TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE:
​PRACTICES TO ENGAGE STUDENTS AND BUILD COMMUNITY

(Edward Elgar, 2023)​

This ground-breaking book presents interdisciplinary educators with classroom tools and strategies to integrate environmental justice into their courses. Providing accessible, flexible, and evidence-based pedagogical approaches designed by a multidisciplinary team of scholars, it centers equity and justice in student learning and course design. It further presents a model for community-based faculty development that can communicate those pedagogical approaches across disciplines.Key features include:
Reflection on how to teach inclusively across disciplines, with a focus on community-based faculty development.
Presentation of a blend of insights from diverse disciplines, including art, astronomy, ecology, economics, history, political science, and online education.
A focus on how to stimulate student engagement to improve students’ empirical and conceptual understanding of environmental politics.
Detailed instructions for both introductory and more advanced active learning assignments and classroom activities, including guidance on how to manage common challenges and adapt activities to specific learning environments, particularly online formats

"What an absolutely phenomenal resource! Jinnah, Dubreuil, Greene and Foster have pulled together an incredible and diverse collection of experiments, projects, practices, and reflections on teaching environmental justice. There is so much here to motivate, engage, and inspire students – and to address the injustices they face. I can’t wait to get it into the classroom."
                                                                                                                                                                                                               – David Schlosberg, University of Sydney (2023)

"In this unique and eclectic collection, an esteemed team of scholars charts the pedagogical domain of environmental justice. Drawing on experience from multiple branches of the physical and social sciences, they give teachers theoretical and practical tools for engaging students in understanding and realizing a more just and sustainable world."
                                                                                                                                                                                        – Paul G. Harris, Education University of Hong Kong (2023)

"It is high time for this brilliant and innovative book that teaches us how to teach environmental justice creatively, collaboratively and across disciplines. Environmental justice is one of the most urgent matters of our times – and teaching is the most important and powerful tool we have to achieve it. The authors and collaborators provide us with an inspiring and invaluable repertoire of tools, projects, experiences and reflections to meet this challenge in the classroom and beyond."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  – Fariborz Zelli, Lund University (2023)

"Teaching Environmental Justice: Practices to Engage Students and Build Community offers an accessible, flexible, and evidence-based collection of teaching examples, strategies, and classroom tools to help integrate environmental justice into courses in ways that center equity in course design and the student learning experience. "
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     - Public Affairs, UC Santa Cruz (2023)​

TRAJECTORIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
(Routledge, 2022)

This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics.The book has two purposes. The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to oversights and silences, and the marginalisation of important forms of analysis and thought. As several chapters in the book explore, problem-solving frameworks have increasingly taken away space from more radical systemic challenge and critique, as the key themes of environmental politics have become ever more central to the field of politics as a whole – and as our understandings of social and environmental crisis become ever clearer and more urgent. The second purpose of the volume is to map out a series of new and developing agendas for environmental politics.
The chapters in this volume focus foremost on questions of justice, materiality, and power. Discussing state violence, multispecies justice, epistemic injustice, the circular economy, NGOs, parties, green transition, and urban climate governance, they call above all for greater attention to intersectionality and interdisciplinarity, and for centering key insights about power relations and socio-economic inequalities into increasingly widespread, yet also often depoliticised, topics in the study of environmental politics.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

​GREENING THROUGH TRADE
​HOW AMERICAN TRADE POLICY IS LINKED TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ABROAD
( MIT Press, 2020)
***FINALIST FOR the 2021 CANADIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION'S PRIZE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ***

How the environmental provisions in US preferential trade agreements affect both the environmental policies of trading partners and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements.
As trade negotiations within the World Trade Organization seem permanently stalled, countries turn increasingly to preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between smaller groups of nations. Many of these PTAs incorporate environmental provisions, some of which require trading partners to enact new domestic environmental laws, and use the enforcement mechanisms available within trade agreements as tools for environmental protection. In Greening through Trade, Sikina Jinnah and Jean-Frédéric Morin provide the first detailed examination of how the environmental provisions in US preferential trade agreements affect both the environmental policies of trading partners and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements. They do so through a combination of in-depth qualitative case studies and quantitative analysis of an original dataset of 688 global PTAs.

Jinnah and Morin explore the effects of linkages between PTAs and environmental treaties and the diffusion of environmental norms and policy through PTAs. Centrally, they argue that US trade agreements can serve as mechanisms both to export environmental policies to trading partner nations and third-party countries and to enhance the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements by strengthening their enforcement capacity. They caution that PTAs are not a panacea for environmental governance; deeper problems of unsustainable consumption and differential power dynamics between trading partners must be carefully navigated in deploying trade agreements for environmental protection.

"A major strength of Greening through Trade is its presentation and analysis of nuanced, varied, and wide-ranging data. Using the TREND data, alongside extensive case studies that employ both process tracing of governmental and institutional reports and interviews with officials and activists in the United States and abroad, Jinnah and Morin assess the proliferation and networks of the trade–environment link and WTO environmental policies and disputes." 
                                                                                                                                                                                                      - Ida Bastiaens, International Studies Review (2020)
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​"Greening through Trade is a well-structured venture into an expanding policy area, which, thanks to its written delivery, remains captivating and accessible for trade policy experts, scholars from diverse disciplines, and practitioners alike."
                                                                                                                                                                                                            - Dennis Kolcava, Environmental Politics (2023)

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
​ UNDERSTANDING THE GOVERNANCE OF THE EARTH
(Oxford University Press, 2020)

Global Environmental Politics provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues dominating this fast-moving field. Going beyond the issue of climate change, the text also introduces readers to the pressing issues of desertification, trade in hazardous waste, biodiversity protection, whaling, acid rain, ozone-depletion, water consumption, and over-fishing. Importantly, the text pays particular attention to the interactions between environmental politics and other governance issues, such as gender, trade, development, health, agriculture, and security. Adopting an analytical approach, the text explores and evaluates a wide variety of political perspectives, testing assumptions and equipping readers with the necessary tools to develop their own arguments and, ultimately, inspiring new research endeavours in this diverse field.

"Global Environmental Politics is a remarkably sophisticated as well as comprehensive analysis of environmental practices, institutions, and policies."
                                                                                                                                                                                                              -Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University (2020)

"The analytic focus and conceptual breadth ensure this text will be useful for a wide range of courses on environmental politics."
                                                                                                                                                                                        -Professor Matthew Hoffman, University of Toronto (2020)
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"Global Environmental Politics is a must-have resource in the classroom."
                                                                                                                          -Liliana Andonova, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2020)

​New earth Politics
​ Essays from the Anthropocene

(MIT Press, 2016)

This volume assembles prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental politics to consider the ecological and political realities of life on the New Earth. Our intention in introducing the “New Earth” metaphor as an organizing tool was to provide our contributors the freedom to connect their prior work to the emerging Anthropocene literature, and to explore the changing nature of global environmental politics without being tethered to the terminological debates that currently characterize Anthropocene studies. We asked contributors to give particular thought to the relationship between traditional scholarly activities and the practical work of generating social and political change. The resulting essays range from meditations on the social and political drivers of environmental harm to musings on the state of environmental pedagogy, from analysis of the links between the environment and geopolitics to cutting-edge thinking about the future of environmental social movements, and from insights on the struggle to build more appropriate international environmental institutions to examinations of the imperative to craft more compelling narratives in the service of global environmental action. 

"Each chapter is usefully summarized at the end for easy reference, and the final chapter is separated into two sections: one addressing academic readers interested in theory development, and the other outlining research-based recommendations for practitioners. Readers in the academy and beyond will appreciate the book’s jargon-free style and clarity. It is worth checking out."
                                                                                                                                                                                                      - Fariborz Zelli, Global Environmental Politics (2017)

"This is a book primarily for scholars in the field, to provoke us to reflect on all of our scholarly practices. It will be excellent for Ph.D. students and new scholars to think through how they want to engage the world over the coming decades, as well as for established scholars to engage in a 'reality check' as to how they need to reorient their work to be more adequate to the challenges we face. As such, it is a highly rewarding provocation."
                                                                                                                                                                                                  - Matthew Paterson, Review of Policy Research (2017)

​Post-Treaty Politics
​ Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance

​(MIT Press, 2014) 
***Winner of ISA's 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout award***

Secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—would seem simply to do the bidding of member states. And yet, as Sikina Jinnah argues in Post-Treaty Politics, secretariats can play an important role in world politics. On paper, secretariats collect information, communicate with state actors, and coordinate diplomatic activity. In practice, they do much more. As Jinnah shows, they can influence the allocation of resources, the structures of interstate cooperation, and the power relationships between states.

Jinnah examines secretariat influence through the lens of overlap management in environmental governance—how secretariats help to manage the dense interplay of issues, rules, and norms between international treaty regimes. Through four case studies, she shows that secretariats can draw on their unique networks and expertise to handle the challenges of overlap management, emerging as political actors in their own right.

After presenting a theory and analytical framework for analyzing secretariat influence, Jinnah examines secretariat influence on overlap management within the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), two cases of overlap management in the World Trade Organization, as well as a case in which the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) secretariat failed to influence political outcomes despite its efforts to manage overlap. Jinnah argues that, even modest secretariat influence matters because it can establish a path-dependent dynamic that continues to guide state behavior even after secretariat influence has waned.
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“Post-Treaty Politics by Sikina Jinnah is a wonderful new monograph about the nitty-gritty details of everyday life in global governance...Jinnah meticulously lays out her theory, operationalizes the concepts, and examines the cases on the basis of her operationalization. Theory and empirics are combined in an exemplary fashion with the conclusion bringing all the results together. It is difficult to fault the research design or how it is carried out…the empirical cases provide wonderful day-to-day details of what global environmental governance is all about. The book is therefore certainly a must-read for the environmental crowd and scholars interested in how global governance works in practice." 
                                                                                                                        - Hylke Dijkstra, Review of International Organizations (2015)

“This book provides a rigorous and novel approach to assessing secretariat influence..… It is about time. The field is more mature thanks to Jinnah’s book, and it should be on the required reading list of all active GEP scholars. I also recommend it for graduate GEP courses and for IO secretariat staffs wanting to better understand their limitations as well as potential avenues for influence.”
                                                                                                                   - Owen Temby, Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2015)

"Jinnah's book can act as a bridge between traditional, state-based rationalist regime theory and the literature on alternative global environmental governance patterns, by highlighting the circumstances in which change in those patterns is likely to be driven by a particular set of nonstate actors."
                                                                                                                                - J. Samuel Barkin, Global Environmental Politics (2015)                                                             

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