Environmental policy analyst, author to speak on 'statehouse and greenhouse' on Sept. 28
| September 16, 2005 | |
| Dr. Barry Rabe, an environmental policy expert whose book “Statehouse and Greenhouse” looks at the politics of American climate change policy, will give a lecture on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28.The free lecture, “Beyond Washington, D.C.: States as the Driving Forces in American Climate Change Policy,” is part of the Carolina Environmental Program’s 2005-2006 Environmental Seminar Series. The location will be the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building auditorium. A reception will follow.
Rabe’s areas of research include climate change policy in the United States and Canada, and policy issues dealing with transport and storage of hazardous and low-level radioactive waste. He has been director of the University of Michigan’s Program in the Environment and interim dean of its School of Natural Resources and Environment. Currently, he is a professor in Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Rabe has published numerous articles and books and is president of the American Political Science Association’s public policy section. His works include “Statehouse and Greenhouse: the Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy” (2004) and “Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States” (1994). “Statehouse and Greenhouse” recently received the American Political Science Association’s Lynton Keith Caldwell Award for the best book published in environmental politics and policy in the last three years. The Carolina Environmental Program is a multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to addressing factors that build an environmentally sustainable society. The program offers majors in environmental science and environmental studies within the College of Arts and Sciences and environmental health science within the School of Public Health; fosters collaborative research on large-scale environmental challenges; and provides technical assistance, training and up-to-date information on environmental issues to N.C. communities. – 30 – Carolina Environmental Program contact: Tony Reevy, (919) 966-9927 or tony_reevy@unc.edu News Services contact: Deb Saine, (919) 962-8415 or deborah_saine@unc.edu For further information please contact Ramona DuBose by email at ramona_dubose@unc.edu |
