Clapp, Jennifer 1963-

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Clapp, Jennifer 1963-

PERSONAL:

Born December 6, 1963. Education: University of Michigan, B.A.; London School of Economics, M.Sc., Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Academic and environmentalist. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, associate professor of environmental and resource studies and chair of the International Development Studies Program; University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, professor and innovation chair for the Centre for International Governance.

WRITINGS:

Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State, and the World Bank in Guinea, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1997.

Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 2001.

(With Peter Dauvergne) Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2005.

Coeditor of Global Environmental Politics. Editorial board member of Global Governance. Contributing editor of Alternatives Journal. Contributor to periodicals and journals, including Third World Quarterly, Harvard International Review, Global Governance, Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics, Alternatives, SAIS Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies, and Journal of Environment and Development.

SIDELIGHTS:

Jennifer Clapp is an academic and environmentalist. Born on December 6, 1963, Clapp first attended the University of Michigan, earning a bachelor of arts degree in economics. She continued her studies at the London School of Economics, earning a master of science and a Ph.D. in international relations. Clapp went on to become an associate professor of environmental and resource studies and chair of the International Development Studies Program at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. She then switched to the University of Waterloo, in Ontario Province, becoming a professor and working as the innovation chair for the Centre for International Governance. Clapp's research and teaching areas include trade and environment/agriculture; environment and development; agricultural biotechnology and implications for developing countries; global environmental politics and governance; global politics of waste; and transnational corporations and environment.

Away from the university, Clapp serves as the coeditor of Global Environmental Politics. She is a member of the editorial board for Global Governance and is a contributing editor of the Alternatives Journal. Clapp regularly contributes to academic journals and periodicals, including the Third World Quarterly, Harvard International Review, Global Governance, Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics, Alternatives, SAIS Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies, and the Journal of Environment and Development.

Clapp published her first book, Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State, and the World Bank in Guinea, in 1997 through St. Martin's Press. Through Cornell University Press, Clapp released her second book, Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries, in 2001.

Writing with Peter Dauvergne, Clapp published Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment in 2005. The book outlines the complex relationship between the environment and globalization. Paths to a Green World is directed towards academics, scholars, and students in the areas of environmental studies and globalization. The authors specifically focus on aspects of trade, financing, investment, poverty, wealth, political integration, trans-boundary pollution, labor and environmental standards, gender equity, indigenous cultures, and how they directly impact the environment through the lens of globalization. Clapp and Dauvergne identify four "world views" of environmental issues: liberalism, institutionalism, bioenvironmentalism, and "social green" thinking. Each of these concepts is explained in great detail at the beginning of the book, are described through their historical application and are prescribed fixes for improving the global environmental situation. Each category is then contrasted across the range of views of institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, market liberals, and social greens. The nature of globalization is also considered in the text, as well as its relation to development, while giving a chronological account of significant international conferences and meetings on the environment.

A contributor to the Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare found the book to be "extremely readable." The contributor noted that while a number of scholars and environmentalists "may view the division of environmental thought into four categories as somewhat limiting, it summarizes complex and sometimes heated controversies into a manageable commentary." The contributor concluded that Clapp and Dauvergne are both "to be commended on a major accomplishment and their book should be widely consulted." Douglas A. Kysar, writing in the Political Science Quarterly, described the work as "meticulously evenhanded." Kysar concluded that those "who follow Clapp and Dauvergne's discussion will come away with a nearly comprehensive map of the argument terrain in global environmental politics, but they may also come away somewhat numbed by the authors' assiduously descriptive, noncommittal approach, wondering in the end what the fuss is about, given that all of our evidence seems inconclusive and our argumentation perpetually rebuttable."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April, 2002, W. Ouderkirk, review of Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries, p. 1448; December, 2005, A.A. Batabyal, review of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment, p. 707.

Contemporary Sociology, January, 2006, review of Paths to a Green World, p. 100.

Environmental Politics, spring, 2003, Iorwerth G. Griffiths, review of Toxic Exports, p. 260; February, 2007, Matthew Paterson, review of Paths to a Green World, p. 147.

International Affairs, July, 2006, Robert Falkner, review of Paths to a Green World, p. 803.

Journal of Economic Literature, June, 2002, review of Toxic Exports, p. 707; December, 2005, review of Paths to a Green World, p. 1167.

Journal of Environment & Development, September, 2003, David N. Pellow, review of Toxic Exports, p. 349.

Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, December, 2006, review of Paths to a Green World, p. 209.

Political Science Quarterly, summer, 2006, Douglas A. Kysar, review of Paths to a Green World, p. 364.

Reference & Research Book News, November, 1997, review of Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State, and the World Bank in Guinea, p. 67.

SciTech Book News, December, 2001, review of Toxic Exports, p. 152.

Yale Journal of International Law, summer, 2002, Julia Peck, review of Toxic Exports, p. 476.