Radoslav's 10 December 2009 report from Copenhagen

2009-12-17 Thread 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

Duke Environmental Leadership Position

2009-11-29 Thread 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

Last Call For Sprout Award Nominations

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Maniates
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

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

2009-11-11 Thread 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

Job Announcement: Case Western Reserve University

2009-09-01 Thread 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

Fwd: Looking for faculty in Environment Development at ATREE

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Maniates
Dear Colleagues, And here's an announcement for research/faculty positions in Bangalore, India. Yours, Mike Maniates -- Forwarded message -- From: Sharachchandra Lele sl...@atree.org Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM Subject: Looking for faculty in Environment Development at

Re: Ongoing issue -- responding to 'skeptics'

2009-07-02 Thread 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

[no subject]

2009-05-22 Thread 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

ISA 2010 panel on comparative regional environmental governance

2009-05-22 Thread 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

Consumption piece worth a look

2009-03-27 Thread 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

Hysterical Housewives?

2009-03-27 Thread 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

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

2009-01-07 Thread 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

A Refresher on Gep-Ed Norms

2008-09-04 Thread 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

Libertarian Perspectives?

2008-08-02 Thread Michael Maniates
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

Re: Crichton's State of Fear

2008-07-20 Thread 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

Re: Crichton's State of Fear

2008-07-20 Thread Michael Maniates
] Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/glep From: Michael Maniates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:55:51 -0400 To: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Subject: Re

Fwd: Enviro Studies list serv.

2008-05-22 Thread 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

Turning Numbers Into Knowledge, Second Edition

2008-04-25 Thread Michael Maniates
/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

Re: Water governance and multi-level governance

2008-04-15 Thread 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=2tid=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

R2P: Responsibility to Protect

2008-03-04 Thread 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

Posting to Gep-ed

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Maniates
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

Annie Leonard's Story of Stuff

2007-12-04 Thread 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

2007-10-31 Thread Michael Maniates
Sorry for the intrusion...just checking out a new feature of the list. Yours, MM

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

2007-10-24 Thread Michael Maniates
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

problems with gep-ed list

2007-09-30 Thread 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

Re: Article on aboriginal ecotourism in Taiwan - politics and environment

2007-09-26 Thread 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:

Re: International sources of US domestic climate policy

2007-09-11 Thread 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

Re: question about showing film in class

2007-08-02 Thread 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,

Re: Community-based management of coral reef resources

2007-03-12 Thread 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

Fwd: best article I have read on climate change

2007-02-21 Thread 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

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

2007-02-20 Thread 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

Two Items

2007-01-26 Thread 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

Fwd: GEP-Ed message

2006-12-21 Thread 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

2007-08 One Year Position Open at Allegheny

2006-12-04 Thread Michael Maniates
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

New book!

2006-11-08 Thread 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

book announcement

2006-10-12 Thread 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

Fwd:get student help on your sustainability projects

2006-10-09 Thread Michael Maniates
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NEES-L]: get student help on your sustainability projects Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:27:56 -0400 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: get student help on your

Ahoy: Seeking an Interport Lecturer for Mauritius

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Maniates
://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

Save This: gep-ed archive

2006-06-02 Thread Michael Maniates
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

Re: Food issues

2006-05-09 Thread 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.

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

2006-05-09 Thread 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

Fwd: Visiting Assistant Professor - Georgetown U

2006-04-05 Thread 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

one-year position at Allegheny College

2006-03-21 Thread Michael Maniates
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

Fwd: death of environmentalism

2006-03-09 Thread 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

Death of Environmentalism (more)

2006-03-09 Thread 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: Pacific Institute's new Integrity of Science Initiative, and blog

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Maniates
For your info. Cheers, MM X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.5.6 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 blog X-PMX-Version: 5.1.2.240295,

Re: Commons Game?

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Maniates
Jane, You'll find several messages in the list archive that will probably help you. Get to the list archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html#g (scroll down until you find gep-ed). Then, in the search box, type common AND game (without the quotes -- other word combinations might work

Ahoy: Spring '07 Faculty Opportunity

2006-01-27 Thread 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

More on Ahoy: Spring '07 Faculty Opportunity

2006-01-27 Thread Michael Maniates
, 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

The Fix is In

2005-12-06 Thread 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,

Re: Request for ENGO bibliography

2005-11-07 Thread 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

RE: environmental participation

2005-05-17 Thread 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

Externalized costs of gasoline

2005-03-10 Thread 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

gep-ed archive is acting up

2005-03-09 Thread 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

Re: scientists perceptions of speaking out in public

2005-02-14 Thread Michael Maniates
, 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

Fwd: Paths to a Green World

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Maniates
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