Michele Betsill
Professor and Chair
About
Office Hours:
Wednesdays 11-12, Thursdays 3:30-4:30, or by appointmentRole:
FacultyPosition:
- Professor and Chair
Concentration:
- International Relations
- Environmental Politics and Policy
Department:
- Political Science
Education:
- PhD University of Colorado (2000)
Curriculum Vitae:
Biography
I joined the CSU Political Science faculty in 2000 after receiving my PhD at the University of Colorado-Boulder and completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. I teach courses in international relations and environmental politics. My research focuses on global environmental governance, with a particular emphasis on the role of non-state and sub-national actors in creating new mechanisms for steering society towards a more sustainable future. Although most of my work has focused on climate change, I have recently become interested in issues of natural resource extraction and marine conservation. I was a founding member of the Earth System Governance Project, a global social science network of scholars working at the interface of governance and global environmental change and am currently an Associate Editor for the Earth System Governance Journal.
Publications
- Graeme Auld, Michele M. Betsill, and Stacy VanDeveer. (2018). Transnational Governance for Mining and the Mineral Lifecycle. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 43.
- Malone, E. L., M. Betsill, S. Hughes, R. Kemp, L. Lutzenhiser, M. Moezzi, B. L. Preston, and T. O. West, 2018: Chapter 6: Social science perspectives on carbon. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report. [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 264-302, doi: 10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.Ch6
- Gurney, K. R., P. Romero-Lankao, S. Pincetl, M. Betsill, M. Chester, F. Creutzig, K. Davis, R. Duren, G. Franco, S. Hughes, L. R. Hutyra, C. Kennedy, R. Krueger, P. J. Marcotullio, D. Pataki, D. Sailor, and K. V. R. Schäfer,2018: Chapter 4: Understanding urban carbon fluxes. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report. [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 189-228, doi: 10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.Ch4
- Harriet Bulkeley, Michele M. Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew J. Hoffmann, Peter Newell, and Matthew Paterson. (2018). Transnational Governance: Charting new directions post-Paris. In Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt, and Johanna Forster (Ed.), Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in action? (pp. 63-80). Cambridge University Press.
- Matthew Paterson, Matthew Hoffmann, Michele Betsill, and Steven Bernstein. 2017. Professional and Policy Dynamics in the Transnational Carbon Emissions Trading Network. In Professional Networks in Transnational Governance (L. Seabrooke and L.F. Henriksen, eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 182-202.
- Michele Betsill. 2017. Trump's Paris withdrawal and the reconfiguration of global climate change governance. Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment. Published online 3 July 2017.
- Michele Betsill and Dimitris Stevis. 2016. The Politics and Dynamics of Energy Transitions: Lessons from Colorado’s (USA) “New Energy Economy.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. 34(2): 381-396. Doi: 0263774X15614668.
- Michele M. Betsill. 2015. NGOs. In Research Handbook on Climate Governance, edited by Karen Bäckstrand and Eva Lövbrand. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Michele Betsill, Navroz Dubash, Matthew Paterson, Harro van Asselt, Antto Vihma, and Harald Winkler. 2015. Building Productive Linkages Between the UNFCCC and the Broader Global Climate Governance Landscape. Global Environmental Politics 15(2): 1-10.
- Michele M. Betsill Kathryn Hochstetler and Dimitris Stevis eds. 2014. Advances in International Environmental Politics 2e. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Harriet Bulkeley Lilana Andonova Michele Betsill Daniel Compagnon Thomas Hale Matthew Hoffmann Peter Newell Matthew Paterson Charles Rogers and Stacy VanDeveer. 2014. Transnational Climate Change Governance. Cambridge University Press. (Runner-up for the International Study Association's 2014 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book in global environmental politics)
- Matthew Paterson Matthew Hoffmann Michele Betsill and Steven Bernstein. 2014. The Microfoundations of Policy Diffusion Towards Complex Global Governance: An analysis of the transnational carbon emissions trading network. Comparative Political Studies. 47: 420-449.
Courses
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POLS 362 Global Environmental Politics (Fall 2014)
SyllabusAn upper-division undergraduate course that explores the contributions of international relations scholarship to our understanding of the political nature of global environmental problems and different approaches to governing those problems.
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POLS 739 International Environmental Politics (Fall 2015)
SyllabusA research seminar for advanced graduate students on the application of international relations theories and concepts to the study of global environmental change.
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POLS 532 Governance of the World Political Economy (Spring 2015)
SyllabusAn international relations graduate seminar on contemporary issues and debates related to global governance.
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POLS 232 International Relations (Fall 2017)
SyllabusA senior seminar to explore the connections between our daily lives and world politics.
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POLS 621 Qualitative Research Methods in Political Science (Spring 2017)
SyllabusA graduate seminar on qualitative research methods with a focus on case studies.
