Department of Government and Politics (GVPT)

3114J Tydings Hall

College Park MD 20742 USA

301-405-4125 voice

301-314-9690 fax

kconca<at>gvpt.umd.edu

 

Office Hours

My hours for summer 2008 are by appointment only.

 

 

Dr. Ken Conca

Ken Conca

Affiliations

-Professor of Government and Politics

-Faculty advisor, Environmental Politics & Policy

-Associate editor, Global Environmental Politics

-Scientific Steering Committee, Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS)

-Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding, UN Environment Programme

-Director, Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda

Research

-Politics of water

-Environment, peace and conflict

-Globalization and social movements

-Global environmental governance

Bio

-Curriculum vitae

-Short bio

University of Maryland

Teaching

-GVPT 273: Environmental Politics and Policy

-GVPT 350: International Relations of the Third World

-GVPT 409: The US and the UN

-GVPT 419: Advanced Topics in Environmental Policy Analysis

Recent books

(click on cover for brief summary, publisher link)

Environmental Peacemaking (Conca & Dabelko, eds)

Environmental Peacemaking

Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg

Green Planet Blues

Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics & Global Institution Building

Governing Water

The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance (Park, Conca & Finger, eds)

The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance

Confronting Consumption (Princen, Maniates, & Conca, eds)

Confronting Consumption