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APSA Panels 2004 -- STEP

Policy Tools and Styles: What Fosters Environmental Protection?
Protecting the Commons: Emerging Strategies in Natural Resource Management
Revisiting Policy Learning
Theme Panel: The Environment and Global Inequalities
Comparative Dimensions of Environmental Politics
Environment, NGOs and Global Advocacy
Perspectives on Biotechnology
New Fronts in the Struggle for Environmental Justice and Global Equality
Explaining Biotechnology Policy: Country and Issue Comparisons


Policy Tools and Styles: What Fosters Environmental Protection?
Date: Sunday, Sep 5, 8:00 AM
Chair: William R. Lowry, lowry@artsci.wustl.edu, Washington University
Author(s): Economic Inequality, Environmental Quality, and International Development
Gary C. Bryner, gary_bryner@byu.edu, Brigham Young University

Do Environmental Policy Styles Matter? Evidence from Canada and the United States
Kathryn Harrison, khar@interchange.ubc.ca, University of British Columbia

Do Voluntary Programs Matter? An Empirical Examination of ISO 14001 Adoption and Firms` Environmental Performance
Matthew Potoski, potoski@iastate.edu, Iowa State University
Aseem Prakash, aseem@u.washington.edu, University of Washington, Seattle

The Political Foundations of Economic Valuation
Carol L. Silva, clsilva@tamu.edu, Texas A&M University

Discussant(s): William R. Lowry, lowry@artsci.wustl.edu, Washington University
Co-Discussant(s): Michael E. Kraft, kraftm@uwgb.edu, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

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Protecting the Commons: Emerging Strategies in Natural Resource Management
Date: Friday, Sep 3, 4:15 PM
Chair: Amy R. Poteete, apoteete@uno.edu, University of New Orleans
Author(s):

Beyond Path Dependency: Hard Institutions and the Logic of Appropriateness in Pacific Northwest Forestry
Benjamin W Cashore, benjamin.cashore@yale.edu, Yale University
Michael Howlett, howlett@sfu.ca, Simon Fraser University

Integrating Across the Problem-shed: The Emergence of Collaborative Institutions for Natural Resource Management
Tanya Heikkila, th2063@columbia.edu, Columbia University
Andrea K. Gerlak, akg2004@columbia.edu, Guilford College

Belief Change and Coalition Stability in San Francisco Bay-Delta Water Policy 1953-1996
Dorothy Daley, ddaley@wisc.edu, University of Wisconsin
William D. Leach, bleach@ccp.csus.edu, California State University, Sacramento

Profitable Parks: Comparative National Parks Policy in Canada and the United States
Shannon Kathryn Orr, ah2608@wayne.edu, Bowling Green State University

Accountability and Authority of Watershed Management Associations
Philip A. Mundo, ckeyser@drew.edu, Drew University

Discussant(s): Craig W. Thomas, cthomas@polsci.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Revisiting Policy Learning
Date: Thursday, Sep 2, 10:15 AM
Chair: Peter J. May, pmay@u.washington.edu, University of Washington
Author(s):

Fisheries Policy Learning: The Interplay of Information, Interests, and Institutions
Betsi Beem, ebeem@u.washington.edu, University of Washington

Learning from Disaster: Policy Change after Catastrophic Events
Thomas A. Birkland, birkland@albany.edu, SUNY-Albany

Learning, Adaptive Management and Wildfire Policy
George J Busenberg, george.busenberg@cudenver.edu, University of Colorado, Denver

Measuring Perceptions of Causes of Water Quality Decline in the Lake Tahoe Basin: An Advocacy Coalition Approach to Policy Learning
Chris Weible, cmweible@ucdavis.edu, Center for Environmental Conflict Analysis
Mark Nechodom, mnechodom@fs.fed.us, USDA Forest Service, Pacific SW Research Station

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Theme Panel: The Environment and Global Inequalities
Date: Thursday, Sep 2, 4:15 PM
Chair: Paul Bodnar, bodnar@fas.harvard.edu, Harvard University
Author(s):

Democratizing Global Governance: Stakeholder Democracy at the World Summit for Sustainable Development
Michael Saward, m.j.saward@open.ac.uk, Open University

Inequalities in Implementation of International Environmental Policy: Who is Protecting the Global Commons?
Nives Dolsak, NDolsak@uwb.edu, University of Washington, Bothell

Water Resource Management Policy and the Globalization of Inequity
Richard R. Marcus, Yale University

The Politics of Urban Environmental Regulation in the Developing and Developed Worlds: The Example of Air Quality
Jefferey M. Sellers, sellers@usc.edu, University of Southern California

Discussant(s): Elizabeth R. DeSombre, edesombr@wellesley.edu, Wellesley College

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Comparative Dimensions of Environmental Politics
Date: Saturday, Sep 4, 4:15 PM
Chair: Hongyuan Yu, yuhongyuan@hotmail.com, Lingnan University of Hong Kong
Author(s):

The Effects of Domestic Politics on International Institutional Effectiveness in the 1987 Montreal Protocol
Joel R. Carbonell, carboj01@student.ucr.edu, University of California

The Political Economy of Environmental Protection in Mexico
Justin Pearlman, jp8@duke.edu, Duke University

Economic Globalization and the Environment: A Comparative Case Study of Two Chinese Cities
Sangbum Shin, sshin@indiana.edu, Indiana University

Havoc and Harmony over International Rivers
Neda A. Zawahri, naz2p@virginia.edu, University of Virginia

Democracy and the Environment: The Impact of Institutional Variations on Policy Outcome
Jennifer L. Bailey, jennifer.bailey@svt.ntnu.no, NTNU Drgavoll

Discussant(s): Clark C. Gibson, ccgibson@ucsd.edu, University of California, San Diego

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Environment, NGOs and Global Advocacy
Date: Saturday, Sep 4, 2:00 PM
Chair: David Schlosberg, david.schlosberg@nau.edu, Northern Arizona University
Author(s):

Globalization(s) and the Diffusion of Non-Governmental Regimes: The Case of ISO 14001
Aseem Prakash, aseem@u.washington.edu, University of Washington, Seattle
Matthew Potoski, potoski@iastate.edu, Iowa State University

Sustainable Agriculture and Civil Society: Is Smaller Better?
Anne M. Hallum, ahallum@stetson.edu, Stetson University

Strategic Alliances Between Scientists and Grassroots Advocates: The Emergence of Translational Politics
Agnes Gereben Schaefer, agschaef@princeton.edu, Princeton University

The Role of Science and Scientists in the Environmental Policy Process: A Pacific Northwest Case Study
Brent S. Steel, bsteel@orst.edu, Oregon State University

Discussant(s): Tomas Koontz, koontz.31@osu.edu, Ohio State University

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Perspectives on Biotechnology
Date: Thursday, Sep 2, 2:00 PM
Chair: J. P. Singh, jps6@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University
Author(s):

Banishing Idols: Toward the Reconciliation of Democracy and Environmentalism
Robert V. Bartlett, bartlett@polsci.purdue.edu, Boise State University
Walter F. Baber, wfbaber@hotmail.com, California State University, Long Beach

Biotech Food and Changes in World Politics
Bryan McDonald, bmcdonal@uci.edu, University of California, Irvine

The Politics of Biotechnology in the United States: Medical and Agricultural Applications Compared
Adam Sheingate, adam.sheingate@jhu.edu, Johns Hopkins University

The Nation's Bioethics Seminar on Hawthorne's Birthmark
Albert K. Whitaker, albert.whitaker.1@bc.edu, Boston College

Discussant(s): Mark B. Brown, mbrown@csus.edu, California State University, Sacramento

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New Fronts in the Struggle for Environmental Justice and Global Equality
Date: Saturday, Sep 4, 8:00 AM
Chair: Andrea Y. Simpson, asimp@u.washington.edu, University of Richmond
Author(s):

I'm Changing the Climate! Ask Me How!: The Politics of the Anti-SUV Campaign
Sarah B. Pralle, sbpralle@maxwell.syr.edu, Syracuse University

Environmental Justice Concerns with Open Space Preservation Policies
Robert R. Rodgers, rrodgers@princeton.edu, Princeton University

The War on Bio-Piracy: A Front on Combatting the Global Divide
Laura Ann Root, rootla@yahoo.com, American University of Paris

Policies to Reduce Inequality, Lower Poverty, and Increase Productivity Are Health Policy
Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, prosenau@sph.uth.tmc.edu, University of Texas, Houston

Civic Environmentalism: When it Works and Where it Fails
Mary Hallock Morris, mhmorris@usi.edu, University of Southern Indiana

Discussant(s): Frank N. Laird, flaird@du.edu, University of Denver
Co-Discussant(s): Andrea Y. Simpson, asimp@u.washington.edu, University of Richmond

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Explaining Biotechnology Policy: Country and Issue Comparisons
Date: Friday, Sep 3, 2:00 PM
Chair: Ivar A. Bleiklie, ivar.bleiklie@aorg.uib.no, University of Bergen
Author(s):

Why Restrictive Policies? Explaining Policy Design on ART and GM Food in Germany and Switzerland
Christine Rothmayr, christine.rothmayr@politic.unige.ch, University of Geneva

Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology and Genetically Modified Organisms in Canada and the United States: Divergence in the Face of Economic Proximity
Eric Montpetit, e.montpetit@umontreal.ca, Universite de Montreal

Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology and Genetically Modified Organisms: A Comparative Perspective on Japan
Uwe I. Serdult, serduelt@pwi.unizh.ch, University of Zurich

Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology and Genetically Modified Organisms in France and Belgium: A Technocratic Strong State Versus a Fragmented Multi-National Democracy?
Nathalie Schiffino, schiffino@spri.ucl.ac.be, Université Catholique de Louvain

Governing Biotechnology: A Comparative Study of Swedish and Norwegian Policy on ARTs and GMOs
Francesca Scala, fscala@sympatico.ca, Concordia University

Discussant(s): Susanne Luetz, University of Hagen
Co-Discussant(s): Ivar A. Bleiklie, ivar.bleiklie@aorg.uib.no, University of Bergen

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