Peter Dauvergne is a Professor of Political Science with a focus on the politics of global environmental change. He is the Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics and holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant (2010-2013) on the “Global Environmental Politics of Eco-Consumerism.” His current projects include sustainable consumption and corporate social responsibility. Since joining the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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 in 2002, Dauvergne has served as the Director of the Environment Program at the Liu Institute for Global Issues (2003-2005), the Associate Dean for Strategic Intiatives and Development in the Faculty of Arts (2003-2008), and is currently the Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues

Liu Institute for Global Issues

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An award-winning author, Dauvergne has written over 50 articles and 9 books, including the Gerald L. Young best book authored in 2008 in the field of human ecology, the Shadows of Consumption (MIT Press, 2008). As well, although no longer active in international tournaments, he is a Canadian chess master with an international FIDE rating of 2232.

Publications

• Timber (co-authored with Jane Lister) (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011).
• Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (co-authored with Jennifer Clapp), second edition (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011).
• (editor) Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, second edition (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming in January 2012).
• The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment (MIT Press, 2008; released in paperback in 2010). (Recipient of the 2009 Gerald L. Young Book Award in Human Ecology, presented by the Society for Human Ecology for the best book authored in 2008 exemplifying the highest standard of scholarly work in the field of human ecology.)
• Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism (Scarecrow Press, 2009). Released in Paperback in December 2009 as The A to Z of Environmentalism (Scarecrow Press, 2009).
• Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment(co-authored with Jennifer Clapp) (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005), (pp. xix + 305). (Second Printing in 2006.) (Japanese Translation in 2008.)
• (editor) Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005) (pp. xvii + pp. 538). (Paperback released in 2006.).
• Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific: Corporations and Environmental Management (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
• (editor), Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies (Allen and Unwin, 1998).
• Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997). (Recipient of the International Studies Association's 1998 Sprout Award for the best book in international environmental affairs.)