The Harold and Margaret Sprout Award was established in 1972 and named in honor of two pioneers in the study of international environmental problems. The award is sponsored by the Environmental Studies Section, and is given annually to the best book in the field - one that makes a contribution to theory and interdisciplinarity, shows rigor and coherence in research and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance. Nominated books should address some aspect of one or more environmental, pollution or resource issues from a broadly international or transnational perspective, including works in (for example) global, interstate, transboundary, North-South, foreign policy, comparative or area studies. Environmental subjects of books can include (for example) environmental law, diplomacy, transnational activism, natural resource use, global change, sustainable development, biodiversity, transboundary pollution control, and the like.
ABOUT THE AWARD:- A $500.00 (USD) cash prize and plaque is awarded from the ISA General Account
- The Award Committee consists of five (5) Members plus the Section Chair of Environmental Studies Section (ESS) of ISA (serving ex-officio) serving rolling two-year terms.
- The Committee Chair is responsible for notifying the Recipient of the Award and encouraging the Recipient to attend the Annual Convention at which the Award is to be presented so as to receive the Award in person.
- Nominations: Nominated works must be published during the two years prior to the year they are nominated for. Books with a copyright date of the award year are welcome provided that they are released by the previous year’s end. Each publisher may nominate more than one book, and books nominated for the prior year can be re-nominated. When nominating an author, please submit a copy of the book to each member of the Committee listed below. The committee members will begin reading the books as soon as they arrive.
- List of previous winners posted on the Environmental Studies Section website.
- The nomination deadline is: August 1, 2010
- 2010: D.G. Webster, Dartmouth College, Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management (MIT Press, 2008)
- 2009: Steve Vanderheiden, University of Colorado, Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Runners-up:
Charlotte Epstein, University of Sydney: The Power of Words in International Relations: Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse. MIT Press
Matthew Paterson, University of Ottawa: Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy. Cambridge University Press - 2008: David Humphreys, The Open University, Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance, Earthscan
- 2007: Thomas Princen, University of Michigan
- 2006: Ken Conca, Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building, MIT Press
- 2005: Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld, and Deanna Newsom, Governing Through Markets - Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority, Yale University Press
Runners-up:
Sanjeev Khagram, Dams and Development, Cornell University Press
Robyn Eckersley, The Green State, MIT Press - 2004: Edward A. Parson, Protecting the Ozone Layer, Oxford University Press
Honorable Mention:
Miranda A. Schreurs, Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany and the United States, Cambridge University Press - 2003: Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca, eds. Confronting Consumption, The MIT Press
- 2002: Paul F. Steinberg, Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia, The MIT Press
Runner Up: Steven Bernstein, The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism., Columbia - 2001: Roni Garcia-Johnson, Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico, The MIT Press
Runner Up: Kate O’Neill, Waste Trading Among Rich Nations, The MIT Press - 2000: Yok-shiu F. Lee and Alvin Y. So, Asia’s Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives, M.E. Sharp
COMMITTEE:
Jörg Balsiger
CHAIR, FEB 2010 - APR 2012
Institute for Environmental Decisions
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
CHN K78, Universitätsstrasse 22, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
joerg.balsiger@env.ethz.ch
Steinar Andresen
MEMBER, FEB 2009 - MAR 2011
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
P.O. Box 326, 1326 Lysaker, Norway
steinar.andresen@fni.no
Matthias Finger
MEMBER, FEB 2009 - MAR 2011
EPFL-CDM-TPI-MIR
BAC 103, Station 5, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
matthias.finger@epfl.ch
Paul Harris
MEMBER, FEB 2010 - APR 2012
Department of Social Sciences
Hong Kong Institute of Education
10 Lo Ping Road
Tai Po, Hong Kong, China
pharris@ied.edu.hk
Matthew Hoffmann
MEMBER, FEB 2009 - MAR 2011
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada
mjhoff@utsc.utoronto.ca
Updated: 21 April 2010
