May 27th, 2008
As part of the ISA compendium project (see http://www.isanet.org/compendium/) I am conducting a study to examine
syllabi in the field of global environmental politics at colleges and universities. This study will make an important contribution to our understanding of how we teach and what we teach in this field. All syllabi will be kept confidential and anonymous. Data collected will be presented in the aggregate. If you would be willing to have your syllabus included in this study, please click this link, read the informed consent form, and signal your agreement to participate; and Email the syllabi to: krogers [AT] @fielding.edu.
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May 23rd, 2008
Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association, Newsletter, May 2008
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Editors: Richard Matthew and Bryan McDonald, University of California, Irvine
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The ESS Newsletter can also be found at: http://environmental-studies.org. The next edition will be September 2008. We tend to follow a Winter, Spring and Fall schedule.
The ESS newsletter is based at the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs at the University of California, Irvine (www.cusa.uci.edu) and co-edited by Richard Matthew and Bryan McDonald. Please send publication information, announcements, calls for papers, job announcements, job and address changes, email information, queries, etc. for inclusion in the next newsletter to cusa [AT] uci.edu.
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May 12th, 2008
The ESS section is one of the first ISA sections to convene a Working Group. The Working Group will be meeting 3 times during the conference: a half-day workshop on the day prior to panel sessions, in the middle of the conference (sometime Monday), and at the end of the conference for a wrap up session (possibly for breakfast on Wednesday). It will include 4 grad students, 6 assistant professors, and 2 associate professors + 8 non-funded participants at any level. Funding is set at $130 - so this would not pay for your trip to ISA.
At this point we need to select a workshop topic and Working Group theme. The ISA coordinator suggests: “This might involve ‘how to teach X’ (since nearly all section members teach in the subfield, this can be a unifying theme.) The topic might also involve discussion of the state of the field (perhaps drawing on the Compendium project). Ultimately this is up to the Group Coordinator to craft, seeking a topic that will broadly engage the participating section members.”
Marcus Schaper is serving as the ESS Group Coordinator, so please submit your suggestions for Working Group themes via the contact form by 6/15.
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April 25th, 2008
We are currently soliciting information for the next edition (Spring 2008) of the ESS newsletter. We welcome submissions about section news, publications, websites, job and funding opportunities, announcements and upcoming conferences and meetings.
Please send your items by email to cusa [AT] uci.edu by Friday, May 2, 2008.
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April 7th, 2008
The Harold and Margaret Sprout Award was established in 1972 and named in honor of two pioneers in the study of international environmental problems. The award is given annually to the best book in the field - one that makes a contribution to theory and interdisciplinarity, shows rigor and coherence in research and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance. This year’s winner is:
David Humphreys: Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance (Earthscan, 2006). http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=1117
The Graduate Student Paper prize this year (for a paper from last year’s conference) goes to: Graeme Auld (Yale University), “The Origins and Growth of Social and Environmental Certification in the Coffee Sector.”
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April 7th, 2008
Minutes of the Environmental Studies Section Business Meeting International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA March 28, 2008 Henrik Selin, Boston University Agenda 1. Elections 2. Working Group Pilot Project 3. Compendium Update 4. Report from Section Program Chair 5. Governing Council Update 6. Conference Greening Proposal 7. New Business 8. Election Results
1. Elections
Candidates for the Executive Committee, Nomination Committee and Sprout Award Committee were introduced by Michele Betsill. Election ballots were distributed and collected.
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