2021 Sprout Award Winners Announcement

[Charles Roger]

Dear colleagues

The 2021 Harold & Margaret Sprout awardees were announced recently. This year, we have two phenomenal authors as co-winners:

Marwa Daoudy (Georgetown) for The Origins of the Syrian Conflict. Published by Cambridge University Press.

Michael Méndez (University of California, Irvine) for Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement. Published by Yale University Press.

Both make significant and important contributions to our understanding of global environmental politics.

On Daoudy’s book, the committee believed: 

"The Origins of the Syrian Conflict convincingly debunks the conventional narrative that resource scarcity inevitably causes conflict. Through a rigorous analysis of the Syrian civil war, Daoudy shows us that the consequences of climate change and resource scarcity can be attenuated by sound government policy. This empirically rich and timely book holds enormous implications for the environmental security and resource scarcity literatures.”

On Méndez’ book, the committee believed:

"In Climate Change from the Streets, Michael Méndez focuses on the equity and justice dimensions of climate policy. Writing as a scholar and practitioner with a deep knowledge of California’s climate policy and politics, Méndez convincingly argues that policymakers must embrace both social justice and public health principles to address the climate crisis. His multi-scalar analysis, which demonstrates the power of the environmental justice movement to influence climate governance at every scale, is a hopeful and important contribution to the climate change and environmental justice literatures.”

Congratulations to both authors for these remarkable pieces of research!!    

Unfortunately, we will not be able to celebrate in person. However, we will be honouring our awardees at the ISA-ESS Business Meeting, which will be taking place virtually at 2pm ET on 21st April. Note as well that will also be honouring the awardees from last year  at the same time, i.e. Jessica Steinberg, for Communities, Mines and States: The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction and Honorable Mention, Cristina Balboa for The Paradox of Scale: How NGOs Build, Maintain, and Lose Authority in Environmental Governance.

We hope that you can join us! Further details to follow in the official announcement from the ESS.

Best wishes,

Charlie

Charles Roger Assistant Professor +34 935 423 030 Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals Campus de la Ciutadella (UPF) Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27. 08005 Barcelona (Spain) www.ibei.org