Recognition

Recipients of the Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology will receive a certificate or plaque that will be handed to the recipient, after reading the summary of the Award Committee report in public at an appropriate RC24 meeting at the ISA World Congress.

Eligibility

Any sociologist or social scientist, whether or not being a member of the Research Committee and/or ISA, is eligible. Award Committee members are not eligible to receive the award, and will resign from the Committee when nominated.

Nominations

Nominations can be made by any member of ISA and/or of RC24 (including Award Committee members), but has to be supported by at least two other members of RC24 and/or ISA. Nominations must be sent by email to the President of the Award Committee, Julia S. Guivant (juguivant@uol.com.br), including the name of the nominee, a CV, the list of publications on which the nomination is based, and a cover letter that provides a rationale for the nomination. Copies of the publications can be attached or, in case they are not available electronically, photocopies can be posted to the President’s address.
As the Award focuses on international contributions of scholars to the study of environment-society relations, questions of accessibility for the international community are important considerations. This means that nominees must have published in one or more of the major languages used by the international academic community (English, French and Spanish) or have had their work translated in any of those major languages (a reasonable expectation for an international Award). The Committee as well will consider to complement the evaluation with additional publications in another languages (Dutch, Portuguese and Italian). The Award Committee will take into account the possible disadvantage if nominees are not publishing in their mother language.

Timetable

Nominations will close by June 30, 2009. The Award Committee will report its selection by November 30, 2009. The winner will be announced publicly at the ISA World Congress in 2010, during one of the RC24 sessions or a special awards event.

Comparable Awards

To the knowledge of the RC24 Board no comparable international awards exist in the field of environmental sociology. Some national associations or sections of national associations, have awards for environmental social scientists or environmental sociologists. These are, however, typically restricted to scholars from that national community.

Award Committee 2010 for the Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology

President

Julia S. Guivant
Vice-President of RC24
Depto de Sociologia e Ciência Política
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Campus Trindade
88049-000 Florianópolis SC
Brazil
juguivant@uol.com.br

Members

Steven Brechin
Department of Sociology
Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
U.S.A.
sbrechin@maxwell.syr.edu

See-Jae Lee
Department of Sociology
The Catholic University of Korea
505 Banpo-Dong, Seocho-Gu
137-701 Seoul
South Korea
seejaelee@catholic.ac.kr

Arthur Mol
Past-president of RC24
Environmental Policy group
Department of Social Sciences
Wageningen University
Hollandseweg 1
6706 KN Wageningen
The Netherlands
Arthur.mol@wur.nl

Michael Redclift
Department of Geography
King's College
London
LONDON WC2R2LS
United Kingdom
michael.r.redclift@kcl.ac.uk