Jeannie Sowers
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Books

Jeannie Sowers, Environmental Politics in Egypt: Experts, Activists, and the State, Routledge, forthcoming 2012.
   

Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing, eds. Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt, 1999-2011. Verso, forthcoming spring 2012.
   
Articles
"The Politics of Assessment: Water and Sanitation MDG's in the Middle East." Neda Zawahri, Jeannie Sowers, and Erika Weinthal. Development and Change, 42(5): 1153-1178, September 2011.
   
Sowers, Jeannie, Avner Vengosh and Erika Weinthal. 2010. "Climate Change, Water Resources, and the Politics of Adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa," Climatic Change, 104(3-4): 599-627.
   
"Damietta Mobilizes for Its Environment" (with Sharif Elmusa). Middle East Report; October 21, 2009.
   
"Nature Reserves and Authoritarian Rule in Egypt: Embedded Autonomy Revisited." The Journal of Environment and Development, 16 (4): 375-397, December 2007.
   

Book Chapters

"Re-mapping the Nation, Critiquing the State: Environmental Narratives and Desert Land Reclamation in Egypt." In Environmental Imaginaries in the Middle East: History, Policy, Power, and Practice, edited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III, 158-191. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.
   
"Institutional Change and Environmental Governance in the Middle East: Water and Authority in Egypt." Forthcoming in Comparative Environmental Politics, edited by Stacy VanDeveer and Paul Steinberg, MIT Press. [Available at MIT Press]
   

"Authoritarian Rule and Democratic Demands in the Middle East" in Achieving Democracy, edited by Mary Fran T. Malone, Continuum Press, July 2011. [Available at Amazon.com]
   

"Just Green Marketing? State, Business, and Environment in Egypt" in Growing Pains: Environmental Management in Developing Countries. Walter Wehrmeyer and Yacob Mulagetta, Eds. London: Greenleaf Press, 1999.  [Available at Amazon.com]
   
"States, Sovereignty, and Urban Environmental Challenges" (with Atul Kohli and George Sorensen) in Pamela Chasek, ed. The United Nations and the Global Environment in the 21st Century: From Common Challenges to Shared Responses. Tokyo: United Nations University, 1999.  [Available through United Nations University Press]
   

Reviews

"Running Dry: Editorial", Middle East Report 254, Spring 2010.
   
'Trade, Reputation, and Child Labor in Twentieth-Century Egypt" by Ellis Goldberg and "Everyday Economic Practices: the Hidden Transcripts of Egyptian Voices" by Savinna Chowdhury, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 41:3: 517-520, August 2009.
   
"The Many Injustices of Climate Change" Reviews A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy, by J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks; Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change, by W. Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq, and M.J. Mace; and Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations, by Edward Page, for Global Environmental Politics, 7 (4): 140-147, November 2007.
 

Reports

"Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and Opportunities," Dubai Initiative Working Paper No. 2, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.  September 2010.
   
"Egypt: Market Reforms and U.S. Interests." Congressional Research Service Report RL30686, September 18, 2000.
   
"Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Camp David II." Congressional Research Service Report RS20648, August 3, 2000.
   

Jeannie Sowers ● Assistant Professor of Political Science ● University of New Hampshire
310B Horton Social Science Center ● Durham, NH 03824
Phone: (603) 862-1752 ● Fax: (603) 862-0178 ● E-mail: jeannie.sowers@unh.edu