Gabriela Kütting

Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs

Dr. Kütting joined the Political Science faculty and the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers Newark in the summer of 2004. She was previously a tenured faculty member in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Gabriela Kütting holds a D.Phil degree in International Relations from the University of Sussex where she also gained her M.Sc. and B.A. degrees. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in International Relations and Global Environmental Politics.

Dr. Kütting’s research interests lie in the field of global environmental politics and international/global political economy. She was on the executive of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association from 2004-2006. From 2001-2003 (Chair from 2002-03) she also served on the Sprout Committee of the International Studies Association, responsible for the prestigious environmental book award. Gabriela Kütting is part of the core teaching faculty of MEPIELAN, a UNEP institution training Mediterranean civil servants in environmental law and policy. A select list of her publications can be found below.

Publications

(a) Books

2004: Globalization and environment, greening global political economy, SUNY Press, New York.

2000: Environment, Society and International Relations, Routledge, London and New York

(b) Edited collections

2002: Theme Editor for theme 1.44 Convention, Treaties and Other Responses to Global Issues of the UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems

(c) Articles in refereed journals

2007 (forthcoming): ‘Environment, Development and the Global Perspective: from critical security to critical globalization’, Nature and Culture.

2004: ‘Environmental justice’, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 4 (1), 115-121 (review article).

2004: ‘Globalization and the environment: moving beyond neoliberal institutionalism’, International Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 9 (1), 29-46.

2003: ‘Globalization, poverty and the environment in West Africa: too poor to pollute?’, Global Environmental Politics, Vol 3 (4), 42-60.

2001: "Back to the future: Time, IR and the environment", Global Society, Vol. 15 (4), 345-360.

2000: "Distinguishing between institutional and environmental effectiveness in international environmental agreements: the case of the Mediterranean Action Plan", International Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 5 (1), 15-33.

1998: "The critical loads approach and IR: effective international environmental policy-making?", International Environmental Affairs, Vol. 10 (2), 98-112.

1996: "International environmental policy on air pollution from ships", Environmental Politics, Vol. 5 (2), 345-352 (co-authored with G. Gauci).

1995: "Time to reconceptualise 'green technology' in the context of globalisation and international relations", Innovation - the European Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8 (3), 243-259 (co-authored with B. Adam).

1995: "The 1994 UN ECE Sulphur Protocol", Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 7 (2), 169-197 (co-authored with R. Churchill & L. Warren).

1994: "International environmental agreements and the free movement of goods in the EC: the case of the Montreal Protocol", European Environmental Law Review, Vol. 3 (11), 329-335 (co-authored with R. Churchill).

1994: "Mediterranean pollution: International cooperation and the control of pollution from land-based sources", Marine Policy, Vol. 18 (3), 233-247.