important opportunity for young scientists: DISCCRS in Hawaii

[Susi Moser]

Sorry for cross-posting and especially if you have recently seen this 
already.


I wanted to send it again because it's a /*great opportunity*/ and we 
would l/*ove to see more young social scientists*/ at this workshop. So.


Apply!
DISCCRS pays the way!
Come to Hawaii!
Have a great time!
Learn how to do interdisciplinary work effectively!
Get the best mentoring you have received yet!
Get a head start on your career!

(What more do you need for encouragement?!?!)

Best, Susi
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DISCCRS  http://www.aslo.org/phd.html 

DISCCRS (pronounced "discourse") is an interdisciplinary initiative for 
recent Ph.D. graduates conducting research related to climate change and 
its impacts. The goal is to broaden research interests and establish a 
collegial peer network extending across the spectrum of natural and 
social sciences, humanities, mathematics, engineering and other 
disciplines related to climate change and its impacts. The initiative 
includes a public webpage, electronic newsletter, and annual symposia 
funded through 2008.




 DISCCRS III Symposium
 http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf
   September 10 - 17, 2007
   Hawai'i Island

Application Deadline
  April 30, 2007

Expenses: Airfare and on-site expenses are provided through NSF grant 
EAR-0435728 to Whitman College.




Eligibility: Ph.D. requirements completed April 1, 2004 - March 31, 2007 
in any discipline related to climate change and impacts. Recent Ph.D. 
graduates from all disciplines and countries are invited to join the 
DISCCRS network and apply to be a DISCCRS symposium scholar. 

Thirty-six applicants will be selected by an interdisciplinary committee 
of research scientists. During the week participants will provide oral 
and poster presentations in plenary format, hone interdisciplinary 
communication and team skills, and discuss emerging research, societal 
and professional issues with each other and with established researchers 
invited to serve as mentors. 


A report on the DISCCRS II Symposium is posted at
http://aslo.org/phd/disccrs2sympreport.pdf

Mentors for the DISCCRS III Symposium are: 
Kenneth H. Broad

  http://iri.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/staff?kbroad
Charles Kolstad 
  http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/people/usernew.asp?user=kolstad 
Susanne Moser

  http://www.isse.ucar.edu/moser/index.html
Terry L. Root 
  http://terryroot.stanford.edu 
Stephen  H. Schneider 
  http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu 



Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

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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

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Re: Query on environmental food boycotts

[Susi Moser]

What about the Nestle boycotts? Would that count.

Susi

William Hipwell wrote:


Hi Leslie:

I don't know if this would qualify, but I recall (and indeed, 
participated in) a boycott of French wine during its resumption of 
nuclear testing in the South Pacific in the mid-1990s.  The arguments 
against the testing were primarily environmental.


Cheers,

Bill
**

**

Dr. William Hipwell

Lecturer, Development Studies

Institute of Geography / Te Puutahi Maatai Matawhenua

School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences / Te Kura Taatai 
Aro Whenua


Victoria University of Wellington / Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te 
Ika a Maui


PO Box 600

Wellington 6001

Aotearoa New Zealand

Telephone:  +64-4-463-6116 (office)

   +64-21-773-408 (mobile)

   william.hipwell (Skype)

 Facsimile:   +64-4-463-5186

 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 



 Website: http://www.geo.vuw.ac.nz/staff/hipwell.html

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

Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2007 8:12 a.m.
To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Query on environmental food boycotts

I have a student researching boycotts in the food industry. Does 
anyone know of cases where a food product was boycotted for enviro 
reasons (compared to labor, human rights -- ie, Coca Cola, etc)?


Thanks!

Leslie


>From: "VanDeveer, Stacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "GEP-Ed" 
>Subject: FW: Chilean environmentalists at the OAS
>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:50:08 -0500
>
>
>The human right of access to official information
>
>
>From Editor and Publisher
>_ content_id=1003254197> , via the Law Librarian Blog
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>ovt_.html> :
>"For the first time ever, an international court has declared that
>access to government information is a human right. Ruling in a case
>brought by three Chilean environmental activists, the Inter-American
>Court of Human Rights declared that a 'right of general access' to
>government-held information is protected by Article 13 of the American
>Convention on Human Rights. Article 13 deals with 'freedom of thought
>and expression.'" The decision came in Reyes v. Chile, which hasn't yet
>been published.
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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

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new book of interest: Moser/Dilling (eds.) CREATING A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE

[Susi Moser]

Dear colleagues and friends,

Sorry for cross-posting, and for shameless self-promotion but I 
thought many of you may be interested in this book, just published by 
Cambridge University Press.


For those of you, for whom the price tag is too high, we hope you will 
consider recommending the book for acquisition to your institutional 
and/or public library. Those of you who teach may also be interested in 
using the book for your classes. Cambridge can send you review copies. 
Information on that can be obtained at the website provided below.


Thanks for your interest in this topic,

Susi Moser
*
Just released!*
* *
Moser, S.C. and L. Dilling (eds., 2007). /Creating a Climate for Change: 
Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change/. Cambridge, 
UK: Cambridge University Press.


The need for effective communication, public outreach, and education to 
increase support for policy, collective action and behavior change is 
ever present, and is perhaps most pressing in the context of 
anthropogenic climate change.


This book is the first to take a comprehensive look at communication and 
social change specifically targeted to climate change. It is a unique 
collection of ideas examining the challenges associated with 
communicating climate change to facilitate societal response. It offers 
well-founded, practical suggestions on how to communicate climate change 
and how to approach related social change more effectively.


Contributors come from a diverse range of backgrounds, including 
government, academia, non-governmental, and civic sectors of society. It 
will be of great interest to academic researchers and professionals in 
climate change, environmental policy, science communication, psychology, 
sociology, and geography.


*Order your copy now!*
http://www.amazon.com/ 
<http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Climate-Change-Communicating-Facilitating/dp/0521869234> 

http://www.cambridge.org/us/ 
<http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521869232>


*To contact the editors or book a presentation: *
Susanne Moser at [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lisa Dilling at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


*For more information: *http://www.isse.ucar.edu/communication

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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

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Re: Why isn't the full WG1 report available until May?

[Susi Moser]

People need time to print it. I think that's all there is to it. The 
content of the SPM is now available!


I'm not aware of the individual chapters existing anywhere in finished 
pdf.s Individual chapter lead authors may be willing to share them...


Susi

Robert Darst wrote:

Hi everybody,
 
Why is the full IPCC WG1 report being kept under wraps until May? Is 
there a political explanation? (The contrarian community, e.g., 
Climate Audit, certainly thinks so.)
 
Second question: Is a draft of the full report available anywhere at 
this point? I find it hard to believe that the IPCC could manage to 
keep it off the web, but I haven't been able to find a copy.
 
Thanks,

Rob
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Associate Director of the Honors Program
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Re: Bjorn Lomborg

[Susi Moser]

Scientific American a couple years back had eminent experts review
pieces (and mostly take it to bits); the Union of Concerned Scientists
had a similar approach to their discussion - have experts review
individual chapters. I think that should still be on their website.

Best, Susi Moser

Don Munton wrote:

  Thanks for this suggestion, Jennifer, and for the original question,
Kevin.

Now, I have a related question: can anyone suggest a really good review
of the Lomborg book that one could use as the contrary view, along with
this article, in a "for-against" pair of readings for discussion and
debate?

Don Munton
UNBC

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jennifer
Clapp
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 9:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: GEP-Ed
Subject: Re: Bjorn Lomborg

Kevin,

I use this short piece from the Economist. The students either love or 
hate it.

Bjorn Lomborg, "The Truth About the Environment", _The Economist_, 
Aug.4, 2001.

You can easily find it on the web.

Best,
Jennifer Clapp


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
Hi folks,

Is anyone aware of an article-length piece written by Lomborg that

  
  summarizes 
  
  
his case and findings?  I want to address his work in my 
class "Environmentally Sustainable Development" this fall but don't

  
  want to 
  
  
assign the whole book.  What's more, it doesn't seem fair to introduce

  
  
  
  
students to his thesis through a book review, whether positive or

  
  negative.
  
  
Thanks for you response

Kevin Gallagher
Boston University

  

  
  
  

more on campus actions

[Susi Moser]

Hey Stacy -

Just came across more info on your request this morning:

Biemiller, Lawrence (2006). Penn's Cost-Saving Efforts Run Hot and Cold. 
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 27. see: 
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i21/21b01201.htm


And:

Alliance to Save Energy's  Green Campus Program
see: http://ase.org/section/program/greencampus/

Cheers,

Susi

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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

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Re: climate action on campuses

[Susi Moser]

Try these:

http://www.cbsm.com/CasesDatabase/Detail.lasso?-KeyValue=88&-KeyField=ID
http://www.energyaction.net/main/index.php  
http://campusclimatechallenge.org/
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/190

That's just a sampling, but probably some good leads

Also, from an announcement on 5/17/2005:
Nine Pennsylvania colleges and universities have recently increased prior commitments to the purchase of wind power. These new commitments added to wind purchases previously made by 25 other Pennsylvania schools, continue to make Pennsylvania higher education the leader in wind purchases in the United States. 
The schools purchasing wind are members of the in Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy (PCIEP).  Several years ago PCIEP created a partnership with Community Energy, Inc. (CEI), a marketer of wind power, to pool purchases of wind by Pennsylvania schools.

Combined PCIEP member wind energy purchases now total 92,200 megawatt hours (MWh) or the equivalent of 23 wind turbines, constituting the largest non-governmental aggregated commitment to wind power in the U.S. PCIEP's member institutions' decision to purchase pollution-free wind power mix in Pennsylvania reduces the amount of carbon dioxide is approximately equivalent to planting nearly 7.5 million trees, not driving 96 million miles, or taking 15,121 cars off the road each year. 

The most recent wind purchases are part of a campaign launched by PCIEP and CEI called "Getting to 10% Wind." The campaign encourages Pennsylvania colleges and universities to increase their existing wind energy purchases to match at least 10% of their total usage with wind energy. To date, the 34 PCIEP members are purchasing wind energy.  Nine of these schools now derive at least 10% of their electricity use from wind power. 

The universities who have recently increased their commitments to wind power include Eastern University (32.2%), Dickinson College (12.1%), The University of Pennsylvania (10.4%), Juniata College (10.4%), Allegheny College (10%), Chatham College (10%), Duquesne University (10%), Keystone College (10%), and Mercyhurst College (10%). 


By making commitments to wind energy, Pennsylvania colleges and universities are leading through example on important public policy questions. Because the United States urgently needs to move toward greater use of renewable energy not only to reduce the threat of climate change but also to achieve energy independence, higher education in Pennsylvania is creating a path for others to follow on a matter of great national importance. 

Questions about Pennsylvania's higher education commitments to wind power can be directed to Donald A. Brown, PCIEP director, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


VanDeveer, Stacy wrote:

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I have a grad student
working on categorizing and assessing
climate change policies and actions on campuses.
  That is, we are trying to
find out what campuses are
actually doing…
  Any resources or ideas
are welcome.
  --Stacy
   
  

  


  

  
  

  


  

  
   
  
  
   
  

  




 

  
  


  

  
  Stacy
D. VanDeveer
  2003-2006
Ronald H. O'Neal Assoc. Professor 
  
  
  University
of New Hampshire
Dept. of Political Science
Horton SSC
  Durham,
  NH 03824 USA
  
  


  
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tel:

fax: 
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Re: Easy to read climate book?

[Susi Moser]

Not sure whether Gary Braasch has ever put all of his wonderful 
photography into a "coffee table" book on global warming, but you can 
ask him.


http://www.braaschphotography.com/
http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/

By the way, Oxford University Press produces a "Very Short Introduction" 
series. They also have a pocket-sized one on global warming. I just got 
it from the author, Mark Maslin, in London. It's not in color and only 
has a couple of b/w photographs. But it is pretty good. A bit British in 
perspective (e.g., the emergence of climate change in the press in the 
late 1980s is discussed from the British perspective, does not reflect 
what happened in the US), but amazingly concise and to the point.


Best,

Susi

Henrik Selin wrote:

A student asked me the following question: I would like to purchase a 
book that explains the specific effects of global warming (for 
instance, case studies on species). I am hoping to find a book that is 
easily read and includes photographs, something that I will be able to 
share with friends and family and use as a sort of coffee table book 
to explain global warming effects to people who don't understand the 
science of it.


Any ideas and suggestions?

Henrik



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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

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Re: Environment Speakers?

[Susi Moser]

I would include one of the most inspiring speakers on the circuit these
days (also addressing the question of how to keep hope up in these
depressing environmental days - to address another thread today):

Bill McDonough - funny/drywit, engaging, exciting, a oh-so-American
can-do spirit, but with some real substance underneath. I have yet to
meet anyone who doesn't walk out of a talk of his and not believe "we
can do it!"

See: http://www.mcdonough.com/

For a little extra self-serving advertising, I will shamelessly promote
my own forthcoming writing on emotional responses to (depressing,
overwhelming) climate change information - I wrote a chapter for the
book I have advertised here before (co-edited by myself and Lisa
Dilling), entitled CREATING A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE - an anthology on how
to communicate climate change in a way that facilitates societal
response/social change. It's forthcoming from Cambridge University
Press, later this year. So, not quite available yet, but soon :)

Best,

Susi



  Beth DeSombre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  Our campus environmental group is looking for suggestions for a
keynote
speaker for our Earth Week celebration. Last year they got Bill
McKibben
who was fantastic -- engaging, accessible, willing to adapt his topic
to
what the students were interested in, etc.

They're looking for someone else who would be really good. They can
access a reasonably large pot of money, so while they probably
couldn't
bring someone in internationally, they can pay travel and an
honorarium. 
Any suggestions of environmental speakers on your campus that have
given
really great lectures?

Beth
  


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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

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Re: Environmental Crises: A list of readings

[Susi Moser]

Hi everyone -

Peter brings up an important point. I would suggest here the (now quite
extensive literature) on the social amplification/attenuation of
risk. The original theory on this was developed by Roger and Jeanne
Kasperson at Clark U. In a recent edited volume of papers reflecting
the Kaspersons' contributions to the risk field and this topic in
particular, you can find critical reviews of that literature. See:

Kasperson, J.X & R.E. Kasperson (eds.). The Social Contours of
Risk. Vol 1: Publics, Risk Communication, and the Social Amplification
of Risk. London, Earthscan, 2005.

Best, Susi

phaas wrote:

  Message
  
  
  
  Some sort of project would be very
interesting on the subject of what events, or predictions constitute a
'crisis'.  Most of us, myself include, tend to identify crises with the
benefit of hindsight.  I wonder what are the properties of
events/predictions that are regarded as a crisis?  If they are
expected, for instance, would they be a crisis?  Are crises only
surpises, or low probability events?  What role does the media play in
constituting crises, or of other actor groups?
  
-
Original Message - 
From:
harrisc 
To:
'Kenneth Wilkening'
; gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu

Sent:
Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:55 AM
Subject:
RE: Environmental Crises: A list of readings


ken,
 
first, thanks for the summary .
. . you are correct, heaven on earth is hard to find . . . 
 
second, a couple comments, one
more specific and two more general . . . 
 
in general, i like your
categories . . . you seem to be looking at three variables -- was there
warning, was the warning heeded, and did a crisis occur . . . if taken
literally, these would generate eight categories, of which five might
be interesting . . . the one that might be interesting that i'm not
sure you have included is the one where there is warning, it is heeded,
and the crisis occurs nevertheless . . . 
 
specifically, i would encourage
you to look for another example of your third category . . . i think a
complete review of all the alar literature suggests that the situation
is fairly ambiguous and not the clear absence of any hazard that
industry still tries to claim . . . 
 
generally again, you might want
to clarify whether you use the term "crisis" in a constructivist or
realist sense . . . for example, my understanding of guadalupe dunes,
perhaps incorrect, is that there was a "real" crisis in terms of
impacts on ecosystem functioning, but crisis in terms of social
perception or discourse or social construction . . . this bears,
perhaps tangentially, on the alar case, where there certainly was a
crisis in terms of social perception but, as noted above, industry
claims that there was no "real" crisis in terms of impacts on ecosystem
or human health . . . 
 
cheers,
 
craig 
 
craig k harris
department of
sociology
michigan agricultural
experiment station
national food safety
and toxicology center
institute for food
and agricultural standards
michigan state
university
http://www.msu.edu/~harrisc/ 
 


 From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kenneth
Wilkening
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 8:20 PM
To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu
Subject: Environmental Crises: A list of readings


Dear GEP-ED,
 
Some time ago I posted a note to GEP-ED
asking about references related to the topic of “environmental crisis
as motivation for action”. I was seeking literature on the notion that
it takes a crisis to make people / policymakers meaningfully act to
address a problem. I received some very interesting responses. Thank
you to everyone who replied. I am embarrassed to admit that I posted
the note last July. It has taken me until now to unbury myself enough
to organize a summary of the responses. I have also added material
discovered on my own since then. [Aside: My idea of heaven—a place
where I am free to do just one thing at a time until I actually
complete it.]
 
Judging from the responses, there seem to
be at least 3 types of literatures related to the topic of
environmental crises. 
 
(1) warnings that go unheeded, then crisis
hits (eg, Exxon Valdez and the argument outlined in Jared Diamond’s
Collapse). The response may or may not be successful (eg, Montreal
Protocol seems to be a successful response to ozone depletion; however,
Easter Islanders were too late in organizing a successful response to
their land degradation crisis). 
 
(2) warnings that a serious problem
exists, however no crisis emerges (eg, Guadalupe Dunes oil spill as
described by Thomas Beamish in his book Silent Spill)
 
(3) creation of a crisis where there is
none (eg, ALAR scare of the 1980s).
 
I must say I’ve become quite intrigued by
this topic. I was wondering if there are any ISA convention-goers who
mi

Re: ddt & malaria

[Susi Moser]

Dale -

Maybe Jonathan Patz at the University of Wisconsin can help out there or 
lead you to some literature. He is working extensively on vector-borne 
diseases in the context of climate change, including malaria.


His email is: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Best, Susi

Dale W Jamieson wrote:


i would be grateful for suggestions about readings on the controversy
regarding the use (or nonuse) of ddt for controlling malaria vectors in 
the developing world.


many thanks.

dj

**
Dale Jamieson
Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy 
Affiliated Professor of Law

New York University
http://www.esig.ucar.edu/HP_dale.html

Contact information:
Steinhardt School, HMSS
246 Greene Street, Suite 300
New York NY 10003-6677
212-998-5429 (voice) 212-995-4832 (fax)

"John Lewis, the FBI's deputy assistant director for 
counterterrorism,told a Senate panel in May that environmental and 
animal rights militants posed the biggest terrorist threats in the 
United States,citing more than 150 pending investigations."--Washington 
Post, December 20, 2005




 

Re: Race, Poverty and the Environment

[Susi Moser]

Armin -

Here are a few more publications that may be of interest; many with a
global change slant, but not only. Hope it's helpful!

Susi
***

Agyeman,
J., and B. Evans. 2004. 'Just
sustainability': the emerging discourse of environmental justice in
Britain? The Geographical Journal 170: 155-?
Connelly,
S., and
T. Richardson. 2005. Value-driven SEA: time for an environmental
justice
perspective? Environmental Impact
Assessment Review 25: 391-409.
Cutter,
S. L., D.
Holm, and L. Clark. 1996. The role of geographic scale in monitoring
environmental justice. Risk Analysis
16: 517-525.
Dobson,
A. 1998. Justice and the Environment: Conceptions of
Environmental Sustainability and Dimensions of Social Justice.
Oxford
University Press, Oxford.
Dodds,
F., and T.
Pippard, eds. 2005. Human and
Environmental Security: An Agenda for Change. Earthscan, London.
Forsyth,
T. 2002.
Critical Political Ecology: The Politics
of Environmental Science. Routledge, London.
Fraser,
E. D. G.,
W. Mabee, and F. Figge. 2005. A framework for assessing the
vulnerability of
food systems to future shocks. Futures
37: 465-479.
Gray,
L. C., and
W. G. Moseley. 2005. A geographical perspective on poverty-environment
interactions. The Geographical Journal
171: 6-?
Guha,
R., and J.
Martinez-Alier. 1998. Varieties of
Environmentalism: Essays North and South. Oxford University Press,
Oxford.
Hird,
J. A. 1993.
Environmental Policy and Equity: The Case of Superfund. Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management 12: 323-343.
Holifield,
R.
2004. Neoliberalism and environmental justice in the United States
environmental protection agency: Translating policy into managerial
practice in
hazardous waste remediation. Geoforum
35: 285-297.
Holzmann,
R.
2001. Risk and vulnerability: the forward
looking role of social protection in a globalizing world. The World
Bank,
Washington, DC.
Ikeme,
J. 2003.
Equity, environmental justice and sustainability; Incomplete approaches
in
climate change politics. Global
Environmental Change 13: 195-206.
Kasperson,
J. X.,
R. E. Kasperson, and K. Dow. 2001. Vulnerability, equity, and global
environmental change. Pages 247-272 in J. X. Kasperson and R. E.
Kasperson,
eds. Global Environmental Risk.
Earthscan, London.
Krieg,
E. J., and
D. R. Faber. 2004. Not so Black and White: environmental justice and
cumulative
impact assessments. Environmental Impact
Assessment Review 24: 667-694.
Kurtz,
H. E.
2003. Scale frames and counter-scale frames: constructing the problem
of
environmental injustice. Political
Geography 22: 887-916.
Lang,
T., and M.
Heasman. 2004. Food Wars:The Global
Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets. Earthscan, London.
Leichenko,
R.,
and K. O'Brien. 2002. The dynamics of rural vulnerability to global
change: the
case of Southern Africa. Mitigation and
Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 7: 1-18.
Pritchett,
L., S.
Sumarto, and A. Suryahadi. 2000. Quantifying
vulnerability to poverty : a proposed measure, applied to Indonesia.
World
Bank East Asian and Pacific Region Environment and Social Development
Sector
Unit, Washington, DC.
Reed,
M. G., and
B. Mitchell. 2003. Gendering environmental geography. The
Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien 47: 318-337.
Stephan,
M. 2005.
Democracy in Our Backyards: A Study of Community Involvement in
Administrative
Decision Making. Environment and Behavior
37: 662-682.
Supiot,
A. 2002.
The Labyrinth of Human Rights: Credo or Common Resource? New
Left Review 21: 118-136.
Swyngedouw,
E.,
and N. C. Heynen. 2004. Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the
Politics of
Scale. Antipode 35: 898-918.
Thomas,
D. S. G.,
and C. Twyman. 2005. Equity and justice in climate change adaptation
amongst
natural-resource-dependent societies. Global
Environmental Change Part A 15: 115-124.
Wisner,
B. 1993.
Disaster vulnerability: geographical scale and existential reality.
Pages
p13-52 in H.-G. Bohle, ed. Worlds of pain
and hunger. Breitenbach/Freiburg University, Saarbrucken.




  
-Original Message-

  
  
Date: Thu Dec 15 10:19:04 PST 2005
From: "Armin Rosencranz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Race, Poverty and the Environment
To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu

I'll be teaching the above-titled enviro justice course beginning next
month, for the first time in five years.  My emphasis will be on local
community mobilization rather than litigation. Students will volunteer for
30 hours at local community EJ groups.

I'm using Luke Cole's FROM THE GROUND UP as a core text, but am searching
for other teaching materials, esp. recent community efforts to resist
polluting facilities. I'd welcome all suggestions.

armin rosencranz

  


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another NCAR opportunity: Faculty Fellowship Program

[Susi Moser]

Please forgive cross-posting.

Following the announcement a few days ago of an NCAR post-doc 
opportunity, today the notice is for a program for folks already further 
along in their research. Again, we would love to get proposals for 
people in the social sciences (all flavors) who would like to connect 
with anyone here at NCAR (climate science or impacts researchers). This 
would be the perfect little stint for a sabbatical or a summer.


Should you be interested in collaboration with any of the researchers in 
NCAR's Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, please 
explore the options at: http://www.isse.ucar.edu.


All other inquiries about this program should go to Paula Fisher at 
NCAR's ASP program (see contact information below).


Thanks and good luck!

Susi
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2006 FACULTY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The Advanced Study Program (ASP) is pleased to announce that the
Faculty Fellowship Program (FFP), which is designed to foster fruitful
and lasting intellectual collaborations and partnerships between
university faculty and the NCAR staff, is now accepting applications
for visits that occur between 1 June 2006 and 31 May 2008.

The FFP provides opportunities and resources for faculty employed at
universities to work in residence at NCAR, and enables NCAR Scientists
(Staff, Project, and Associate Scientists including Senior Research
Associates) to spend a period of time in residence at US universities.

Please see the details of the program and application requirements at
the website below.  The application deadline is 15 March 2006.

For more information, contact Paula Fisher at 303-497-1328, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED],

 or see this Web page: http://www.asp.ucar.edu/ffp/



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post-doc opportunity

[Susi Moser]

Hi fellow gep-ed'ers -

May I ask for your help in spreading the word about this post-doc
opportunity. Thanks!!!

Susi
*
Recent graduates in the Human Dimensions of Global Change field!

I would like to bring the post-doc fellowship at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research to your attention. You may think of NCAR as
"only physical science", but that is not so. In fact, I am sending you
this specifically to attract more social scientists to NCAR's Institute
for the Study of Society and Environment. See the website listed below
for more detail, but suffice to say that our work falls under five
different themes (all described more on the website): (1)
vulnerability/adaptation/thresholds/resilience, (2) the use of
information in decision-making, (3) development of assessment tools and
methods, (4) land use-ecosystem-climate interactions, and (5) regional
applications of integrated science

We would welcome a strong application pool that includes LOTS of social
scientists!

Thanks,

Susi Moser
-
NCAR Advanced Studies Program
Postdoctoral
Fellowship Program
The postdoctoral program provides an opportunity
for
recent-Ph.D. scientists to continue to pursue their research interests
in
atmospheric and related science. The program also invites postdoctoral
physicists, chemists, applied mathematicians, computer scientists,
engineers,
and specialists from related disciplines such as biology, geology,
science
education, economics, and geography, to apply their training to
research in the
atmospheric sciences.
The primary goal of the program is to develop the
careers
of recent Ph.D. graduates. The ASP also encourages independence and
creativity
while providing an environment in which fellows interact with and
receive
advice from experienced scientists at NCAR. 
Deadline for 2006 applications is 5 January 2006.
If
you have any
questions please contact the Advanced Study Program at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
See
what Sciencecareers.org has to say about NCAR and the ASP postdoctoral
fellowships

The IAI postdoctoral program provides an
opportunity for
recent-Ph.D. scientists from any of the nineteen member countries to
come to
NCAR and continue to pursue their research interests in atmospheric and
related
science. The program also invites postdoctoral physicists, chemists,
applied
mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, and specialists from
related
disciplines such as biology, geology, science education, economics, and
geography, to apply their training to research in the atmospheric
sciences.
Deadline for 2006 applications is 5 January 2006.
Above
>From ASP
Website: http://www.asp.ucar.edu
SERE
Lab Website:
http://www.sere.ucar.edu/

Institute for the Studi of Society and Environment (ISSE):
http://www.isse.ucar.edu/
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Fax.: 303.497.8125
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Where are the women climate warriors?

[Susi Moser]

Dear Editors,

I noted with great appreciation that you have decided in your November 
2005 issue to highlight people who are actively working to raise public 
awareness about global warming and who are laboring to create actual 
change in policy and business operations to reduce our heat-trapping 
greenhouse gas emissions. As a researcher in this field myself, I know 
several of these individuals, greatly appreciate their courageous and 
useful work. I would consider several of them my mentors. So thank you, 
and bravo for directing the limelight on those who fight the good fight 
for our climate.


Your list, however, struck me as partial indeed. For starters it's an 
almost exclusively American, and almost exclusively male list - which is 
awfully narrow. In science, policy, business, and civic society women 
are crucial movers and shakers! Take, for example, the chairwoman of the 
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Joke Waller 
Hunter, who just recently died. Or how about Abby Young at the 
International Council for Local Environmental Initiative, who is 
rounding up city after city in this country to join the Cities for 
Climate Protection campaign? Not to speak of all the women artists 
(dancers, musicians, poets, actors and writers) who are finding creative 
ways to bring global warming to the people. What about the countless 
female activists in the growing climate justice movement who are working 
their legs off to make sure we're not forgetting those who will be 
hardest hit by global warming and who are least equipped to do anything 
about it? These women illustrate another critical shortcoming of your 
list: it looks only at the grasstops and higher. The most interesting, 
innovative work in raising Americans' awareness of climate change, and 
actually getting people to reduce their emissions, is happening at the 
grassroots.


Here is to the heroines and women warriors who are tirelessly working to 
protect our climate!


Sincerely,

Susanne C. Moser, Ph.D.

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National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O.Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Tel.: 303.497.8132
Fax.: 303.497.8125
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Re: Rolling Stone

[Susi Moser]

Very much agree with Neil. But quite frankly, I find this list rather 
appalling, however much I like many of these individuals, however many I 
know personally and am glad they're doing what they're doing.


But for starters, it's an almost exclusively MALE list - which is just a 
tad bit narrow, sorry guys! And ridiculous to boot. How about the 
chairwoman of the UNFCCC that just recently died? How about Abby Young 
at ICLEI? How about all the women artists and activists in the climate 
justice movement who are working their legs off? Which highlights 
the second shortcoming of this list: it's all grasstops and higher. The 
most interesting, innovative work is happening at a different level.


So, thanks, but keep working, Rolling Stone!

Susi

Neil E Harrison wrote:


Curious that Rolling Stone did not acknowledge Aubrey Meyer the
violinist, erstwhile forest activist, and founder of the Global Commons
Institute who came up with "contraction and convergence" that has been
widely adopted as the most viable prescription for climate change
mitigation and a long term solution to the problem. It has been much
discussed in the UK and Europe, is often mentioned in the newspapers
there and in parliament, but in the US it gets very little press.
Perhaps that explains the Rolling Stones' omission, 

Neil Harrison 


-Original Message-
From: Ronald Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:35 PM
To: GEPED
Subject: Rolling Stone


For those, like me, who don't get out much, you might not have seen the
Nov 
17 issue of Rolling Stone's article:
"Warriors & Heroes Against Global Warming" with writeups on Gore, Jim 
Hansen, Bob Watson, etc. Get it at http://tinyurl.com/do3ja

or
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8742145?pageid=rs.Home&p
ageregion=single7&rnd=1133218893840&has-player=true&version=6.0.11.847 



Ron


 



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National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O.Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Tel.: 303.497.8132
Fax.: 303.497.8125
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seen any good films lately?

[Susi Moser]

Hi folks -

If you're not already gone for the holiday, or if post-turkey, you have 
some leisurely time to think: I'm looking for suggestions on film that 
dramatize/visualize/thematicize the human-environment relationship. Yup, 
that's pretty wide open, but at this stage, I am fairly wide open. Am 
more interested in drama than in documentaries, but not fundamentally 
opposed. And in particular I am interested in films that explore some 
deeper dimensions of that relationship, e.g., weaving in psychological, 
mythological or religious elements. One example might be The Whale 
Rider. But just let that inspire you, not confine you.


The purpose is to use a film - or just clips from them - to start 
discussions in a workshop about these deeper layers of our relationship 
to the non-human world.


Any favorites? Will be happy to collect your suggestions and send them 
back, so no need to email to the whole list.


Many thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving,

Susi

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National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O.Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Tel.: 303.497.8132
Fax.: 303.497.8125
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Re: Environmental Careers Web Sites?

[Susi Moser]

Mary -

Here is a shortlist

http://www.ecoemploy.com/
http://www.unep.org/Documents.multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=110&ArticleID=
http://www.sigmaxi.org/resources/student/job.shtml
http://environmental-jobs.com/

And the motherload of all enviro job directories on the web: 
http://www.webdirectory.com/Employment/


Susi



Mary Pettenger wrote:

 Greetings - my university is proposing to offer a Environmental 
Studies major (we only have a minor at this time) and I am helping 
with the documentation. Does anyone know of "Environmental Careers web 
sites" where we could find information on the need for 
employees/employment outlook nationally and for the Pacific Northwest? 
Lists of job titles and salaries would be quite helpful as well.
 
Please respond directly to me, and I will compile a list for the group 
if you are interested.
 
Thank you,

Mary Pettenger


Assistant Professor of Political Science
Model United Nations Advisor
Western Oregon University
345 N Monmouth Ave
Monmouth OR 97361
(503)838-8301 (w)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Re: statistical calculations of climate change?

[Susi Moser]

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


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National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Re: environmental crisis as motivation for action

[Susi Moser]

Erika - 

I'd recommend Deborah Lynn Guber at the University of Vermont.
(http://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/about.htm)

Here are a couple of relevant articles/papers, though the literature is
wide, especially when looking at specific environmental issues (if the
links don't work, go to her website, and download from there!):

"Voting
Preferences and the Environment in the American Electorate." 2001. Society
and
Natural Resources, 14 (6): 455-469.
"Environmental
Voting in the American
States: A Tale of Two Initiatives." 2001. State and Local
Government Review,
33 (2): 120-132.

"Up and Down
With Ecology Revisited:
The Stability of Public Attitudes Toward Environmental Spending,
1973-1998," 33rd
Annual Conference of the Northeastern Political Science Association,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, November 8-10, 2001.
"Issue Voting
and the Environment in
the American Electorate," 31st Annual Conference of the
Northeastern Political
Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 10-13,
1999. 
"Motivating the
Citizen-Consumer:
Environmental Values in the Voting Booth and the Marketplace," Annual
Meeting
of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia,
September 2-5, 1999. 
With co-author Christopher J. Bosso, "The
Boundaries and
Contours of American Environmental Activism." 2002. In, Environmental Policy: New
Directions for the
Twenty-First Century, 5th edition. Norman J. Vig, and Michael
E. Kraft, editors.
Washington, DC: CQ Press: 79-101.

Susi

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I know that this discussion ended sometime ago, but I have a related question
for the list. What would be the classic readings on public opinion polling in
the US and the environment. In particular, are there any outstanding articles
that can explain why Americans may support the environment when polled, but
when it comes to translating preferences into outcomes, they do not vote for
the environment? Thus, rather than "action" in the broader sense as proposed by
Ken, I am interested in "action" as "voting."

Thanks,
Erika Weinthal


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Re: Strange request for leads

[Susi Moser]

Adil -

I'd like to know what coffee you drink -- seems like a good brand... :)

I take all your points. I guess, for me the observation was primarily
about the construction of "the separate/distant other" that becomes "a
problem" when that other comes close. You're quite right that it is not
as much about nature versus people -- a truly old and chewed discussion
-- but maybe our (people's) dis-location out of the eco-context, which
is deeply disturbing to me. 

And I'll add, I hate it when I plant my garden with veggies and it
becomes the fresh-herb delicatessen for the local deer population. I
also have great human-to-human, heart-to-heart empathy for those whose
houses just slipped into oblivion. I mean, all the memorabilia, the
life histories, the hassle of getting all your official documents back.
And I'm sure I'd be rather distraught if I had to concede an arm or a
leg to a shark or a cougar Beyond all theoretical debate lies the
real experience

Thanks for your thoughts.

Susi

Adil Najam wrote:

  We probably do not want to get into this debate here, but what fascinates me
is why we do not consider ourselves to be part of nature... Is there not a
certain arrogance in the assumption that we are somehow separate from
nature After all, whose habitat is it anyhow... Why THEIR's and not
OURs... The US vs. NATURE argument can too easily become an argument of
putting ourselves 'above' nature (either in terms of thinking that nature is
there just to serve our needs, or in terms of thinking that we in our
almighty wisdom have the responsibility, or even ability, to be the
guardians and caretakers of nature).   This makes a certain type of sense in
an urbanized 'modern' perspective where we have made ourselves distant from
direct contact with nature even as our dependence on our natural environment
has increased... but for a very large number people who live IN nature, it
is not only not useful but potentially dangerous to keep playing the US vs.
NATURE card... 

Few species are as marginalized as the poor of the world, the fact that it
comes at the hand of their own species (or a related species, i.e., the
rich; folks like me) is interesting but no much more... I would consider
myself hypocritical if I were to claim to speak about the rights of nature
even my own decisions consciously trampled, or unconsciously supported the
trampling of, the rights of my own species... I have never found the
biocentric-anthropocentric debate interesting but not of practical use in
the realities of the many

The problem, of course, is NOT nature (which is why the Nature vs. Us debate
is misguided, since it insists that one of the two must be the problem)...
Nature is what nature is: both giving and cruel.  The question is 'who'
amongst us is the problem... He, whose livelihood and children were
threatened by the elephants and who said, 'to hell with them'... Or I, whose
particular lifestyle, economic choices, and support of a particular system
of production and use marginalized the first guy to the periphery where the
elephant would endanger his livelihood and children... Any debate that pits
that guy against the elephant and forces one to choose sides is not just
wrong, but cruel... My own fingerprint has to be analyzed in this debate if
it is to be honest

I certainly do not have the answers, but when I do begin searching for them
I start not with the nature vs. us debate (there is no US!), I start in the
SOME OF US vs. OTHERS OF US debate... Is it not only 'ecological' that I
would bleed for my own species before I do for others... It is in the later
debate that the solutions are more likely, even though the later debate is
also more uncomfortable...

The question really is WHY do people (especially poor people) put their
houses on slippery slopes... Or near (man-made) reserves for elephants and
tigers... Maybe they are just plain stupid Or, maybe, just maybe, its a
more complex set of circumstances ;-)

Asking someone in Haiti to not build on slippery slopes, or someone in India
to buy an apartment in Bombay and move out of the village next to which a
reserve has just been created is probably the environmental equivalent of
the Empress telling the proletariat to eat cake if they do not have bread
;-)

But maybe I had too much coffee this morning, so let me sign off.  I
warned you, this issue just gets me on my wrong side ;-)

adil



On 6/4/05 12:02 PM, "Susi Moser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  
  
Bill and others -

This is not my area of expertise, but I find it fascinating reading your
responses. In particular I want to point out our tendency to start with
phrases like "here [x animal] is a problem". It strikes me as peculiar
that nature is the problem, not we. If WE enter into, and gobble up more
and more of, THEIR habitat, does that not make US the 

more on animals and people

[Susi Moser]

to follow-up on my previous message, I just happened upon some readings 
that might be relevant and/or interesting in this context of "nature 
strikes back"


Morris Berman, ‘The wild and the tame: humans and animals from Lascaux 
to Walt
Disney,’ Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of 
the West

(Bantam, 1990), pp. 63-102.
A
lex Wilson, ‘Looking at the nonhuman,’ The Culture of Nature.

Matt Cartmill, ‘The Bambi syndrome,’ A View to a Death in the Morning: 
Hunting

and Nature through History (Harvard Univ. Press, 1993)

Jody Emel, ‘Are you man enough, big and bad enough? Ecofeminism and wolf
eradication in the USA,’ Society and Space 13 (1995), pp. 707-34.

Re: Strange request for leads

[Susi Moser]

Bill and others -

This is not my area of expertise, but I find it fascinating reading your 
responses. In particular I want to point out our tendency to start with 
phrases like "here [x animal] is a problem". It strikes me as peculiar 
that nature is the problem, not we. If WE enter into, and gobble up more 
and more of, THEIR habitat, does that not make US the problem? more in 
my area of expertise, if WE put our houses in dangerous natural 
locations -- I mean that's the basic age-old human ecology approach to 
natural hazards, right?! - than aren't we partly at least to blame for 
the homes sliding down the slippery slope? -- of course, there is a 
difference between rich folks choosing to live in hazardous areas and 
poor people being forced to live in dangerous areas (as is often the 
case in developing/poor countries) and then you enter into political 
ecology and leftist approaches to "natural" hazards, but anyway... just 
wanted to throw out an observation 


I would add to the elephants, tigers, deer, and bears... Florida's 
sharks! Don't have studies at hand, but they often make it beyond local 
papers into national outlets, so should be an easy search.


Susi

William Hipwell wrote:



Dear Colleagues:

All right, I realize that  this is a little bizarre, but I would like 
to ask all of you for leads in a little research endeavour.  I am 
looking for documented cases (preferably from newspapers) of wild 
animals (either singly or -- preferably -- in groups), attacking 
humans or human settlements.  I am particularly interested in cases 
where the animals appear to be defending their habitat, trying to 
(re-) occupy traditional territories, or trying to drive off human 
settlers or destroy crops.


I'd really appreciate any references that might support a "nature 
strikes back" thesis I am playing with.


Cheers,

Bill

PS My apologies to anyone on both of the lists to which I am sending 
this.



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Department of Geography
College of Social Sciences,
Kyungpook National University
1370, Sankyuk-dong, Buk-ku
Daegu, 702-701, South Korea
Tel.:+82 (53) 950-5232 (Office)
 +82 (53) 950 5227 (Departmental Administrator)
Fax: +82 (53) 950 6227
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web:http://bh.knu.ac.kr/~whipwell/

"[In] wildness is the preservation of the world."
- H.D. Thoreau
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Re: Public opinion and climate change

[Susi Moser]

hi again - 

There is actually quite a shift going on in certain portions of the
public -- the religious side, the financial/business side, even in the
environmental community, broadly writ. It's an interesting change to
observe. In any case, I forgot one earlier:


Williams,
J. L. 2001. The Rise and Decline of Public Interest in
Global Warming: Toward a
Pragmatic Conception of Environmental Problems. Nova Science
Publishers,
Inc., Huntington, New York.

Susi

Wil Burns wrote:

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I would also
add that the CEO of Duke Energy
called for a carbon tax a few days ago and criticized Bush for not
doing enough
about climate change. Couple this with the call by folks e.g. Frank
Gaffney and
Bud McFarlane to consider energy dependence a paramount security issue
(though
this may resulting plumping for more coal and nuclear use domestically,
so not
necessarily a positive development on the climate change front) and we
do
indeed have a potential sea change of public opinion on this matter
ahead. Whether
it will attain sufficient issue saliency to influence politicos remains
to be
seen. Jim Ball is still on the fringes of the evangelical movement for
me, but
if folks like the National
Association of Evangelicals really devote some political capital to
this, wow! wil
   
  
  
  
  From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Steinberg
  Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005
  1:28 PM
  To:
GEP-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu
  Subject: Public
opinion and
climate change
  
   
  In a related vein, there has been an
unexpected development in U.S.
environmental politics that could
potentially have a significant impact on American public opinion and U.S.
policy
regarding the global environment.  
  
The country's major Christian evangelical organizations are launching a
campaign to force the Republican Party to pay more attention to
environmental issues
such as global warming.  These organizations, whose membership counts
in
the millions, are a major source of support for the party and have
extensive
grassroots mobilization capabilities.  I have copied a Washington Post
article below.
  
Paul
  
  
  The Greening of
Evangelicals
Christian Right Turns, Sometimes Warily, to Environmentalism
  
  By
  Blaine
Harden
  Washington
Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 6, 2005; Page A01 
  
  SEATTLE
--
Thanks to the Rev. Leroy Hedman, the parishioners at Georgetown Gospel
Chapel
take their baptismal waters cold. The preacher has unplugged the
electricity-guzzling heater in the immersion baptism tank behind his
pulpit. He
has also installed energy-saving fluorescent light bulbs throughout the
church
and has placed water barrels beneath its gutter pipes -- using runoff
to
irrigate the congregation's all-organic gardens. 
  
Such "creation care" should be at the heart of evangelical life,
Hedman says, along with condemning abortion, protecting family and
loving
Jesus. He uses the term "creation care" because, he says, it does not
annoy conservative Christians for whom the word "environmentalism"
connotes liberals, secularists and Democrats. 
 
Richard Cizik, left, and the Rev. Jim Ball march at last month's
antiabortion
rally in Washington.
They handed out papers that cited federal government studies showing
that 1 in
6 babies is born with harmful levels of mercury.  
 
"It's amazing to me that evangelicals haven't gone quicker for the
green," Hedman said. "But as creation care spreads, evangelicals will
demand different behavior from politicians. The Republicans should not
take us
for granted." 
  
There is growing evidence -- in polling and in public statements of
church
leaders -- that evangelicals are beginning to go for the green. Despite
wariness toward mainstream environmental groups, a growing number of
evangelicals view stewardship of the environment as a responsibility
mandated
by God in the Bible. 
  
"The environment is a values issue," said the Rev. Ted Haggard,
president of the 30 million-member National Association of
Evangelicals.
"There are significant and compelling theological reasons why it should
be
a banner issue for the Christian right." 
  
In October, the association's leaders adopted an "Evangelical Call to
Civic Responsibility" that, for the first time, emphasized every
Christian's duty to care for the planet and the role of government in
safeguarding a sustainable environment. 
  
"We affirm that God-given dominion is a sacred responsibility to
steward
the earth and not a license to abuse the creation of which we are a
part,"
said the statement, which has been distributed to 50,000 member
churches.
"Because clean air, pure water, and adequate resources are crucial to
public health and civic order, government has an obligation to protect
its
citizens from the effects of environmental degradation." 
  
Signatories included highly visible, opinion-swaying evangelical
leaders such
as Haggard, James Dobson of Focus on the Family and Chuck Colson of
Prison
Fellowship M

Re: Public opinion and climate change

[Susi Moser]

Hi Henrik -

The literature is vast! For long-term surveys of views check the
regular Gallup Polls. At least that way you keep getting the same
standard methodology and hence a more comparable perspective.

MANY others have done studies, and you can easily search for them with
key words like attitude, public understanding, public opinion AND
climate change or global warming -- they are obviously slightly
different but get at the same thing. Below I just list a small
selection.


Brewer,
T. L. 2003. Seeds of change in the
US: Public opinion ahead of politicians on climate change. New
Economy 10: 150-154.

Bord,
R. J., R. E. O'Connor, and A. Fisher.
2000. In what sense does the public need to understand global climate
change? Public Understanding of Science 9:
205-218. (search for more by these authors on mental models and the
challenges the American public has in understanding climate change)

Immerwahr,
J.
1999. Waiting for a signal: Public attitudes toward global warming, the
environment and geophysical research. Pages 18pp. AGU. (it's on their
website)

Kempton,
W. 1991.
Public understanding of global warming. Society
and Natural Resources 4: 331-345.
—.
1997. How the
public views climate change. Environment
39: 12-21, 41.
Krosnick,
J. A.,
A. L. Holbrook, and P. S. Visser. 2000. The impact of the fall 1997
debate
about global warming on American public opinion. Public
Understanding of Science 9: 239-260.
Leiserowitz,
A.
2003. American opinions on global warming: Project results. Pages 14
pp.
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. (check for additional publications by
Tony; a recent one done after The Day After Tomorrow appeared in
Environment)

Shanahan,
J., and
J. Good. 2000. Heat and hot air: Influence of local temperature on
journalists'
coverage of global warming. Public
Understanding of Science 9: 285-295. (he has similar ones looking
at TV meteorologists; should be on his personal webpage)

Stamm,
K. R., F.
Clark, and P. R. Eblascas. 2000. Mass communication and public
understanding of
environmental problems: The case of global warming. Public
Understanding of Science 9: 219-237.
Sterman,
J. D.
2002. Cloudy skies: Assessing public understanding of global warming. System Dynamics Review 18. (They have published
elsewhere, too.)

Trumbo,
C. W.,
and J. Shanahan. 2000. Social research on climate change: Where we have
been,
where we are, and where we might go. Public
Understanding of Science 9: 199-204.
Ungar,
S. 2000.
Knowledge, ignorance and the popular culture: Climate change versus
ozone hole.
Public Understanding of Science 9:
297-312.
Weingart,
P., A.
Engels, and P. Pansegrau. 2000. Risks of communication: Discourses on
climate
change in science, politics, and the mass media. Public
Understanding of Science 9: 261-283.

There
also was a recent new survey study done at MIT - bit problamatic in the
methodology department, but several MIT researchers have done studies
in the past (search for Sterman et al).

I
guess, I'll be a bit self-promoting and add the recent article I
published with my colleague Lisa Dilling in Environment: Moser, S. and
L. Dilling. 2004. Making climate hot: Communicating the urgency and
challenge of global climate change. Environment 46(10): 32–46.
hope
this helps for starters...

Susi


Henrik Selin wrote:
Hello, 
  
I have a student who wants to write a paper on US public opinion on
climate change but has a hard time finding material on this. There is a
fair bit of material on public opinion and environmental issues in
general, but these seem to be less material specifically on climate
change. 
  
Does anyone know about any books, articles, reports etc on public
opinion and climate change? 
  
Is there an easy way to get access to different opinion polls on
climate change to see how opinions have (or have not) changed over
time? 
  
Thanks, 
Henrik 
  


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[Susi Moser]

Sorry for cross-posting. Please respond
directly to Paula Fisher with any inquiries you might have (address
given below).

- Susi Moser


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of interest to some of you.

S. Moser

Faculty Fellowship Program supports NCAR visits

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query on US climate politics during Clinton/Gore time

[Susi Moser]

Hey folks -
I have a request from someone doing a piece of research on US climate 
policy during the Clinton/Gore time. She's looking for something that is 
a pretty robust, balanced analysis/review, rather than just a scream 
over what did or didn't happen. The context is an attempt to piece 
together that Clinton/Gore period on global environmental aspects of US 
policy in order to situate the environmental security developments more 
carefully.

Any pointers? And good readings you assign?
Thanks,
Susi
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request on scientists communicating to the public

[Susi Moser]

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
This is fairly urgent – so if you could send me
your
insights and ideas by next Monday – I’d much appreciate it. Am happy to
send
the collection back to the hole group, so no need to fill everyone’s
inboxes up
twice.
<>Thanks for all your good ideas as usual!
Susi
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Re: climate change and the media

[Susi Moser]

Lily -

a couple more references that are not on my website and that you may
want to look through as well:

Major, Ann M. and L. Erwin Atwood. (2004). Environmental risks in the
news: issues, sources, problems and values. Public Understanding of
Science 13: 295-308.

Carson, Walter H. (1995). Priorities for a sustainable future: the role
of education, the media, and tax reform. Journal of Social Issues
51(4): 37-61.

Wilkins, Lee (1993). Between facts and values: print media coverage of
the greenhouse effect, 1987-1990. Public Understanding of Science 2:
71-84.

Clark, W.C. and N. Dickson. 1998. Civic Science: America's encounter
with global environmental risk. In: Social Learning Group, Learning to
manage global environmental risks: A comparative history of social
responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain. MIT Press
(if you recall, this is reprinted in the GEA 1997 volume, and shows a
graphic of newscoverage of these three topics in the NYTimes as a
leading indicator of attention in the press.)

Weingart, Peter, Engels, Anita and Pansegrau, Petra (2000). Risks of
communication: Discourses on climate change in science, politics, and
the mass media. Public Understanding of Science 9: 261-283.

Dunwoody, Sharon (1996). What's a journalist to do? Challenges and
approaches to reporting scientific assessment. In: Elements of Change
'96: AGCI Session II: Characterizing and Communicating Scientific
Uncertainty, Hassol, Susan and Katzenberger, John (eds)., Aspen Global
Change Institute, Aspen CO. (you can probably get this off their
website: www.agci.org - just look for the 1996 summer session report;
check also other contributions in that collection, more might be
relevant for what you need).

Friedman, Sharon M., Dunwoody, Sharon, and Rogers, Carol L. (1999).
Communicating Uncertainty: Media coverage of new and controversial
science. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. Publishers.

Hope this helps!

Susi

Liliana Andonova wrote:
Dear colleagues,
  
  
I am designing a course on climate change politics, and would like to
incorporate a class on the role of the media and public opinion. Could
you recommend good articles and/or interesting/effective/controversial
media productions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions
  
  
Liliana
  
  
Liliana Andonova
  
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Government
  
Department of Government
  
Colby College
  
4000 Mayflower Hill
  
Waterville, ME 04901  


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Re: climate change and the media

[Susi Moser]

Lily -

check out my website on climate change communication and social change
-- have some references available there (papers are access per password
only - get back to me if you need it; access to the bibliography at
http://www.isse.ucar.edu/communication/background.htm). And copies of
recent publications I recently wrote on the topic. That's all online
there.

http://www.isse.ucar.edu/communication/

The book on the topic you're discussing is still in the works... :)

Best,
Susi

Liliana Andonova wrote:
Dear colleagues,
  
  
I am designing a course on climate change politics, and would like to
incorporate a class on the role of the media and public opinion. Could
you recommend good articles and/or interesting/effective/controversial
media productions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions
  
  
Liliana
  
  
Liliana Andonova
  
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Government
  
Department of Government
  
Colby College
  
4000 Mayflower Hill
  
Waterville, ME 04901  


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Re: Green buildings and environmental decisionmaking

[Susi Moser]

Hey Beth -

well, tons of ways to connect to larger environmental issues -- just
think of how many communities take on Local Agenda 21, work on
sustainability, or tackle their local GHG emissions (see ICLEI and the
Cities for Climate Protection campaign, www.iclei.org). The latter of
course then has direct linkage to green building standards. 

ICLEI and references to Agenda 21 will lead you to plenty of case
studies, but I want to suggest one to you: Santa Monica, CA. (For Santa
Monica’s
Green Building Design and Construction Guidelines, see
http://greenbuildings.santa-monica.org/introduction/introduction.html.
) See also the US
Green Building Council’s web site:
http://www.usgbc.org/leed/leed_main.asp.

There are studies out there that look at the economic value of
designing green buildings -- while initially more expensive, they
typically save a lot of money because employees feel better in them and
hence lose less productivity through absenteeism or sick-time. See for
example, work done by Judith
H. Heerwagen or at Lawrence
Berkeley Lab.

Hope this helps,

Susi



Elizabeth R. DeSombre wrote:

  I'm a bit out of my depth in preparing a syllabus for a course on
environmental decisionmaking and green buildings.  This is for our
capstone ES course which is suppose to bring together politics, science,
ethics/philosophy as well as domestic and international approaches.  Yeah,
right.

Anyway, first I have a general request for any syllabi that address issues
of green building issues or similar issues, or any other suggestions about
what to include in such a course.

Secondly, a more specific request.  This course is going to focus on life
cycle assessment/analysis (LCA) as a decision tool, but we're also going
to look at some other decision tools for environmental decisionmaking --
like cost/benefit analysis, risk assessment, and any other standard ones I
can think of (suggestions welcomed, especially approaches that are less
mainstream.).  Does anyone have suggestions for general overviews of any
of these approaches -- e.g. an article on how cost/benefit analysis or
risk assessment generally works -- and/or suggestions for critiques of
these approaches?

I know it's a bit out of the gep-ed universe, though I of course have to
figure out how to integrate global environmental issues into all of this
as well . . .

Any suggestions on any of this appreciated!

Thanks,

Beth

Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Wellesley College

  


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Re: comparative environmentalism?

[Susi Moser]

Raul, Beth and others -

this may be too specific topicwise (climate change), but it's
international and compartive, and - actually - quite interesting:

Brechin, Steven R. (2003). Comparative public opinion and knowledge on
global climatic change and the Kyoto Protocol: The US versus the world?
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 23(1): 106-134.

(includes explicit mention of Mexico, which apparently has a much
higher percentage of people understanding climate change than
America)

Best, Susi

Raul Pacheco wrote:

  
  
  
  And Beth  if your
student happens to find data on Mexican environmental attitudes, I'd be
thrilled to see the data. I asked my students to do a Likert-scale
survey of environmental attitudes in my undergraduate class and the
results were, at best, disheartening. Interestingly enough, they didn't
differ that much from Dunlap's last results. But this was a small scale
survey, so if any larger-scale data are available I'd be very
interested to see them.
   
  Thanks,
  Raul
  
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Original Message - 
From:
Ben Cashore 
To:
Elizabeth R. DeSombre ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent:
Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:20 PM
Subject:
Re: comparative environmentalism?


Hi Beth,

Check out:

Frizzell, Alan, and Jon H. Pammett, eds. 1997. Shades of Green:
Environmental Attitudes in Canada and Around the World. Ottawa:
Carleton University Press.

It is a little dated but does do exactly what you are asking - I think
this book was part of a larger project also.

Best

Ben

At 06:31 AM 12/2/2004, Elizabeth R. DeSombre wrote:
One of my seminar
students is in a kind of time crunch for some
comparative measure of public (i.e. citizen) support for
environmentalism
across mostly industrialized states but with the big developing states
(Mexico, India, China, maybe Brazil) included too.  Given time
constraints, we're hoping there's something -- public opinion?
membership
in enviro orgs? -- that someone has already collected measured
comparatively across states, even if it's rough.  Anyone have any quick
ideas and pointers to the location of such info?
  
Thanks,
  
Beth DeSombre
Wellesley College
  
P.S.  If any comparative politics people have suggestions for
measurements
of how "bureaucratic" a country's government is -- same thing (we'd want
to compare across the same range of states), I'd love to hear about that
too. 
 
Ben Cashore

Associate Professor, Environmental Governance and Sustainable Forest
Policy & Director, Program on Forest Certification
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 230
Prospect Street, Room 206, New Haven, CT 06511-2104
203 432-3009 (w); 203 464-3977 (cell); 203 432-0026 (fax);
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During research leave (August 2004 through July
2005): Visiting Fellow, School of Resources, Environment & Society
Australian National University, Canberra  ACT  0200 Australia, Room no.
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environment and elections

[Susi Moser]

Barb -
this may seem tangential to you, but I think this would be interesting
for your student to look at: namely, a comparison of issues that matter
to voters in informing/deciding their vote. So, looking for example at
studies that examine how important the environment is to people -
something that has changed considerably since Nixon (then it was a new
important issue, now being environmental is more like part of good
character, and overt anti-environmentalism is more influential on
people's electoral decisions than pro-environmentalism). So, people like
Willett Kempton and many others have looked at this (key word:
"environmental concern")
The person that I know who has most directly looked at environmental
concern and elections in the US is Deborah Lynn Guber at UVM. She has a
book out on it (can't recall the title at the moment, but came out about
last year), and also several articles and chapters. Her CV and refs are
online at the UVM faculty webpages.
Hope that helps,
Susi
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looking for an expert on climate contrarians

[Susi Moser]

Hi everyone -
I am looking for someone who has studied or is otherwise well familiar 
with the US (mainly) climate contrarian scene (formerly known as 
Skeptics, but I'm not sure that's a good descriptor). Someone who knows 
their tactics (especially their communication strategies), has observed 
them change over time, knows the key players and their funding sources, 
someone who has thought about what impact climate contrarians have had 
on the public discourse about climate change (re: science, 
solutions), and - ideally - someone who has thought about better 
ways of dealing with them than we seem to have managed so far.

I'm not just looking for writings on that (though that will be useful 
too. I'm looking for someone - maybe you, maybe someone you know - who 
could write a very short chapter for a book that is all about 
communicating climate change.

Please send suggestions to Susi Moser, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If you are 
interested, I can tell you more about the project.

MANY THANKS - as ever - for the great help from people on this list.
Best, Susi
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science policy job on the Hill

[Susi Moser]

FYI in case you know anyone who might be interested - Susi
The job posting follows:
*Legislative Assistant Position (Science)*
Congressman Ehlers is seeking candidates for a Legislative Assistant to
handle Science Committee issues in his personal office. The person
would be responsible for advising the Congressman and developing policy
on all scientific issues that are before Congress. In addition, the
person would be responsible for staying abreast of developments in the
different fields of science and briefing the Congressman on new issues
or discoveries relevant to federal policy, working with the various
scientific organizations on policy and scientific issues, and
representing the Congressman’s views to the scientific community. The
qualifications for the position include: A PhD is required; background
in science policy; strong writing, communication, and networking skills;
ability to keep abreast of research in different fields of science;
knowledge of PowerPoint; and experience in the federal legislative process.

Please e-mail resume and CV (as appropriate) to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ,
with the subject “Ehlers Science Position”. No phone calls or faxes please.
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Environmental and Societal Impacts Group
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O.Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Tel.: 303.497.8132
Fax.: 303.497.8125
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
- Martin Luther King Jr., "The Trumpet of Conscience", 1967
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