Sikina A Jinnah
· Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Director, Center for Reimagining LeadershipUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · Environmental Studies
Active 2002–2026
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About
Sikina A Jinnah is a Professor of Environmental Studies and the Associate Director of the Center for Reimagining Leadership at UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on global environmental governance, particularly in the areas of climate change, climate engineering, and the intersection of international trade and environmental politics. She examines the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, with a specific interest in the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her recent projects explore how key norms in global climate politics influence power relations, the impact of U.S. trade agreements on environmental policies in trading partner nations, and the governance of climate engineering technologies. Dr. Jinnah has authored or edited six books and over fifty articles and chapters, with her first book, 'Post-treaty Politics,' receiving the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book in international environmental affairs. Her work also includes forthcoming publications on environmental justice education. She is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and serves on the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Atmospheric Methane Removal. Her academic background includes a PhD from UC Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. She teaches courses on global climate change politics, international environmental politics, and global governance.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Social Science
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Law
- Business
- Geography
- Economics
- Environmental planning
Selected publications
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 48 citations
Senior authorCorresponding<italic>Global Environmental Politics</italic> provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues dominating this fast-moving field. Going beyond the issue of climate change, the text also introduces readers to the pressing issues of desertification, trade in hazardous waste, biodiversity protection, whaling, acid rain, ozone-depletion, water consumption, and over-fishing. Importantly, the text pays particular attention to the interactions between environmental politics and other g…
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · 2020 · 47 citations
its further consideration? We link these opposing rationales to contrasting underlying visions of a future impacted by climate change. These visions see the future as either more or less threatening, depending upon whether it includes the possible future use of solar geoengineering. Our analysis links these contrasting visions and governance rationales to existing governance proposals in the literature. In doing so, we illustrate why some proposals differ so significantly, while also showing tha…
Institutional interplay in global environmental governance: lessons learned and future research
International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics · 2022 · 45 citations
Abstract Over the past decades, the growing proliferation of international institutions governing the global environment has impelled institutional interplay as a result of functional and normative overlap across multiple regimes. This article synthesizes primary contributions made in research on institutional interplay over the past twenty years, with particular focus on publications with International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. Broadening our understanding about the…
Splitting Climate Engineering Governance: How Problem Structure Shapes Institutional Design
Global Policy · 2021-04-01 · 19 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This article adds conceptual discipline to a well‐rehearsed but largely intuitive argument within the climate engineering community that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) should be treated separately – ‘split’ rather than ‘lumped’ – in policy discussions. Specifically, we build the first, theoretically derived argument for ‘splitting’. We do this by engaging a set of theoretical insights from the international relations literature, having to do with the r…
Earth System Governance · 2022-02-15 · 15 citations
articleOpen accessCorrespondingWe propose a conceptual framework to explain why some technologies are more difficult to govern than others in global environmental governance. We start from the observation that some technologies pose transboundary environmental risks, some provide capacities for managing such risks, and some do both. For “ambiguous” technologies, potential risks and risk management capacities are uncertain, unknown or even unknowable. Governance systems are indeterminate towards ambiguous technologies, as exis…
Frequent coauthors
- 16 shared
Jean‐Frédéric Morin
Université Laval
- 11 shared
Simon Nicholson
American University
- 11 shared
Amandine Orsini
- 6 shared
Prakash Kashwan
- 5 shared
Aarti Gupta
Wageningen University & Research
- 5 shared
Zachary Dove
University of California, Santa Cruz
- 4 shared
David R. Morrow
American University
- 4 shared
Victor Galaz
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Education
- 2008
PHD, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California Berkeley
Awards & honors
- Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book in internatio…
- William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching (2014)
- Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2017-2020)
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