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 (ESS), 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.

Details

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Recipient Criteria

Recipients must be a current member of ISA
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 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.

Prize

A $500.00 (USD) cash prize and plaque is awarded to the recipient.

Selection Process

The Award Committee consists of five (5) members plus the section chair of Environmental Studies Section (ESS) of ISA, serving rolling two-year terms as an ex-officio member.
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.
The Committee members will begin reading the books as soon as they arrive.

Nomination/Application Instructions

When nominating an author, please submit a copy of the book to each member of the Award Committee. In order to obtain the mailing addresses of the current committee members, please contact the Sprout Committee chair Raul Pacheco-Vega. Books should not be sent to the Sprout award committee prior to April of the year of nomination in order to ensure that all entries are received by the appropriate committee members who are elected at the ISA annual meeting.
The nominations deadline is August 1st.

Recipients

Congratulations to the 2021 recipients of the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award, Marwa Daoudy, for The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security, and Michael Méndez, for Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement! See the previous recipients below.

Past Recipients

Year	Recipient	Title
2021	Marwa Daoudy Michael Méndez	The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement
2020	Jessica Steinberg	Mines, Communities, and States: The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa
2019	Liliana Andonova	Governance Entrepreneurs: International Organizations and the Rise of Global Public-Private Partnerships
2019	Timothy Bartley	Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy
2018	Carl Death	The Green State in Africa
2017	Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno and Pamela L. Martin	Ending the Fossil Fuel Era
2016	Sikina Jinnah	Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
2015	Jessica F. Green	Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance
2014	Joanna I. Lewis	Green Innovation in China: China’s Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
2014	Jeannie L. Sowers (runner-up)	Environmental Politics in Egypt: Activists, Experts, and the State
2013	Andrew S. Mathews	Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests
2012	Rob Nixon	Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
2011	Daniel Bodansky	The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law
2010	D.G. Webster	Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management
2009	Steve Vanderheiden	Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change
2008	David Humphreys	Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance
2007	Thomas Princen	The Logic of Sufficiency
2006	Ken Conca	Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building
2005	Benjamin Cashore	Governing Through Markets – Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority
2004	Edward A. Parson	Protecting the Ozone Layer
2003	Thomas Princen	Confronting Consumption
2002	Paul F. Steinberg	Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia
2001	Roni Garcia-Johnson	Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico
2000	Yok-shiu F. Lee/ Alvin Y. So	Asia’s Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives
1999	Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson	Justice, Society, and Nature: An Exploration of Political Ecology
1998	Peter Dauvergne	Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia
1997	Paul Kevin Wapner	Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics
1996	Marian A. L. Miller	The Third World in Global Environmental Politics
1995	Ronald B. Mitchell	Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance
1994	Oran R. Young and Gail Osherenko	Polar Politics: Creating International Environmental Regimes
	Jon M. Van Dyke	Freedom for the Seas in the 21st Century: Ocean Governance and Environmental Harmony
1993	William R. Cline	The Economics of Global Warming
1992	Elinor Ostrom	Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
1991	World Resources Institute and International Institute for Environment and Development	World Resources 1990-91: A Guide to the Global Environment
1990	H. Jeffrey Leonard	Pollution and the Struggle for the World Product: Multinational Corporations, Environment, and International Comparative Advantage
1989	Barbara Jancar-Webster	Environmental Management in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia: Structure and Regulation in Federal Communist States
1986	James K. Sebenius	Negotiating the Law of the Sea: Lessons in the Art and Science of Reaching Agreement
1985	Lynton Caldwell	International Environmental Policy: Emergence and Dimensions
1981	R. Michael McGonigle and Mark Zacher	Pollution, Politics, and International Law: Tankers at Sea
	Kenneth Dahlberg	Beyond the Green Revolution
1977	Amory Lovins	Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken

Contact

Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega | Chair
April 2021- March 2022
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales

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