Newsletter November 1998
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Deadlines are fast approaching for registration and hotel reservations for the 1999 ISA Convention in Washington, DC, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Information can be found at the ISA Web site at www.isanet.org/. A list of ES-sponsored pane ls follows below. And don’t forget: there will be an ESS reception as well as a business meeting (times and places to be announced.
Nominations: Nominations are being solicited for the following ESS offices:
Executive Committee: 3 openings Nominating Committee: 3 openings Sprout Committee: 2 openings
To see the current list of officers, go to: http://csf.colorado.edu/isa/sections/ess/#Officers. If you wish to submit nominations to these offices, please send them to: Miranda Schreurs, Dept. of Government and Politics, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; Fax: (301) 314-9690; Email: MSCHREUR@bss2.umd.edu
Sprout award: If you have any suggestions for books for consideration for the Sprout award, please forward them to the Chair of the Sprout Committee, Gary C. Bryner, Brigham Young University, Provo UT, Tel: 801-378-3276, Email: gary_bryner@byu.edu.
1997 Graduate Student Paper Award: The recipient of the “1998 Environmental Studies Graduate Student Award” is Colin Kahl (Harvard University) for his paper entitled “Population Growth, Environmental Degra- dation, and State-Sponsored Violence: The Case of Kenya, 1991-1993.” This award recognizes the best paper on inter- national environmental politics by a graduate student presented at the 1998 ISA Annual Meeting. The Award Com- mittee was composed of Elizabeth DeSombre, chair (Colby College), Geoffrey Dabelko (Woodrow Wilson Center), Neil Harrison (University of Wyoming), Richard Matthew (George- town University/UC-Irvine), and Shin-Wha Lee (Korea University).
In reaching its decision, the Committee stressed the following aspects of the paper : “This paper is innovative, well argued and organized, fluently written, and thorough. It presents a good discussion and critique of theories relating environment al problems to internal conflict, showing an excellent grasp of the literature. The case study is well-constructed and the hypotheses are quite persuasive. The argument that environmental degradation can provide the opportunity for groups to advance p olitical goals is an understudied phenomenon that this paper does well to ad- dress. As such, it makes a contribution to the literature on environmental change and conflict.”
Through this award the Environmental Studies Section wishes to recognize and promote the development of original contributions by graduate students to the analysis of international environmental issues.
ESS Panels at the 1999 ISA Convention
A list of ESS-linked panels can be found here esspanels.htm. The list has been sifted from the preliminary program at the ISA web site, and is subject to correction and change.
WEB SITES
China: For articles and information about environmental conditions in the Peoples Republic of China, see the following web sites of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Project: http://wwics.si.edu/WHATSNEW/NEWS/chinflood.htm; and http://ecsp.si.edu/ecsplib.nsf/Publications?OpenView& Start=1 &Count=30&Expand=2#2
For those interested in the “Politics of Population Assistance” — U.S. legislative action on international family planning issues and funding –please find new reports on US Congressional activity at: http://www.populationaction.org/politics/political.htm
Conference on INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS–Global Processes ~ Domestic Consequences, April 9-11, 1999 Duke University. This multidisciplinary conference seeks to address the effects of international institutions on national policies and populac es. The conference aims to examine the role not only of formal international but also of international norms and practices ranging from human rights standards to inter- national accounting procedures, as well as of non- governmental organizations and t ransnational political and cultural networks.
Send one-page abstracts by Dec. 1, 1998 to: International Institutions Conference, Center for International Studies Duke University, Box 90404, Durham, NC 27708-0404. Or contact Craig Borowiak at (919) 681-4491; ctb3@acpub.duke.edu; or see http://www.duke.edu/web/CIS/conf/conf.htm
Notes of interest from Marc Levy at CIESIN:
Ozone Diplomacy: The ozone secretariat has documentation of all the legal materials, and a database of all meetings (click on “past activities”) at: http://www.unep.org/unep/secretar/ozone/.
Sustainable Development Indicators: Tom Parris’s “Bytes of Notes” column focusing on national sustainable development indicators: http://environment.harva rd.edu:80/HERO/wrapper/pageid%3Dguides%2Fen vbon%2F96may.html
CIESIN’s MAIN source of comparative national indicators: http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri/
The World Bank’s “Monitoring Environmental Progress” material: http://www.ciesin.org/lqiis/guides/mep.html
Collection of a few relevant web sources: http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/guides/national-response.html
New carbon sequestration rights legislation in NSW: The New South Wales Parliament in Australia passed legislation creating carbon sequestration rights on 12 November. The legislation, as introduced would have provided a sequestration right on tree s grown anytime in the past. The Government agreed to an amendment put by the Greens which would limit this sequestration right to trees planted since 1990. It did not agree to other amendments put by them. The legislation and a Friends of the Earth M edia Release are at: http://web.one.net.au/~dietrich/greenhouse/greenhouse.html; second reading speeches at http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lc/hansards/lchans98/cp1111 98.pdf
CEE/NIS Environment: A new web site has been launched for UNEP’s Environment and Natural Resource Information Network (ENRIN) in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (CEE/NIS). To access the site use the following link: http://www.grida.no/prog/cee/enrin/ or go through the UNEP/GRID-Arendal homepage and click on ENRIN: http://www.grida .no/
How much air pollution do you cause? How do you cause air pollution? Find the answer in Issue No. 4 of Leonardo Academy’s Cleaner and Greener Program Green Energy Project Newsletter. http://www.cleanerandgreener.org/GEP-NLS.htm
ACCLIMATIONS, the newsletter of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Change, is avail- able at: http://www.nacc.usgcrp.gov.
Bioenergy & climate change: The following two documents can be found on the website of IEA Bioenergy Task 25 http://www.joanneum.ac.at/iea-bioenergy-task25
1) A position paper prepared by IEA Bioenergy, outlining the role of bioenergy in greenhouse-gas mitigation; 2) An 8-page folder that describes the scope, objectives, methodologies, and output of IEA Bioenergy Task 25 “Greenhouse Gas Balances of Bi oenergy Systems”. Both documents are also available in printed form and can be obtained free of charge from Reinhard Madlener ph: +43-316-876-1340, fax: +43-316-876- 1320; reinhard.madlener@joanneum.ac.at
Information on energy use and management in the African context, with an emphasis on the linkages between energy and development is available from Enda Energy, a branch of the organization Enda Tiers Monde, at: http://www.enda.sn/energie/indexpea.htm
ENB Summary of COP-4: The International Institute for Sustainable Development has published a 16,000 word summary issue of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin from the Fourth Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change. This issue includes reports from the COP as well as SBSTA and SBI, the High-Level Segment and an analysis of the meeting. HTML version: www.iisd.ca/linkages/vol12/enb1297e.html PDF version: http://ww.iisd.ca/linkages/download/pdf/enb1297e.pdf ASCII text version: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/download/asc/enb1297e.txt
ECO, the NGO Newsletter published at meetings of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is available electronically at: http://www.igc.org/climate/Eco.html
New Graphics to the Climate Change Convention (COP4) A set of graphics based on the database of the Climate Change Secretariat, which is built on the information available in the National Communications presented by the Parties to the Secretariat. http://www.grida.no/
Linkages: The October issue of Linkages, IISD’s quarterly publication on global environment and sustainable development policy, is now available. This issue focuses on climate change and provides a cross section of the issues under debate at COP-4. See: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/journal/.
JOBS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
FELLOWSHIPS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 1999-2000:
Harvard University Committee on the Environment, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Ken- nedy School of Government, Harvard University. The Harvard University Committee on the Environment offers both pre-doctoral and ad vanced research fellowships in Global Environmental Assessment (GEA). The fellowships are tenable at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) in the John F. Kennedy School of Government for the academic year 1999-2000. The GEA f ellowships are offered to enable scholars to participate in the Global Environmental Assessment Project. Applications must be received at BCSIA by January 15, 1999. For more informa- tion:h ttp://environment.harvard.edu For queries not answered on the web site:, contact: bonnie_robinson@harvard.edu. Please specify “GEA Fellowship” in the subject field. No telephone calls please.
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships at the University of Oregon:
Ecological Conversations: Gender, Science and the Sacred, at the Center for the Study of Women in Society. The theme for 2000-2001 is the cultural analysis of scientific concepts, practices and policies. Fellows will consider how scientific co ncepts and findings are translated into public environmental discourse, and the role of the emerging ecofeminist vision of science and technology in this discourse. In addition to pursuing their own research project, fellows will participate in a biwee kly seminar and an annual CSWS-sponsored conference on the theme of the Rockefeller program for that year. Appointment duration may range from three to nine months. A monthly stipend, medical coverage and travel expenses will be provided. Applicati on deadline is February 1, 1999. Address all inquiries and application materials to: Rockefeller Fellowship Program, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1201 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201; Ph:(541) 346-5015; Fax: (541) 346-5096; E-mail: csws@oregon.uoregon.edu; web site: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csws/
THE ICI/E BIODIVERSITY SCHOLARS INITIATIVE:
The “ICI/E- Biodiversity Scholars Initiative” is a new program designed to house individuals undertaking research on issues related to the implementation of the Convention on Biological Di- versity (CBD) and is carried out in conjunction with th e Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal Its offices are located in the Science Building (201 President-Kennedy Ave., Montreal) of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Scholars-in-Residen ce will norm- ally be appointed for a period of nine months or fewer and priority will be given to those working on issues which are on the work programme of the Conference of the Parties. Although the program is exploring ways to secure limited fina ncial support, Scholars-in-Residence are currently expected to secure their own financial support. For addi- tional information, please contact: Observatoire de l’écopolitique internationale, ICI/E Biodiversity Scholars Programme, Institute of E nvironmental Studies, University of Quebec at Montreal, P.O. Box 8888, Station “Downtown,” Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3C 3P8, e.mail: oei@er.uqam.ca
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES:
Western Michigan University seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in environmental studies for Fall 1999, pending budgetary approval. Send letter of application; vita; statement of views on interdisciplinary teachin g, research and scholarship, and on issues of sustainability; academic transcripts and three letters of recommendation by Dec. 15, 1998 to: Kenneth A. Dahlberg, Director, Environmental Studies Program, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 490 08. FAX (616) 387-3999; e-mail: dahlberg@wmich.edu. For more information, contact: Program Coordinator, Environmental Studies, 239 Moore Hall, Western Michigan Uni- versity, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, Ph: (616) 387-2716 Fax: (616) 387-4998; web site http://www.wmich.edu/science/docs/esp/esp.html
Canadian Foreign Policy & the Environment: “Call for Papers” for a book on Canadian foreign policy and the environment, to be published by UBC Press. All related issue-areas will be considered; please send an abstract to Peter Stoett, Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal Quebec H4B 1R6, email: pstoett@vax2.concordia.ca
RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY ESS MEMBERS
Hans G. Brauch, Energy Policy in North Africa (1950-2050): From Hydrocarbon to Renewables, UNISCI Papers 11-12 (Madrid: UNISCI/Marcial Pons, 1997).
Hans G. Brauch, “Long-Term Security Challenges to the Survival of the North African Countries: Population Growth, Urbanisation, Soil Erosion, Water Scarcity, Food Production Deficits and Impact of Climate Change (2000-2050)” in: Antonio Marquina (E d.): Mutual Perceptions in the Mediterranean, Collection Strademed (Madrid: UNISCI, 1998).
Elisabeth Corell, “North-South Financial Tensions: Desertification after UNGASS”, Environmental Politics, vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 222-226.
Simon Dalby, “Ecological Metaphors of Security: World Politics in the Biosphere” Alternatives 23(3). 1998: 291- 319.
Simon Dalby, “Geopolitics and Global Security: Culture, Identity and the ‘Pogo Syndrome’ ” in Gearóid Ó Tuathail and Simon Dalby (eds) Rethinking Geopolitics, London: Routledge, 1998. pp. 295- 313.
Robert Falkner: “The Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol.” Global Environmental Change Vol. 8, No. 2 (1998), pp. 171-175.
Jonathan A. Fox & L. David Brown, eds., The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs and Grassroots Move- ments (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998).
Fred Gale, The Tropical Timber Trade Regime, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, 1998.
Fred Gale, “Cave ‘Cave! Hic Dragones’: A Neo-Gramscian Deconstruction and Reconstruction of International Regime Theory,” Review of International Political Economy 5, 2 (1998).
Fred Gale, “Constructing Global Civil Society Actors,” Global Society 12, 3 (September 1998).
Cheri Burda and Fred Gale, “Trading in the Future: An Examination of British Columbia’s Commodity-Export Strategy in Forest Products,” Society and Natural Resources 11, 6 (September 1998).
Fred Gale, “Ecoforestry Bound: How International Trade Agreements Constrain the Adoption of an Ecosystem-Based Approach to BC’s Forests,” In: Chris Tollefson (ed.), The Wealth of Forests: Markets, Regulation and Sustainable Forestry, Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998.
Fred Gale & Cheri Burda. “The Pitfalls and Potential of Eco- Certification as a Market Incentive for Sustainable Forest Management in BC.” In Chris Tollefson (ed.), The Wealth of Forests: Markets, Regulation and Sustainable Forestry, Van- couver: UBC Press, 1998.
Barbara Hogenboom, Mexico and the NAFTA Environment Debate: The Transnational Politics of Environmental Integration, Utrecht: Int’l Books, 1998.
Ans Kolk, ‘From Conflict to Cooperation: International Policies to Protect the Brazilian Amazon’, World Develop- ment, 26, 8, 1998, pp. 1481-1493.
Philippe Le Prestre, John D. Reid & E. Thomas Morehouse Jr., eds., Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Pros- pects. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
Karen Litfin, ed., The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. (This book brings together international relations scholars and political theorists, with contributions from Daniel Deudney, Thom Kuehls, Ronnie Lipschutz , Marian Miller, Ronald Mitchell, Paul Wapner, Veronica Ward, and Franke Wilmer. The contributors argue that norms of sovereignty are shifting in the face of attempts to cope with ecological destruction, although this “greening” of sovereignty is an uneven, variegated, and highly contested process.)
Corey Lofdahl, “On the Environmental Externalities of Global Trade.” International Political Science Review 19, 4 (1998):339-355.
Shannon O’Lear, “Electronic Communcation and Environmental Policy in Russia and Estonia,” Geographical Review 87, 2 (1997):275-290
Kate O’Neill, “Regulations as Arbiters of Risk: Great Britain, Germany, and the Hazardous Waste Trade in Western Europe”, International Studies Quarterly 41, 7 (Dec. 1997): 687-718.
Kate O’Neill, “Out of the Backyard: Managing Hazardous Wastes on a Global Scale,” Journal of Environment and Development 7, 2 (June 1998): 138-163.
Lasse Ringius, Asbjørn Torvanger and Bjart Holtsmark, “Can Multi-Criteria Rules Fairly Distribute Climate Burdens? OECD Results from Three Burden Sharing Rules,” Energy Policy 26, 10(1998): 777-793.
Ian H. Rowlands, ed, Climate Change Cooperation in Southern Africa, London: Earthscan, 1998.
Jackie Smith, Global Civil Society? Transnational Social Movements and Social Capital.” American Behavioral Scientist 42 (September 1998):93-107.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Bruce Braun and Noel Castree, eds., Remaking Reality, London: Routledge, 1998.
The Australia Institute has prepared a paper on the likely evolution of the market for greenhouse gas emission allowances. The paper is entitled “The Evolution of the Global Market for Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowances” The paper is available free of charge from: The Australia Institute, PO Box 72 Lyneham, ACT 2602, AUSTRALIA Tel: 61 2 6249 6221; Fax: 61 2 6249 6448;Email: austinst@dynamite.com.au
A new book entitled Global Energy Perspectives, the result of a five-year collaboration between the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and the World Energy Council (WEC), may be of interest to people interested in long-term global scenarios of energy- related greenhouse gas emissions. A summary paper and de- tailed interactive data sets are available at: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/ cgi-bin/ecs/book_dyn/bookcnt.py Publisher’s information is available at: http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/scripts/webbook.asp?ISBN=0521645697
Michael Fry, John Kirton and Mitsuru Kurosawa, eds. The North Pacific Triangle: The United States, Japan, and Canada at Century’s End, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. This book explores the increasingly strong triangular relationship am ong the three leading Pacific powers over the past few decades, to identify their increasing collective action in shaping a new regional and global order. Chapters by Paul Parker and John Kirton explore this emerging partnership in international envir onmental affairs.
David Hunter, James Salzman, & Durwood Zaelke, International Environmental Law and Policy, NY: Foundation Press, 1998.
