CIGI Chair in Global Environmental Governance

Balsillie School, Department of Environment and Resource Studies (UW)

Contact Information

Office Location:   EV2, Room 2016
Phone Number:  519.888.4567 x32068
Email:   jclapp @ uwaterloo.ca
Personal web site   http://www.environment.uwaterloo.ca/u/jclapp

Education

PhD in International Relations, London School of Economics, 1992
MSc in Politics of the World Economy, London School of Economics, 1988
BA Economics, University of Michigan, 1986

Areas of Specialization 

Global Environmental Governance
International Food and Agriculture Politics
Transnational Corporations and Environment/Food
Global Politics of Waste
Global Trade and Environment/Food
 

Short Bio

Jennifer Clapp is a CIGI Chair in Global Environmental Governance and Professor in both the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her published work covers a range of topics at the interface of the global economy, food, and the environment, including the politics of agricultural trade, food aid, agricultural biotechnology, and the role of transnational corporations in global environmental and food governance. She is author of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (co-authored with Peter Dauvergne, MIT Press, 2005); Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State and the World Bank in Guinea (MacMillan, 1997). She is co-editor of Corporate Accountability and Sustainable Development (with Peter Utting, OUP, 2008) and of Corporate Power in Global Agri-Food Governance (MIT Press, 2009) and the The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities (Wilfrid University Press). Professor Clapp is co-editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics (MIT Press) and editorial board member of the journal Global Governance. She also serves as Program Leader for the Environment and Resources Research Group at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Professor Clapp is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of food aid. Other research she is presently engaged with examines the global politics of plastic waste, a project supported by a SSHRC standard research grant.

Most recent scholarly publications

 Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (co-edited with Doris Fuchs, MIT Press) 2009, 301 pp.

 "Food Price Volatility and Vulnerability in the Global South: Considering the Global Economic Context", Third World Quarterly, September 2009.

 "Doing Away with Plastic Shopping Bags: Explaining International Patterns of Norm Adoption and Policy Diffusion (with Linda Swanston), Environmental Politics. Vol.18, No.3, 2009.

 "The Global Food Crisis and International Agricultural Policy: Which Way Forward?" Global Governance, Vol.15, No.2, 2009. 

 "Illegal GMO Releases and Corporate Responsibility: Questioning the Effectiveness of Voluntary Measures", Ecological Economics, Vol66, No.2-3, 2008, pp.348-358.

Recent academic / professional award

2007 - Outstanding Performance Award (University of Waterloo) 

Courses Taught

ERS-PSCI 604 Global Environmental Governance
ERS-PSCI 606 Governing Global Food and Agriculture 

Books 

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