Profile

Ken Conca

Professor
School of International Service

  • Additional Positions at AU

    Program Director, Global Environmental Politics
  • Dr. Ken Conca’s research and teaching focus on global environmental governance, environmental peacebuilding in war-torn societies, environmental politics and policy in the United Nations system, water governance, and environmental policy analysis. He is the author/editor of several books on international environmental politics, including Governing Water, Confronting Consumption, Environmental Peacemaking, The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance, and the widely used teaching anthology Green Planet Blues. Dr. Conca is a two-time recipient of the International Studies Association’s Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book on international environmental affairs and a recipient of the Chadwick Alger Prize for best book in the field of International Organization. He is a member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Expert Advisory Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding.
  • Degrees

    PhD, University of California, Berkeley; M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sc.B., Brown University
  • Favorite Spot on Campus:

    SIS Atrium; Dav
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  • SIS - School of International Service
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  • SPRING 2013: Wednesdays 1:00-5:00 (by prior appointment), Thursdays 12:00-2:00 (drop-in)
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Teaching

  • Spring 2013

    • SIS-620 Stds in Global Envirn Politics: Policy Analysis for GEP
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  • Fall 2013

    • SIS-620 Stds in Global Envirn Politics: Water Governance
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