2000-2001 Annual Report

Environmental Studies Section
2000-2001 Annual Report
Submitted by Dimitris Stevis

 PURPOSE OF THE SECTION
The Environmental Studies Section has several purposes:

	to link scholars of various disciplines and keep them abreast of current developments in this field;
	to develop and encourage research;
	to disseminate information on environmental developments by sponsoring or participating in prof meetings;
	to seek ways to further the teaching of international environmental studies.

 

 ESS COMMITTEES, 1999-2000

Chair

• Dimitris Stevis (Colorado State University) (1999-2001)

Executive Committee

	Dimitris Stevis (Colorado State University) ex officio
	Peter Dauvergne (University of Sydney) (to 2001)
	Paul Harris (London Guildhall University) (to 2001)
	Miranda Schreurs (University of Maryland) (to 2001)
	Matthew Auer (Indiana University) (to 2002)
	Yasuko Kawashima (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) (to 2002)
	Andreas Obser (University of Potsdam) (to 2002

Sprout Award Committee

	Philippe LePrestre (UQAM) (to 2001)
	Laura Strohm (Monterey Institute for International Studies) (to 2001)
	Julian Emmons Allison (UC, Riverside) (to 2002)
	J. Samuel Barkin (University of Florida) (to 2002)
	Don Munton (University of Northern British Columbia) (to 2002) (Chair)

Junior Scholar Travel Award Committee

Not given this year

Nominating Committee

	Elizabeth DeSombre (Colby College) (to 2001) (Chair)
	Ian Rowlands (U. Of Waterloo) (to 2001)
	Michele Betsill (Colorado State University) (to 2002)
	Tamar Gutner (American University) (to 2001)

Human Dimensions Of Global Environmental Change

Oran Young (Dartmouth College)

Newsletter Editor

Ronnie Lipschutz (UC -Santa Cruz)

ESS Webmaster

Georgia Carvalho (Woods Hole Research Center)

 

 MEMBERSHIP

The section membership is fairly stable and stood at about 275 members in 2000. Overall ISA membership has declined. This puts the section in the top five among all 18 ISA sections. In addition to USA members the section has numerous members from Canada, Western and Southern Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Brazil. In terms of gender the section continues to make positive improvements both in terms of membership and in terms of leadership positions. We look forward to further diversity, both geographic and demographic.

 

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1999-2000 FINANCIAL REPORT

Balance as of March 1, 2000:                             $2, 412.71

Between March 1, 2000 and January 31, 2001: (most recent information)

        Income: (dues)                                            $1,244.67^{1
        (Wilson Center’s share of 2000 reception)         $758.33
        (interest)                                                                0
        Expenses: Newsletter                                               0
        Reception                                                      $758.33
        Balance as of January 31, 2001:                      $2,899.04}

^{Given the Section’s desire for a larger reception and the ISA’s increase in travel funds the section decided not to award travel support for junior scholars for ISA 2001 (finishing graduate students and junior faculty)}

1 It is possible that the amount of $637 credited to our account in January 2001 includes monies from The MIT Press intended for the 2001 reception.

 

DEVELOPMENTS

1. The 2001 ESS Conference Program at  Annual Meeting

The Section sponsored or co-sponsored 28 full panels. This exceeds the range of recent years (between 20 and 25). There were also 2-3 panels sponsored by other sections with an environmental focus.

2. 2001 Reception

The 2001 reception at the Chicago Hilton and Towers was extremely well attended. It was co- sponsored by our Section, the Global Development Section, The Third World Quarterly (Taylor and Francis) and the Global Environmental Politics (The MIT Press). The total costs were $2746.14. The generosity of the TWQ and the GEP allowed us to spend only $246.14 of our own money. Ashis Nandy was the distinguished guest. During the reception we announced the Graduate Student Paper Award and the Sprout Award.

3. Amendments to Election Process

At its business meeting the section adopted two amendments to its officer election process.

Amendment A of the election process.
“In addition to the votes of those present at the Business Meeting we will also count the following votes in electing ESS officers: i) Votes sent by email to the Election Returning Officer (normally the Chair of the Nominations Committee) and received at least one week before the ESS Meeting. ii) Votes sent by postal mail to the Election Returning Officer (normally the Chair of the Nominations Committee) and received at least one week before the ESS Meeting. iii) Votes sent by fax to the Election Returning Officer (normally the Chair of the Nominations Committee) and received at least one week before the ESS Meeting.”

Amendment B of the election process.
“The Executive Committee will review the amended process after an initial period for two years from the time the process enters into force and will report to the Section on whether to keep it as is or change it in any way.”

During the discussion of the amendments it was clarified that nominations from the floor would still be accepted and that the Nominating Committee will have to makes its nominations available in time to satisfy the new procedures.

4. Procedures Regarding Graduate Student Paper and Global Environmental Politics

At its business meeting the section decided to adopt the following procedural clarification.
” In the future, the ISA Environmental Section Graduate Student Award will be made by the Executive Committee (minus chair who is already burdened with enough work) plus the section’s representative to the Global Environmental Politics Journal. The committee will read all papers and send comments to all authors regardless if they are selected for the award or not. The author of the paper that is selected for the award will then be given a special option for review of his or her paper by Global Environmental Politics (GEP). The journal review process will be simplified for the awardee. It will include all of the reviews written by the committee. The committee will be writing comments on the paper selected for award with the same rigor that they would for articles be submitted for publication in GEP or a journal of equal quality in mind. This may include suggested revisions prior to publication. If the author chooses to submit the article to GEP for consideration it will then be submitted to one blind review. The decision to publish or not will then be at the discretion of the journal editor.”

 

 AWARDS

2001 Sprout award
The 2001 Sprout Award Committee, chaired by Don Munton selected Ronie Garcia-Johnson’s Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Corporations in Brazil and Mexico (The MIT Press 2000). Kate O’Neil’s Waste Trading Among Rich Nations: Forging a New Theory of Environmental Regulation (The MIT Press 2000) was the runner-up.

2001 Graduate Student Paper Award
The award given for the best paper presented at the 2000 ISA convention in a panel sponsored by the section was given to Patricia Cripe (U of California – Davis) for her paper entitled “Strategic Scarcity: Environmental Degradation and Ethnic Conflict in Africa.” The committee was composed of the members of the Executive Committee of the section and chaired by Miranda Schreuers.

 

 ELECTIONS

At its February 23, 2001 business meeting, attended by more than 50 members, the following individuals were elected to the various committees:

President 2001-2003:

Don Munton (University of Northern British Columbia)

2001-2002 Members of the Executive Committee

	Continuing Members: Matthew Auer (Indiana University), Yasuko Kawashima (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan), Andreas Obser (University of Potsdam).
	New Members: Ken Conca (University of Maryland), Marian Miller (University of Akron), Marc Williams (University of New South Wales).

2001-2002 Nominating Committee

	Continuing Members: Michele Betsill (Colorado State University), Tamara Gutner (American University)
	New Members: Barbara Jancar-Webster (SUNY – Brockport), Paul Harris (Lingnan University- Hong Kong)

2001-2002 Sprout Award Committee

	Continuing Members: Julian Emmons Allison (UC – Riverside), J. Samuel Barkin (University of Florida)
	New Members: Gabriela Kütting (University of Aberdeen), Ron Mitchell (University of Oregon), M.J. Peterson (University of Massachusetts – Amherst).

2001-2002 Junior Scholar Travel Award Committee:

To be nominated by the Section Chair among the Executive Committee members.

2001-2002 Graduate Student Paper Award Committee

The Executive Committee or its ad-hoc subcommittee.

2001-2002 Human Dimensions of Global Change Committee:

Oran Young continues as chair.

Webmaster

Georgia Carvalho (The Woods Hole Research Center)

Representative to the Global Environmental Politics Editorial Board

Stacy VanDeveer (University of New Hampshire) (2001-2004)

Respectfully submitted,

Dimitris Stevis

ESS Chair, 1999-2001.