Dear gep-ed list members, I realize that many of you are not members of ISA or the Environmental Studies Section. If you’re not among this membership, please disregard Professor Kramarz’s email below. I’ll work with the Environmental Studies Section to explore the possibility of developing a separate ESS email list for these sorts of announcements.
With best wishes, Michael Maniates Yale-NUS College From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Teresa Kramarz Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 12:46 AM To: gep-ed Subject: [gep-ed] ISA Environmental Studies Section -THIS IS YOUR 2016 ELECTRONIC BALLOT Dear colleagues, For those of you who cannot attend the International Studies Association (ISA) Environmental Studies Sections (ESS) Business Meeting in Atlanta (and so cannot vote in person), this is the electronic ballot for the ESS 2016 elections. There are vacancies on the Executive Committee, Sprout Committee, and Nominations Committee. Please reply to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Advance/online voting is open from Thursday, March 3 to Thursday, March 17. Please note that the Sprout Committee has a slightly unusual situation this year: given Fariborz Zelli’s early withdrawal from the Committee last year in order to take on the responsibility of Vice Chair, there is an offset term for one of the vacancies. To ensure continuity on the Committee, and to return to the usual pattern of vacancies on the Committee, one of the current Sprout members has agreed to stay on for a third term. We are seeking confirmation from the ESS membership that you approve this term extension. You can fill out the ballot below, or use the attached Word document ballot. In either case, please be sure to mark your choices clearly -- and again, send your completed ballots to Kate Neville: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Thanks! Your Nominations Committee Tabitha Benney [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, Teresa Kramarz [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, Graeme Auld [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, Kate Neville [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ESS 2016 Ballot Please check the boxes to the left of the chosen candidates’ names for each position/Committee with an “X.” Executive Committee (6 members, rolling 2-year terms): 3 vacancies Continuing members: Juliann Emmons Allison (University of California, Riverside), Shannon Orr (Bowling Green State University), Samuel Barkin (University of Massachusetts Boston) ___ DG Webster: Dr. Webster's main research interest is in understanding feedbacks within global scale social-ecological systems (SESs). She is author of two books. The second, Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries (2015), explains the evolution of global fisheries governance through a responsive governance lens, showing how fisheries all over the world cycle through periods of effective and ineffective governance in what she calls the management treadmill. Her first book, Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Tuna Management (2009 MIT Press) posited and tested her vulnerability response framework. It won the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award in 2010. She is currently exploring new methods for exploring SESs as the lead PI on a multi-institutional project called Fishscape: Modeling the Complex Dynamics of the Fishery for Tropical Tunas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, which is funded through NSF’s Coupled Natural and Human Systems program, and an internally funded project that uses agent based modeling to better understand the relationship between Consumer Choice and Sustainability. Her homepage can be found here: http://sites.dartmouth.edu/websterlab/ ____ Pia M. Kohler: I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Williams College (Williamstown, MA USA). My research and teaching interest is in environmental politics and policy, and I specialize in science-policy interfaces and the governance of hazardous wastes and chemicals. I have conducted research on expert institutions in global environmental politics, including the IPCC (climate change), IPBES (biodiversity and ecosystem services) and subsidiary bodies under the Montreal Protocol on ozone, the Stockholm Convention on POPs, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. My recent work on the negotiation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury appeared in RECIEL (with Jessica Templeton, LSE). I am originally from Switzerland and am also Canadian. I have been a member of ESS since 2006 and would look forward to serving on the Executive Committee. ____ Wil Burns, Co-Chair, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, American University. I currently serve as Co-Director of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, a scholarly initiative of the School of International Service at American University. My work focuses on international climate change law and policy, including climate geoengineering and assessment of market-based emissions reduction mechanisms. I have served on the ESS¹s Sprout Committee over the past two years, including as Chair, as well as Chair and Vice-Chair of the International Law Section (in prehistoric times). I would be particularly interested in working to enhance collaboration with allied organizations and groups, with an eye to increasing interdisciplinary research, as well as to help us develop additional outreach strategies to highlight the work of our group¹s members. Nominations Committee (4 members, rolling 2-year terms): 2 vacancies Continuing members: Teresa Kramartz (University of Toronto), Tabitha Benney (University of Utah) ____ Deborah Barros Leal Farias is from Ceará, a small state in Brazil’s Northeastern region. She has Bachelor degrees in Economy and Law, a MA in International Relations – all from Brazilian universities – and a PhD in Political Science from UBC (Dec/2014). Adding to her multidisciplinary interest, she just finished a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at UBC’s Wood Science Department, investigating politics and policies related to advanced biofuels. Her main current research interests center around clean energies in all modes of transportation (especially air and maritime), geopolitical aspects of renewable energies, and environmental politics & policies of non-OECD G20 countries (particularly BRICS countries). Prior to coming to UBC she taught International Law for eight years and worked for the Ceara State Government. She is also a (guilt-prone) mother, suffers from constant episodes of “impostor syndrome”, and boxes for fun. She hopes to expand her network and enthusiastically support ESS’ activities. ____ Shana Starobin is a Regulation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, with research interests in the politics of transnational regulation and institutional innovation in the governance of trade in food and natural resources. With broad interests in global environmental politics and public policy, her current work examines how producers of agricultural commodities—especially smallholder farmers in emerging economies—respond as targets of global rules, such as private certification schemes for quality, safety and environmental criteria. A current PhD candidate at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, Shana also holds two Masters degrees from Duke in Environmental Management and Public Policy. In 2017, Shana will begin an appointment as Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College. ____ Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University. Kim's research examines the interactions between norm diffusion and institution building to uncover barriers to justice in global environmental governance. Her current book project, The Justice Gap in Global Forest Governance, explores the institutional dynamics of justice in forest governance across multiple scales, from the household and village levels in Laos to international negotiations for the Convention on Biological Diversity. Recent work appears in Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, and Politics, Groups, and Identities. She also recently launched a new project on indigenous representation in global environmental governance (www.presence2influence.org<http://www.presence2influence.org/>) that seeks to examine the links between representation and the pursuit of justice. As a former conservation practitioner, Kim is also a member of IUCN's Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy and serves on the executive committee of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center. Sprout Committee Members (5 members, rolling 2-year terms) Continuing members (to 2017): Josh Gellers (University of North Florida), Raul Pacheco-Vega (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE)), Rachel Tiller (SINTEF), Fengshi Wu (Nanyang Technological University) 1 two-year vacancy, 1 candidate ____Beth DeSombre: I'm the Frost Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley College. I'm a former chair of the ISA Environmental Studies Section, and a former ISA Program chair. My work focuses primarily on issues of the global commons, most recently various aspects of ocean issues (fisheries, pollution, shipping). I've published six books on international environmental politics, the first of which won two book prizes. I'm also the book review editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics, so I'm in touch with a lot of what's being published in the field. 1 one-year extension for a current Sprout member (to 2018), 1 candidate ____Fengshi Wu: Fengshi Wu (BA from Peking University, PhD from University of Maryland), Associate Professor, is specialized in social forces in global politics and governance, environmental politics, and political transition in China. She is a leading expert on China’s environmental politics and social activism. 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