Ronald Mitchell's Website

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PROFESSIONAL INFO

• Curriculum Vitae (with links to PDFs of all publications)
• Co-Director of DISCCRS (DISsertation initiative for the advancement of Climate Change ReSearch

Grants: 

• National Science Foundation: Analysis of the effects of environmental treaties (SES-0318374)
• National Science Foundation: Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Relationships and Early-Career Development to Advance Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change and Impacts (related grant) and-- find out more at the DISCCRS website

Member of:

• Oregon 2004 Governor's Advisory Group on Global Warming
• DIVERSITAS Scientific Committee for Core Project 3 on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity

Editorial Boards:

• International Organization
• Global Environmental Politics
• Journal of Environment and Development

UO Commencement Speech, 2008

CONTACT INFO

• PS477/577: International Environmental Politics
• Videos of lectures
• High School Curriculum Module on International Environmental Politics based on my course.
• Three students have won U of O Undergraduate Library Research Awards for papers written for this class:
  • 2009: Katherine Boom, Scholarship Winner: The Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
  • 2007: Erica Stevenson, Honorable Mention: The International Tropical Timber Agreements of 1983 and 1994
  • 2005: Dunya Chirchi, Scholarship Winner: The Combined Success of the International Tropical Timber Agreements

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Other Courses I Teach

• PS620: State of the Discipline (Blackboard)
• PS205: Intro to International Relations

Courses Taught In Past Years

• PS420/520: International Organization
• PS410/510: International Regimes
• PS199: Honors Seminar in the Social Sciences
• PS406: Field Studies and Internships
• Guidelines - HTML - Word
• Approval Form - HTML - Word

IEA Database Website

BOOKS

International Politics and the Environment (textbook, 2009)	International Environmental Politics (reference set, 2008)
Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence (edited volume, 2006)	Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea (book, 2006)

• Resources for Incoming Graduate Students
• Tips for Continuing Graduate Students
• Political Science Home Page (including information for Grad Students)

Teaching Materials

• Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
• International Regulation of Whaling
• Intentional Oil Pollution
• Tragedy of the Commons Games
• My uses of the web in teaching
• Learn about climate change from a top climate change scientist, Steve Schneider and if you want dramatic pictures of glaciers receding, most likely due to climate change, look around the Glacier Archive (in German but "a picture is worth a thousand words" just click on any of the towns to see pictures of dramatic glacial retreat. ).

VARIOUS HELPFUL LINKS

• ISA Environmental Studies Section Home Page
• U of O Environmental Studies Program