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Teaching Environmental Justice: Practices to Engage Students and Build Community (Edward Elgar, 2023). 
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Dr. Sikina Jinnah is a Professor of Environmental Studies, and the Robert Headley Presidential Chair in Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). She is the Associate Director for the UCSC Center for Reimagining Leadership (CRL) where she also directs CRL's Climate Justice Fellows Program. She is also an 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Her research focuses on global environmental governance, with a focus on climate change, solar geoengineering, and the nexus between international trade and environmental politics. Most recently she has been working to develop theoretically derived recommendations for the governance of solar geoengineering technologies. She publishes on this topic in her academic work, recently in Science, WIRES Climate Change, and Energy Research and Social Science, and in her capacity as co-chair of the recently concluded Advisory Committee for Harvard University's Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx). Her first book ("Post-treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance," MIT Press 2014) received the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book in international environmental affairs from the International Studies Association. The book examines the role of international bureaucracies in managing the politics of overlapping international regimes in the areas of biodiversity, climate change and international trade. Her second book (with Simon Nicholson), "New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene" (MIT Press 2016) engages leading scholars in a discussion over the role of global environmental politics in the age of the Anthropocene. Her 2020 book, "Greening through Trade" (MIT) examines the role of US preferential trade agreements in influencing environmental politics abroad and was a finalist for the 2021 Canadian Political Science Association's Prize in International Relations. She is also the co-author of a textbook entitled, "Global Environmental Politics: Understanding the Governance of the Earth" (Oxford University Press, 2020). She also the editor of "Trajectories in Environmental Politics" (Routledge 2022) and "Teaching Environmental Politics and Justice" (2023, Edward Elgar). Dr. Jinnah's research has also been published in several scholarly journals, including: Nature Geoscience, Global Environmental Politics, Global Governance, International Studies Review, Environmental Politics, the Journal of Environment and Development, Environmental Research Letters, Berkeley Journal of International Law Publicist, Climate Policy, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Energy Research and Social Science, and Science. Jinnah currently serves on the editorial board for the journal Global Environmental Politics, and Environmental Politics, and co-edits an MIT Press book series (with Simon Nicholson), called One Planet. She also serves on the UC Press Editorial Board. Prior to coming to UCSC Jinnah was an Assistant and Associate Professor of International Relations at American University's School of International Service. She held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies and was also a consultant for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), where she reported on CITES and UNFCCC processes for IISD's Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Degrees: PhD, Environmental Science, Policy and Management U.C. Berkeley MS, Environmental Studies University of Montana, Missoula BA (honors), Environmental Science U.C. Berkeley |