Global Environmental Politics (GEP) Program
School of International Service
American University

 

 

Food, water, energy, climate

Garrett Graddy, “A Political-Cultural Ecology: Agrobiodiversity & cosmovisión in the Peruvian Andes.” Forthcoming in Agriculture & Human Values.

Ken Conca, “Water and Violent Conflict.” Forthcoming 2012 in Issues in Science and Technology.

Erich Vogt, “Current State of Climate Politics.” Environmental Policy and Law. 42 no. 3 920120: 189-198  

Simon Nicholson, “Feeding Ten Billion: A Dialogue Between Feed the Future and the International Research Community.” Report published by USAID and APLU, December 2011.

Simon Nicholson, “Feed the Future E-Consultation Summary: Synthesis of E-consultation Discussion Conducted May 9-27, 2011.” Based on work completed for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APUL). Available at https://www.aplu.org/document.doc?id=3251

Simon Nicholson, “Understanding and Governing the Global Food System,” Global Environmental Politics 11 no. 2 (2011): 120-125.

Garrett Graddy, “Agrarianism,” “Low Input Agriculture,” and “Home Gardens,” in D. Mulvaney, J. Golson, P. Robbins, eds., Green Food: An A-Z Guide (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2010).

Sikina Jinnah and Heather Wright, “Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity in REDD Implementation: What Can We Learn from Past Experience?” in Justin A. Daniels, ed., Advances in Environmental Research Volume 7 (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2010), pp. 1-7.

Sikina Jinnah and Douglas Bushey, “Evolving Responsibility? The Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibility in the UNFCCC," Berkeley Journal of International Law Publicist 28 no. 6 (2010): 1-10.

Sikina Jinnah, Douglas Bushey, Miquel Muñoz, and Kati Kulovesi) “Tripping Points: Barriers and Bargaining Chips on the Road to Copenhagen,” Environmental Research Letters. 4 (2009): 1-6.

Simon Nicholson, “A Sea Change in Food Aid?” Foreign Policy July 23, 2009.

Ken Conca, “U.S. Foreign Water Policy,” Journal of Environment and Development vol. 17 no. 3 (September 2008): 215-237.

Simon Nicholson, “Genetically Modified Organisms and Global Hunger: A Real Solution?” Sustainable Development Law and Policy 9 no. 1 (2008): 57-61, 77.

 

Global environmental governance: politics, law and institutions

Ken Conca, “The Rise of the Regional in Global Environmental Politics,” Global Environmental Politics 12 no. 4 (Fall 2012).

Sikina Jinnah, “Trade-Environment Politics: The Emerging Role of Regional Trade Agreements,” in Peter Dauvergne, ed., Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012).

Sikina Jinnah, “Singing the Unsung: The Key Role of Secretariats in Global Environmental Politics,” in Pamela Chasek and Lynn Wagner, eds., The Evolution of Global Environmental Negotiations: The Path from Rio (London: Routledge, 2012).

Sikina Jinnah and Alexandra Conliffe, “Climate Change Bandwagoning: Impacts of Climate Change on Global Environmental Governance,” in Pamela Chasek and Lynn Wagner, eds., The Evolution of Global Environmental Negotiations: The Path from Rio (London: Routledge, 2012).

Paul Wapner, “The Challenge of Planetary Bandwagoning,” Global Environmental Politics 11 no. 3 (August 2011).

Sikina Jinnah, “Introduction to Climate Change Bandwagoning: The Impacts of Strategic Linkages on Regime Design, Maintenance, and Death” Global Environmental Politics 11 no. 3 (2011): 1-9.

Sikina Jinnah, “Marketing Linkages: Secretariat Governance of the Climate-Biodiversity Interface” Global Environmental Politics. 11 no. 3 (2011): 23-43.

Sikina Jinnah, “Strategic Linkages: The Evolving Role of Trade Agreements in Global Environmental Governance” Journal of Environment and Development. 20 no. 2 (2011): 191-215.

Sikina Jinnah and Julia Kennedy, “A New Era of Trade-Environment Politics: Learning from US Leadership and its Consequences Abroad,” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations XII no. 1 (2011): 95-109.

Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, eds., Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, fourth edition 2010).

Sikina Jinnah, “Overlap Management in the World Trade Organization: Secretariat Influence on Trade-Environment Politics,” Global Environmental Politics. 11 no. 2 (2010): 54-79.

Sikina Jinnah, “The World Trade Organization,” in Paul Robbins, Dustin Mulvaney, and J. Geoffrey Golson, eds., Green Politics (Thousand Oaks: Sage Reference, 2010), 441-444.

Sikina Jinnah, “The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species,” in Steven I. Dutch, ed., The Encyclopedia of Global Warming (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009), pp. 281-283.

Sikina Jinnah, “The Convention on Biological Diversity,” in Steven I. Dutch, ed., The Encyclopedia of Global Warming (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009), pp 279-281.

Sikina Jinnah and Stefan Jungcurt, “Could Access Requirements Stifle Your Research?” Science Magazine 323 no. 5913 (2009): 644-645.

Jacob Park, Ken Conca and Matthias Finger, eds., The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability (London: Routledge, 2008).

 

China

Judith Shapiro, China’s Environmental Challenges (New York: Polity, 2012).

Judith Shapiro, “Prepare for War, Prepare for Famine”: Ecologic Effects of Chinese Economic Policy during Sino-Soviet Hostilities, Institute for Social Research (Hamburg; forthcoming)

Judith Shapiro, “Facing America’s Demons,” Chinadialogue.net, Three part series, 2010.

Judith Shapiro, “Introduction,” in China Environment Yearbook (Brill, 2008).

 

Environmental justice, human rights, ethics, and activism

Simon Nicholson, “Environmentalism: Cars, Farming, and Resource Insecurity,” in Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed., Making Sense of IR Theory (2nd ed) (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, forthcoming).

Ken Conca, Environmental Human Rights,” in Peter Dauvergne, editor, Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2012).

Simon Nicholson and Daniel Chong, “Jumping on the Human Rights Bandwagon: How Rights-based Linkages can Refocus Climate Politics,” Global Environmental Politics 11 no. 3 (2011): 121-136.

Paul Wapner, “Civil Society and the Emergent Green Economy,” Review of Policy Research 28 no. 5 (September 2011).

Paul Wapner, “Transitioning to a Green Economy: Citizens and Civil Society,” in Adil Najam and Henrik Selin, eds., Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economy, Pardee Center Task Force Reports, Boston University, 2011.

Paul Wapner, Living through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010).

Paul Wapner, “Sacrifice in an Age of Comfort,” in Michael Maniates and John Meyer, eds., The Politics of Sacrifice (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010).

Paul Wapner and Richard Matthew, “The Humanity of Global Environmental Ethics,” Journal of Environment and Development 18 no. 2 (Spring 2009).

Paul Wapner, “The Importance of Critical Environmental Studies in the New Environmentalism,” Global Environmental Politics 8 no. 1 (Winter 2008).

Paul Wapner, “The Ethics of the New Environmentalism,” International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change: Energy, Sustainability and Societal Change, December 2008.

 

Environment, conflict, and peacebuilding

Ken Conca and Jennifer Wallace, “Environment and Peacebuilding in War-Torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme’s Experience with Post-Conflict Assessment,”in David Jensen and Steve Lonergan, eds., Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Abingdon: EarthScan: 2012). Updated and revised version of article appearing originally in Global Governance (2009).

Jennifer Wallace and Ken Conca, “Peace through Sustainable Forest Management in Asia: the USAID Forest Conflict Initiative,” in Päivi Lujala and Siri Aas Rustad, Eds., High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Abingdon, UK: EarthScan, 2012). Also published in Carl Bruch, Mikiyasu Nakayama, and Ilona Coyle, Harnessing Natural Resources for Peacebuilding: Lessons from U.S. and Japanese Assistance (Washington: Environmental Law Institute, 2011).

Ken Conca and Jennifer Wallace, “Environment and Peacebuilding in War-Torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme’s Experience with Postconflict Assessment,” Global Governance 15 no. 4 (Oct-Dec 2009): 485-504.

Ken Conca, “The New Face of Water Conflict,” Environmental Change and Security Program Report 13 (2008-09): 76-79.

 

Politics, culture and society

Paul Wapner, “Outrage at Suffering, Awe at the Universe,” Tikkun, Vol. 17, no. 1, Winter 2011.

Paul Wapner, Humility in a Climate Age,” Tikkun, May/June 2010.

Ken Conca, “Naturalism as Mastery,” Tikkun, May/June 2010.

Simon Nicholson, “Intelligent Design? Unpacking Geoengineering’s Hidden Sacrifices,” in Michael Maniates and John Meyer, eds., The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010).

Garrett Graddy, “Politics of Scale” in D. Mulvaney, J. Golson, P. Robbins, eds., Green Politics: An A-Z Guide (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2010).

Garrett Graddy, “Gifting (Green Gifts),” “Seasonal Products,” “Vegetables and Fruits,” and “Baby Products” in J. Mansvelt, P. Robbins, and J. Golson, eds., Green Consumerism: An A-Z Guide (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2010).

Paul Wapner, “Earth Day at 40,” Environmental Justice, Vol. 3, no. 2, 2010.

Ken Conca, “An Environmental Agenda for Obama.” Dissent, Summer 2009, pp. 73-79.

Paul Wapner, “Empathetic Climate Policy,” Tikkun, Vol. 15, no. 1, January/February 2009.