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Newsletter June 1998

Deadline for 1999 Conference Proposals Approacheth!

The June 15th deadline for submission of paper and panel proposals for the 40th Annual Convention of the ISA in Washington, DC (16-20 February 1999) is quickly approaching. The topic for 1999 is “One Field, Many Perspectives: Building the Foundations for Dialogue.” Proposals should be submitted to

Joe Hagan, Program Chair, Dept. of Political Science, 316 Woodburn Hall, P.O. 6317, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6317, Fax: 304-293-8644, E-mail: isaprog@wvu.edu or http://csf.colorado.edu/isa/washington

Please be sure to also send a copy of your proposal to Philippe LePrestre at le_prestre.philippe@uqam.ca.

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Articles for publication sought

IPE-Environment: Peter Haas has agreed to edit a volume for the publisher Edward Elgar on the International Political Economy of the Environment. He is seeking input materials that those teaching and researching in the field regard as important. Contact him at: Department of Political Science, Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003; Fax 413 545 3349; Email haas@polsci.umass.edu

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IPE-Environment: The editors of Volume 12 of the International Political Economy Yearbook on the Political Economy of International Environmental Politics invite proposals. Deadline for the submission of proposals is May 1, 1998. Queries and requests of volume prospectus are welcome. Projected deadline for completed manuscripts for review is April 1, 1999. Please mail or fax queries or proposals to IPE Yearbook/Environment, c/o Valerie Assetto and Dimitris Stevis, Dept. of political science, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1792, USA. Fax: 970-491-2490, or vassetto@vines.colostate.edu dimitris@lamar.colostate.edu

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Climate Change: The Stanford Journal of International Law (“SJIL”) and the Stanford Environmental Law Journal (“ELJ”) are planning a joint symposium edition on global climate change for publication during the 1998-99 academic year. Articles are being sought for possible publication in this special issue on a variety of international and environmental aspects of climate change, such as: monitoring and enforcement of an international regime; U.S. national policy questions; emissions trading; and, developing country participation in an international regime. For more information contact Lynn Fischer at 650-723-1375 or fischerl@leland.stanford.edu or Juge Gregg at gregg@leland.stanford.edu . Additional information about the Stanford Journal of International Law is available on the worldwide web at http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/sjil

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Conferences

Green & Gold: From July 30 to August 2, 1998, the University of California will host a four-day public conference: “Green and Gold: California’s Environments-Memories and Visions.” Held on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus, with its redwoods, fields, and ocean views, it will recapture California’s past environments, explore their transformation, and imagine their future. Details at: www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/

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3rd Open Meeting of the HDGEC research community: The International Scientific Planning Committee is pleased to announce the 1999 OPEN MEETING OF THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE RESEARCH COMMUNITY, June 24-26, 1999, Shonan Village*, Kanagawa, Japan.

An increasing number of researchers are interested in the human causes and impacts of global environmental change, as well as recognizing that local and regional scales are critical for their studies. Following two successful international meetings held at Duke University in 1995 and at IIASA in 1997, the 1999 Open Meeting aims to promote exchanges of information on current research and teaching and to encourage networking and community building in this emerging field. The meeting, hosted by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES, Japan), will be held in Shonan Village, an international conference center in a scenic setting south-west of Tokyo. For further information on the meeting, including instructions for the submission of abstracts, please consult the IGES Web Site ( http://www.iges.or.jp/ ), or send an e-mail to hdgec@iges.or.jp, or mail/fax your inquiry to Mr. Yasushi Itoh, IGES at Shonan Village Center. (Fax: +81 468 55 3709). The deadline for submission of abstracts is November 1, 1998.

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Environmental Ethics: CALL FOR PAPERS: THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS, June 27 to June 29, 1999, Mansfield College, Oxford University, UK

MORAL AND POLITICAL REASONING IN ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE. The aim of the conference is to explore ethical and political issues raised by environmental practices ranging from activism to government regulation. It will include discussion of the values implicit in environmental practices, and of the ethical justifications for and criticisms of schemes of justice and rights in relation to environmental issues. The conference will be organized around three main themes, and contributions are invited on any of the following topics:

  1. POLITICS VS. PHILOSOPHY
  2. JUSTICE, NON-HUMANS & FUTURE GENERATIONS
  3. ARGUING FROM CASES

Offers of papers (not exceeding 30 minutes presentation time) are invited under the above headings. Abstracts should be sent to Prof. Andrew Light, SAP/ISEE Conference, Department of Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. FAX: 607-777-2734. E-mail (after July 15): alight@binghamton.edu. The deadline for proposals is November, 29 1998. The conference fee, inclusive of meals and accommodation, will be in the region of £130, with some subsidized places for the unwaged (including students). Places can be reserved by sending a deposit of £10 (cheques payable to the Society for Applied Philosophy) to the Conference Co-ordinator, Adam Hedgecoe, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE (tel: 01772 892541; fax: 01772 892942).

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Recent publications by ESS members and others (please send your contributions)

Lorraine Elliott, The Global Politics of the Environment (New York: NYU Press, 1998).

Detlef F. Sprinz (1998): “Internationale Klimapolitik [International Climate Policy],” in: Die Friedens-Warte – Blätter für internationale Verständigung und zwischenstaatliche Organisation, Special Issue on “International Environmental Policy,” vol. 73(1), March 1998, 25-44 (in German).

Detlef Sprinz (1998): Umwelt und Sicherheit: Die Rolle von Umweltschwellenwerten in der empirisch-quantitativen Modellierung [Environment and Security: Environmental Thresholds and Empirical-Quantitative Modeling], PIK-Report No. 41 (March 1998), Potsdam, Germany: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (in German).

Detlef Sprinz and Andreas Wahl (1998): “Reversing Course: Germany’s Response to the Challenge of Transboundary Air Pollution” , PIK-Report No. 42 (March 1998), Potsdam, Germany: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Detlef Sprinz and Tapani Vaahtoranta (1998): “The Interest-Based Explanation of International Environmental Policy”, in: Underdal, Detlef Sprinz (1998): “Domestic Politics and European Acid Rain Regulation,” in: Underdal, Arild (ed.): The Politics of International Environmental Management, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 41-66.

Detlef F. Sprinz (1998): “Environmental Security and Instrument Choice,” in: Gleditsch, Nils Petter (ed.): Conflict and the Environment, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 483-502.

Alexander Carius, Melanie Kemper, Sebastian Oberthür, and Detlef Sprinz: “NATO/CCMS Pilot Study Environment and Security in an International Context: State of the Art and Perspectives, Interim Report, October 1996”, in: Environmental Change and Security Project Report, The Woodrow Wilson Center Washington, D.C., Issue 3, Spring 1997, 55-65

A recent paper on the reasons for the differences between the Europeans and the US on climate change positions for Kyoto is: “Same Science, Differing Policies; The Saga of Global Climate Change,” MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Report # 22, August, 1997. Contact: Prof. E.B. Skolnikoff, Political Science Dept., MIT E51-263, 77 Mass. Ave.. Cambridge, MA 02139

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Announcements about new and refurbished World Wide Web sites:

A complete list of Sprout Award Winners, dating back to 1977, can now be found on the ESS Web page at http: //csf.Colorado.EDU/ess/sprout.htm

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Ron Mitchell has set up a “one stop shopping” web site for international environmental politics research: http:// darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/data.shtml

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The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP) has a new web site at http://ecsp.si.edu including the full text of its journals, (Environmental Change and Security Project Report and the China Environment Series) and other information. The ECSP is a non-partisan information clearinghouse that fosters discussion on environment, population and security among a diverse set of scholars and practitioners. For additional information please send email to ecsp@erols.com.

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“ENERGIES” from Green Energy News now posted on the Web at http://www.nrglink.com

Past issues are posted in Recent Energies and Archives at the site. ENERGIES, the free weekly newsletter covering clean, efficient and renewable energy, is also available by direct e-mail subscription by contacting bmulliken@nrglink.com.

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Brief summaries and links to Population Action International’s latest publications, factsheets and updates located on PAI’s Web site at http://www.populationaction.org

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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is now providing Energy Supply Security Information on the Web. “The page provides information on international and domestic events that affect energy security on a global basis, and provides links to information that could be used in assessing vulnerability to potential energy supply problems.” See: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/security/contents.html

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The Earth Charter Consultation is an international movement involving individuals and organizations from around the world. The goal of the consultation is to elaborate and build consensus on a universal code of conduct for states and people, ensuring respect for human rights, peace, economic equity, environmental protection, and sustainable living. The result, a “People’s Earth Charter” would be be presented to the United Nations for endorsement by the year 2000.” Contact: Mirian Vilela, Earth Charter Project Coordinator, echarter@terra.ecouncil.ac.cr, http://www.earthcharter.org

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Queries

Professor Anna Tsing at UC-Santa Cruz is compiling a review on culture and natural resource management and is looking for syllabi from leading scholars in this area. If you have any relevant syllabi or other bibliographies that can be sent by email, please send them to Shiho Satsuka at satsuka@cats.ucsc.edu