Departments and Programs

• Environmental Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/faculty/dorsey.html

Contact Information

Email: michael.k.dorsey@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-0544
Office: 6182 Steele Hall

Education

B.S. University of Michigan School of Natural Resources; M.F.S. Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; M.A. Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. University of Michigan School of Natural Resources

Areas of Expertise

Research - structure and function of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs); focus on the political economy of global biodiversity and climate change policies and conventions; justice and equity in MEAs and other multilateral agreements (i.e. WTO, ILO, inter alia); anthropology/ethnography and histories of sustainability/sustainable development and (un)civil society organizations/non-governmental organizations (CSOs/NGOs)

Selected Works

• "Future Markets in Biology: Life After Bioprospecting," Journal of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA, Report on the Americas, 39:5 (March/April 2006) 31-34.
• Lohmann, L, J Kill, G Erion, and M K Dorsey, "Is Following the American Pollution Trading Model a Recipe for Injustice in Global Carbon Markets?" in Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere, P Bond and R Dada (eds.) (2005) 149-186.
• "Conservation, Collusion and Capital," Anthropology News, 46:7 (Oct. 2005) 45-46.
• "The Case for History: Flowers for Kings, Capitalists, and the World System," in Serie Amazonia Siglo XXI, C Soria (ed.) (2005).
• "Jungle Science: Shamans, Shenanigans and Sophistry in Far Amazonia," (abstract) in Public Proofs: Science, Technology, and Democracy, B Latour (ed.) (2004).

Current Projects

"Is the U.S. Experience with Pollution Markets Really an Argument for Global Carbon Trading? Innovation, Measurement and Sustainability,"