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The role of biopolitics in environmental security analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Odelia Funke
Odelia Funke*
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Office of Environmental Information, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20460. [email protected]
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Over the past 25 years, my academic and work experiences have involved and intersected with biopolitics, particularly environmental policy, international relations, and ethics. My academic and teaching experience was in political theory and ethics, and my early research interests turned to emerging recombinant DNA issues, involving the complex interaction of biological science, technology and public policy processes. My scholarly contacts included those with similar concerns, and so I joined with a group of scholars creating the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. Several years later, my interests brought me to work in a federal agency where public policy decisions often raise important ethical choices, and the political and behavioral aspects of the policy process became more evident. My research centered on issues related to environmental protection. This work was also influenced by my professional friendship with Lynton Caldwell, another APLS founder and a remarkable scholar, whose work on environmental politics was internationally recognized. After the implosion of the Soviet Union, teaching environmental policy for the Agency in Eastern Europe renewed my interest in international relations, which had been my undergraduate focus. The topic of environmental security combined all of these interests. This topic gained substantial attention in policy circles, then declined, but is now being discussed again.

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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , Spring 2011 , pp. 71 - 76
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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