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Stephens, Scott
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:24am.Name of Person:
Scott Stephens
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Department:
ESPM, Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Scott Stephens is interested in the interactions of wildland fire and ecosystems. This includes how prehistoric fires once interacted with ecosystems, how current wildland fires are affecting ecosystems, and how future fires and management may change this interaction. He is also interested in wildland fire policy and how it can be improved to meet the challenges of the next decades. How fire will be affected by climate change is a new area of research.
Winickoff, David
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:43am.Name of Person:
David Winickoff
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Department:
ESPM, Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Coming from law, bioethics, and STS (Science and Technology Studies), David Winickoff conducts research on the interaction of science, norms, and politics of human health and the environment, with a particular focus on the governance of biotechnology
Romm, Jeffrey
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:03am.Name of Person:
Jeffrey Romm
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
Relations between social distributions of power and wealth, economic growth, and natural resource qualities, and impacts of policy and organization on these relations, exploring how scientific and cultural concepts, the organization of knowledge, and scientific research, affect public discourse about and actions toward environmental problems, the impacts of institutional relations on the management of watersheds and river basins and the interplay between policies toward race and toward natural resources in the United States.
O'Neill, Kate
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 3:28pm.Name of Person:
Kate O'Neill
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Department:
ESPM, Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Kate O'Neill's research can be broadly situated in the fields of global and comparative environmental politics. She is interested in the ways different environmental political cultures produce differing policy outputs, and in how these subsequently affect and are affected by the international arena.
Fairfax, Sally
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 2:30pm.Name of Person:
Sally Fairfax
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
Sally Fairfax's research has always focused on public resources, principally those managed by the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Within that broad topic, her interests include legal aspects of resource administration, agency history and culture as it affects management decisions, and the relationship between federal and state governments.
Governance of Global Production
Submitted by cmjones on March 13, 2007 - 1:18pm.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
260
Course Title:
Governance of Global Production
Instructor:
O'Rourke
Description:
This course explores critical
policy and theoretical questions in the governance of global production.
Current trends in the restructuring of industrial production; distributions
of environmental, labor, and
social impacts from this production; and new strategies for democratic
governance are analyzed, including corporate self-regulation, monitoring,
certification and labeling, fair trade programs, legal strategies, and
international accords and agreements.
Units:
3
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Graduate
Transnational Environmental Politics and Movements
Submitted by cmjones on March 13, 2007 - 1:17pm.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
259
Course Title:
Transnational Environmental Politics and Movements
Instructor:
O'Neill
Description:
Contemporary issues in
international environmental
politics; impacts of globalization on the environment; comparative transnational environmental movements. Study of current and historical texts. Case
studies drawn from around the world with a focus on methods and research
techniques.
Units:
3
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Graduate
Science, Technology, and the Politics of Nature
Submitted by cmjones on March 13, 2007 - 1:15pm.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
256
Course Title:
Science, Technology, and the Politics of Nature
Instructor:
Winickoff
Description:
This course will introduce the
methods and theories of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in order to
explore the relationships among science, technology, law, and politics in the
domains of environment and
health. The course will focus some attention on the tension between
technocracy and democracy in science policy, and on the role of biotechnology
in reshaping the natural and political order. The course will equip graduate
students in the social sciences, law, life sciences, and public policy with
theoretical and practical tools for analyzing complex problems at the
science, technology, and society interface.
Units:
3
Offered:
Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
Advanced Readings in Political Ecology
Submitted by cmjones on March 13, 2007 - 1:10pm.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
253
Course Title:
Advanced Readings in Political Ecology
Instructor:
Peluso
Description:
Critique and comparison of
literature in political ecology--an approach to sociological analysis of environmental change focusing on environmental conflict. Initial
sessions address the definition of political ecology, its origins, and the
politics and discourses of natural resource management. Literature includes
domestic and international research involving the combination of social and environmental history, local
perspectives, and political economy to discuss accounts of social and environmental change.
Units:
4
Offered:
Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
International Environmental Politics
Submitted by cmjones on March 8, 2007 - 12:54pm.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
169
Course Title:
International Environmental Politics
Instructor:
O'Neill
Description:
The dynamics of international
politics are examined over the last 25 years. Attention is paid to different
perspectives in global environmental politics, the actors involved, how well
international agreements address the problems they are supposed to solve, and
the main debates in the field, including trade-environmental conflicts,
security, and environmental justice issues. Issues covered vary, but may
include climate change, biodiversity, population, and toxics.
Units:
4
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Undergraduate