Dr. Jon R Rosales
St. Lawrence University News
Submitted by jrosales on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 14:28.
Associate Professor
Courses I teach regularly:
ENVS 101: Introduction to Environmental Studies
ENVS 216: Climate Change Policy and Advocacy
ENVS 263: Global Change and Sustainability
ENVS 326: Once and Future Forest
My research interests:
United Nations climate change policy
Climate change impacts on subsistence food cultures in the Arctic
Reforestation
The limits to economic growth
Sample student projects I have supervised:
Managing Sustainability at St. Lawrence University
Retrocessive Development: Bridging the Gap Between Environment, Economics, and Culture
The First Step toward Kyoto Protocol Compliance: A Greenhouse Gas Inventory for St. Lawrence University
Examples of presentations, exhibitions, performances and published work:
Rosales, Jon, “Economic Growth and Biodiversity Loss in an Age of Tradable Permits,” Conservation Biology, V. 20, n. 4, August 2006.
Rosales, Jon, “Shared and Differentiated: Values for a Post-Kyoto Discourse.” Climatic Change, Online first: September 28, 2007.
Rosales, Jon, "The Idea of Social Progress and Emissions Trading," in Grover, Velma (ed.), Climate Change: Perspectives Five Years after Kyoto, March 2004.
Ways I offer service to my discipline and/or the University:
Board member of the North American Section of the Society for Conservation Biology
Rock Ethics Institute
Coordinator of the Costa Rica study abroad program
Examples of my work as a visiting scholar or guest at another institution:
Presentation at the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convetion on Climate Change: Integrating ethics into climate change negotiations
Presentation at the Society for Conservation Biology annual meeting: The Social Purpose of Professional Scientific Societies
Presentation at the North Country Sustainable Energy Fair: UN Climate Policy: What's missing?
My current projects:
Climate change impacts on Yupik Eskimo hunters
Impacts of economic growth on biodiversity
Reforestation of St. Lawrence Univeristy land
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