


Information/transaction costs model: The line as to what constitutes 
plagiarism has been blurred with online resources, web-sites that 
interlink and reproduce without attribution, etc, and students in 
K-12 are not taught seriously where the line is; and the transaction 
costs have dropped greatly with cut-and-paste, Google, Wikipedia, 
and online buy-a-paper sites.


In other words, all our social-science approaches lead in the same 
direction. Too bleak?


On a lighter note, veterans will recall that GEPED had its own 
experience several years ago, when someone posted a paragraph from a 
paper that a student couldn't possibly have written, and I 
recognized it as being from Nancy Peluso's chapter in the edited 
volume Ronnie Lipschutz and I did some years back. I reproduced that 
e-mail exchange in my syllabi for a while, as a warning to studentskc






>>> Susanne Moser  1/7/2009 11:24 AM >>>
Good morning everyone -

I don't know about you all - maybe you're used to this, maybe you're
cynical, maybe you've given up but I find all these posts rather
disturbing to read. I don't teach at a colleague or university so don't
have first-hand experience. Thus forgive if this is a totally dumb
question, but can someone please offer some hunches as to the reasons
for why such services exist?

Are professors placing too many demands on students (either or both in
quantity or quality)? Are students too dumb or ill-educated so that, by
the time they get to college they can't perform what is asked of them?
Is there a lack of mentoring, lack of writing assistance (because
professors have papers to publish or perish, and advisory staff got
cut)? Is there too much parental pressure to be a straight A student? Is
it the pressure to get into grad school and super-duper jobs? Is it
vanity? Is it just another money-making ploy by the good old capitalists
who will find just about any niche to exploit? Are morals that far out
the window and maybe more so than before? And is anyone going to get on
the barricades and resist this baffling trend of anti-intellectualism?
(if I go on for a bit, it will soon be a GEP-relevant t

Summer opportunities in Africa?

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

I have a really impressive third-year undergraduate student who is 
interested in fair trade/direct producer-to-consumer marketing 
programs as a vehicle for sustained, equitable development in the 
global South.  She's just received support to spend this summer in 
Africa to work on issues of "sustainable commerce" --  preferably by 
working with an organization that's implementing or coordinating 
these sorts of programs.


Can you or your students or colleagues recommend any likely 
organizations doing this kind of development work in Africa?  This 
could be a great opportunity for some such organization to host a 
summer intern, free of charge, who really has a lot going for her.


My thanks,
Mike Maniates
Allegheny College

A Refresher on Gep-Ed Norms

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

I occasionally send out a brief note highlighting the norms of this 
list.  These notes are useful to newcomers to our cyber-community, 
and they serve as an important refresher for old-timers as 
well.  (I'll leave it to you to judge where you lie in this spectrum.)


One norm that has evolved over time is the use of this list for 
research assistance.  My view is that this is a fine use of the list, 
so long as the request is sufficiently narrow in scope, is preceded 
by evidence of prior investigation, and points to a set of specific 
or narrow issues or questions with which list members might help.  A 
few months back, for instance, a colleague posted a note that went 
something like this:  "I'm working on this research question, I've 
located these specific sources, but my sense is that I'm missing 
something important around this particular aspect of the problem.  Do 
any critical sources come to mind, or am I actually weighing in on 
new territory?  I've searched these databases and consulted these 
sources, but my hunch is that I'm missing something."


This posting focused our attention on a specific, narrow 
question.  More important, the author demonstrated that she valued 
our time by coming to us only after she'd exhausted more traditional 
research approaches.  That's a model to emulate.


All of us on this list are busy people.  And yet, as a community, 
we're amazingly willing to help one another.  Let us celebrate and 
nurture this commitment by drawing on one another's expertise only 
after other, more traditional lines of research assistance have been 
pressed into service.


I welcome your comments, emailed to me off-list, please.

Yours,
Mike Maniates

Libertarian Perspectives?

[Michael Maniates]

Hello All,

Given the relative success of Libertarian Ron Paul's candidacy for 
the U.S. Presidency, I'm looking for one (or a small handful) of 
essays, articles, or Web resources that best capture the Libertarian 
approach to environmental problems and environmental 
problem-solving.  I'm interested less in critiques of the Libertarian 
perspective, and more on resources that best or most fairly represent 
this point of view.


If you happen to have something at the tip of your fingers, zip me a 
note.  After a week or so I'll post a list of what I received.


Many thanks,
Michael Maniates
Allegheny College

Re: Crichton's "State of Fear"

[Michael Maniates]

Sorry...I meant "email me off-list."  

MM


> Good stuff to point out.  I let me students discover this on their own, 
> which leads to all kinds of interesting discussions 'round the table.  
> For those who'd like additional references to/analyses of The Great 
> Global Warming Swindle, email me off-line.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike Maniates
> 
> > If you’re using the ‘great global warming swindle’, it’s worth
> know> ing 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
> court> s 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
> th> at
> > Durkin is closely associated with a group which was formerly the
> > Revolutionary Communist Party in the UK. They were a weird group,
> officiall> y
> > 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: 
> > 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
> t> o
> > 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,
> bu> t
> > 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
> wa> s
> > > thinking of having students read it the same week we watch AN
> INCONVENIEN> T
> > > 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: Crichton's "State of Fear"

[Michael Maniates]

Good stuff to point out.  I let me students discover this on their own, 
which leads to all kinds of interesting discussions 'round the table.  
For those who'd like additional references to/analyses of The Great 
Global Warming Swindle, email me off-line.

Cheers,
Mike Maniates

> If you’re using the ‘great global warming swindle’, it’s worth
know> ing 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
court> s 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
th> at
> Durkin is closely associated with a group which was formerly the
> Revolutionary Communist Party in the UK. They were a weird group,
officiall> y
> 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: 
> 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
t> o
> 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,
bu> t
> 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
wa> s
> > thinking of having students read it the same week we watch AN
INCONVENIEN> T
> > 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: Crichton's "State of Fear"

[Michael Maniates]

(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]

Fwd: Enviro Studies list serv.

[Michael Maniates]

Forwarded along for your consideration.  If interested, contact Elizabeth
Smythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>




Forwarded Message:
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Elizabeth Smythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Enviro Studies list serv.
> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:16:45 -0600
> -

> I would ask if you could circulate this panel  proposal to your section
members or
colleagues. I am looking for potential paper presenters and a discussant
who would be
interested in this theme. My own paper proposal is listed below and I have
another author
interested in the question of food aid.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Civil Society and the Future of Global Governance of the Food System
> 
> 
> 
> The past three decades have seen major changes in the global food system
in several areas.
The first is the rapidly rising levels of food trade reflected in
increasing food exports
for some countries and dependence on food imports for others. Much of this
trade is
increasingly dominated by large corporate actors in the context of  regimes
and rules
around food trade.  Challenges are emerging however, to these systems as
reflected in
concerns about climate change, bio-fuels, bio-diversity, GM crops and the
looming
shortages and rapidly rising costs  of food. While recent ISA panels have
focused on
issues of the power and influence of corporate actors in the food system
this panel
focuses on civil society actors including consumers, social movements,
non-governmental
organizations and the impact they have had on the discourse and policies
around food
trade. It will address issues such as the re-localization of the food
system, food
sovereignty, food labeling and policies of food aid and the role that civil
society actors
are playing in shaping them.
> 
> 
> 
> Paper One: Title: Re-localizing the Food System: Civil Society and the
Right to Know Where
food comes from.
> 
> 
> 
> This paper examines the trade implications of civil society efforts to
re-localize the
food system. It will examine in particular the issue of food labeling
related to both
processes of production and origins. Both of these are critical to efforts
to re-localize
and privilege local, smaller scale production of food over globalized
corporate systems of
food trade. The paper will examine the role of civil society actors,
especially consumers,
environmental and small farm and peasant organizations and how their
discourse profoundly
challenges the prevailing assumptions of global food trade.
> 
> 
> 
> Elizabeth Smythe,
> Concordia University College of Alberta,
> 7128 Ada Blvd, Edmonton, Alberta T5B4E4
> Ph: 780-479-9371  Fax 780-474-1933
> 

Turning Numbers Into Knowledge, Second Edition

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting to the NEES and 
gep-ed lists):


I write to alert you to the April 28th release of the second edition 
of Turning Numbers Into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem 
Solving by Jon Koomey, who holds appointments at the Lawrence 
Berkeley Lab and Stanford University.   I've found the book to be 
exceedingly useful in my work with undergraduates in political 
science and environmental science.  Koomey's book has been 
well-received by natural- and social-scientists, but it's often 
overlooked because it comes from a small press.  I commend it to you 
and invite you to sample portions of the book online:


Overview:  www.analyticspress.com  (If you're interested in a copy, 
though, best to order the paperback at Amazon.com, with the pre-order 
discount they offer.)


Frontmatter: http://www.analyticspress.com/keydata/FrontmatterTNIK2ded.pdf

Three sample chapters:

http://www.analyticspress.com/keydata/ch4TNIK2ded.pdf

http://www.analyticspress.com/keydata/ch11TNIK2ded.pdf

http://www.analyticspress.com/keydata/ch28TNIK2ded.pdf


Best wishes,
Mike Maniates

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Michael Maniates
Professor of Political Science & Environmental Science
Allegheny College, Box E, Meadville, PA 16335 USA
o: 814-332-2786 f: 814-332-2789 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/es/maniates.htm
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Re: FW: Country level data on environmental attitudes

[Michael Maniates]

Andy (and others interested in this or related topics) may wish to 
peruse the gep-ed list archive, at:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu/

It's a searchable archive, and lists entries by Thread and Date.

Yours,
Mike Maniates

At 02:45 PM 4/24/2008, Raul Pacheco wrote:

Dear colleagues from GEP-ED,

Andy Hoffman of the University of Michigan, is asking for 
country-level data on environmental attitudes. I think we had a 
similar discussion a few months ago here on GEP-ED, so I am 
forwarding his request and copying this to him.


Andy - while I'm not sure about the original datasets per-se, I'm 
thinking of the work of Riley Dunlap on environmental attitudes - 
but I am not sure where he got his datasets from. And same as in the 
case of ONE-L, I think a summary of responses would be great too.


Hope this helps,
Raul


-Original Message-
From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hoffman, Andy

Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Country level data on environmental attitudes



Hi,

I am looking for any and all country level data on environmental 
attitudes, beliefs, values etc.  I want to be able to compare one 
country against another; the more countries the better.  If you have 
or know of anything that would be helpful, could you please email me directly?


Thank you in advance for any help,
Andy



Andrew J. Hoffman
Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
The University of Michigan
701 Tappan Street, W7718
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: 734.763.9455
Fax: 734.615.4323
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.andrewhoffman.net

Forthcoming: Memo to the CEO: Climate Change (Harvard Business Press)
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/relay.jhtml?name=itemdetail&id=2105 

Re: Water governance and multi-level governance

[Michael Maniates]

You'd be well-served, I think, by the contents and bibliography of 
Ken Conca's Governing Water:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10636

MM

At 01:54 PM 4/15/2008, Raul Pacheco wrote:

Dear all,

I do recognize that this question may be better posed for a 
list-serve in public policy, but I'm unaware of any, so I'm 
appealing to GEP-ED.


I am writing a think piece on water governance. I am not looking 
exactly at transboundary water governance, nor at global governance, 
though both are topics I'm going to have to address in some detail.


I am aware of the Rhodes books and articles on governance, the 
British school, and the transition from government to governance debate.


I am wondering if anyone has any particular "broad, lit review" 
piece or knows of any, on water governance, particularly from the 
viewpoint of network governance and polycentricity. I would prefer 
if said piece was focused on water, but not necessarily


Suggestions most appreciated and will compile the responses.

Thanks in advance,
Raul

R2P: Responsibility to Protect

[Michael Maniates]

Hello all:

I have an advanced undergrad student who is working on the politics 
of R2P: "Responsibility to Protect" -- part of the U.N. Human Rights 
initiative.


If you're not familiar with R2P, you can stop reading now.

If you know this stuff, though, a quick plea for help.  My student is 
finding a whole lot of material that describes R2P once it was 
announced -- but not much on the inner politics of its conception.


Any leads?

Reply to me to off list, if you can, and if I get a lot of good 
material I'll post a summary to the list.


Many thanks,
Mike Maniates

Re: References on methodology

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Bram,

There was a discussion on the list a month or so ago about methodological 
approaches.  I'm traveling and thus don't have the URL for the list 
archive handy, but if you google something like "archive gep-ed" or "mail 
archive gep-d" you'll get a pointer to one or more postings on the 
archive...and from there you can click the "Thread" link in the upper 
corner of the page to see all the postings by thread.

It's been my experience that requests for general information of the sort 
you pose below aren't as fruitful as more specific requests.  I might 
encourage you, then, to give us all something more specific to go on.  
ALSO, it is enormously helpful if you tell us what you've already looked 
at or what you've found most useful, or what you're drawing on as a 
foundation for which you need additional support/sources.  That also 
helps us narrow down the sense of your request into more manageable 
tasks -- and, importantly, it gives us some sense of where to start with 
advice and help.

Many thanks, and good luck!
Mike Maniates

> Dear All,
>  
> I am currently in the midst of writing my PhD thesis on the politics of
> conservation&development in Southern Africa and I am looking for some
> accessible and to-the-point articles/books on research methodology,
> specifically ones that adhere to interdisciplinary research (that touch
> on both political science/IR and anthropology - ethnography, fieldwork,
> etc), and combine practical research methodologies with more
> epistemological reflections.
>  
> I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions and will gladly share the result
> with the list serve.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Bram
>  
>  
> Bram Büscher 
> Ph.D. Researcher 
> FSW - Faculty of Social Sciences 
> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 
> De Boelelaan 1081c - Room Z121
> 1081 HV Amsterdam 
> The Netherlands 
> Visiting Address: Buitenveldertselaan 3, # Z 121
> Tel: +31 (0)20 598 6701 / 9059 
> Fax: +31 (0)20 598 6722
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/be.buscher/
>  
> 

Posting to Gep-ed

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

When posting to gep-ed, please keep in mind the focus of this list 
(on global governance, international environmental issues, and 
teaching and research challenges associated with both), and its 
global membership (perhaps 30% or more of the 300+ listmembers lie 
outside the United States).


We're an eclectic group, with wide-ranging interests, so it's 
understandable that useful postings will sometimes stray from the 
stated aims and goals of the list.  Not every posting, moreover, will 
be of interest to every member.  Our collective stewardship over the 
years of the list's enviable signal-to-noise ratio (that is, most of 
what goes out on the list is useful and on-point, without a lot of 
side chatter or fluff) is what makes gep-ed so valuable to so many of us.


I think it's time, then, to bring the postings on Clinton and crying 
to a close.  Several other listserves are actively covering this 
issue.  I'd be pleased to point folks to those lists if they wish to 
email me privately.


Yours,
Mike Maniates

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Michael Maniates
Professor of Political Science & Environmental Science
Allegheny College, Box E, Meadville, PA 16335 USA
o: 814-332-2786 f: 814-332-2789 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/es/maniates.htm

My new project, slowly evolving: <http://www.beyondeasy.org/>BeyondEasy
Still going strong: 
<http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=514NJX2Z0P&isbn=0262661284>Confronting 
Consumption, MIT Press
One scary cover: 
<http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0847695417&thepassedurl=[thepassedurl]>Encountering 
Global Environmental Politics, Rowman & Littlefield
Forthcoming:  Selling Us Short: Large, Difficult, and Rewarding Ways 
to Save the Planet

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

At 12:17 PM 1/11/2008, you wrote:

Dear all-
Now I realize this does follow on the thread, which, it was noted by 
one of our Canadian colleagues, is probably of no or less interest 
to those not voting in US elections, but I pass it on because I 
think it is interesting more broadly to see how crying by 
politicians is perceived.  So apologies to all who are not 
interested in this...but I may add that the Fiore website where this 
short video is to be found, is also (usually, but not always) a good 
repository of political humor.


cheers,
Syma

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Annie Leonard's "Story of Stuff"

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

Annie Leonard of the Environmental Grantmakers Association has just 
released, today, a remarkable video at www.storyofstuff.com


Check it out!

Yours,
Mike Maniates

Michael Maniates
Allegheny College
My new project, slowly evolving: http://www.beyondeasy.org 

just a test

[Michael Maniates]

Sorry for the intrusion...just checking out a new feature of the 
list.  Yours, MM

Re: Fwd: The Great Global Warming Swindle

[Michael Maniates]

Additionally, for those interested in at least a partial answer to my 
initial question about "back story," see the newly discovered (for 
me) website:  www.climateofdenial.net


Yours,
Michael Maniates
Allegheny College

At 12:33 PM 10/26/2007, you wrote:
For those interested in prominent climate change scientists' 
comments on the Al Gore "mistakes" or errors, real climate has done 
a predictably excellent job in addressing each one of those so called errors.


http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/convenient-untruths/

David Hastings




-- Forwarded message --
From: Kate O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Oct 25, 2007 5:13 AM
Subject: Re: The Great Global Warming Swindle
To: Michael Maniates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu



I, too, would be interested in any formal analysis of the backstory.
I'm co-teaching a freshman seminar with one of my natural science
colleagues this semester, and we showed "Swindle" to them. Frankly, it
does a great job of undermining itself, especially when it depicts all
environmentalists as luddites out to destroy Africa. The "science"
part is very slick, lots of charts and graphs whizz by - and even I
could see they looked a little hinky. But, according to my colleague,
the main issue in presenting this material is that they handily omit
the last ten years or more from the data they show, where we see the
most evidence of change. And yes, several of the participants have
distanced themselves from the program; it looked heavily edited. The
rather clubby, very British tone served to alienate a lot of the
students anyway (too many old boys in leather armchairs)! A few
interesting points: it can lead to a discussion of the IPCC and its
role between science and policy. Anyhow - anyone who wants to use it
as a counterbalance to Gore might be sadly disappointed,

all best,

Kate


On Oct 24, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Michael Maniates wrote:
 Hello all,

 Does anyone have the backstory on The Great Global Warming Swindle, a
"contrarian" climate change video aired in the UK recently and now
available on DVD?  My understanding is that many of the scientists in
the video objected to how their on-camera comments were manipulated in
the editing process.  I've also gleaned from the web -- from totally
unreliable sources I might add -- that both Channel 4, which aired the
movie, and the producers distanced themselves from the production
because of data falsification, and that the show has not been run in
the U.S. (even by Fox News) because of this.

 But most of this comes to me through third-person contacts or random
web sites.  Do any of you have the larger story, or can you point me
in the right directions?

 I ask because a colleague of mine at Allegheny, in response to a
request from students who feel silenced by the energy Al Gore has
generated, is thinking of screening this video as a formal,
College-sanctioned event to "bring balance to the debate on campus."

 As an aside, I think The Great Global Warming Swindle can be a useful
addition to teaching tool-box of those of us who teach the
climate-change controversy.  And I myself wouldn't object to the video
if it's used to teach the debate.  I'm more wary of Swindle as a
definitive, credible "counter-balance" to Inconvenient Truth or the
material that my colleagues and I present in the classroom, in large
part because of its accusations of conspiracy and intentional
distortion of data.

 Feel free to reply to me off-list.  I'll summarize the helpful
replies and repost them for all to see.

 Yours,
 Mike Maniates
 Allegheny College

- End forwarded message -

Fwd: Re: [NEES] The Great Global Warming Swindle

[Michael Maniates]

Folks,

I posted my inquiry of earlier today about The Great Global Warming 
Swindle to the "NEES" list (a collection of EScience types, 
principally in the northeast) as well.  This reply just came back, 
which I thought would be of interest to some looking for teaching materials.


Best wishes,
Mike Maniates




Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:19:34 -0400
Reply-To: "Greg Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sender: "North East Environmental Studies Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Greg Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [NEES] The Great Global Warming Swindle
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

hi all,

I've responsed to Mike off-list, but I wanted to share one somewhat
relevant reference I've really enjoyed, and which has broadly
applicable educational value.

Naomi Oreskes, a philosopher of science at UCSD, has written a nice
book chapter called "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How
Do We Know We're Not Wrong?"  She does a good job of summing up the
data on the "controversy" over climate change.  More broadly, though,
she speaks to the scientific method, what we mean by "theory", and the
nature of evidence and proof.  It's a great overview of scientific
understanding in general.

The question of how certain we are of our scientific conclusions, and
particularly how certain we need to be before we make change, is
extremely relevant to those of us in public health (I recognize that I
might be the only one on this list!).  Obvious examples include
tobacco, PCBs, and lead.  But similar questions come up all the time
in any policy discussion, including environmental protection and
sustainability.

At least for the moment, the whole chapter is available online at
https://ametsoc.org/atmospolicy/documents/Chapter4.pdf

It's part of Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and
Our Grandchildren, edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela M.
Doughman, MIT Press, 2007.

best,


greg

--

Gregory Howard, MPH  /  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Department of Environmental Health
Boston University School of Public Health


On 10/24/07, Michael Maniates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Hello all,
>
>  Does anyone have the back story on The Great Global Warming Swindle, a
> "contrarian" climate change video aired in the UK recently and 
now available

> on DVD?  My understanding is that many of the scientists in the video
> objected to how their on-camera comments were manipulated in the editing
> process.  I've also gleaned from the web -- from totally unreliable sources
> I might add -- that both Channel 4, which aired the movie, and 
the producers

> distanced themselves from the production because of data falsification, and
> that the show has not been run in the U.S. (even by Fox News) because of
> this.
>
>  But most of this comes to me through third-person contacts or random web
> sites.  Do any of you have the larger story, or can you point me in the
> right directions?
>
>  I ask because a colleague of mine at Allegheny, in response to a request
> from students who feel silenced by the energy Al Gore has generated, is
> thinking of screening this video as a formal, College-sanctioned event to
> "bring balance to the debate on campus."
>
>  As an aside, I think The Great Global Warming Swindle can be a useful
> addition to teaching tool-box of those of us who teach the climate-change
> controversy.  And I myself wouldn't object to the video if it's used to
> teach the debate.  I'm more wary of Swindle as a definitive, credible
> "counter-balance" to Inconvenient Truth or the material that my colleagues
> and I present in the classroom, in large part because of its accusations of
> conspiracy and intentional distortion of data.
>
>  Feel free to reply to me off-list.  I'll summarize the helpful replies and
> share them here.
>
>  Yours,
>  Mike Maniates
>  Allegheny College
>
>

The Great Global Warming Swindle

[Michael Maniates]

Hello all,

Does anyone have the backstory on The Great Global Warming Swindle, a 
"contrarian" climate change video aired in the UK recently and now 
available on DVD?  My understanding is that many of the scientists in 
the video objected to how their on-camera comments were manipulated 
in the editing process.  I've also gleaned from the web -- from 
totally unreliable sources I might add -- that both Channel 4, which 
aired the movie, and the producers distanced themselves from the 
production because of data falsification, and that the show has not 
been run in the U.S. (even by Fox News) because of this.


But most of this comes to me through third-person contacts or random 
web sites.  Do any of you have the larger story, or can you point me 
in the right directions?


I ask because a colleague of mine at Allegheny, in response to a 
request from students who feel silenced by the energy Al Gore has 
generated, is thinking of screening this video as a formal, 
College-sanctioned event to "bring balance to the debate on campus."


As an aside, I think The Great Global Warming Swindle can be a useful 
addition to teaching tool-box of those of us who teach the 
climate-change controversy.  And I myself wouldn't object to the 
video if it's used to teach the debate.  I'm more wary of Swindle as 
a definitive, credible "counter-balance" to Inconvenient Truth or the 
material that my colleagues and I present in the classroom, in large 
part because of its accusations of conspiracy and intentional 
distortion of data.


Feel free to reply to me off-list.  I'll summarize the helpful 
replies and repost them for all to see.


Yours,
Mike Maniates
Allegheny College

problems with gep-ed list

[Michael Maniates]

Hello All:

Our mail server here at Allegheny (allegheny.edu) has been a bit cranky 
this past week.  As a result, if you attempted to post a message to the 
gep-ed list (at gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu), you may have received 
(perhaps even days after your attempt to post) an error message saying 
something like "the allegheny.edu host is unavailable" or "allegheny.edu 
no such domain."  

If you've experienced this glitch, I'd ask you to resend your message.  
If you continue to experience problems, please email me.

And, if you've sought to post something to the list but aren't sure if it 
went through, you can check the list archives at http://www.mail-
archive.com/gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu/  If your message isn't 
there, then it ran afoul of our recalcitrant email server.

Best wishes,
Mike Maniates
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Re: Article on aboriginal ecotourism in Taiwan - politics and environment

[Michael Maniates]

Hello All,

Some of you have noticed that the links provided below by Bill are, 
alas, password protected.  I've posted Bill's piece up on the 
Allegheny server for easier access.  If you're interested in seeing 
Bill's paper, shoot on over to:


http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/hipwell2007.pdf


Best wishes,
Mike Maniates

At 06:36 PM 9/25/2007, William Hipwell wrote:


 Hi my friends and colleagues:

I hope that you will forgive what might come across as a minor act 
of self-promotion, but I thought that this might be of interest to 
some of you looking at the intersection between environmental 
politics, aboriginality/indigeneity, and ecotourism.  I therefore 
provide for your interest a link to this article about an ecotourism 
site established by the Tsou aboriginal nation of Taiwan, that I 
have just published in the international journal Annals of Tourism 
Research.  The story of the Tsou is, I think, an important one, and 
I hope that I have not done it an injustice in the telling.


http://www.sciencedirect.com.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7Y-4PR42CK-4&_user=1495406&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2007&_rdoc=4&_fmt=summary&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%235855%232007%23999659995%23669306%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=5855&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=33&_acct=C53190&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1495406&md5=dff7a45ee4a4854b0187e96034b876c9

or

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2007.04.002 






Cheers,

Bill

PS: One minor typo.  The Tsou conservation ethic is called "autucu" 
or "aututsu", where each u has a horizontal line through it (a 
unique Tsou sound).  This special character evaded ATR so it was 
dropped and the word was incorrectly rendered "atc".  This in turn 
escaped my notice!


BH




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Re: International sources of US domestic climate policy

[Michael Maniates]

Hello all,

Just to piggyback on TJ's email below.  I'm working with him a bit on 
his project, which is meant to explore the relative impact (or lack 
thereof) of international opinion/action on political perception and 
public opinion re: climate change here in the United States.  We've 
not identified a great deal of literature or data sets that looks to 
isolate the effect of international norm-building on public opinion, 
activist networks, and sub-national policy formation in the U.S.  If 
any of you are working on this issue and can forward some clues along 
to TJ, I'd much appreciate itand I apologize in advance if we've 
missed any obvious contributions to the literature penned by some of 
you out there.


My thanks to you who have already replied on-list to TJ's request.

Best wishes,
Mike Maniates
Allegheny College

At 03:52 PM 9/10/2007, Thomas Eatmon wrote:

Greetings!

My name is T.J. Eatmon and I am a Visiting Scholar at Allegheny 
College working on my dissertation research during the 2007-2008 
academic year.  I am interested in the recent policy developments in 
the US at the sub-national level to address climate change in the 
absence of federal policy.  The literature I have read points to 
public opinion, media, catastrophic events, leadership, and 
federalism as some of the domestic sources of this policy action.  I 
am more interested in the possible international sources of US 
domestic policy action and any current research/data that may shine 
light on this topic.  Mike Maniates suggested that I post this 
question to the list for assistance from the gep-ed community.   I 
appreciate any insight you could provide and would be more than 
happy to compile the responses I receive for your records.  I have 
purposely framed this question broadly to encourage diverse feedback 
and I look forward to your reply.


Thanks in advance,


T.J. Eatmon
Visiting Dissertation Scholar
Allegheny College
520 North Main Street
Meadville, PA 16335-3902
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: International sources of US domestic climate policy

[Michael Maniates]

Hello all,

Just to piggyback on TJ's email below.  I'm working with him a bit on 
his project, which is meant to explore the relative impact (or lack 
thereof) of international opinion/action on political perception and 
public opinion re: climate change here in the United States.  We've 
not identified a great deal of literature or data sets that looks to 
isolate the effect of international norm-building on public opinion, 
activist networks, and sub-national policy formation in the U.S.  If 
any of you are working on this issue and can forward some clues along 
to TJ, I'd much appreciate itand I apologize in advance if we've 
missed any obvious contributions to the literature penned by some of 
you out there.


Best wishes,
Mike Maniates
Allegheny College

At 03:52 PM 9/10/2007, Thomas Eatmon wrote:

Greetings!

My name is T.J. Eatmon and I am a Visiting Scholar at Allegheny 
College working on my dissertation research during the 2007-2008 
academic year.  I am interested in the recent policy developments in 
the US at the sub-national level to address climate change in the 
absence of federal policy.  The literature I have read points to 
public opinion, media, catastrophic events, leadership, and 
federalism as some of the domestic sources of this policy action.  I 
am more interested in the possible international sources of US 
domestic policy action and any current research/data that may shine 
light on this topic.  Mike Maniates suggested that I post this 
question to the list for assistance from the gep-ed community.   I 
appreciate any insight you could provide and would be more than 
happy to compile the responses I receive for your records.  I have 
purposely framed this question broadly to encourage diverse feedback 
and I look forward to your reply.


Thanks in advance,


T.J. Eatmon
Visiting Dissertation Scholar
Allegheny College
520 North Main Street
Meadville, PA 16335-3902
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: info and labeling articles?

[Michael Maniates]

One recent and useful piece that I recall:

Lars Gulbrandsen.  June 2005.  "Mark of Sustainability? Challenges 
for Fishery and Forestry Eco-Labeling," Environment 47(5), and 
references therein.


If you get a critical mass of suggestions, please compile them and 
post 'em to the list.


Thanks,
Mike Maniates

At 04:39 PM 8/1/2007, Beth DeSombre wrote:

Next syllabus hole to fill:

I'm looking for readings that talk about the role of information or
labeling as an environmental protection strategy (separate from regulation
-- the idea that simply providing information can change behavior).
Things like how the Toxic Release Inventory or related industry disclosure
rules change industry behavior, or anything about how labeling something
as organic or dolphin-safe or whatever changes consumer behavior and/or
the theory behind why.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Beth

Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Wellesley College

Re: question about showing film in class

[Michael Maniates]

I for one "count" the showing of films as part of the reading load, 
and will screen three to five films over the semester during the 
evening.  I hang out in the back and do other stuff (grading, 
mostly), and I insure that the films are integrated into the course 
in meaningful ways...discussion, essays, etc.  Some students are 
inevitably unable to make these screenings, no matter when I schedule 
them...and for these students, they're able to check the films out 
from me or the library to watch them on their own.


The important thing in this practice, in my experience, is to 
communicate up front that the films are an important, even critical, 
component of the course, and that missing them is akin to skipping a 
centrally important reading.  I get good attendance at the showings, 
and discussion is usually pretty lively during the following class 
meeting (prompted, in part, by discussion questions that I hand out 
prior the screening of each film).


Mike Maniates
Allegheny College

At 04:00 PM 8/2/2007, you wrote:
The terrific ideas about GEP films to show in class has prompted a 
broader question that a colleague and I were just 
discussing.  Neither of us could recall being shown many films in 
class during our own undergraduate days or while serving as a 
teaching assistant in graduate school (this was not, I hope, ancient 
history).  Where film was used, it was usually short clips; longer 
movies were typically scheduled for viewing outside of regular 
classroom hours.


As a result, both of us confessed to feeling somewhat guilty when we 
do show films that take up much or all of a class session, despite 
our clear sense that they can be of great pedagogic value.  It can 
somehow vaguely feel like we're cheating.


My question for members of the list, then, is where and how do you 
draw the line? How to distinguish critical pedagogy from 
babysitting?  How much is too much, or too little?  Are there (as I 
suspect) distinct institutional (or cultural norms) about using 
class time (versus assigned viewing outside of class) for film? Are 
norms, or student expectations, changing?


I look forward to your thoughts.
John


--

John M. Meyer

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of Government and Politics

"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Humboldt State University


1 Harpst Street

Arcata, CA  95521  USA



707.826.4497 (phone)

707.826.4496 (fax)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Community-based management of coral reef resources

[Michael Maniates]

Thank you so much, Willett, for sharing all this with us, and for taking the 
time to clarify these potential misunderstandings.  I'm sure that I speak for 
the list as a whole when I say that I find your occasional postings to be 
enormously helpful and provocative.

Yours,
Michael

Michael Maniates

Allegheny College

Spring 2007: Academic Dean, Semester at Sea.  (Follow the voyage at 
http://explore11.securesites.net/voyages/spring2007/)

  - Original Message - 
  From: willett 
  To: rldavis ; Global Environmental Education 
  Cc: Kai N. Lee 
  Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 1:39 PM
  Subject: Re: Community-based management of coral reef resources


  Larry,


  Caldera and Wickett do not give  a "scenario" that "posits" burning all 
fossil fuel.  It's a graph through time.  Pick your estimate of when you think 
we're going to stop increasing atmospheric CO2, and read off pH.  ("Stop 
increasing" means something over 80% reduction in emissions from today, right?) 
 I wouldn't be sanguine that current political processes will get us there 
before the end of this century.  So, look at the end of this century, -0.4 pH 
change in the surface waters.   If you're reading the graph the same way I am, 
and you understand the consequences of -0.4 pH change, you are saying that you 
are confident enough that we'll get 80% reduction in CO2 by 2050 that  you see 
efforts to direct attention to the problem are not worth distracting people 
from other problems.  Or, perhaps more clearly, see the graphs in:
 http://co2.cms.udel.edu/Ocean_Acidification.htm
  for both a blown up version of the Caldera and Wickett time graph, and for a 
picture of the environment for tropical corals in 2070.  


  In other words, I thought I WAS dealing with breathing, rather than the cut 
on the finger.  (I took a first aid course too.)


  I accept blame for pushing the student.  He sought his own council from the 
literature and from oceanographers, then decided.


  Willett Kempton




  On 12 Mar 2007, at 08:40, rldavis wrote:


The scenario described in the Caldera and Wickett article is extreme. It 
posits burning all of the world’s fossil fuels. This is unlikely on many 
levels, not the least of which is geological (can’t get at a lot of those 
resources). Beyond that, even though the acidification would be on a fairly 
short time scale, loss of marine resources due to poor (or no) management of 
local problems will take place on an even shorter time scale. Basically, a 
strong argument could be made that by the time ocean acidification gets bad 
enough to cause a severe problem, the reefs will be gone anyway due to 
overfishing, physical damage, disease, and so forth. In my wilderness first aid 
course, I was taught to deal with airway, breathing, circulation first, no 
matter what the problem, because unless those are taken care of within a very 
few minutes, other problems become irrelevant. That, I believe is the case 
here. 

I can’t help wondering if the student in question changed his thesis topic 
because of the science or because of his advisor?

Larry Davis

Fwd: best article I have read on climate change

[Michael Maniates]

See below.  Good stuff, esp. for undergrads.

-- Mike Maniates

Michael Maniates
Allegheny College
Spring 2007: Academic Dean, Semester at Sea.  (Follow the voyage at 
http://explore11.securesites.net/voyages/spring2007/)


Forwarded Message:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Richard Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: best article I have read on climate change
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:17:13 -0500
> -
> http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/emanuel.html
> 
> -- 
> Richard Wilk, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana 
University
> See my online museum of weird consumer culture: www.indiana.edu/~wanthro

Fwd: Climate Change, Poverty / Sustainable Development, Global Health

[Michael Maniates]

Wow...and incredible opportunity.  See below. 

-- Mike Maniates

Michael Maniates
Allegheny College
Spring 2007: Academic Dean, Semester at Sea.  (Follow the voyage at 
http://explore11.securesites.net/voyages/spring2007/)



Forwarded Message:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Sandra Dovali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Climate Change, Poverty / Sustainable Development, Global 
Health
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:36:09 -0800
> -
> >>If someone's looking for a chance to have a job with potentially 
> >>huge impact...
> >>
> >>
> >>Begin forwarded message:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>><http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?
dep_id=10093&loc_id=1116>http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?
dep_id=10093&loc_id=1116

> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Program Directors, Poverty and Sustainable Development - Mountain 
View
> >>>>
> >>>>This position is based in Mountain View, CA.
> >>>>
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> >>>>exploring several potential approaches and creative 
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> >>>>solutions for basic socio-economic needs, bolstering girls' and 
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> >>>>portfolio of grants and investments.
> >>>>
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> >>>>
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> >>>>finance, education, international relations, or related field 
> &

Two Items

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

Two quick items for you.  First, I'll be joining the Spring 2007 
voyage of Semester at Sea in just a few days, and won't physically 
return to my office until mid-May 2007.  Oldtimers on the list will 
recall that a few gep-ed administrative problems cropped up that last 
time I did this round-the-world jaunt, back in Spring 2001.  I **do 
not** expect similar difficulties this time out (with a special 
promise to Beth DeSombre), given a number of improvements in the 
listserve software and my increased connectivity from the ship.  But, 
alas, this means that I won't see many of you at the ISA meetings in 
late February (and nor will Simon Nicholson of American University or 
Monty Hempel of the University of Redlands -- both are serving on the 
faculty for this voyage).  I look forward to seeing the ISA-crowd 
again in 2008, in San Francisco.


Second, I forward below a request from a colleague, Pamela Prodan, 
who is at the University of Maine.  Pamela asks the following:  "I'm 
looking for any tips or best practices for integrating an energy 
component into my  Environmental Law class at UMF."  If any of you on 
the list have experience, syllabi, or ideas that might be useful to 
Pamela, please email her directly at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


All the best,
Mike Maniates
Glorious List Administrator and Wanna-Be Sailor

Fwd: GEP-Ed message

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Mike:

I don't know whether I am acceptable to the list serve, so could you 
send out the following message:


Columbia University Press is letting The State and Social Power in 
Global Environmental Politics (Ronnie Lipschutz and Ken Conca, eds. 
1993) to go out of print.  Ronnie has ordered the remaining copies 
and is happy to send you one or more for $5 plus shipping (let's say $2).


If you would like copies, please e-mail Ronnie Lipschutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks,

Ronnie

*
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: request from ISA-ESS member

[Michael Maniates]

Any leads for Professor Prager?  Reply to him directly at the email 
address on the "cc" line above.


-- Mike Maniates

At 10:44 PM 12/10/2006, Herman Prager wrote:

Dear Mike,

Ronnie Lipschutz provided your email address.

I am teaching a course next semester at St. Edward's University 
(Austin, Texas) titled "Contemporary World Issues/Global 
Environmental Issues" and would appreciate knowing if any sample 
syllabi are available developed by other members of the section.  It 
would help in my own preparation, naturally, if I could see what 
others have done.


Wishing you and yours the best for the holiday season,

Herman



Herman John Prager PhD
Adjunct Instructor
University Programs
St Edward's University
Austin Texas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-08 One Year Position Open at Allegheny

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

I'm on the hunt for someone who can come to Allegheny College for a 
year beginning in the Fall of 2007 to teach three classes a semester 
(six in total, with opportunities to teach the same class more than 
once) as a sabbatical replacement.  Responsibilities would include 
domestic and/or global environmental politics or policy, plus classes 
that play to the candidate's interests and strengths.


The Political Science dept. here is strong and collegial, and is an 
especially good place for a new PhD to hone their teaching skills 
(though others may certainly express interest as well).  We would 
look for someone with evidence of strong teaching in the 
undergraduate classroom, either as a TA, Instructor, or 
Assistant/Associate Professor.  And, regardless of the strengths of 
the individual, this is strictly a one-year position.


Please have any possibly interested/interesting candidates (perhaps 
grad students now making their way through their dissertation work) 
contact me directly.


Yours,
Mike Maniates

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Michael Maniates
Professor of Political Science & Environmental Science
Allegheny College, Box E, Meadville, PA 16335 USA
o: 814-332-2786 f: 814-332-2789 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/es/maniates.htm
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

New book!

[Michael Maniates]

 Hey Folks,
One of our own, Radoslav Dimitrov, has a new book out with Rowman &
Littlefield.  Congratulations to Radoslav!...and check it out
below.
Cheers,
Mike Maniates



 
Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Science and international Environmental
Policy: Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2006).
 
Book description
Radoslav Dimitrov’s Science and International Environmental
Policy explores the connection between knowledge and action in global
environmental policy. The book introduces nonregimes into the study of
global governance, and compares successes with failures in the formation
of environmental treaties. By exploring collective decisions not
to cooperate, it explains why international institutions form but also
why, when and how they do not emerge. The book is a structured comparison
of global policy responses to four ecological problems: ozone depletion,
acid rain, deforestation, and coral reefs degradation. It demonstrates
that different types of expert information play uneven roles in
policymaking. Through extensive analysis of multilateral scientific
assessments, observation of negotiations, and interviews with
policymakers and scientists, it reveals that some kinds of information
are critical in policy deliberations while other types are less
influential. The result is a compelling account of the interplay between
knowledge, interests and power in global environmental politics. 
 
Endorsements
"This book addresses a longstanding gap in research on the
formation of international environmental regimes. Focusing on the role of
scientific knowledge, Dimitrov sheds new light on the determinants of
regime formation by comparing success stories with cases in which the
parties cannot reach agreement, or even fail to initiate an effort to
form a regime."­Oran Young, University of California, Santa
Barbara
 
"In this impressive book, Radoslav Dimitrov makes two important
contributions to international environmental politics. He advances a
novel, provocative and carefully argued claim about how scientific
knowledge can influence formation of international environmental regimes;
and he provides the first empirical investigation in this field that
considers both instances of successful regime formation and failed
attempts. In addition, the book's self-contained and well-written case
histories, particularly of the under-examined issues of forests and coral
reefs, will make it valuable for teaching."­Edward A. Parson,
University of Michigan
 
"Everyone knows that scientific information matters in understanding
international environmental cooperation. In this book, Radoslav Dimitrov
provides a valuable service by showing us what kind of information
matters. Importantly, he demonstrates that what underpins cases of
international environmental cooperation is a shared understanding of
negative transboundary consequences, even if information about the extent
of a problem or its human-related causes is not conclusive. He evaluates
his hypotheses in four rich cases including those where attempted global
agreements were not reached (or where little attempt at international
cooperation has been made), an essential and often overlooked aspect of
understanding when states will succeed at cooperative agreements. He is
careful to delineate the pieces of the puzzle he seeks to explain and
what is outside the framework of his study. This is a framework that can
- and should - be evaluated in many other cases; it will be important in
predicting patterns of cooperation in emerging environmental
issues."­Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Wellesley College
 
"The type of knowledge about non-regimes matters! More precisely,
two major innovations characterize Radoslav Dimitrov's Science and
International Environmental Policy. First, he innovatively untangles
the roles which different types of knowledge play in the formation
of international regimes, and second, he overcomes a major shortcoming of
the international regime literature by explicitly including non-regime
cases in his analysis. This book will ignite a productive debate ­ of
relevance to academia and the practical design of international regimes
alike. "­Detlef Sprinz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
Research, and University of Potsdam, Germany

Fwd: Openings for Core Faculty and Visiting Fellows at CISED

[Michael Maniates]

Some great opportunities with a wonderful
colleague...
--Michael Maniates
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:18:11
+0530
From: Sharad Lele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Openings for Core Faculty and Visiting Fellows at CISED

Dear Colleague, 
CISED is looking to recruit core
faculty in the areas of forests, water and energy. We
are also looking to make 1-year Visiting Fellow appointments in various
areas. 
I am attaching two fliers with all the details. I request you to give
these fliers as much publicity as possible within your organisation and
network of friends. 
It has been our experience that good
candidates are most often identified by through personal contacts. Hence,
if you know of any persons who might be appropriate for these positions,
please bring this advertisement to their notice. Alternatively, if you
write to me with their contact information, I would be most happy to
contact 
them myself. 

Thanking you in advance for your help, and with regards, 
Sincerely, 
Sharad 
p.s. Apologies for cross-posting or double posting if any. 
-- 
  
Sharachchandra Lele 
-

Senior Fellow & Coordinator 
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment & Development

(A Centre of Excellence promoted by the Institute for Social &
Economic Change) 
ISEC Campus, Nagarabhavi 
Bangalore 560 072 
Tel: +91-(80)-2321-7013 x23  /  2321-5468 x413 
Fax: +91-(80)-2321-7008 
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Website:
www.cised.org 
Personal webpage:

http://www.cised.org/sharadhomepage.htm 
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Fwd: Re: oil, petro-politics, climate change, global inequity,

[Michael Maniates]

From Simon Dalby (who is now, finally, a list
member).
Cheers,
Mike Maniates
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:25:52
-0400
From: Simon Dalby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: oil, petro-politics, climate change, global inequity,
To: Michael Maniates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: Simon Dalby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Carleton University
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869
X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296, Antispam-Engine: 2.4.0.264935,
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Michael:
No idea why I am not on the GEPED list! But given that it has taken me
eight months to find this old email from you and reply to it, it might
have something to do with me trying to get off lists while I was on
sabbatical.
I'm now back and should probably be on GEPED lists again.
Anyway attached is my latest course outline that may be of interest to
folks of a GEPED inclination.
Cheers,
Simon




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book announcement

[Michael Maniates]

Dear All,
See below,
MM
Dear Professor Maniates,
 
Peter Dauvergne was wondering if it would be possible for you to post an
item on the Gep-ed list regarding a book he recently edited...if it is
not possible that is no problem.
 
"Handbook of Global Environmental Politics" edited by Peter
Dauvergne (Edward Elgar, 2005) is now available in paperback at the price
of £ 28.00. Details are available at the EE website:

https://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=3168
 
Thank you very much,
Sharon

 
Sharon Goad
Managing Editor
Global Environmental Politics
Government and International Relations
University of Sydney
Merewether HO4
Sydney NSW 2006
Australia
 
ph: +61 2 93513748
fax: +61 2 93513624
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd:get student help on your sustainability projects

[Michael Maniates]

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Please share the
following with your networks

 
Play A Greater Part: Online Sustainability Assignments
"Matchmaking" Service -
www.playagreaterpart.org


 
 
 
To engage students in
creating the solutions for our sustainability challenges as their course
assignments or thesis, this web-based system matches up those who need
help with sustainability projects (e.g. non-profits, faculty members,
businesses and government planners) with students and graduates eager to
participate in sustainability-related projects. Students can connect with
faculty who offer credit, and thus enhance the service learning potential
in sustainability learning and action. Those with projects can post a
call for volunteers, and once volunteers are accepted and the project
begins, the person posting the project receives a free website for
posting of the project’s progress. This website is designed by the
Society for College and University Planning in collaboration with the US
Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development. 
 
Imagine a country where students get credit for helping to solve our
sustainability challenges. What projects would you like to conduct
related to sustainability?  Would you like student help with these
projects? (You can choose which students you accept to work on your
project.) Please post your project descriptions now at

www.playagreaterpart.org .
 
 
 
Debra Rowe, Ph.D.
President
U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
www.uspartnership.org
Co-chair
Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium
www.heasc.net 
Senior Fellow
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
www.ulsf.org
Professor, Alternate Energies and Behavioral Sciences
Oakland Community College
www.oaklandcc.edu/EST 
 
 

RE: Montreal and Kyoto Compared

[Michael Maniates]

Just a quick piggy-backing onto Wil's comment: This is a
great piece for demonstrating the limited utility of the "nation
state" as the unit of analysis ("the U.S. does
this" or "wants that," Sunstein often writes).  In
this case, such an approach hides more than it reveals, both by ignoring
the struggle among critical actors within the U.S. and the nature
of transnational alliances that amplify or distort intra-national
struggle.  For this reason alone, I'll be using it in class next
time out.  MM
At 01:55 PM 8/30/2006, you wrote:
Well, some parts of this aren't
even based on "outdated" assumptions; for
example, even the IPCC First Assessment Report didn't characterize a
2.5C
increase in temperature as "moderate," (not even the Toronto
conferees in
1988 said that) and only in the world of economists e.g. Sunstein can
we
conduct the kind of mortality valuations in developing countries that
tilt
the cost-benefit analysis in favor of the no-action alternative. But,
I
agree, it's a superb piece to use in classes, though the one thing it
fails
to do is explain the political implications of the disproportionate
impacts
that Kyoto would have in certain sectors that are particularly capable
of
defending their interests. This may explain more of the story than a
straight CBA. Wil
Dr. Wil Burns
Senior Fellow, International Environmental Law
Santa Clara University Law School
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]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul
Craig
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:52 AM
To: GEP-Ed
Subject: Re: Montreal and Kyoto Compared
Willett-- Great comment! Right on.
I found this paper absolutely fascinating.
The reason is that it clearly articulates  the kind of 
thinking that 
actually drove US policy.    It was and is 
politically salient, while being
scientifically and economically narrow and outdated to the point of
seeming 
almost bogus.  Amazing.
The article seems a relic from the past.  Yet it's forthcoming this
year in 
a legitimate journal.  So much for Harvard's review
process.
I also learned about the "Joint Center".   AEI and
Brookings  working 
arm-in-arm to promote this kind of work.  AEI I understand. But
Brookings! 
I'd thought better of them.  Scary!
Paul
Paul Craig

- Original Message - 
From: "willett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "GEP-Ed" 
Cc: "Wil Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
"NICHOLAS WATTS" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: Montreal and Kyoto Compared

>
> Ok, an interesting comparison of national benefits from
national  versus 
> global implementation.  But otherwise, wow, a bizarre 
article.  Perhaps 
> an example of how you cannot do good political  science if you
base it on 
> lousy climatology, old economic analysis,  and pretend that
there's no 
> such thing as technical innovation and  change.   If
Nordhaus and Boyer's 
> estimates of the damages from  climate change were remotely
close to 
> correct, we wouldn't really be  worried about this
problem.   Yes, George 
> Bush believes (or some of  his advisors/donors believe) that
the US would 
> be economicaly damaged  by reductions in CO2.  But he also
believes that 
> evolution is  unproven and seems to have difficulty
distinguishing the 
> interests of  the United States from the interests of the
United States' 
> fossil  fuel industry.   The countries that are
"foolishly" complying with
> Kyoto are developing the technology of the 21st century.  
E.g. try 
> Googling:  Siemens Wind Power, Vestas, REpower AG, Talisman
Beatrice 
> Project, Shell Renewables, or, hey, even the US can do it -- Tesla

> Motors.
>
> Willett Kempton
>
>
> On 29 Aug 2006, at 14:38, Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith wrote:
>
>> I think this will be of widespread interest.
>>
>> G.
>> --
>> Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith
>> Emeritus Professor of Political Science
>> University of California
>>
>> 
>
> 

one-year position: 2007-08

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,
It's early, I know, but I'm on the hunt for someone who can come to
Allegheny College for a year beginning in the Fall of 2007 to teach three
classes a semester (six in total, with opportunities to teach the same
class more than once) as a sabbatical replacement.  Responsibilities
would include domestic and/or global environmental politics, plus classes
that play to the candidate's interests and strengths.  
The Political Science dept. here is strong and collegial, and is an
especially good place for a new PhD to hone their teaching skills (though
others may certainly express interest as well).  We would look for
someone with evidence of strong teaching in the undergraduate classroom,
either as a TA, Instructor, or Assistant/Associate Professor.  And,
regardless of the strengths of the individual, this is strictly a
one-year position.
Please have any possibly interested/interesting candidates (perhaps grad
students now making their way through their dissertation work) contact me
directly.
Yours,
Mike Maniates
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Michael Maniates
Professor of Political Science & Environmental Science
Allegheny College, Box E, Meadville, PA 16335 USA 
o: 814-332-2786 f: 814-332-2789 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/es/maniates.htm
Now available:

Confronting Consumption, MIT Press
Recently released:

Encountering Global Environmental Politics, Rowman &
Littlefield
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

Ahoy: Seeking an "Interport Lecturer" for Mauritius

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,
As most of you recall, I'll be away during from February - mid May 2007
with "Semester at Sea."
As part of my responsibilities as Academic Dean for the voyage, I'm
searching for an individual who can sail with us for seven days (from
Capetown, South Africa to Port Louis, Mauritius; 8 - 15 March, 2007) to
serve as something of a resident expert on Mauritius, with perhaps some
focus on environmental and resource use/conservation issues.  I need
someone who is based in Mauritius (or, perhaps, South Africa), and who
can perform a variety of teacherly tasks: sit in on several classes to
offer their point of view, interact with students and faculty informally,
present on a few occasions in our all-ship daily course of 700+,
etc.  All expenses are covered, plus $100/day honorarium.
A general description of the position (Interport Lecturer: Mauritius) is
available at

http://www.semesteratsea.com/facultystaff/i_positionprofile.html

Please drop me a note with any ideas, and/or forward this note to
appropriate individuals or lists.
Many thanks.
Yours,
Mike Maniates
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Michael Maniates
Professor of Political Science & Environmental Science
Allegheny College, Box E, Meadville, PA 16335 USA 
o: 814-332-2786 f: 814-332-2789 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/es/maniates.htm
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

Save This: gep-ed archive

[Michael Maniates]

Hello all,
As most of you know, messages posted to the list are archived and
searchable both by "Date" and "Thread."
A new list member has discovered a few changes in how one actually
accesses the archive, making my earlier instructions to you all (with an
entry URL) now maddeningly incorrect.  
Here's the new way to go:
Either go directly to the archive, at

http://www.mail-archive.com/gep-ed%40listserve1.allegheny.edu/ (this
is sometimes tricky)
OR
1. Go to

http://www.mail-archive.com/
2. Type "gep-ed" (no quotes) into the search box
3. You're all set
If you keep this email handy in your email box,  you'll always know
how to access the archive.  Or, for those not troubled by paradox,
you can go to the archive for this message if, down the line, you forget
how to access the archive.
(Or, in a pinch, you could just email me.)
Cheers,
Mike Maniates
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Michael Maniates
Professor of Political Science & Environmental Science
Allegheny College, Box E, Meadville, PA 16335 USA 
o: 814-332-2786 f: 814-332-2789 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/es/maniates.htm
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

Re: Thank you for the food responses

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Leslie,
The custom of the list is for the "requester" (that's you) to
compile the responses and send them out to us all in a single
email.  Postings to the list are archived at
<


http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html#g>
(scroll down until you find "gep-ed" and have a look -- the
list is searchable by thread, and by date), so it's certainly possible
for the determined among us to reconstruct the thread.  But it's
nice when we can get all the resources back to us in one email.
It's worth waiting a few more days to see what else pops up on the list
before compiling the replies.
Many thanks,
Mike Maniates
At 02:20 PM 5/9/2006, Leslie Wirpsa wrote:
I just want
to thank you all for your quick and abundant responses to my query
regarding my food/globalization course, even at crunchtime -- end of your
quarters/semesters.
 
I hope we can continue the dialogue.
 
Best,
 
Leslie Wirpsa
Ciriacy-Wantrup Post Doctoral Fellow
in Natural Resource Studies
University of California, Berkeley


- Original Message - 

From: Andrew Biro


To:

gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 

Cc: Leslie Wirpsa 

Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:23 AM

Subject: RE: Food issues

Hi Leslie,

Darwin’s Nightmare is a very good documentary about Nile perch and
the connections between invasive species and various other “global
connections” (underdevelopment, arms trade, HIV-AIDS in Africa). It was
nominated for the best documentary Oscar last year, and might have won if
it weren’t for the darn penguins
J. It runs a
little under 2 hours.

 

In terms of books on globalization of food trade, Deborah Barndt,
Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail
(Garamond 2002) is good and pretty readable. I think Mike Davis, Late
Victorian Holocausts (Verso 2001) is a chilling historical account
with important contemporary implications (even if these aren’t drawn too
explicitly), though it is quite long and pretty dense, so you may want to
just use selections. I used it in a Global Environmental Issues course
that I taught a couple of years ago, and had the students choose one of
the three countries that are the major focus of discussion in the book
(China, India, Brazil) to write a short essay, which worked pretty well.
I also think Upton Sinclair, The Jungle could be a good introduction
to the industrialization of food production, perhaps paired with Eric
Schlosser, Fast Food Nation? 

 

If you want to have something on the local food movement (as an
alternative to food globalization), Suzanne Belliveau, “Resisting Global,
Buying Local,” Great Lakes Geographer, 12, 1 (2005) might be a place
to start, at least for a list of further references. 

 

Hope this helps. Cheers,

 

Andrew

 

Andrew Biro

Dept. of Political Science

Acadia University

Wolfville, NS  B4P 2R6

(902)585-1925

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 



From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Leslie
Wirpsa

Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 11:55 PM

To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu

Subject: Food issues

 

Hello to you all. I know this is quarter and semester
crunch time, but I have a request.

 

I am working on a syllabus for my "Global
Connections" course at the International Studies program at DePaul
University.

 

I want to teach about local/global changes and dynamics
(environmental, economic, political, social, cultural) through the prism
of food. Historically grounded. GMO debates, Green Revolution etc
included.

 

This is a non-majors' course. I am trying to get my head
around key literature and compelling cases (introduction of perch in
lakes in Tanzania to create an export market to Europe, for example),
plus good documentaries (not too long) related to the global food
system/famine/malnutrition and inequality/over consumption/ impact of
export oriented strategies on local economies/energy and transport
"food miles" etc.

 

Any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Ideas
about multi-media/genre sources (documentaries, radio pieces, novels) in
addition to books and articles would be appreciated.

 

Thanks!

 

Leslie Wirpsa

Ciriacy Wantrup Post Doctoral Fellow

in Natural Resource Studies

University of California, Berkeley

 

 

 

 

Fwd: Panel proposal looking for papers--contact Tom Princen

[Michael Maniates]

From: Tom Princen,
University of Michigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
To: ESS
Re: panel proposal for Chicago meeting, FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 3,
2007
This is to invite papers for a panel entitled
"Theorizing Global Environmental Politics."
Approaches to this topic could include:
i. an attempt to construct a theory of global environmental affairs
(or
some portion thereof), of the politics thereof, or, say, of global
sustainability, conservation, consumption or technology and the
environment. It might be critical, explanatory or normative.
ii. an analysis of the applicability (or lack thereof) of existing
theories
(of trade or cooperation or norm creation or organizational behavior,
for
example) to GEP.
iii. a critical discussion of the difficulty or advisability of
theorizing
GEP.
iv. any combination of the above and other approaches.

*
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: Food issues

[Michael Maniates]

And an abbreviated version of Tucker's work is found in
Princen, et al., Confronting Consumption, 2002, MIT Press.  
MM
At 11:01 AM 5/9/2006, Kai N. Lee wrote:
Another useful source, a history
of American imperialism, with a long  
discussion of sugar, bananas, and coffee, is
Tucker, Richard P. 2000.  Insatiable Appetite.  The United
States and  
the ecological degradation of the tropical world.  Berkeley: 

University of California Press.  HD1417 .T83 2000

Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center
for  
Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission 

Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA.  Voice & voicemail: 01
+413-597-2358; fax: 01+413-597-3489.

http://www.williams.edu/ces/ces/people/klee/klee.htm

Re: WSSD

[Michael Maniates]

Wil and others,

Your intuition was right: the files didn't make it through the list.  How
about sending the pdfs in batches of twos or threes?

MM

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Wil Burns wrote:

> I just sent 12 PDFs to Kate of articles that critique the WSSD and cc'ed the
> list. In retrospect, that was probably a dumb idea, but my guess is that
> it's too big of a file to get through. Anyway, if others need WSSD pieces,
> let me know; I teach sustainable development fairly regularly so I have a
> lot of stuff on the topic. wil
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> Monterey Institute of International Studies
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Fwd: Visiting Assistant Professor - Georgetown U

[Michael Maniates]

FYI, mm

Visiting Assistant Professor in
Energy and International Affairs
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

The Program in Science, Technology, and International Affairs at
Georgetown University seeks candidates for a 1-year Visiting Assistant
Professorship in Energy and International Affairs or the 2006-2007
academic year beginning August 1, 2006. Ph.D. required. We seek
individuals with a commitment to multi-disciplinary inquiry and
innovative teaching. Candidates should have training in fields pertinent
to energy and international affairs and be able to teach on topics that
include energy, climate, and society.
Science, Technology and International Affairs is an undergraduate major
in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Responsibilities of the position include student advising and
participation in the intellectual life of the Program and the university.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach four undergraduate
courses (two in the fall and two in the spring). Three courses will be
electives in the area of energy and/or climate change; the fourth course
is  on quantitative methods for policy (offered in the
fall).
Applications should include: (1) cover letter; (2) curriculum vita; and
(3) a minimum of three reference letters.  The reference letters
should arrive under separate cover directly from the recommenders or from
the candidate's placement office.
Closing date for receipt of applications: April 24, 2006.
Please send applications to: Dean Peter Dunkley, Dean for Faculty
Affairs, Att: STIA Search, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, 301
Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
20057.
Georgetown University is an AA/EEO employer and especially welcomes
applications from women and minority candidates. For further information
about the Program in Science, Technology, and International Affairs,
see

http://www3.georgetown.edu/sfs/bsfs/majors/stia/

one-year position at Allegheny College

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,
The Political Science department at Allegheny College (Meadville, PA)
seeks to fill a temporary one-year position in comparative politics for
the 2006-2007 academic year.  We will be searching for a
tenure-track colleague to fill this position beginning in 2007-2008; the
individual filling the one-year position in 2006-2007 would be welcome to
apply.  
I will be the ISA meetings in San Diego this week, and would welcome the
opportunity to discuss this position with any interested
candidates.  The best way to schedule a time to meet with me in San
Diego is to call my office phone (814-332-2786) and leave a voicemail
with a phone # and some good times to return the call. 
Many thanks,
Mike Maniates
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Michael Maniates
Professor of Political Science & Environmental
Science
Allegheny College, Box E, Meadville, PA 16335 USA 
o: 814-332-2786 f: 814-332-2789 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/es/maniates.htm
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Death of Environmentalism (more)

[Michael Maniates]

Hello,

That last email from me assumes familiarity with the "Death of 
Environmentalism" essay and subsequent debate.  The original "Death..." 
essay is available at 
http://www.thebreakthrough.org/images/Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf


Yours,
Michael Maniates

Fwd: death of environmentalism

[Michael Maniates]

Thought this would be of interest to some members of the list.  Yours, MM



Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:41:01 -0500
Reply-To: Richard Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sender: Global Consumer Culture & Environment List 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

From: Richard Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Indiana University
Subject: death of environmentalism


Due to the support of the Environment and Technology Section (of the 
American Sociological Association) and Sage Publications, the full content 
of the Death of Environmentalism Symposium which appears in the March 2006 
issue of Organization and Environment will be freely downloadable for the 
next month. Those who are interested can access this material at 
.

Maurie


Maurie Cohen
Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights
Newark, NJ 07102 USA

Telephone: 973.596.5281
Fax: 973.642.4689
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Editor of new e-Journal: Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 
(http://ejournal.nbii.org)

Fwd: Pacific Institute's new Integrity of Science Initiative, and blog

[Michael Maniates]

For your info.  Cheers, MM



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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:58:30 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Peter H. Gleick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pacific Institute's new Integrity of Science Initiative, and
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I'd like to call your attention to a new project of the Pacific Institute 
on the Integrity of Science, which formalizes some of the recent efforts 
of the Institute in addressing bad science, the misuse of good science, 
and the disturbing efforts by some to distort the value or principles of 
science. Support for this effort comes from the Open Society Institute, an 
anonymous donor, and the general fund of the Institute. (Apologies for 
cross-posting!)


Please visit two sites:
The first is an overview of our ongoing Initiative: 
http://pacinst.org/topics/integrity_of_science/index.html


The second is a blog we've initiated. Please feel free to weigh in!
http://pacinst.org/topics/integrity_of_science/blog/index.php

Regards,
Peter Gleick



Dr. Peter H. Gleick
MacArthur Fellow
President
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
654 13th Street
Oakland, California 94612
510 251-1600 phone
510 251-2203 fax

www.worldwater.org (World Water site)
www.pacinst.org (Pacific Institute site)

Another Sailing Opportunity

[Michael Maniates]

Dear gep-ed-ers,
For those of you intrigued by my recent posting on opportunities to serve
with Semester at Sea, here's something else to chew on:
The Academic Dean for the Fall '06 voyage (yep, the one heading
out this August), is eager to fill a last-minute Political Science
slot.  If the rigors of the semester and, for us in the North, the
assaults of winter have fired your fantasies about fleeing to some other
life, see Fil Hearn's note below.  (I'd much appreciate it if you
could forward this note to others you know who might be
interested).  Many thanks, Mike Maniates

Fil Hearn (Dean of the Fall '06 voyage) writes: As
Academic Dean for the Fall ’06 voyage of Semester-at-Sea I am actively
seeking candidates for a position to teach three courses in political
science, dealing with East Asia, South Asia, and/or the Islamic
world. The voyage for 675 students and 24 faculty members (plus family
members and senior passengers) lasts 100 days, 55 of them at sea. Courses
are taught in 22 sessions of 75 minutes each, every other day at sea, to
a maximum of 35 students per course. Wide-ranging trips arranged by the
Field Office of SAS are conducted in the port countries. The itinerary
for this voyage begins in Vancouver and proceeds westward to Japan,
China, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Egypt, Turkey, Croatia, and Spain, ending
in Florida.
 
Eligibility for appointment presupposes a PhD and at least three years of
teaching in an institution of higher learning. Those interested should
first go to the Semester-at Sea website at
http://www.semesteratsea.com/facultystaff/f_positionprofile.html
and make application online with CV attached. These should be copied to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: Commons Game?

[Michael Maniates]

Jane,
You'll find several messages in the list archive that will probably help
you.
Get to the list archive at

(scroll down until you find "gep-ed").  Then, in the
search box, type "common AND game" (without the quotes -- other
word combinations might work too, like "commons AND game"
without the quotes).  Several promising posting to the list came
up.
Hope this helps.  If not, let me know.
MM
At 11:07 AM 1/31/2006, Dawson, Jane I. \(Government\) wrote:
Apologies - as I know I've seen a
posting on this in the past year (but
I can't find it!).  I'm looking for instructions for a commons game
that
could be played in the classroom (but without computers).  Anyone
have
anything that might fit the bill?  Thanks!  Jane

More on Ahoy: Spring '07 Faculty Opportunity

[Michael Maniates]

Me again.
 
I've already had several inquiries re: my previous 
message, reprinted below.
 
The Economics position could easily be filled by an 
International Political Economy person (who could frame accessible courses for 
undergrads in ways relevant to the itinerary).  But I've already got 
someone in our gep-ed community signed on to do GEP...sorry.
 
Also, I neglected to note in my earlier message 
that I'm also seeking an Art/Architecture/Art History faculty 
member.
 
If you're forwarding my earlier note to others, or 
to other lists, please include this addendum as well.
 
Thanks again,
Mike Maniates
 
- Original Message - 
From: Michael Maniates 

To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu 

Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 7:50 PM
Subject: Ahoy: Spring '07 Faculty Opportunity


Hi Folks,
 
This is a bit off-topic, so bear with me.
 
I’ve taken on the position of Academic Dean for the 
Spring 2007 sailing of Semester at Sea.  
SAS is associated with the University of Virginia; it’s essentially a 
floating liberal-arts college that does semester long round-the-world voyages 
with 700 undergraduates, 30 faculty, and a full support staff on a modern (2002) 
reconfigured cruise ship (said to be the fastest passenger ship on the 
planet).
 
See www.semesteratsea.com for an overview.
 
For this voyage, I’m currently seeking interested faculty in the 
following disciplines: economics, religious studies, sociology, communication 
arts, philosophy, english literature, and writing.  The load is three courses (22 class 
meetings during the 100 day voyage).  
We’re 50 days at sea and 50 days in port (Puerto Rico, 
Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, India, Burma, Vietnam, China, Japan).  For an overview of faculty 
responsibilities and remuneration, see http://www.semesteratsea.com/facultystaff/f_positionprofile.html  
We depart from Florida in mid-January and return in 
late-April, 2007.
 
Interested parties should have a look at the SAS website and then contact 
me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with questions and expressions of interest.  I’m trying to wrap this all up in the 
next month or two.
 
I’d greatly appreciate it if you could forward this note to any 
colleagues who you think might be interested.  Likewise, if you belong to 
other listservs that might benefit from this notice, please re- or cross-post 
this note.
 
On a personal note, I've sailed as a faculty member twice before: Around 
the world in Spring 2001, and through the Baltic in the Summer of 2005.  
For me, these were "peak experiences."  But then, I enjoy traveling, really 
loved being able to bring my family along, and have worked closely with 
undergraduate students for many, many years.  And there's something about 
sailing into Capetown at dawn, or steaming slowly upriver to Ho Chi Minh 
City...
 
My thanks,
Mike Maniates
Allegheny College

Ahoy: Spring '07 Faculty Opportunity

[Michael Maniates]

Hi Folks,
 
This is a bit off-topic, so bear with me.
 
I’ve taken on the position of Academic Dean for the 
Spring 2007 sailing of Semester at Sea.  
SAS is associated with the University of Virginia; it’s essentially a 
floating liberal-arts college that does semester long round-the-world voyages 
with 700 undergraduates, 30 faculty, and a full support staff on a modern (2002) 
reconfigured cruise ship (said to be the fastest passenger ship on the 
planet).
 
See www.semesteratsea.com for an overview.
 
For this voyage, I’m currently seeking interested faculty in the 
following disciplines: economics, religious studies, sociology, communication 
arts, philosophy, english literature, and writing.  The load is three courses (22 class 
meetings during the 100 day voyage).  
We’re 50 days at sea and 50 days in port (Puerto Rico, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, India, Burma, Vietnam, China, Japan).  For an overview of faculty 
responsibilities and remuneration, see http://www.semesteratsea.com/facultystaff/f_positionprofile.html  
We depart from Florida in mid-January and return in 
late-April, 2007.
 
Interested parties should have a look at the SAS website and then contact 
me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with questions and expressions of interest.  I’m trying to wrap this all up in the 
next month or two.
 
I’d greatly appreciate it if you could forward this note to any 
colleagues who you think might be interested.  Likewise, if you belong to 
other listservs that might benefit from this notice, please re- or cross-post 
this note.
 
On a personal note, I've sailed as a faculty member twice before: Around 
the world in Spring 2001, and through the Baltic in the Summer of 2005.  
For me, these were "peak experiences."  But then, I enjoy traveling, really 
loved being able to bring my family along, and have worked closely with 
undergraduate students for many, many years.  And there's something about 
sailing into Capetown at dawn, or steaming slowly upriver to Ho Chi Minh 
City...
 
My thanks,
Mike Maniates
Allegheny College

A Test -- Ignore

[Michael Maniates]

This is a test, folks, of the gep-ed list (some modifications were made 
this morning).  Sorry for the intrusion.  MM

The Fix is In

[Michael Maniates]

Gep-ed ers:

I've been informed that the gep-ed list is back up, and has been 
reconfigured to prevent enterprising spammers from exploiting the "back 
doors" in the system.


All spam should now be blocked.  If you're receiving spam from anything 
with a gep-ed prefix or an allegheny.edu suffix, please let me know 
immediately.


Many thanks for your patience and understanding,
Mike Maniates 

More on Spam

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Gep-eders,

I want to thank all of you who are putting up with spam, sometimes in 
extraordinary quantities, as a result of the problems with the gep-ed 
list.  My computing people promise a solution early next week -- they're 
approaching the issue with some caution, as they don't want to initiate a 
fix that (a) makes the list equally or more vulnerable to such intrusions 
in the future and/or (b) makes the listserver less reliable.  The sort of 
problem we're experiencing is evidently new to the listserve community 
(lucky us!), and thus there doesn't appear to be a handy off-the-shelf 
solution.


If they don't have a plan in place by Monday afternoon, I intend to disable 
the list for a few days until they implement a solution.  This will mean 
that you won't be able to post to the list for that period of time; but it 
also means that you won't be inundated by offers from Nigerian Princes to 
share your vital credit card information in order to obtain products that 
will make you more alluring.


More news on Monday.

Yours,
Mike Maniates

Spam Update

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Gep-ed-ers:

Well, for those of you who are curious about such things, here's the update 
on our spam problems.


Allegheny's computer specialists share with me the following:

"Basically, majordomo works by receiving mail sent to gep-ed and then 
filtering it to see if it needs to bounce or can send it out to the 
list.  Then, when it sends out to the list it uses an outgoing alias to do 
this (and here's where I think gep-ed-emanant comes in; I suspect it's the 
outgoing alias). This outgoing alias doesn't get filtered, it just goes out 
to everyone.  The trick is to use an outgoing alias that no one knows, and 
it seems that in this case the outgoing alias was somehow guessed or made 
public, hence the sudden spams."


The task now, I'm guessing, is to configure the list so that this outgoing 
alias isn't visible or easily unearthed by folks on the list.  This alias 
is embedded, I think, in many emails generated by the gep-ed list -- and if 
anyone on the list, for example, were to cut-and-paste an email message 
(with all the headers) to a web site, or forward a message to a web-based 
archive or bulletin board that doesn't automatically excise email 
addresses, then it's only a matter of time before "bots" that roam the web 
in search of spammable email addresses find the address and spam it to death.


I'll send another message out once the Allegheny computing specialists work 
their magic.  Shouldn't be too much longer.


Yours,
Mike Maniates

Spam Update

[Michael Maniates]

GEP-eders,

Re: the spam that some (but not all) of you are receiving from a parallel 
"gep-ed" list.


My computer folks are working on this issue.  No word yet from them; should 
know something by tomorrow.  There's evidently a broader mainframe/security 
issue in play here, hence the delay.  More news soon.  Thanks for your 
patience.


MM

Job Posting: Env. Politics

[Michael Maniates]

CARLETON UNIVERSITY
Department of Political Science

Subject to budgetary approval, the Department of Political Science invites 
applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of assistant 
professor effective July 1, 2006. The successful candidate will demonstrate 
an expertise in Politics and the Environment.  While the precise 
specialization remains open, we are especially interested in candidates who 
demonstrate expertise in one or more of the following sub-fields: 
international environmental politics, Canadian environmental politics and 
policy, or the environment and the developing world.


Applicants must have a completed Ph.D. and a demonstrated commitment to 
effective teaching and research.  A strong record of publications is 
desirable and we expect the successful candidate to continue a research 
program yielding high-quality peer-reviewed publications.  Applications, 
including curriculum vitae and at least three confidential letters of 
reference, should be made to:


Professor Chris Brown, Chair
Department of Political Science
B640 Loeb Building
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6

The closing date for applications is January 15, 2006, or until the 
position is filled.


All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. The applications of 
Canadians and Permanent Residents will be given priority. Carleton 
University is committed to equality of employment for women, Aboriginal 
peoples, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities. Persons from 
these groups are encouraged to apply. 

Spam Problems

[Michael Maniates]

Dear ListMembers:

Henrik Selin has just alerted me to the possibility that significant spam 
may be making its way to your mailboxes via the gep-ed list.  I'm tracking 
this down, but for the moment (since my computing folks have all gone 
home), I'm stumped.  Any email posted to the gep-ed list (at 
gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu) that originates from someone other than a 
member of the list is bounced to me.  I probably receive 50 messages a day, 
all spam, that are intercepted in this way.  (I delete them with great joy.)


Henrik -- and perhaps others on the list?? -- reports receiving spam via a 
list address of   From what I've 
been able to determine, no such list exists on the Allegheny site.  I'm 
therefore, for the moment, puzzled, but I'll pursue this issue in the 
morning, once my support staff become available.


For the time being, three things.  First, do not make the mistake of 
sending any email to , not at 
least until I figure out what this address is.  The list address is and 
remains   Two, if you are receiving spam 
from what appears to be the gep-ed list, please drop me a quick private 
note so that I might ascertain the extent of the problem (I, for example, 
haven't been getting this spam).  Third, if you recall seeing this 
alternate (spoof?) listserve address of 
 anywhere else (other than in this 
email or in any spam that you may have received), please let me know.


Thanks.  Sorry for the hassle.

Mike

Re: Fwd: former student at Morgan Stanley wants climate "incentivization" info

[Michael Maniates]

And, as a follow up, a piece from today's New York Times. 
MM
November 22, 2005
Goldman to Encourage Solutions to Environmental Issues
By
CLAUDIA
H. DEUTSCH
As of today, the
Goldman
Sachs Group is officially green.
The big investment banking firm has announced a policy that details how
its 24,000 employees - be they bankers, analysts or purchasing agents -
should promote activities that protect forests and guard against climate
change.
Goldman, which counts paper companies, refiners and car companies among
its clients, stopped short of saying it would reject clients with
questionable environmental practices. Instead, it said it would
"encourage" clients in "environmentally sensitive"
areas to use "appropriate safeguards." 
It committed itself to investing $1 billion in projects that generate
energy from sources other than oil and gas. And it strongly endorsed
stringent federal regulation. 
Goldman said it would establish a Center for Environmental Markets to
study how the free-market system can solve environmental problems. Henry
M. Paulson Jr., Goldman's chairman, said the center - which will cost $5
million to set up and will be operating within six months - would help
shape public policy. 
"We don't have a lot more time to deal with climate change,"
said Mr. Paulson, an outspoken environmentalist who is also chairman of
the Nature Conservancy. "We need the right balance between
regulation and market-based approaches."
Goldman is not the first financial services firm to adopt an
environmental policy. In response to a 2003 campaign led by the
Rainforest Action Network, more than 30 commercial banks signed the
Equator Principles, which call for them to assess environmental risk
before financing a project. 
This year,
J.
P. Morgan Chase set out strict environmental dos and don'ts for each
part of its business. And Merrill Lynch now includes environmental issues
in the due-diligence checklist its bankers use before underwriting stock
issues.
But environmental advocates say that the Goldman policy keeps going where
others leave off.
"They are spending intellectual capital and energy on finding
market-based solutions to environmental problems," said Michelle
Chan-Fishel, program manager for green investments at Friends of the
Earth. 
Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute, was more
blunt. "Goldman has given us things to measure them by," he
said.
The Goldman policy is certainly the most explicit. J. P. Morgan calls for
public policy that "establishes certainty for investors and allows
significant investments in greenhouse gas emissions." Goldman
endorses a "strong policy framework that creates long-term value for
greenhouse gas emissions reductions and consistently supports and
incentivizes the development of new technologies that lead to a less
carbon-intensive economy." 
Goldman, which already owns wind farms and power plants and recently
contributed land for a protected forest in Chile, has also set such
quantifiable goals as reducing greenhouse gases from its office buildings
by 7 percent by 2012 and developing uniform green building standards for
all its properties. 
It has pledged to increase its activities in carbon trading, which grants
companies the right to emit set quantities of carbon dioxide and sell the
rights if they emit less than allowed. It has also committed its equity
research department to do extensive environmental studies.
"Goldman is expressly acknowledging the financial risks of investing
in a company with weak environmental performance," said Michael J.
Brune, executive director for Rainforest Action Network.
Goldman said it would insist that its own buildings be constructed of
certified wood - wood that was not illegally logged - and would
"prefer" to finance forestry projects that have been similarly
certified. Similarly, it said, it would "prefer" to finance
projects in which the local communities were consulted.
"It is not our job to dictate to clients what they must do,"
Mr. Paulson said. "We won't finance projects that damage the
environment, but we won't refuse to underwrite your security or handle
your merger because you are not as environmentally strong as we would
like."
Environmentalists wince at some of the omissions, but concede that no
bank has pledged to shun clients on environmental grounds.
"We can't expect unilateral disarmament," said Eileen Claussen,
president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "If Goldman
works to get stricter federal policies, and if it disseminates its
research to clients and policy makers, the issue may be rendered moot
anyway." 

At 08:31 PM 11/21/2005, you wrote:
A new website which might interest
Andrew, members of this listserve, and your students can be found
at:
www.ecosystemmarketplace.com

This site seeks to create a virtual marketplace for ecosystem service transactions and has a wealth of information available, ranging from deal details and instrument design to market resources and news features.  Its a s

Re: Request for ENGO bibliography

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Raul,
The bibliography that I have in my files from you dates back to
4/13/2004.  As such, it predates our new list archive at
http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html#g
(scroll down to "gep-ed").  If you're thinking of something more recent, can you give me the date?  Or check the new list archive?  In lieu of updating the gep-ed website (darn, I really need to get to this), I try to save all attachments and bibliographies posted to the list.  
Let me know if this **isn't** what you were looking for.
Cheers,
Mike Maniates
Dear all,
 
Well, it took me a while but here is the preliminary version of the ENGO bibliography. Sorry for the delay, but work has been overwhelming.
 
I did not include a few works that were sent to me because they were websites and I created this list from EndNote, and I wasn't able to input the reference properly so I apologize in advance. When I transform this document into a webpage I will include websites. Also, I didn't include works in other languages, I chose to use English as the standard (which left some of my own papers out, given that they´re published in Spanish!).
 
I didn't receive as many references from the GEP-ED list as I expected but I know for a fact that some works by members  of the list are included in this bibliography. Those who want to have their most recent work (or works that I somehow missed) are welcome to email me (and if you could include reprints of the paper that would be an added bonus!)
 
I know that there are many people from whom I have only cited one or two papers (e.g. Paul Wapner, Kathy Hochstetler, Michele Betsill, Elisabeth Corell, Peter Newell to name a few). I would expect the list to grow as people update me on what they've been up to insofar it relates to environmental NGOs, transnational environmental social movements, etc.
 
Also, I used standard EndNote "Author-Date" format for the bibliography (sorry to those who use legal formatting but I am not used to it). 
 
Hope this is useful to people from the GEP-ED list. I, for one, have benefited enormously from the wisdom and knowledge that has been shared by members of the list.
 
Warmest regards,
Raul
 
 
 
Arts, B. (2002). "'Green Alliances' of Business and NGOs. New Styles of Self-Regulation or 'Dead End Roads'?" Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 9(1): 26-36.
Betsill, M. M. and E. Corell (2001). "NGO Influence in International Environmental Negotiations: A Framework for Analysis." Global Environmental Politics 1(4): 65-85.
Bombay, P. (2001). "The Role of Environmental NGOs in International Environmental Conferences and Agreements: Some Important Features." European Environmental Law Review 10(7): 228-231.
Breitmeier, H. and V. Rittberger (2000). Environmental NGOs in an Emerging Global Civil Society. The Global Environment in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects for International Cooperation. P. S. Chasek. Tokyo, United Nations University Press: 130-163.
Caniglia, B. S. (2001). "Informal Alliances vs. Institutional Ties: The Effects of Elite Alliances on Environmental TSMO Networks." Mobilization: An International Journal 6(1): 37-54.
Clark, A. M. (1995). "Non-Governmental Organizations and their Influence on International Society." Journal of International Affairs 48(2): 507-525.
Clarke, G. (1995). "Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Politics in the Developing World." Political Studies 46: 36-52.
Corell, E. (1999). "Non-State Actor Influence in the Negotiations of the Convention to Combat Desertification." International Negotiation 4(2): 197-223.
Corell, E. and M. M. Betsill (2001). "A Comparative Look at NGO Influence in International Environmental Negotiations: Desertification and Climate Change." Global Environmental Politics 1(4): 86-107.
Doh, J. P. and H. Teegen (2002). "Nongovernmental Organizations as Institutional Actors in International Business: Theory and Implications." International Business Review 11(6): 665-684.
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Hochstetler, K. (2002). "After the Boomerang: Environmental Movements and Politics in the La Plata River Basin." Global Environmental

4th Edition of GEP now available

[Michael Maniates]

Dear gep-eders,
Knowing that many of make use of Global Environmental Politics in
class, or as a reference work, I thought that the following announcement
would be of interest.
Note that examination copies of this new edition are available at a
reduced price.
Congratulations to Pam and David, two long-time members of and
contributors extraordinaire to the list!
Yours,
Mike Maniates

Westview Press is proud to present the
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Re: statistical calculations of climate change?

[Michael Maniates]

Susi and Peter,
At the risk of muddying the waters, see the recent interview (video and
transcript available) and supporting Science articles at "On
Point" at
http://www.eande.tv/main/?date=100505&page=1
and 
--Mike Maniates
At 11:57 AM 10/25/2005, Susi Moser wrote:
Peter -
I'm not a "deep climatologist" or expert on this matter, but it is my understanding that it is not about statistical significance that we can't say for sure whether the climate extremes are related or not to climate. It's about the grid-size of the climate models (too wide a net, small storms all fall through...), that we can't relate them causally in that way. 
As for trends in frequency and severity - there are none yet (for hurricanes anyway) regarding the former (seems still to be just the normal decadal variation in frequency), but some pointers toward increases in the intensity, and the intensity of the most severe storms. 
Not sure this helps, but maybe distinguishes some of the issues.
Susi
Peter M Haas wrote:
I was talking in class today about whether recent extreme weather was in fact a warning sign of global warming or not.  This raised the statistical arguments regarding natural variation in observed weather conditions. My question is this:  what frequency or severity of storms would constitute statistical confirmation of global warming?  I don't mean the Hanson type argument that the clustering is suggestive, I want to know how many per year would be statistically significant.  Thanks.
 
Peter M. Haas
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Department of Political Science
216 Thompson Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA  01003
USA
 
ph 413 545 6174
fax 413 545 3349
-- 
*

Susanne C. Moser, Ph.D.
Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE)
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O.Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Tel.: 303.497.8132
Fax.: 303.497.8125
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.isse.ucar.edu/moser/index.html

** 

Fwd: jobs at Ottawa U From Mat Paterson

[Michael Maniates]

A forward from Mat Paterson.  Best wishes, MM
From: "Matthew Paterson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Michael Maniates'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: jobs at Ottawa U
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:49:02 -0400
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510

Hi Mike
 
Below a job announcement for jobs at the University of Ottawa. Since none
specifically mention environment, I haven’t sent straight to the list
address. But we have left the IR and comparative jobs reasonably open,
and I’d of course be keen to have more good environment colleagues. If
it’s Ok to post this, would you mind?
 
Thanks, hope life is treating you well.
 
 
Mat
 
Tenure-Track Faculty Positions
 
The School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa is accepting
applications for academic positions in the following areas: 
 
Public administration: (1 position)
The School of Political Studies is seeking applications for a position in
the field of Canadian public administration and/or public policy
analysis.  The School welcomes applications from candidates with
training in any discipline relevant to public administration and/or
public policy analysis.   The ability and interest to teach
courses in quantitative research methods, human resources management or
public finance will be considered an asset. 

 
International Relations: (2 positions) 
The School of Political Studies is seeking applications for two positions
in international relations.  While these positions are open to any
subfield, the School is especially interested in candidates whose
research focuses on North-South relations, global governance,
international security broadly defined, international political economy
and/or international relations theory.  For one of these positions,
the School is looking for candidates with an interest in the role of the
United States in global politics. 
 
Comparative politics: (2 positions)
The School of Political Studies is seeking applications for two positions
in comparative politics.  In the case of at least one of these two
positions, the School is interested in candidates specializing in the
comparative politics of developing countries, with preference given to
candidates whose research focuses on areas such as development theory,
political economy of development, democratisation, or identity-based
conflicts.    While these positions are open to any
subfield, the School is especially interested in candidates whose
research focuses on Asia, the Middle East or North Africa.  One
appointment in the comparative politics of developing countries may be
made at any rank. 
 
Canadian politics: (1 position)
The School of Political Studies is seeking applications for a position in
Canadian politics.  While the position is open to any subfield, the
School is especially interested in candidates whose research focuses on
political institutions or political economy.   An appointment
in Canadian political institutions may be made at any rank.  
 
Duties
– Teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels
– Supervising Masters and Ph.D. candidates
– Conducting research and publishing activities
– Participating in academic and administrative activities
– Performing other activities as specified in the collective
agreement
 
Qualifications
– Completed Ph.D. (candidates who are close to completing a Ph.D. may be
considered)
– Demonstrated excellence or the potential for excellence in teaching,
research and team work
– Strength of the publication and research track record
 
Bilingualism 
French is the working language of the School of Political Studies. 
All professors at the School of Political Studies must be able to teach
in French within two years of their initial appointment.  
 
Level of appointment
Except where otherwise indicated, all appointments will be made at the
rank of Assistant professor
 
Employment conditions and salary are set by the current collective
agreement.  Tenure-track  positions are subject to budgetary
approval.
 
Starting date: July 1, 2006
 
Applicants must submit, before November 7, 2005, a curriculum vitae, a
letter indicating your teaching and research experience and interests, a
copy of your principal publications and of your teaching evaluations, and
ask three referees to send letters of recommendation to: Professor Claire
Turenne Sjolander, Director and Associate Dean, School of Political
Studies,University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier East, Ottawa,
Ontario   K1N 6N5 Fax. : (613)562-5371;  Email :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
In accordance with Immigration Canada regulations, all qualified
individuals are invited to apply; however, preference is given to both
Canadian citizens and permanent residents.  The University of Ottawa
also has an employment equity policy.  We therefore strongly
encourage women, Aboriginal peoples, members of visible minorities and
persons with disabilities to apply. 
 
 
 
Matthew Paterson
École d'études politiques
Université d'Ottawa
75, rue Lau

RE: environmental participation

[Michael Maniates]

Colleagues,
As Raul notes in his message to the list of a few hours ago, there was some 
back-and-forth here around 27 January 2005 on U.S. environmental 
groups.  Look under the subject of "environmental group membership growth?" 
on the list archives for more: see 
, and then scroll down to gep-ed.

As part of that email discussion back in January, Chris Bosso made 
available to me a pdf file of the table that John Meyer refers to 
below.  The listserver for gep-ed has trouble with large pdf files, so I 
was going to get the pdf file converted into a gif for distribution to the 
list.  The critical phrase in that last sentence is "I was," as in "I was 
but never made it happen."  The easy way out all along would have been to 
simply post the table to the web, which I've now done.  See it by going to


Some very interesting data.  I look forward to reading the book in which 
they appear (Chris Bosso, Environment, Inc., Univ. of Kansas Press, as John 
notes below).

Best,
Mike Maniates
At 02:34 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
The data in the earlier online discussion that Raul mentions was on trends
in U.S. ENGO membership.  The excellent tables were taken from Christopher
J. Bosso's now published book, *Environment, Inc.* published by University
Press of Kansas.
John Meyer
> Phillip,
>
> A few months ago there was an online discussion here at GEPED on
> membership in environmental NGOs. I can't recall off hand what the results
> were, but someone produced a very nice table on increasing membership in
> the Sierra Club.
>
> Also, I concur with Armin. Paying dues to an ENGO does not mean
> participation. I guess the first question is what claim are you trying to
> support and get the empirical data from that?
>
> Raul
>
> -Original Message-
>
>
>
>> Date: Tue May 17 08:12:41 PDT 2005
>> From: "Armin Rosencranz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: RE: environmental participation
>> To: "Phillip Stalley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> I'd be wary of generalizing from any such data.  More than 10 million
>> Americans pay dues to various environmental NGOs, but their commitment
>> to
>> the goals of such organizations may recede in favor of economic self
>> interest or other more deeply held interests or values.
>>
>>
>> Quoting Phillip Stalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > Does anyone know of a good source for finding comparative,
>> > cross-national??information about participation in environmental
>> NGOs???
>> > I'm trying to get a sense about environmental participation in
>> different
>> > countries and would like to find information that tells me, for
>> example,
>> > 'what percentage of Americans (vs. French vs. Japanese, etc)??are
>> members
>> > of an environmental NGO'.?? Any advice is appreciated.?? You may reply
>> to
>> > me directly and I will compile the answers for the group.
>> > Phillip
>> >
>> > Phillip Stalley
>> > PhD candidate, George Washington University
>> > Visiting scholar, Fudan University
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
>--Raul
>
> 
> Raul Pacheco
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
--
John M. Meyer, Associate Professor
Department of Government & Politics
Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA  95521  USA
phone:707.826.4497; fax:826.4496
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Education for Sustainability Western Network Executive Director

[Michael Maniates]

A bit far afield from the normal job postings on this list, but perhaps
of interest to some...MM


EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY WESTERN NETWORK
 
Education for Sustainability Western Network (EFS West), a professional
association of colleges, universities, businesses and individuals working
to advance sustainability in higher education, seeks a full-time
Executive Director. The Executive Director will give direction and
leadership toward the achievement of the organization's philosophy,
vision, strategy, and annual goals and objectives. He/she will supervise
staff and interns, oversee daily operations, and guide EFS West's
continued development.
Salary is to be negotiated depending on experience and location.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but we
encourage anyone interested to apply immediately.
 
http://www.efswest.org/highlights/edpost.php
 
 
Matthew St.Clair
Sustainability Specialist
University of California Office of the President
 Franklin Street, 6th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
Phone: (510) 287-3897
Fax: (510) 987-0752
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web:
http://www.ucop.edu/facil/pd/sustain.html

Call for ISA Papers: The Politics of Sacrifice?

[Michael Maniates]

Hello,
This email is meant for those on the gep-ed list who will be attending
the 2006 ISA meetings in San Diego, and who may be interested in
participating on a panel I'm organizing on the "politics of
sacrifice."  If you're not among the gaggle of academics on the
list who frequent the ISA meetings, then go ahead and delete this
message, with my apologies for the intrusion.  -- Mike
Maniates

-
Dear Colleagues,
I've been thinking a lot these past few years about the degree to which
the kinds of economic and policy transformations critical to a shift
towards "sustainability" constitute “sacrifice” for a broad
cross section of global overconsumers.  I'm suspicious of the view
that treats sacrifice as an integral part of the political calculus we
confront.  I'm influenced here quite a bit by William Ophul’s piece
on the “Democracy of Restraint” (reprinted in Green Planet Blues);
by Monty Hempel’s opening thoughts in his book Environmental
Governance (in which he points to community-based democratic
discourse as a way of fostering consumption restraint); by my
conversations with Tom Princen (who continually pushes me to think about
“sufficiency” vs. “efficiency”); and my own investigations of the
voluntary simplicity movement, which is made up of perhaps hundreds of
thousands of people who, by conventional terms, engage in “sacrifice” and
yet don't feel as if they’re sacrificing anything at all!  
 
My interest in “sacrifice” as a defining element of environmental
politics was sharpened quite a bit at our last ISA meetings, in
Honolulu.  At several environmental panels in Honolulu, I heard
panelists and audience members ask “but how do we get people to
sacrifice?” or stating as if it were an accepted and inalienable truth
that “fixing this environmental problem will, of course, require
considerable sacrifice among the American people.”  I found myself
become unexpectedly irritated...and out of this irritation came the idea
for a panel that would explore environmental politics and notions of
sacrifice.
For my bit on such a panel, I'd do a piece that, at the very least,
illuminates and complicates this slow slide towards accepting “sacrifice”
as a framing political concept.  I'm curious about how “sacrifice”
has increasingly become the centerpiece of a progressive environmental
politics, and about how a reflexive focus on sacrifice funnels scholars,
activists, and policymakers alike into a dismal, depressing, and
anti-democratic politics of change.  And I'd like to explore ways in
which scholars and activists of global environmental governance could be
thinking about policy initiatives from more ethically and politically
promising vantage points. 
 
Other papers on the panel – yours, I'd hope, if you’re game – need not
share the skepticism (even alarm!) that I'd bring to the table. 
They could, for instance, take me on by pointing to ways in which by
anyone’s accounting people must sacrifice if we're to get to some
semblance of sustainability, and then explore a reasonably democratic or
effective politics of sacrifice/coercion might look like.  Or,
papers might explore this idea of “sacrifice” around a specific issue
area or topic.  Another example: Papers might join me in arguing
that sacrifice isn't always (or usually?) a very useful way of framing
the issue, perhaps by exploring how, in a variety of ways and venues,
overconsumers willingly forego material consumption and are happy to do
so. (Example: graduation is happening here in a few days, and I've
already talked to several parents who are delighted with their child’s
education here, an education that cost them $80,000 – they saw it as a
privilege, and opportunity, an “investment” in the future to spend this
sort of money; “sacrifice” wasn't at all part of the calculus: how could
this become more the norm for environmental policymaking of the sort that
we engage as scholars?)   The idea here is to get the
discussion going in some systematic and reflective way that bears both on
scholarship and policymaking.
 
Bottom Line: I'd like to see a panel that explores, from several vantage
points, this idea of “sacrifice” in global environmental politics…and, if
the panel soars, I'd be very interested in exploring a book project
around it.
 
Interested?  If you are, email to me, at your earliest convenience,
your name and full address, a paper title, and a brief abstract. 
I
 
My thanks,
Mike Maniates
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Michael Maniates
Associate Professor of Political Science & Environmental 
Science
Co-director, Meadville Community Energy
Project
Coordinator,
The
International Project on the Teaching of Global Env. Politics
Allegheny College, Box E, Meadville, PA 16335 USA 
o: 814-332-2786 f: 814-332-2789 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/es/maniates.htm
Now available:
Confronting
Consumption, MIT Press
Recently released:
Encountering
Global Environmental Politics, Rowman & Littlefield
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

State of Fear

[Michael Maniates]

Dear GEPeders:
I reprint below an email that I just zipped out to my (last semester's)
senior seminar (undergraduate) in global environmental politics.  If
any of you know of especially helpful assessments of Crichton's book (in
addition to the ones I mention below), or if you plan to use or somehow
draw from his book in courses in the future, please let me know...either
by posting something general to the list or emailing me
directly.
My thanks,
Mike Maniates

Hello ES/PS 431ers:
Some of you know of Michael Crichton's (Jurassic Park, etc.)
recent book State of Fear, in a fictional account (or not?) of
current-day America in which overzealous environmental NGOs working with
climate scientists are characterized as hyping up the dangers of global
change.  We live in a "state of fear," says Crichton,
manufactured by scientists and NGOs who are blowing the threat of climate
change way out of proportion.  Indeed, Crichton actually ends his
book with an author's message that compares today's academic research on
climate change to "respected" 19th century research on
eugenics, and argues that we know far too little about the earth's
climate to begin to raise any concerns about the possibility of
climate change.
It's a splendid book in that it's built on claims, assumptions, and false
logic that we in the ES dept. zero in on in ES 110 and 201, and which we
discussed briefly in our seminar last semester.  It's a great
teaching and learning tool, in other words, in that it demonstrates in
ways unmatched in the recent popular literature of how simple
misunderstandings of the science at hand (such as confusing 
"weather" with "climate," or assuming that evidence
of cooling at a few places around the world means that the planet must be
cooling everywhere) can lead to the seemingly reasonable conclusion that
perilous climate change is right up there with the tooth fairy and the
Easter bunny (apologies to readers who hadn't yet heard that both are
make-believe characters).  Crichton has been taken to task by
climate scientists for his selective and misleading presentation of what
we know and where we think the uncertainties are, while at the same time
being applauded by these very same scientists for cautioning us all about
the dangers of over-hyping environmental threats to human
well-being.  On balance, though, the book has been dismissed by the
scientific community as an unfortunate set of distortions by
Crichton.  It's also mobilized the climate-change community to think
more deeply about how to communicate fundamental principles of climate
science to a lay public that's not going to pick up the IPCC reports any
time soon.
If you've read the book I very much hope that your ES training made it
possible for you to pick out the central lapses in logic and fact that
sustain Crichton's argument.  If you haven't read the book, check it
out from the library or buy it used on amazon.com.  See how many
errors of commission and omission you can pick out.  I intend to use
the book as the central portion of my final exam for the next iteration
of ES/PS 431: one's capacity to recognize and rebut the core of the book
assesses, I think, one's true understanding of the climate politics
before us.
For some interesting responses to State of Fear, see:
http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/fellows/sandalow20050128.htm
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=74
and
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=76

There are others, but this covers the range.
Yours,
Michael Maniates

Externalized costs of gasoline

[Michael Maniates]

Dear gep-eders,
I attach below a query posted to an environmental-studies list to which I 
below from a colleague at Marist College.  I too would be interested in the 
answer to his question, if anyone on the list has a favored source or 
citation at their fingertips.

Many thanks,
Mike Maniates

Dear colleagues,

I am looking for publications that quantify the costs that are externalized
during the various production stages and use of oil, and especially of
gasoline.
The goal is to determine how much gasoline should cost if the price
accounted for
environmental and health damage.  Other externalized costs are also
important,
e.g. military expenditures, social disruption, and government
subsidies.  Also, has an economic analysis of the Exxon Valdez spill
been done?  Conventional bibliographic and web searching by one of
my students is not revealing much careful and recent study.


Thank you for any recommended sources,
Rich
***
Richard S. Feldman, Chair
Department of Environmental Science & Policy
School of Science
Marist College
Donnelly Hall - Rm 228
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1387
(845) 575-3000 ext 2335
www.marist.edu/science/environmental/

gep-ed archive is acting up

[Michael Maniates]

Hi Gep-eders:
Just a quick administrative note.  The slick archive for the gep-ed list is 
acting up a bit: the URL that used to work for it doesn't seem to cut the 
mustard any longer.  So, if you're someone who uses the archive, or has 
planned on checking it out, take note:

1. One sure way of getting to the archive is to go to 
http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html#g and then scroll down to "gep-ed"

2. If you're feeling lucky, you can also go to the (perhaps unstable) 
direct link at http://www.mail-archive.com/gep-ed%40listserve1.allegheny.edu/

Be in touch with questions, concerns, or difficulties.
Cheers,
Mike Maniates

Re: Science and politics in the international environment

[Michael Maniates]

Raul (and others):
There's a nifty archive of the messages to the list at
http://www.mail-archive.com/gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu/
In your case, Raul, you can go to the archive site and search for
"harrison" by typing Ctrl+f and typing "harrison" in
the box.  You'll find several messages from Neil, all in pristine
condition.
Yours,
MM
At 06:48 PM 2/18/2005, you wrote:
Dear
all,
 
Extremely apologetic - I am looking for Neil
Harrison's comments on science and politics in global environmental
politics in the list-serve a few weeks ago but can't seem to find them
:(
 
Could anyone please forward that message to me?
A good friend of mine is reviewing Neil's recent edited volume and those
comments would actually be helpful.
 
Best,
Raul

Re: scientists perceptions of speaking out in public

[Michael Maniates]

Thanks, Susi.  For everyone's information, files can be attached to
messages sent out to the list.  Small files are also archived at the
list archives.  Large files are not.  Don't ask me where the
line is between large and small, tho...haven't figured that one out
yet.
Thanks again, Susi, for compiling the replies.  'Tis a great service
to us all.
Yours,
Michael Maniates
At 06:43 PM 2/14/2005, you wrote:
Hi everyone - 
I don't think I can attach files to messages to the entire list, so I
insert below the compiled, pretty much unedited feedback and suggestions
I received from you. I also contacted the editor of Science Communication
and through her found lots more, so hopefully this is all useful to
you.
Thanks - as always - for your help.
Susi

Scientists Speaking out in Public – Outreach and Education in Their
own View

Dear gep-ed'ers – 
I have a question regarding the state of the literature and some good
references on a topic I’m currently interested in. What has been written,
studied, previously said about scientists’ own perceptions and attitudes
toward communicating environmental problems to the public? Issues and
questions of interest here include:
- scientists’ opinions of the public’s scientific literacy and
interestedness in science 
- scientists’ beliefs of the public’s access to the professional research
literature and their use of that
- scientists’ opinions of whether or not the public cares about research
or environmental issues (e.g., if public doesn’t change it’s behavior
after hearing a scientist’s talk, do scientists then believe that the
public must not care about the issue they talked about?)
- scientists’ incentives (or lack thereof) to speak out in public (all
audiences, incl. policy-makers), do public ed and outreach
- scientists’ opinions on whose job it is to disseminate research and do
outreach
- physical scientists’ opinions of social scientists’ (e.g., do physical
scientists believe that it’s the social scientists’ job, i.e., social
scientists as “journalists” or “extension agents” while the physical
scientists do “the real work”…)
- requirements and accountability of scientists to do public
outreach/ed
I've just completed a 2-year AAAS Fellowship at the US State
Department.  The AAAS program places PhD scientists in government
agencies for 1-2 years with the dual purpose of infusing the government
policy process with scientific thinking and expertise, as well as
educating scientists in the ways of policy-making so that they can take
this knowledge back to the classroom.  I can't help you with
specific references, but AAAS has been running this program for 20 years
and focusing on this exact topic.  I would guess they could
definitely send you in the right direction.  Try: 
http://www.aaas.org/programs/
Good Luck,
Dorothy C. Zbicz, PhD
 
I don't know if my thoughts will be of any value, but I thought I
would offer them in case they might be of some interest to you. 
I have been teaching environmental studies for 34 years (I'm in my last
semester of teaching), during which I have worked in a 
department and with others across campus, the majority of them from the
sciences and from economics. I also have had many 
professional occasions to work closely with scientists. Among these is
the four day conference on "complexity in bioengineering 
in medicine and agriculture" for which I am the moderater, held in
Montana every other year. There I am one of the few non-scientists, 
(most there are geneticists are others working in fields with strong
genetics ties) and the scientists are much taken up with discussing 
many of the issues of public attitudes, public perceptions, etc, that
apparently concern you.

First caveat: ignore everything I say because it is fatal to
stereotype. Scientist are like every other group, enormously diverse in
personality, 
background, politics, and perspective.

Ignoring the caveat and proceeding to stereotypes. When I was young,
I read C.P. Snow's classic work, "The Two Cultures" that takes
up 
many of the questions you are asking here. It was written by an
Englishman in England and a long time ago. I was at first very taken with 
it and thought that he was saying something of enormous importance. I
then had more experience working with, for, and against scientists 
and began to think that what he had to say was too simplified and based
on stereotypes, and that it was no longer useful. Then, I discovered, 
as the Zen masters say, that with enlightenment, a mountain is once again
just a mountain. I now think that Snow's essential insights were just 
about right and that they are a very good starting point for discussing
these issues. I recommend it highly to you.

The gist of it is that there is a genuine and vast cultural chasm
between scientists and those trained in sciences and humanities. The
precise 
nature of this gap is very hard

Fwd: Paths to a Green World

[Michael Maniates]

Congratulations to Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne, two long-time
members of our cyber-community!  Read on...MM


Dear Professor,

I am pleased to announce The MIT Press's publication in February of
Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global
Environment, by Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne.  This
comprehensive and accessible text examines the debates over the causes
and consequences of environmental change from economic, political,
ecological, and social perspectives.  It is suitable for courses in
Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics, Environment and
Development, Sustainable Development, International or Global Political
Economy, and International Environmental Law.

Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1.  Peril or Prosperity?  Mapping Worldviews of Global
Environmental Change
Chapter 2.  The Ecological Consequences of Globalization
Chapter 3.  Globalization of Environmentalism
Chapter 4.  Economic Growth in a World of Wealth and Poverty
Chapter 5.  Global Trade and the Environment
Chapter 6.  Global Investment and the Environment
Chapter 7.  Global Financing and the Environment
Chapter 8.  Paths to a Green World?  Four Visions for a Healthy
Global Environment

Notes
Bibliography
Index

"Clapp and Dauvergne offer an unusually provocative and creative
path into the study of global environmental issues. By drawing on four
environmental worldviews to frame their discussion of the mounting
environmental degradation across the planet, they give us a book that
will foster critical, independent thinking among undergraduate students
of the politics of globalization and environmental change."
--Michael Maniates, Departments of Environmental Science and Political
Science, Allegheny College

"This book adds a welcome dose of political economy to the study of
international environmental politics. Rather than organizing itself
around environmental issue areas or interstate political processes, it
focuses on key processes of the world economy that give important shape
to ecopolitical behavior and environmental outcomes. There is not another
text of this sort suitable for use in upper-level courses on
international environmental politics."
--Ken Conca, Department of Government and Politics, University of
Maryland, College Park

"Paths to a Green World is a rare achievement: succinct yet
comprehensive, clear and balanced without removing the passion and
controversy from the issues. The authors thoughtfully present and
elaborate on four worldviews, or paths to environmental protection, and
then trust their readers to make their own choices. In a time when
polarization or blandness seems to prevail in political life, this
important book promotes tolerance and respect based upon a commitment to
understanding the values and arguments of others."
--Karen Liftin, Department of Political Science, University of
Washington

Click on the link below for complete text details and an examination copy
request form.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262532719

Sincerely,

Michelle Pullano
Textbook Manager
The MIT Press
5 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
617.253.3620

Fwd: Re: Kyoto Protocol and Nuclear Power Generation

[Michael Maniates]

Hello gep-eders,
I suggested, in a separate email to Ho-Ching Lee, that he might make his 
editorial available to us, in English.  Below please find his response.

My best,
Mike Maniates
From: "Ho-Ching Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kyoto Protocol and Nuclear Power Generation
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 03:19:38 +0800
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Hello,
it's 3 am here in Taipei.  Attached please find a copy of my editorial in
English.  So far, it has been greatly received.  Nevertheless, I am
expecting some concerns and questions coming from the pro- nuclear power
plants groups.  My specific questions to gep-eders are:
1. How the newly built and existing nuclear power plants are treated under
the Kyoto framework? counted as a real domestic reduction (or not)?
2. will building more nuclear power plants be used as a good reason to meet
emissions target?
3. Any specific COP conclusions/recommendations on this?
With many thanks in advance.
ho-ching

- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ho-Ching Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: Kyoto Protocol and Nuclear Power Generation
> Hello Ho-Ching,
>
> Would you be able to post a copy of the editorial to the list, but in
> English?  This might be useful to the members of the list who are
> thinking about what sort of advice they might offer you.
>
> MM
>
> > Dear gep-eders,
> > Greetings from Taipei.  I wrote an op-ed (in Chinese) on China Times
> > today. It's about COP-10 and beyond Kyoto.  There are debates here on
> > Kyoto and nuclear power generation.  I know that CDM under the Kyoto
> > framework will not count nuclear power plants as an alternative to
> > greenhouse emissions reductions (one of the COP-6 II conclusions).
> >
> > I am writing to ask for more advices and inputs as I'm expecting more
> > heated debates coming up on this.
> >
> > With many thanks in advance.
> >
> > ho-ching
> >
> >
> > -
> > Dr. Ho-Ching Lee
> > Director
> > Center of International Programs
> > Chung-Yuan Christian University
> > Chung-Li, Taiwan (320)
> > t: 886-3-265-6870
> > f: 886-3-265-6899
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>


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Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: New Climate Thriller: Scary, but Is It Science?

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

 From today's New York Times.  It seems to me that the last
paragraph is especially telling (I've gone so far as to bold a sentence
there); there's a suggestion here that the public framing of the
climate-change issue may be shifting in important ways.

With best wishes,
Michael Maniates

--


New Climate Thriller: Scary, but Is It Science?

December 14, 2004
 By ANDREW C. REVKIN 


On the surface, Michael Crichton's "State of Fear," can 
be
seen simply as a thriller in which environmentalists happen
to be the villains. Mixed with the story, however, are
lengthy, annotated attacks on the scientific consensus that
the globe is warming, human activity is a cause, and
accumulating emissions of greenhouse gases may dangerously
disrupt the climate system. 

While Mr. Crichton includes a note emphasizing that most of
the book is a "product of the author's imagination," he
adds that "references to real people, institutions and
organizations that are documented in footnotes are
accurate. Footnotes are real." 

Just one week after the book's release, it has stirred
intense reactions not only among scientists, but also from
people at every corner of the debate over what to do, or
not do, about climate change. Several climate scientists,
whose work is attacked by Mr. Crichton's characters, read
the book at the request of The New York Times and contended
that it did exactly what Mr. Crichton blamed his villains
for doing: ignoring or distorting findings that do not fit
a thesis and hyping those that do. 

Dr. James E. Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, said that where Mr. Crichton's
main character, Dr. John Kenner, says flatly that one of
Dr. Hansen's climate predictions in 1988 "was wrong by 300
percent," it could not be further from the truth. 

"Crichton has taken what is actually a triumph of climate
science prediction and pretended that it is a failure," Dr.
Hansen said. 

He said that the 1988 study looked at potential climate
impacts of three possible tracks for emissions of the
heat-trapping gases: Possibility A, in which they grew at
an exponential rate; Possibility C, in which they were
severely curtailed; and a most realistic Possibility B in
which emissions essentially stayed at the 1988 rate. 

Mr. Crichton, through Dr. Kenner, mentions only the
unlikely high-emissions possibility, Dr. Hansen said. In
the intervening years, he added, "the real world is falling
right on the projections for Scenario B." 

Myron Ebell, who since the late 1990's has fought emissions
restrictions for groups aligned with industry, most
recently the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the
novel was marginal literature but a great poke at
environmentalists. 

"As a novel it looks way too didactic, but as an
anti-global-warming alarmism, anti-Malthusian diatribe it
is going to drive the forces of darkness into a rage," Mr.
Ebell said. 

Indeed, David G. Hawkins, who runs the climate program at
the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private Washington
conservation group, called the book "a scurrilous smear."
His group is clearly a model for Mr. Crichton's National
Environmental Resource Fund, which sends agents in Prius
hybrid cars to kill foes with bites from blue-ringed
octopuses carried in sandwich bags. 

Mr. Hawkins, like Dr. Hansen, said his biggest concern was
that Mr. Crichton's "selective citation of isolated data"
gave the book an undeserved aura of authority. "The
irony,"
Mr. Hawkins wrote, "is that to make his case that enviros,
'establishment' scientists and the media are abusing the
scientific method, he tramples it himself." 

In an interview last week with The Times, Mr. Crichton said
he presumed that there would be criticism from scientists.
But he insisted that scientists trying to divine where
conditions will be in coming decades face huge hurdles.
"There's a lot of people in modern society who really think
they can see the future; they don't think they're psychics,
but they think they can see the future. And boy, they
can't." 

One undisputed fact seems to be that after many years in
which books and movies dealing with climate largely failed,
something has changed. Mr. Crichton's book was second on
Amazon.com's best-seller list yesterday. And his publisher,
HarperCollins, is part of News Corp., the media
conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch that also, through
20th Century Fox, this year produced "The Day After
Tomorrow," in which the environmentalists are heroes. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/science/earth/14fear.html?ex=1104041705&ei=1&en=bc8917a26cadcbb6