Archive for January, 2007

ISA Compendium, ES Section Topics

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

As you may know, the International Studies Association is producing what has been called the ISA Compendium Project, an encyclopedia for international studies to be published by Blackwell, in both print and electronic form. All written pieces will be peer-reviewed. The process of creating a list of topics that will be covered in this volume has been designated to the ISA sections. I am the point person for the Environmental Studies Section committee (which also includes Miranda Schreurs and Matt Hoffmann) working on this project at this stage.

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Environmental-studies.org is finally back up again

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

In October 2006 a hard-drive at the webhosting company crashed. Apparently, the hosting company was overwhelmed with the resulting logistics and could not make this site avilable on an alternate server until now. As of now the section website is running with a somewhat dated backup: the information from last fall’s “back to school” newsletter issue is not contained in the current database (i.e. any information posted between June and October 2006 is missing). A more recent database backup has been promised since November and should finally be available soon.

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Newsletter January 2007

Monday, January 15th, 2007

The ESS newsletter editor has resigned. As a consequence there has been no January 2007 issue. Report and election results from the business meeting during the ISA conference will be posted on environmental-studies.org soon after the conference in early March.

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