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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 2010. 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 @ uci.edu.

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CONTENTS

1. ESS SECTION NEWS
2. NEW PUBLICATIONS
• 2.1. BOOKS
• 2.2. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
• 2.3. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
3. ON THE WEB
4. CAREER RESOURCES
5. ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SECTION NEWS
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ESS Election Results
I’ve been asked what the election results at the Environmental Studies Section business meeting were. Here they are. Thanks to all who have shown their willingness to serve! and we will be recruiting again in another 9 months time or so for the next round of officers. Here are those who have been elected to serve. Updated committee memberships will be made available on the ISA website.
Best, Miranda Schreurs

Vice Chair (2 year term)
Pamela Chasek, Associate Professor of Government and Director of the International Studies Program, Manhattan College in New York City.
Executive Committee Members (2 year terms)
Norichika Kanie is associate professor at the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and visiting associate professor of the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies.
Lorraine Elliott is Senior Fellow in International Relations at the Australian National University where she researches and teaches global and regional (Asia Pacific) environmental politics.
Barbara Connolly earned her PhD in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley and is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
Nomination Committee Members (2 year terms)
Heike Schroeder is a Tyndall Senior Research Fellow and a James Martin 21st Century School Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Jeannie Sowers is an assistant professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Dubai Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Sprout Award Committee Members (2 year terms)
Paul G. Harris is Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, where he is Head of the Department of Social Sciences, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Governance and Citizenship, and a member of the Department of Science and Environmental Studies.
Jörg Balsiger is Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Environmental Decisions and the University of Geneva’s Department of Geography, and was previously a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.

2010 Sprout Award Winner and Call for Nominations for 2011 Award

For those who were not able to attend the ISA in New Orleans, the Sprout Committee awarded D.G Webster the 2010 Harald and Margaret Sprout Award for her book, Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management (Cambridge: MIT Press). Many congratulations to D.G.!
For those wanting a description of the book or more info on the Sprout Award keep reading. But first a quick reminder to all that the Sprout Award Committee will soon be soliciting nominations for next year’s Sprout Award and publishers will have to send in copies of the book for consideration.
D.G. Webster`s Adaptive Governance. Book description (taken from Amazon):
The rapid expansion of the fishing industry in the last century has raised major concerns over the longterm viability of many fish species. International fisheries organizations have failed to prevent the overfishing of many stocks but succeeded in curtailing harvests for some key fisheries. In Adaptive Governance, D. G. Webster proposes a new perspective to improve our understanding of both success and failure in international resource regimes. She develops a theoretical approach, the vulnerability response framework, which can increase understanding of countries’ positions on the management of international fisheries based on linkages between domestic vulnerabilities and national policy positions. Vulnerability, mainly economic in this context, acts as an indicator for domestic susceptibility to the increasing competition associated with open access and related stock declines. Because of this relationship, vulnerability can also be used to trace the trajectory of nations’ positions on fisheries management as they seek political alternatives to economic problems.
Webster tests this framework by using it to predict national positions for eight cases drawn from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). These studies reveal that there is considerable variance in the management measures ICCAT has adopted—both between different species and in dealing with the same species over time—and that much of this variance can be traced to vulnerability response behavior.
Little attention has been paid to the ways in which international regimes change over time. Webster’s innovative approach illuminates the pressures for change that are generated by economic competition and overexploitation in Atlantic fisheries. Her work also identifies patterns of adaptive governance, as national responses to such pressures culminate in patterns of change in international management.

**Harold and Margaret Sprout Award**

ISA‐ESS members and others who know of books, or have published books of their own, that they wish to see nominated for the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award are encouraged to contact publishers as soon as possible.
The award is sponsored by the Environmental Studies Section (ESS) of the International Studies Association (ISA), and is given to the best book in the field, one that makes a contribution to theory and interdisciplinarity, shows rigor and coherence in research and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance. Nominated books should address some aspect of one or more environmental, pollution or resource issues from a broadly international or transnational perspective, including works in (for example) global, interstate, transboundary, North‐South, foreign policy, comparative or area studies. Environmental subjects of books can include (for example) environmental law, diplomacy, transnational activism, natural resource use, global change, sustainable development, biodiversity, transboundary pollution control, and the like.
Nominated works must be published during 2009 or 2010. Books with a 2011 copyright date are welcome provided the committee members receive them in time. Each publisher may nominate more than one book, and books nominated last year can be re‐nominated. The committee members will begin reading the books as soon as they arrive. The committee must complete its review and reach its decision in November 2010. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the ISA in Montreal in March 2011. Therefore, we need to RECEIVE notice of nominations and receive copies of nominated books by 1 August 2010.
Publishers wishing to nominate books should send one copy of each book to EACH member of the Sprout Award Committee. The names and addresses of committee members are listed below.

Steinar Andresen
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
P.O. Box 326
1326 Lysaker
NORWAY

Jörg Balsiger
Institute for Environmental Decisions
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Universitätsstrasse 22, CHN K78
8092 Zurich
SWITZERLAND

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

Paul Harris,
Department of Social Sciences
Hong Kong Institute of Education
10 Lo Ping Road
Tai Po, Hong Kong
CHINA

Matthew J. Hoffmann
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
CANADA

Nominations for Best Graduate Student Papers at the ISA

Nominations are requested for best graduate student paper award for papers presented at the 2010 ISA annual convention in New Orleans. Panel chairs and discussant and paper presenters please make nominations!
Graduate students may nominate their own papers as well.
At this year’s ISA ESS business section meeting a motion was passed not to allow graduate student papers that have been co‐authored with professors to be nominated for best graduate student paper. The idea behind this is to promote graduate students and while co‐authorship with professors is certainly part of the profession, the general feeling is that graduate students need to shine on their own to win the award.
No best graduate student paper award was made in New Orleans this time.
We hope that this will not be the case at the next ISA in Montreal, Canada (March 16‐19, 2011). Hope to see many of you there!

Best wishes,
Miranda Schreurs

Want To Join The Conference Greening Committee?

ISA headquarters has asked the Environmental Studies Section to take the lead in making recommendations to the organization for how to run a greener ISA conference. Although we can certainly consider radical options, we will also include recommendations for ways that standard ISA operations can be made more environmentally friendly. If you’re interested in serving on this committee, please contact Beth DeSombre, edesombr @ wellesley . edu

UPCOMING ISA CONFERENCES

International Studies Association, 2011 Annual Convention, March 16‐19, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.isanet.org/montreal2011/

Call for Papers
International Studies Association
52nd Annual Convention
Montréal, Québec, Canada
March 16‐19, 2011
David A. Lake, President
Matthew A. Baum, Program Co‐Chair
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Program Co‐Chair

Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition
The nation‐state is generally regarded as inadequate to cope with the expanding global problems of the 21st century. Global climate change, international economic crises, transnational terrorism and crime, nuclear proliferation, and more all challenge the capabilities of states individually and collectively. Nation states are also challenged from below by secessionist and other sub‐national movements and from above by global civil society. In response to these competing pressures, political authority has begun to flow upwards to supranational or multilateral bodies, downwards to regional and local governments, and sideways to private actors – both within nations and transnationally ‐‐ who assume previously public responsibilities. Governance is no longer the exclusive preserve of sovereign states, if it ever was. But neither is it moving uniformly in a single direction.
Despite growing interest in problems of global governance and decades of research, at least four key questions still lack clear answers:
Where is political authority moving? With a constantly shifting terrain, we do not yet have a good map of the present structure of global governance. If authority is no longer located in sovereign states, where is it going? Has it relocated to other sites or just evaporated, leaving a less well governed world?
Why is authority moving? Although functionalism and related explanations would appear to offer easy answers, they fail to account for why authority appears to be moving in different directions in seemingly similar issue areas. In the highly globalized area of international finance, where the near instantaneous global flow of information facilitates highly complex financial transactions that occur at far too swift a pace and large a scale for governments to effectively monitor or regulate, there has been relatively little expansion of supranational authority, with most cooperation occurring within transnational and transgovernmental networks. Yet, the WTO has begun to acquire real authority over international trade through its dispute settlement procedures. What accounts for these differences?
Is global governance good? Even as more global governance is demanded to deal with global challenges, there is an inherent tradeoff between all forms of authority and personal autonomy. Has the movement of authority away from the state diminished the sum of authority exercised over individuals, thereby increasing the realm of personal autonomy, or actually expanded, leaving us as individuals less autonomous than before? How would we know? Any individual with a cell phone can communicate instantly with like‐minded individuals or social movements around the world. Yet by sending such messages the individual grants government a previously unavailable window into his or her preferences and intentions. Equally, to the extent that institutions of democratic accountability have emerged to limit abuses of authority within states, how can the myriad forms and sites of global governance be rendered similarly accountable?
How can global governance be improved and reformed? Lacking any central vision or architect, global governance is the product of a complex set of individual, group, and national relationships. It would be surprising indeed if the current patchwork quilt of multiple overlapping and competing authorities were somehow optimal. The compelling global problems of the 21st century clearly imply that the current system is deeply flawed. Nearly all global governance institutions suffer from problems of legitimacy and accountability. What reforms are necessary? Which are practicable?
We invite proposals for papers and panels that address these and other issues related to the problems of global governance in the 21st century. We especially welcome proposals that bridge different theoretical, epistemological and ontological divides within international studies to address common substantive problems.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS IS JUNE 1, 2010

All proposals should be submitted online using the MyISA Conference Management System at http://isanet.ccit.arizona.edu/MyISA

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2. NEW PUBLICATIONS
2.1. BOOKS
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Biermann, Frank, Philipp Pattberg, and Fariboz Zelli, eds. 2010. Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012: Architecture, Agency and Adaptation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521190114

Bulkeley, Harriet., Peter Newell. 2010. Governing Climate Change. London / New York: Routledge. 2010.

Conca, Ken and Geoffrey Dabelko. Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics, Fouth Edition. Westview Press, 2010. More information at: http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/westview/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0813344115

Dessler, Andrew E. and Edward A. Parson. The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: a guide to the debate ‐ Second Edition (March 2010), Cambridge University Press.

Harris, Paul G. World Ethics and Climate Change: From International to Global Justice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/0‐7486‐3910‐1

Kluvánková‐Oravská, Tatiana (editor). 2010. From Government to Governance? New Governance for Water and Biodiversity in Enlarged EU. Prague: Alfa Nakladatelství.

Lesage, Dries, Thijs Van de Graaf and Kirsten Westphal. Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World. Aldershot: Ashgate, April 2010. More information: www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754677239

Matthew, Richard A., Jon Barnett, Bryan McDonald and Karen O’Brien (eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009. More information at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11921

Mittelman, James H.. Hyperconflict: Globalization and Insecurity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=17531

Oberthür , Sebastian and Marc Pallemaerts (eds.), The New Climate Policies of the European Union: Internal Legislation and Climate Diplomacy, Brussels: VUBPress, 2010.

Park, S., 2010, The World Bank Group and Environmentalists: Changing International Organisation Identities. London: Manchester University Press.

Tomlinson , Bill. Greening through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, May 2010. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12058

Wapner , Paul. Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, March 2010. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12061

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Auer, Matthew R. 2010. “Communication and Competition in Environmental Studies,” Policy Sciences, (Vol. 43, forthcoming; published online at http://www.springerlink.com/content/3856206k9748083l/fulltext.pdf).

Auer, Matthew R. 2010. “Better Science and Worse Diplomacy: Negotiating the Cleanup of the Swedish and Finnish Pulp and Paper Industry,” International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics, Vol. 10, No. 1: 65‐84.

Bättig, Michèle B. and Thomas Bernauer. 2009. National Institutions and Global Public Goods: Are Democracies More Cooperative in Climate Change Policy? International Organization 63/2, 2009:281‐308. Supporting materials for this article are available at http://www.ib.ethz.ch/research.

Bernauer , Thomas and Patrick Kuhn. 2010. Is There an Environmental Version of the Kantian Peace? Insights From Water Pollution in Europe (co‐authored with Patrick Kuhn). European Journal of International Relations 16/1:77‐102, DOI: 10.1177/1354066109344662. Supporting materials for this article are available at http://www.ib.ethz.ch/research).

Bernauer, Thomas and Vally Koubi. 2009. Effects of Political Institutions on Air Quality. Ecological Economics 68/5:1355‐1365.
Büscher, Bram (2010). Seeking Telos in the ‘Transfrontier’: Neoliberalism and the Transcending of Community Conservation in Southern Africa. Environment and Planning A 42, 3: 644‐660.

Büscher, Bram (2010). Derivative Nature: Interrogating the Value of Conservation in ‘Boundless Southern Africa’. Third World Quarterly 31, 2: 259‐276.

Büscher, Bram. (2010). Anti‐Politics as Political Strategy: Neoliberalism and Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa. Development and Change 41, 1: 29‐51

Dalby, Simon. “Environmental Security and Climate Change” in Robert A. Denemark (ed.) International Studies Online / International Studies Encyclopedia Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. www.isacompendium.com

Harris, Paul G. “The U.S. and International Environmental Politics.” In The International Studies Encyclopedia, edited by Robert A. Denemark et al. London: Blackwell, 2010. (NB: This is simultaneously published in ISA’s International Studies Encyclopedia Online.)

Ivanova, Maria. “UNEP in Global Environmental Governance: Design, Leadership, Location,” in Global Environmental Politics, 2010, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp.30‐59.
Keith, David W., Edward A. Parson, and M. Granger Morgan, “Research on global sunblock needed now”, Nature 463, 426‐427 (28 January 2010).

Torney, Diarmuid and Annika Greup, eds. 2010. “New Directions in Climate Change Politics,” special issue of St Antony’s International Review (STAIR) (vol. 5, no. 2, February 2010). Features contributions from Robert O. Keohane, Jonathan Gaventa, Michael MacLeod, Frances C. Moore, Anne Hammill & Richard Matthew, David Benson & Andrew Jordan, and Christopher W. Boerl. Available at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/stair/stair/2010/00000005/00000002

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Ivanova, Maria. Global Environmental Governance in the 21st Century: Way Ahead Wide Open. Report from the Global Environmental Governance Forum, June 28‐July 2, 2009, Glion, Switzerland. Published by the Global Environmental Governance Project. Available at www.environmentalgovernance.org/forum

Environmental Change and Security Program. Environmental Change and Security Program Report 13. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1413&fuseaction=topics.publications&group_id=495595

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CLIMATE LAW & POLICY SEEKING GUEST BLOGGERS
The blog Teaching Climate Law & Policy, www.teachingclimatelaw.org, is seeking guest bloggers for regular or episodic contributions; if you’re interested in contributing, please contact Wil Burns at: wburns@scu.edu

CLIMATE INC.
Climate Inc. is devoted to the discussion of business and climate change. Climate Inc. will bring together the views of academics, business managers, policymakers, journalists, professionals, and other thought leaders on climate change. Climate Inc. is being launched in parallel with the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, College of Management. Professor David Levy, the editor of Climate Inc. and the director of SERC, has been researching and writing about climate change and business for over twelve years. http://climateinc.org/

THE NEW SECURITY BEAT
The New Security Beat Blog Identifies Today’s New Security Threats. Security is much more than fighting terrorism or weapons of mass destruction. The New Security Beat, ECSP’s blog, provides frequent commentary on the latest news, reports, and resources on the crucial connections among population, environment, and security. Contributors include ECSP staff members, as well as guest commentators such as Major Shannon Beebe (USA) and Department of Defense Policy Planning Consultant Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba. The New Security Beat also features an original podcast series with Wilson Center speakers, such as UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot; retired colonel Dr. Kent Hughes Butts on environmental security; and lead author of UNFPA’s State of World Population 2007 report George Martine on urbanization. http://www.newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/

CUSA 2010 SUSTAINABILITY SEMINAR SERIES VIDEOS
To help foster dialogue between social and natural scientists on the challenges of sustainability in the 21st century, the Center for Unconventional Security will convene a seminar series to bring a select group of scholars, researchers, experts, and business leaders to UC, Irvine to present a variety of perspectives on choices and challenges related to sustainability. Videos

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You can find an array of career resources on the Environmental Studies section website at: http://environmental-studies.org/?page_id=82

VISITING INSTRUCTOR POSITION IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY
The Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University is looking for a candidate who can teach courses in environmental economics and environmental policy for masters’ students completing professional degrees in Environmental Management or Forestry. The candidate should be able to teach a master’s level environmental and resource economics course and an undergraduate or master’s level environmental policy course. Preference will be given to candidates who can also teach more advanced environmental economics courses, particularly with a focus on valuation methods or energy economics. Candidates should have a Ph.D.
(or expected) in Public Policy or Environmental Studies with significant training and experience in economics or in Agricultural/Resource Economics or Economics with significant training and experience in environmental policy. The Instructor Position is for 2 years with the possibility of a 1‐year extension. Please send CV and statement of interest to Laura Turcotte at: ljturco@duke.edu. For more information on the Nicholas School, see: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/

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CALL FOR PAPERS: THE JOURNAL STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The journal Strategic Behavior and the Environment (http://www.SBEjournal.com), published by now publishers (http://www.nowpublishers.com/) provides a platform for various disciplines that jointly contribute to our understanding of strategic behavior in design and implementation of environmental policies. Scholars in economics (including experimental economics, political economy, and game theory), political science, international relations, negotiation, and other relevant disciplines, are invited to submit manuscripts for publication consideration, following a peer‐review process. Submit a manuscript (following instructions on the journal website) for publication consideration to Prof. Ariel Dinar, Water Science and Policy Center, University of California, Riverside, USA (adinar@ucr.edu).

SUMMER INSTITUTE: “CONTEMPLATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES”
Summer Institute: “Contemplative Environmental Studies: Pedagogy for Self and Planet,” August 1‐6, Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, New Mexico (Open to professors, advanced PhD students). The Institute explores the relationship between one’s inner growth and environmental political engagement. Faculty include: Paul Wapner (American University), Matthew Jelacic (University of Colorado), Richard Falk (Princeton and UC, Santa Barbara), David Abram (author of Spell of the Sensuous), and Nicole Salimbene (artist). More information can be found at: http://www.acmhe.org/ces.html

2ND YALE/UNITAR GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY
The 2nd Yale/UNITAR Global Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy will take place at Yale University, New Haven, USA from 17‐19 September 2010 in the margins of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal Summit, 20‐22 September, New York. Focusing on the theme of Strengthening Institutions to Address Climate Change and Advance a Green Economy, the event will take stock of and examine the role of institutional structures and decision‐making procedures in fostering (or impeding) low carbon and climate resilient development. Papers and discussions will cover various levels of governance (i.e. global, transnational, national, sub‐national, and local) as well as specialized governance topics, including governance of climate change science, financing and forestry. Anticipated outcomes of the conference include a research agenda and enhanced knowledge sharing to better understand the openness, transparency, accountability and effectiveness of institutions engaged in action to address climate change. Scholars and experts are invited to submit abstracts for proposed papers by 15 May 2010. Those wishing to attend as participants must express an interest by 15 June 2010. Information about the application process is available at http://www.unitar.org/egp.

HEXAGON SERIES ON HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY AND PEACE
To be published in 2010
HESP Vol. 5: Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Patricia Kameri‐ Mbote, Béchir Chourou, Pal Dunay, Jörn Birkmann (Eds.): Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security – Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 5 ( Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer‐Verlag, 2010), in press.
HESP Vol. 6: ThanhDam Truong, Des Gapter (Eds.): Transnational Migration: The Migration ‐ Development – Security Nexus. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 6 ( Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer‐Verlag, 2010), in production .
HESP Vol. 7: Úrsula Oswald Spring (Ed.): Water Resources in Mexico. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 7 (Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer‐Verlag, 2010), in preparation.
To be published in 2011
HESP Vol. 8: Scheffran, Jürgen; Brzoska, Michael; Brauch, Hans Günter; Link, Peter Michael; Schilling, Janpeter (Eds.): Climate Change,Human Security and Violent Conflict: Challenges for Societal Stability. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 8 Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer‐Verlag, 2011), in planning.
HESP Vol. 9: Czeslaw Mesjasz: Stability, Turbulence or Chaos? Systems Thinking and Theory and Policy of Security. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 9 (Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer‐Verlag, 2011), in planning.

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 @ uci . edu by Monday, April 19, 2010

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.

Nomination Committee Members (2 year terms. Terms expire 2012)
Heike Schroeder, Tyndall Senior Research Fellow and a James Martin 21st Century School Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Jeannie Sowers, Assistant professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Dubai Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Sprout Award Committee Members (2 year terms. Terms expire 2012).
Paul G. Harris, Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, where he is Head of the Department of Social Sciences, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Governance and Citizenship, and a member of the Department of Science and Environmental Studies.
Jörg Balsiger, Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Environmental Decisions and the University of Geneva’s Department of Geography, and was previously a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.

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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 April 2010. 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 @ uci.edu.

Please paste email addresses and websites listed in this newsletter into your email client or browser as they have not been formatted as hyperlinks.

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CONTENTS

1. ESS SECTION NEWS
2. NEW PUBLICATIONS
• 2.1. BOOKS
• 2.2. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
• 2.3. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
3. ON THE WEB
4. CAREER RESOURCES
5. ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SECTION NEWS
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NOTES FROM THE SECTION CHAIR

Dear all,

The New Orleans International Studies Association “Theory versus Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners” meeting is quickly coming upon us (February 17-20). While I know the ISA has sent out reminders, be sure to register in time! We have an ESS reception scheduled for Friday evening and are happy to once again have sponsorship from both Ashgate Publishing and MIT Press for the event. The ESS Business Meeting will also be held on Friday from 12:30 – 1:30 pm. Also see section 6 for a listing of the environmental or predominantly environmental.

Best wishes,

Miranda Schreurs

NOMINATIONS FOR SECTION OFFICES (NOTE: DUE FEBRUARY 10)

The Nominations Committee of the Environmental Studies Section invites nominations for a number of Section Offices. Self-nominations are welcome. Please ensure that the person you are nominating is willing to stand for election and do provide us with her/his professional affiliation and full contact information. The Committee will contact the nominated colleagues to request short biographical sketches (100-150 words). Send nominations to any of the current members of the Nominations Committee by February 10, 2010:

• Erika Weinthal – weinthal @ duke.edu
• Frank Biermann – frank.biermann @i vm.vu.nl
• Downie, David – ddownie @ fairfield.edu
• Hans Bruyninckx – hans.bruyninckx @ soc.kuleuven.be

The Committee is seeking nominations for the following positions:

Vice Chair (2 year term)
• 3 Executive Committee Members (2 year terms)
• 2 Nomination Committee Members (2 year terms)
• 2 Sprout Award Committee Members (2 year terms)

ESS essays appearing in first release of the ISA Compendium
The Environmental Studies Section will be well-represented in the first release of the ISA Compendium, which will be on display at the Annual Meeting in February, with the following entries:

• Globalization and the Environment Ronnie Lipschutz and Felicia Peck
• The United States and International Environmental Politics Paul Harris
• Environment and Justice Gary Bryner
• Ocean Pollution and Fisheries Peter Jacques
• History of International Environmental Politics Dmitris Stevis
• The Politics of International Freshwater Resources Thomas Bernauer and Anna Kalbhenn
• Environment and Security Elizabeth Chalecki
• International Relations Theory and the Environment Hugh Dyer
• Environment and Sustainability/Sufficiency Jack Manno
• The Politics of Climate Change Loren Cass
• Regional Governance to Address Environmental Problems Stacy Vandeveer and Jörg Balsiger
• Teaching International Environmental Politics Katrina S. Rogers
• International Cooperation on Hazardous Wastes and Substances Henrik Selin
• EcoFeminism and Global Environmental Politics Juliann Emmons Allison
• Environmental Activism Roderigo Pinto
• Forests and Desertification Lynn Wagner and Deborah Davenport
• Transnational Corporations and the Global Environment Matthias Finger and David Svarin

Many thanks to the authors and reviewers for their work on these entries, which will help orient neophytes and remind old hands.
Other essays are being completed, and will appear in the updated Internet edition to be released in late 2010.
The authors working on the entry about Environment and Intergovernmental Organizations needed to withdraw from the project, so I am looking for someone to take on that task.

MJ Peterson
Environmental Studies Section Editor
ISA Compendium

UPCOMING ISA CONFERENCES
International Studies Association, 2010 Annual Convention, February 17-20, 2010, New Orleans.

http://www.isanet.org/neworleans2010/

ISA/ABRI Joint Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 22-24, 2009

http://www.isanet.org/rio2009/

BISA Annual Conference 2009, University of Leicester, Oadby Student Village, Monday 14 December – Wednesday 16 December 2009

http://www.bisa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=81

ISA Conventions & Conferences web page

http://www.isanet.org/conventions/

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2.1. BOOKS
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Asthana , Vandana. Water Policy Processes in India: Discourses of Power and Resistance. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2009. http://www.routledge.com/9780415778312

Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett, Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence: Deliberative Environmental Law. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11928

Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner (eds). Managers of Global Change. The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11924

Chasek, Pamela S., David L. Downie, and Janet Welsh Brown, Global Environmental Politics, 5th edition. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2009. More information at: http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/westview/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0813344425

Clapp, Jennifer and Doris Fuchs (eds). Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11806

Conca, Ken and Geoffrey Dabelko. Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics, Fouth Edition. Westview Press, 2010. More information at: http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/westview/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0813344115

Dalby, Simon. Security and Environmental Change. Cambridge: Polity, 2009. More information at: http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745642918

Harris , Paul G. World Ethics and Climate Change: From International to Global Justice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/0-7486-3910-1

Gemenne, François. Géopolitique du Changement Climatique. Paris: Armand Colin, 2009.

http://www.armand-colin.com/livre/332659/geopolitique-du-changement-climatique.php

Lesage, Dries, Thijs Van de Graaf and Kirsten Westphal. Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World. Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming April 2010. More information: www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754677239

Matthew, Richard A., Jon Barnett, Bryan McDonald and Karen O’Brien (eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009. More information at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11921

Mikler, John. Greening the Car Industry: Varieties of Capitalism and Climate Change. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2009. http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=12974

Mittelman, James H.. Hyperconflict: Globalization and Insecurity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=17531

Purkitt, Helen E. African Environmental and Human Security in the 21st Century. Cambria Press, 2009. http://www.cambriapress.com/cambriapress.cfm?template=4&bid=352

Princen, Thomas. Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009. More information at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12062

Selin, Henrik and Stacy D. VanDeveer (eds), Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and Multilevel Governance. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009. More information at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11918

Selin , Henrik. Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12170

Spring, Úrsula Oswald Spring and Hans Günter Brauch: Reconceptualizar la Seguridad en el Siglo XXI (Mexico D.F., Cuernavaca, Mexico: UNAM/CRIM/CEIICH/CCA – Mosbach, Germany: AFES-PRESS, 2009). (Eds – See announcement below for more information).

Tienhaara, Kyla. The Expropriation of Environmental Governance: Protecting Foreign Investors at the Expense of Public Policy. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Tomlinson , Bill. Greening through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, May 2010. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12058

Vig, Norman J. and Michael E. Kraft (eds.), Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century, 7th edition. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2009. More information at: http://www.cqpress.com/product/EnviroPolicy7.html

Wapner , Paul. Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, March 2010. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12061

Weibust, Inger. Green Leviathan: The Case for a Federal Role in Environmental Policy. Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 2009. More info at http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/tis/9780754677291_ROW.pdf

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2.2. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
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Harris, Paul G. “Hong Kong’s Response to Climate Change: Waiting for a Green Light from Beijing.” Hong Kong Journal, no. 16 (October 2009). http://www.hkjournal.org/archive/2009_winter/6.htm

Harris, Paul G. “Climate Change and the New China.” In Climate Change Science and Policy, edited by Armin Rosencranz, Steven H. Schneider and Michael Mastrandrea. Washington: Island Press, 2010, pp. 317-322.

Hovi, Jon, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal. 2009. “Implementing Long-Term Climate Policy: Time Inconsistency, Domestic Politics, International Anarchy.” Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):20-39.

Lempert, Robert, Jürgen Scheffran, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2009. “Methods for Long-Term Environmental Policy Challenges.” Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):106-33.

Lesage, Dries, Thijs Van de Graaf and Kirsten Westphal. 2010. G8+5 collaboration on energy efficiency and IPEEC: Shortcut to a sustainable future? Energy Policy, forthcoming.

Matthew, Richard and Anne Hammill. “Sustainable development and climate change.” International Affairs Vol. 85 No. 6 (2009): 1117-1128.

Princen, Thomas. 2009. “Long-Term Decision-Making: Biological and Psychological Evidence.” Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):9-19.

Sprinz, Detlef F. 2009. “Long-Term Environmental Policy.” special issue of Global Environmental Policy 9 (3).

Sprinz, Detlef F. 2009. “Long-Term Environmental Policy: Definition, Knowledge, Future Research.” Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):1-8.

Steinberg, Paul F. 2009. “Institutional Resilience Amid Political Change: The Case of Biodiversity Conservation.” Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):61-81.

Stone, Randall W. 2009. “Risk in International Politics.” Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):40-60.

Urpelainen, Johannes. 2009. “Explaining the Schwarzenegger Phenomenon: Local Frontrunners in Climate Policy.” Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):82-105.

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2.3. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Frank Biermann, Michele M. Betsill, Joyeeta Gupta, Norichika Kanie, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, Heike Schroeder, and Bernd Siebenhüner, with contributions from Ken Conca, Leila da Costa Ferreira, Bharat Desai, Simon Tay, and Ruben Zondervan. 2009. Earth System Governance: People, Places and the Planet. Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project. Earth System Governance Report 1, IHDP Report 20. Bonn, IHDP: The Earth System Governance Project. [online available in English and Japanese at www.earthsystemgovernance.org]

Oli Brown, Alec Crawford. Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East. IISD, 2009. http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?id=1130

Environmental Change and Security Program. Environmental Change and Security Program Report 13. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1413&fuseaction=topics.publications&group_id=495595

Anne Hammill, Alec Crawford, Robert Craig, Robert Malpas, Richard Matthew. Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Practitioners’ Manual. IISD 2009. http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?pno=1163

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3. ON THE WEB
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CLIMATE INC.
Climate Inc. is devoted to the discussion of business and climate change. Climate Inc. will bring together the views of academics, business managers, policymakers, journalists, professionals, and other thought leaders on climate change. Climate Inc. is being launched in parallel with the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, College of Management. Professor David Levy, the editor of Climate Inc. and the director of SERC, has been researching and writing about climate change and business for over twelve years. http://climateinc.org/

CLIMATE POLITICS: IR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Rodger A. Payne is now blogging on e-IR. Payne is Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. Since 1994, he has directed the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Currently, his research focuses on American foreign policy, norms limiting the use of force, and the politics of climate change. More information: http://www.e-ir.info/?cat=562/

THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE PROJECT
The Global Environmental Governance Project, a joint initiative of the College of William and Mary and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, recently produced two documentaries:
• Quest for Symphony – a 16-minute film on global environmental governance based on interviews with leading policy figures. The movie has been called the “white paper on global environmental governance in images” and provides a good introduction to some of the core policy dilemmas and current debates.
• Way Ahead Not Closed – a 30-minute video of a discussion among all five successive Executive Directors of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – Maurice Strong, Mostafa Tolba, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Klaus Toepfer, and Achim Steiner – that took place at the Global Environmental Governance Forum in Glion, Switzerland this summer. The discussion was moderated by Gus Speth, former Dean of Yale’s Environment School and former Administrator of UNDP.
Both movies can be watched online at www.environmentalgovernance.org/multimedia .

THE NEW SECURITY BEAT
The New Security Beat Blog Identifies Today’s New Security Threats. Security is much more than fighting terrorism or weapons of mass destruction. The New Security Beat, ECSP’s blog, provides frequent commentary on the latest news, reports, and resources on the crucial connections among population, environment, and security. Contributors include ECSP staff members, as well as guest commentators such as Major Shannon Beebe (USA) and Department of Defense Policy Planning Consultant Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba. The New Security Beat also features an original podcast series with Wilson Center speakers, such as UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot; retired colonel Dr. Kent Hughes Butts on environmental security; and lead author of UNFPA’s State of World Population 2007 report George Martine on urbanization. http://www.newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/

TEACHING CLIMATE CHANGE LAW & POLICY
For those of you teaching climate change law/policy either as a standalone course or a module, the following new blog might be helpful: Teaching Climate Change Law & Policy: http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org

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4. CAREER RESOURCES
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You can find an array of career resources on the Environmental Studies section website at: http://environmental-studies.org/?page_id=82

*EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH (ECPR) * *SUMMER SCHOOL ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY *
12 – 23 July 2010 Keele University, United Kingdom

This will be the fifth occasion that the ECPR’s Green Politics Standing Group has run a Summer School. The previous Summer Schools were at Keele in 2001, Lulea in 2002, and Keele again in 2006 and 2008. The aim of the Summer School is to give 20 PhD students or new postdoctoral researchers working in the field of Environmental politics and policy the opportunity to exchange teaching and research ideas with colleagues from other universities and research institutes.

Teaching is organised across five themes:
- Green political theory
- International relations of the environment
- Environment and global political economy
- Green movements and parties
- Public policy and the environment

Ten taught sessions will be led by experts from European, Australian and North American universities.
Confirmed speakers (to date) include Andrew Dobson, Matthew Paterson, Marcel Wissenburg, Lorraine Elliott, David Schlosberg and Brian Doherty.

The programme is still being developed and we hope to post it on our website in early February.
The deadline for applications will be 1 May. The fee for the summer school (including B&B accommodation on campus) will be approx £400.

Enquires should be sent to: ECPR Summer School coordinators, Dr. Sherilyn MacGregor s.macgregor@pol.keele.ac.uk Dr. Hannes Stephan h.r.stephan@ilpj.keele.ac.uk

UC DAVIS POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN AGRICULTURAL DECISION-MAKING AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy seeks to fill one post-doctoral position in Agricultural Decision-Making and Environmental Management. The post-doctoral position will be for two years residence with possible third year renewal, starting Summer 2010 or earlier. The post-doctoral fellow will support a USDA funded project analyzing local rangeland restoration programs and individual factors that encourage ranchers to adopt prescribed grazing practices in California. The project involves designing, delivering, and analyzing a structured survey instrument to a population of California ranchers. The survey will draw on various theories of agricultural decision-making including diffusion of innovation, social networks, and collective-action. The project is being conducted by an interdisciplinary team including natural and social scientists. More information about the rangeland management project can be found here: Rangeland Restoration Proposal.

The post-doctoral fellow will be a member of Dr. Mark Lubell’s Environmental Policy and Behavior laboratory group and housed in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy. In addition to the rangeland restoration project, the post-doc will have opportunities to participate in other projects on sustainable agriculture and water management, mentor graduate students, teach classes, develop new research funding, and generally support an active research group.

Applicants should be recent recipients of a doctoral degree, with demonstrated interest and publication ability in agricultural and environmental decision-making and policy, preferably with experience in the area of rangeland management. Applicants are required to have a background in survey design and analysis, social science theory, and strong skills in quantitative and statistical analysis. The project also requires strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact directly with agricultural communities and stakeholders. The position is open with respect to academic discipline, and could include economics, political science, sociology, or other appropriate social science training.

Applications received by March 1, 2010, will be given first consideration, although we will continue to accept applications after that date. Please send application materials in electronic form to Dr. Mark Lubell (mnlubell@ucdavis.edu). Applications should include a CV, letter describing research interests and background as applied to this project, examples of any relevant publications, and three letters of reference. The University of California, Davis, is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the development of a climate that supports equality of opportunity and respect for differences.

DISCCRS: CLIMATE RESEARCH AND LEADERSHIP NETWORK FOR NEW PHDS
DISCCRS (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate-Change Research) catalyzes interdisciplinary collegial in¬teractions and professional development necessary for successful careers dedi¬cated to understanding climate change and mitigating its impacts. Through its weekly e-newsletter, website, and annual sym¬posia for selected scholars, DISCCRS is building a global community dedicated to promoting scientific and social progress in addressing climate change. Since 2002, almost 1,000 PhDs have registered dissertations with DISCCRS and over 140 scholars from 20 countries have benefitted from DISCCRS sym¬posia. We invite scholars in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, mathematics, engineering, and other fields to apply for upcoming symposia. Find out more at: http://www.disccrs.org/

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5. ANNOUNCEMENTS
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CALL FOR PAPERS: THE JOURNAL STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The journal Strategic Behavior and the Environment (http://www.SBEjournal.com), published by now publishers (http://www.nowpublishers.com/) provides a platform for various disciplines that jointly contribute to our understanding of strategic behavior in design and implementation of environmental policies. Scholars in economics (including experimental economics, political economy, and game theory), political science, international relations, negotiation, and other relevant disciplines, are invited to submit manuscripts for publication consideration, following a peer-review process. Submit a manuscript (following instructions on the journal website) for publication consideration to Prof. Ariel Dinar, Water Science and Policy Center, University of California, Riverside, USA (adinar@ucr.edu).

REGOV WORKSHOP – REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES, THEORETICAL ISSUES, COMPARATIVE DESIGNS

16-18 June 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

The REGov workshop seeks to foster a constructive exchange between scientists and practitioners interested in the environmental dimensions of regional governance. The workshop is organized around six themes brought together by three cross-cutting issues. Participants will include invited panelists as well as competitively identified researchers. The REGov workshop is a collaborative initiative of the University of Geneva, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, University of New Hampshire, and German Institute of Global and Area Studies. The workshop is made possible with funding from the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS), Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Geneva, Mountain Research Initiative, and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Find out more and/or submit an abstract at www.reg-observatory.org or contact Bernard Debarbieux (bernard.debarbieux@unige.ch) or Jörg Balsiger (joerg.balsiger@env.ethz.ch) for questions.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘DEALING WITH DEADLOCKS: MANAGING NEGOTIATION MELTDOWNS’

18 – 19 June 2010, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg (near Vienna), Austria

The international community is in a regulatory crisis on several fronts in the face of global economic instability, environmental change and the management of social problems that are the direct consequence of these.

Differences exist over objectives, appropriate methodologies, the distribution of costs, roles and responsibilities, degrees of state and international intervention, and the structure and composition of bodies established to negotiate on such matters. The issues are clearly international, states cannot go it alone on matters of a global economy, a shared environment, or humanitarian crises arising from changing economic, climatic or political changes.

The problems have been recognized. The international community has met regularly in numerous forums to respond to them. But progress has been difficult punctuated with breakdowns in talks at critical junctures. On the economic front international forums are struggling with issues of regulation, international trade and protectionism, the structure of international bodies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. On the environmental front cutbacks in emissions, global warming and climate change impact nations differently, and changing conditions are having a powerful effect on population migration, access to food and water, health and the provision of health services within and across nations. At a political level, the stability of social accords in developed nations and the struggle to achieve stability in many developing nations is at risk. The pressures induced by responses to economic, environmental and social problems are inescapable.

Breakdowns occur for many reasons: problems with the supply, accuracy and use of information; insufficient preparatory work; poorly assembled bargaining tables; poor problem definition; poor understanding of the stakes involved across the spread of interests represented around a table and of those not at a table; inappropriate trade-offs; blocking to achieve leverage on issues at other bargaining tables; incapacity to deliver on the part of some parties…

PIN is calling for papers with a focus on breakdowns in negotiation over economic and environmental crises, and threats to political systems (international and national) as a consequence of these. Papers should concentrate primarily either on an analysis of the regime meltdown, on the nature of negotiation deadlocks, or on strategies for overcoming them.

This is a call for proposals to be sent to Ariel Macaspac, Program Administrator, PIN Program, IIASA: macaspac@iiasa.ac.at by 20 February 2010. Accepted proposals will be notified immediately and draft papers are due on 15 May 2010. The papers will be presented at a conference at IIASA on 18 – 19 June 2010 and papers revised for publication will be due on 1 October 2010.

NEW PUBLICATION: RECONCEPTUALIZAR LA SEGURIDAD EN EL SIGLO XXI
Úrsula Oswald Spring and Hans Günter Brauch: Reconceptualizar la Seguridad en el Siglo XXI (Mexico D.F., Cuernavaca, Mexico: UNAM/CRIM/CEIICH/CCA – Mosbach, Germany: AFES-PRESS, 2009) ISBN 878-392-69-7578-0, 888 pages, 1.1 kg. with contributions by: Narcis Serra Serra, Spain; Vandana Shiva, India; Úrsula Oswald Spring, México; Hans Günter Brauch, Germany; Ole Waever, Denmark; Simon Dalby, Ottawa, Canada; Ulrich Albrecht, Germany; Georgina Sánchez, México; Domício Proença Junior, Brazil; Eugenio Diniz, Brazil; John Saxe Fernandez, México; Arlene Tickner, USA/Colombia; Ann C. Mason, USA/Colombia and Francisco Rojas Aravena, Costa Rica/Chile.
Between September and November 2009 this book has been launched in Mexico (Cuernavaca and Mexico City), Peru (Lima), Argentina (Buenos Aires) and in Brazil (), including in the Senate of Mexico on 25 November 2009
The book may be purchased in Latin America from UNAM/CRIM in Mexico at: and from North America and the rest of the world from AXES-PRESS at: . Individual chapters are available for download without any costs. The book and all book launch events are documented in detail with several podcasts and the press coverage in Mexico at: .

UNDER WESTERN SKIES: CLIMATE, CULTURE AND CHANGE IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS AND ADDED KEYNOTE SPEAKER

MAUDE BARLOW, ANDREW NIKIFORUK, RICHARD WHITE, VANDANA SHIVA, LEO JACOBS, MARY SIMON

October 13-16, 2010, Mount Royal University Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

http://www.skies.mtroyal.ca/

The call for papers has been extended to March 1, 2010. We are especially interested in additional proposals related to environmental issues in Mexico or from private sector/corporate stakeholders, but we continue to welcome any and all proposals that speak to the call.

Call For Papers

This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural gathering welcomes presentations on the environmental challenges now faced by diverse populations, both human and nonhuman, in the Western lands of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

Academics and other stakeholders from the wider community are invited to participate in this urgent and compelling dialogue. The conference invites academics from the humanities, social and natural sciences, as well as activists, businesses, artists and others to speak across the boundaries that conventionally divide them.

Since both the geographical and critical terrains at issue are considerable, a wide array of topics and time periods is welcome. The shared concern will be the interaction between humans and the natural environment in the context of Western history, geography, climate change, and commercial/sustainable development of lands and resources.

Possible directions may include, but are not restricted to, the following:

* sustainable economic development
* indigenous ways of knowing
* urbanization/suburban sprawl in the “New West”
* popular culture and the mass media
* literary or filmic representations of natural, urban or industrial environments
* government action/inaction on the environment
* ecofeminism
* environmental racism and justice
*“ecoterrorism”
* ecological or ecocritical examinations of particular Western environs and climes
* specific issues such as the Cophenhagen Summit, Kyoto Protocol, or oil/tar sands development
* the borderlands of Canada / United States / Mexico
* environmental education in K-12, postsecondary and
community contexts
* historical perspectives
* environmental activism
* environmental law and policy

Proposals of 250 words (attached to an email as a .doc or .docx file) can be sent to either Robert Boschman (rboschman@mtroyal.ca) or Mario Trono (mtrono@mtroyal.ca).

New Deadline for Submissions: MARCH 1, 2010

http://www.skies.mtroyal.ca/
MAUDE BARLOW, ANDREW NIKIFORUK, RICHARD WHITE, VANDANA SHIVA, LEO JACOBS, MARY SIMON will all be speaking at the conference.

October 13-16, 2010, Mount Royal University Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

New submission deadline for proposals: March 1, 2010.