MIRANDA SCHREURS, Ph.D Associate Professor, Department of Government and Politics

Miranda Schreurs is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics and specializes in environmental politics and policy making in Japan, East Asia, and Europe. She teaches courses on Japanese and East Asian politics, German and European politics, environmental policy and law, and qualitative research methodology. She has also led study abroad trips to China (Environment and Development in China) and Germany (Germany and the European Union). Her current research includes the Tamaki Environment Project, an international and inter-disciplinary team-based analysis of environmental equity and justice in comparative perspective in Japan, Germany, the United States, and China (leading to two edited volumes); a co-edited manuscript on Environmental Security and Cooperation in Pacific Asia (with In-taek Hyun); a co-edited manuscript on environmental policy across the Atlantic (with Stacy VanDeveer and Henrik Selin); and a co-edited volume on Environmental Management in Japan (with Hidefumi Imura). Her publications include Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Ecological Security in Northeast Asia (co-edited with Dennis Pirages, Yonsei University Press 1998), The Internationalization of Environmental Protection (co-edited with Elizabeth Economy, Cambridge University Press, 1997), and numerous book chapters and articles dealing with environmental protection, climate change policy, social movements, and energy issues in Japan, East Asia, Europe, and the United States. Schreurs speaks Japanese, German, and Dutch and has held fellowships with the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security, Fulbright, and National Science Foundation/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She is co-director of the Freeman East Asia Undergraduate Initiative at the University of Maryland and also directs the Tamaki Environment Project. For further information see http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/schreurs/. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1996.