1999-2000 Annual Report
Environmental Studies Section
1999-2000 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
Geoffrey Dabelko (Woodrow Wilson Center and University of Maryland) (to 2000)
Neil Harrison (University of Wyoming) (to 2000)
Shin-wha Lee (Korea University) (to 2000)
Peter Dauvergne (University of Sydney) (to 2001)
Paul Harris (London Guildhall University) (to 2001)
Miranda Schreurs (University of Maryland) (to 2001)
Sprout Award Committee
Kate O’Neill (UC Berkeley) (to 2000) Co-Chair
Stacy vanDeVeer (Harvard University) (to 2000) Co-Chair
Ken Conca (University of Maryland) (to 2000)
Philippe LePrestre (UQAM) (to 2001)
Laura Strohm (Monterey Institute for International Studies) (to 2001)
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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)
Detlef Sprinz (PIK-Potsdam) (to 2000)
Jennifer Clapp (Trent University) (to 2000)
Human Dimensions Of Global Environmental Change
Oran Young (Dartmouth College)
Newsletter Editor
Ronnie Lipschutz (UC -Santa Cruz)
ESS Webmaster
Ron Mitchell (U. of Oregon)
 MEMBERSHIP
The section membership is fairly stable and stood at about 275 members in 1999, about ten lower than 1998. Overall ISA membership has also declined. This puts the section in the top five among all 18 ISA sections.
1999-2000 FINANCIAL REPORT
Balance as of Feb 1, 1999 : $2,110.49
Between Feb. 1, 1999 and March 1, 2000:
Income: (dues) 926
(interest)Â Â Â Â 0 (withheld by ISA headquarters)
Expenses:
Newsletter 65
1999 Reception 660.78 (additional $500 from Wilson Center)
Subtotal      725.78
Balance as of February 1, 2000 : $ 2,412.71
The profits we have enjoyed stem from the electronic rather than physical publishing of the Newsletter; only a few hard copies are now mailed whose cost is supported by UC.Santa Cruz.
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 2000 (finishing graduate students and junior faculty).
DEVELOPMENTS
1. The 2000 ESS Conference Program at Los Angeles Annual Meeting
The Section sponsored or co-sponsored 23 full panels This falls within the normal range of recent years (between 20 and 25). There were 1-2 panels sponsored by other sections with an environmental focus.
2. 2000 Reception
The 2000 reception at the Westin Bonaventure was extremely well attended. The costs of the reception were supported, in part, by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Project on Environmental Change and Security. We are grateful to his Director, Geoff Dabelko, for this significant support. The total cost was $1516.67; the cost to the section was 758.33
Two new features took place at the 1999 reception :
(1) for the first time, the Graduate student award was given at the reception. From now on, future awards will also be given at the reception.
(2) while the Sprout award was announced at the reception in future years it will continue to be given out at the ISA business meeting.
 AWARDS
Sprout award
The 2000 Sprout award committee, co-chaired by Kate O’Neil and Stacy VanDeVeer, selected Yok-shiu F. Lee and Lain Y. So (eds) Asia’s Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives. N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Graduate Student Award
The award given for the best paper presented at the 1999ISA convention in a panel sponsored by the section was given to Anita Krajnc University of Toronto) for her paper entitled ” Learning in British Columbia’s Clayoquot and Great Bear Forest Campaigns: From Public Pressure to Global Civic Politics.” The committee was composed of the members of the Executive committee of the section and chaired by Miranda Schreurs.
 ELECTIONS
At its March 17 business meeting in Washington, attended by more than 50 members, the following individuals were elected to the various committees:
President 1999-2001: Not an election year
2000-2001 Members of the Executive committee
Continuing Members: Paul Harris (London Guidhall University), Peter Dauvergne (University of Sidney), Miranda Schreurs (University of Maryland)
New Members: Matthew Auer (Indiana University), Yasuko Kawashima (University of Maryland), Andreas Obser (University of Potsdam).
2000-2001 Nominating committee
Continuing Members: Beth DeSombre (Colby College), Ian Rowlands (U. of Waterloo).
New Members: Michele Betsill (Colorado State University), Tamara Gutner (American University)
2000-2001 Sprout Award committee
Continuing Members: Laura Strohm (Monterey Institute for International Studies) and Philippe Le Prestre (UQAM).
New Members: Julian Emmons Allison (UC, Riverside), J. Samuel Barkin (University of Florida), Don Munton (University of Northern British Columbia).
2000-2001 Junior Scholar Travel Award Committee:
To be nominated by the Section Chair among the executive committee members.
2000-2001 Graduate Student Award Committee
The Executive Committee or its ad-hoc subcommittee.
2000-2001 Human Dimensions of Global Change Committee:
Oran Young continues as chair until 2001.
Webmaster
Georgia Carvalho (The Woods Hole Research Center)
Representative to the Global Environmental Politics Editorial Board
Stacy VanDeveer (2000-2001; eligible for reelection to three year term).
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Dimitris Stevis
ESS Chair, 1999-2001.
