Dear all, We are looking for 1-2 participants for the roundtable discussion "Big Data: Working with the International Environmental Agreements Database" (see abstract below); we are also more generally interested in finding out who has used the database in their teaching and/or research.
The panel is scheduled for 10:30AM - 12:15PM on Friday, February 20. Confirmed panelists include Ron Mitchell, Jessica Green, and Jörg Balsiger as "participants" (3 is the minimum) and Stacy VanDeveer as moderator. If ISA and internet access permit, Mark Axelrod and Rakhyun Kim will join virtually. Please let me know off-list if your are interested and available to join the panel AND/OR if you have previous or current teaching/research experience with the IEA. Many thanks and best regards, Jörg ***Panel abstract*** With close to 1200 multilateral, 1500 bilateral and some 250 other environmental agreements, the International Environmental Agreements Database (IEAD) is the most systematic, comprehensive, and up to date publicly available collection of data on international environmental cooperation. Created and maintained by Ron Mitchell since 2002, the IEAD includes agreement texts, membership information, secretariat details, features coding, performance data, summary statistics, and more. It constitutes an invaluable entry point to numerous issues and trends of contemporary concern to international environmental politics and law, including institutional design, governance density and fragmentation, and regionalization. Although the IEAD is most often used for descriptive statistics and exploratory data analysis, it can serve as a compelling starting point for inferential work, especially when combined with other data. This roundtable session brings together the IEAD Project Director as well as scholars who have used the IEAD in their work to critically discuss: the scientific insights from their IEAD work; their practical experiences using the IEAD; possible and desirable future research applications; extensibility of data and IEAD functionality; opportunities to link the IEAD to other data sets; and the nature, organization, and financing of efforts required to keep the IEA comprehensively up to date. --------------------------------------------- Jörg Balsiger Senior Researcher and Lecturer Department of Geography and Environment, and Institute for Environmental Sciences University of Geneva Uni Mail, 40 Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve 1211 Geneva Switzerland Office: 6241, 6th floor Tel: +41 (0)22 379 9453 Email: [email protected] --------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
