Book Seminar: European Union and Environmental Governance
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming book seminar on European Union and Environmental Governance (2015, Routledge) by Prof. Henrik Selin (Boston University) and Prof. Stacy D. VanDeveer (University of New Hampshire) on Friday, November 13, 2015 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm at the Pardee House at 67 Bay State Road. Lunch will be provided at the conclusion of the seminar.
Profs. Selin and VanDeveer will discuss the major current European and global environmental issues and debates, and the growing global role of EU environmental and sustainable development policies. They will provide both an historical overview and a discussion of future challenges to the realization of EU goals related to better environmental governance.
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About the Authors
Henrik Selin is Associate Professor in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where he conducts research and teaches classes on global politics, regional politics, and policy making for the environment and sustainable development.
Selin is the author, co-author, and co-editor of European Union and Environmental Governance (Routledge), Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management (MIT Press), Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press) and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate). He is also the author and co-author of more than four dozen reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous reports, reviews and commentaries.
Selin is the faculty coordinator for the IR & Environmental Policy MA program. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University.
Prior to his current faculty position, Selin was a Wallenberg Research Fellow in Environment and Sustainability in the Environmental Policy and Planning Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001–04), an Associate with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2001–03), and an Associate with the Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2003–04).
In addition, Selin is Managing Editor for the journal Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy.
Stacy D. VanDeveer is professor of political science and chair of the department at the University of New Hampshire. His teaching and research interests include international environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, comparative environmental politics, connections between environmental and security issues, the roles of expertise in policy making and the global politics of consumption and environmental and humanitarian degradation. He has received fellowships from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC. His research has also been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the European Union, and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), among others. In addition to authoring and co-authoring over 70 articles, book chapters, working papers and reports, he co-edited six books:Comparative Environmental Politics (MIT Press 2012); The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy (CQ Press 2010); Changing Climates in North American Politics (MIT Press 2009); Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics (Ashgate 2009); EU Enlargement and the Environment (Routledge 2005); and Saving the Seas (1997). He co-edits the journal Global Environmental Politics (MIT Press).