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WORK TITLE: Power in a Warming World
WORK NOTES: with J. Timmons Roberts and Mizan R. Khan
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http://www.colorado.edu/envs/david-ciplet * https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/power-warming-world
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Married; children: three.
EDUCATION:Connecticut College, B.A., 1999; School for International Training, M.A., 2007; Brown University, Ph.D., 2015.
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University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, assistant professor, 2015-. Cofounder, Climate and Development Lab, Brown University.
AVOCATIONS:Trail running, mountain biking, backcountry skier, playing guitar, reading.
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University of Colorado assistant professor David Ciplet’s “research uses participatory qualitative methods to explore processes of power and social change in climate change, energy and adaptation politics,” stated the contributor of a biographical blurb to the University of Colorado Boulder Web site. “He is concerned with uncovering how related policies unequally impact socially marginalized groups.”
Ciplet is the coauthor, with Mirzan R. Khan and J. Timmons Roberts, of Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality. The volume, said the University of Colorado Boulder Web site contributor, “explores how we arrived at an inequitable and scientifically inadequate international response to climate change, and what is needed to shift course.” Global warming, the authors point out, will impact poorer populations around the globe before wealthy people. Humans have the power to change this, but international efforts have been weak and ineffectual. Steps toward finding a solution to global warming will require a united political front, one that spans both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. The coauthors, stated M.M. Gunter in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, “move deftly between recounting historical record and their Gramscian-based theoretical interpretation and, as such, will attract a broad audience.”
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Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April, 2016, M.M. Gunter, Jr., review of Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality, p. 1238.
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Brown University Web site, https://www.brown.edu/ (March 29, 2017), author profile.
MIT Press Web site, http://www.mitpress.edu/ (March 29, 2017), author profile.
University of Colorado Boulder Web site, http://www.colorado.edu/ (March 29, 2017), author profile.
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Ciplet, David
Found in: Power in a warming world, 2015 : E-CIP t.p. (David Ciplet)
data view (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Brown Univ.,
author of several articles and eight poilicy reports on
issues related to climate justice and climate change
finance)
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Ph.D. 2015 Brown University
Biography
David Ciplet is a sociologist focused on issues of global political economy, environmental inequality, and climate justice. From the negotiating halls of the United Nations to community center meeting rooms, his research uses participatory qualitative methods to explore processes of power and social change in climate change, energy and adaptation politics. He is concerned with uncovering how related policies unequally impact socially marginalized groups, and the possibilities to achieve more environmentally just processes and outcomes.
His book, with Timmons Roberts and Mizan Khan, Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality (MIT Press, 2015), explores how we arrived at an inequitable and scientifically inadequate international response to climate change, and what is needed to shift course. His research has been featured in journals such as Global Environmental Politics, Global Governance, and Social Movement Studies. With a commitment to broadening the public conversation on climate justice, his work has also been featured in media outlets including, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Reuters, Radio Australia, and The International Herald Tribune.
Ciplet’s current research investigates forms of privilege and inequality in international climate adaptation projects. He is a founding member and Executive Co-Director of the CU Boulder Just Transition Collaborative, which works to ensure that transitions to sustainable energy are rooted in the leadership and needs of those most directly impacted by forms of social and environmental inequality. As part of this work, he is currently working with community partners to ensure an equitable and socially just transition to a renewable energy economy in the city of Boulder.
Ciplet also conducts research on the political dimensions of international climate change finance and related policies.. His recent work in this area is in partnership with AdaptationWatch, a world-wide collaborative of organizations focused on improving equity, transparency and participation in climate change adaptation.
Ciplet is passionate about research and teaching that engages directly with community and policy organizations to work for social and and environmental justice. He is recipient of the Robert Dentler Award for Outstanding Achievement, from the American Sociological Association Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology and is a Switzer Fellow alumnus. He works to create a classroom environment where students can engage critically and directly with real world problems. At CU Boulder, he teaches courses including Environmental Justice and Community Engagement; Waste and Global Justice; and Power, Justice and Climate Change.
Prior to earning his Ph.D. from Brown University, he was co-founder of the Climate and Development Lab, focused on engaged research for a more just approach to international climate policy. He has also produced numerous international policy reports, worked for U.S. and international NGOs on community and policy issues of waste, energy, and climate justice, and as a middle school teacher focused on experiential education. Ciplet is an avid trail runner, mountain biker, and backcountry skier, novice guitar player, lover of good fiction, grateful husband, and father of three amazing and energetic children.
A Note for Prospective Students
I am a collaborative person who enjoys working with both graduate and undergraduate students. If you are considering applying to the Environmental Studies Graduate Program and would like to work with me, please send me an email with these three attachments:
Your C.V.;
A statement describing your research interests and relevant experience, why you’d like to enroll in the Environmental Studies program at CU, and why you seek to work with me in particular; and
A relatively short sample of your written work (such as an article in popular media, academic paper or policy report).
David Ciplet is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado–Boulder.
David Ciplet
Contact Information:
Brown University
Department of Sociology
Box 1916
Providence, RI 02912
Fax: (401) 863-3213
Email: David_Ciplet@brown.edu
Year of Entry: 2009
Previous Degrees:
MA (2007) School for International Training
BA (1999) Connecticut College
Areas of Interest:
Environmental Sociology, Social Movements, Globalization and Development, Political Economy, Inequality, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Public Sociology, Qualitative Methods
Affiliations:
Graduate Program in Development, Institute for the Study of Environment and Society, Climate and Development Lab
Ciplet, David. Power in a warming world: the global politics of climate change and the remaking of environmental inequality
M.M. Gunter, Jr.
53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1238.
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Ciplet, David. Power in a warming world: the global politics of climate change and the remaking of environmental inequality, by David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan R. Khan. MIT, 2015. 328p bibl index afp ISBN 9780262029612 cloth, $60.00; ISBN 9780262527941 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780262330039 ebook, $21.00
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Power in a Warming World offers a penetrating analysis of how international power politics restricts climate change governance. Using three decades of experience as observers and participants in UN global climate change negotiations, Ciplet (Univ. of Colorado--Boulder), Roberts (Brown Univ.), and Khan (North South Univ., Bangladesh) move deftly between recounting historical record and their Gramscian-based theoretical interpretation and, as such, will attract a broad audience. Chapters range in focus from Copenhagen (chapter 3) to six potential scenarios in a warming world (chapter 9). Civil society scholars will find the critique in chapter 7of professional NGOs particularly useful. Unlike much literature to date, these authors describe a landscape where the simpler, more rigid, pre-Copenhagen world of G-77 versus the developed world no longer exists. This so-called Bali firewall of North against South gave way to a number of other alliances, highlighted by the BASIC states of Brazil, South Africa, India, and China "flexing muscles to keep open their international development space" in 2009. Despite imposing hurdles, the authors conclude that the UN process remains the "best hope," provided more strategic approaches integrate a grand coalition of civil society, states, and markets to advance a "radically different development" pathway. Summing Up: ** Recommended. All readership levels.--M. M. Gunter Jr., Rollins College
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Gunter, M.M., Jr. "Ciplet, David. Power in a warming world: the global politics of climate change and the remaking of environmental inequality." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Apr. 2016, p. 1238. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA449661854&it=r&asid=f234c8c843cd97dd4b12771b531846e3. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017.
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