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Im looking for recommendations of good environment and development texts, ideally aimed at a senior undergraduate/graduate population. Books written from a political economy perspective are ideal. Thanks in advance. Please send replies directly to me pjag...@indiana.edu and Ill compile and post responses.
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Colleagues: Nils Petter Gleditsch asked me to post this conference announcement to the list. It is for a conference on climate change and security, to be held in Trondheim, Norway, on 21–24 June 2010. The call for papers is now open, and ends on August 31. For more information, see the conference homepage at www.dknvs.no/climsec Queries may be e-mailed to the organizing committee at clim...@dknvs.no...Ken Conca *** Call for papers on climate change and security *** A conference on ‘Climate change and security’ is being organized for the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary. The conference will take place 21–24 June 2010 in Trondheim, Norway. The purpose of this conference is to examine the broad security implications of climate change. For the last few years, the debate about climate change has increasingly focused on the social implications, including the implications for security and peace. But as yet there is little academic work in this area. While the science of climate change is well established on the basis of peer-reviewed publications, the literature on the security implications remains more speculative. We aim to move this field forward with the joint efforts of scholars from multiple fields. Over four days, morning plenary sessions will feature keynote addresses by established names in the field. The afternoon sessions will consist of workshops with research papers selected on the basis of an open call. The first day will present the scientific basis for climate change. A major emphasis will be on the physical effects of climate change, but with particular reference to those effects that are likely to have social consequences, such as droughts, floods, and sea-level rise. The second day will deal with the economic effects of climate change – its negative and positive economic effects, as well as policies designed to respond to climate change. The third day will examine the implications of climate change for violent armed conflict of different kinds (interstate war, civil war, non-state group conflict, genocide and politicide). The fourth day will focus on security in a wider sense of the word, reviewing a wide range of consequences of climate change for human livelihoods, as well the insecurity of climate predictions, and subjective insecurity in facing the future as revealed by attitude surveys. Following the conference, we hope to gather some of the best papers in a special issue of a relevant journal or an edited volume with an academic publisher. The conference webpage is found at www.dknvs.no/climsec. You can also go directly to the Call for papers at http://climsec.prio.no/paper_submission.aspx. The Call ends on 31 August 2009. The organizing committee for the conference consists of Nils Petter Gleditsch, Ola Listhaug & Ragnar Torvik, professor of political science and economics respectively at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
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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
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Hi all, I'm writing a paper about opposition within the EU to export of spent nuclear fuel to Russia or elsewhere outside the EU. I'm framing the paper as a study of (some of) the conditions under which domestic concerns about the commission of global environmental injustices abroad might cause countries to forbear otherwise advantageous exports of environmental hazards, even if the prospective importers are ready and willing. Thus far, I have found no studies in the academic literature that bear directly on this question. All of the studies of global environmental justice that I have seen have been (a) normative, (b) studies of the practices that lead to the export of hazards, (c) studies of the reasons why potential importers might agree to participate, or (d) studies of efforts by potential importers to stop such practices. Missing (as far as I can tell) are studies of the circumstances under which potential EXPORTERS might voluntarily change their own practices in response to INTERNAL criticism. Have any of you written about this, or do you know of anyone who has? Many thanks, Rob Darst Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Hi all, I have a researcher who is looking at China in the post-Kyoto talks. The main argument is that two discourses play in the debate about China: 1. China as a developing nation (UNDP and WB approach) and 2. China as a large and swiftly industrializing state with potentially very large emissions. China and other actors use these discourses in different forums, for different audiences and for different strategic goals. My question is: do you know of any articles that explain the use of discourses and discourse analysis in light of this issue. It is surprisingly difficult to find a text that really explains the 'how to make use of discourse analysis' in this type of questions. Most things I have seen just start from the assumption that the disourse is there, that one has looked at it, and ... here are the conclusions. A more methodological approach to the use of discourse analysis in GEP seems less easy to find. Or have I just not looked in the right spot? Friendly greetings, Hans Bruyninckx Associate Professor of International Environmental Politics Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University
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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); www.yale.edu/environment/cashore; www.yale.edu/forestcertification, www.governingthroughmarkets.com During research leave (August 2004 through July 2005): Visiting Fellow, School of Resources, Environment & Society Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia, Room no. 121; Tel: +61 (0)2 6125 4533; Fax: +61 (0)2 6125 0746
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All, I am writing a piece on international environmental law and was wondering whether anyone could tell me of articles (including your own) that examine whether democratic states are more likely to comply with environmental treaties. The claim I want to support and elaborate on is: "Some recent literature has begun to examine whether the long-standing argument that democratic states do not fight wars with each other applies, appropriately modified, to whether democratic states are more likely to comply with international agreements than other states." Thanks, Ron --- Please note new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ronald Mitchell, Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284 Tel: 541-346-4880; Fax: 541-346-4860 http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel
