Jane Dawson is the Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Associate Professor of Government at Connecticut College, where she specializes in International Environmental Politics, Comparative Environmental Activism and Politics, and the Politics of Post-Communist Societies. She is the author of Eco-Nationalism: Antinuclear Activism and National Identity in Russian, Lithuania, and Ukraine, which was awarded the 1997 Marshall Shulman Book Prize. Her current work examines how environmentalism may be linked to a variety of subgroup identities across a broad spectrum of political settings and the implications of this linkage for the achievement of domestic and international environmental policy objectives. Professor Dawson received her A.B. in Chemistry and Russian from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. in Chemistry from Harvard, and M.A. in Soviet Studies from The Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California-Berkeley.

Summary of International Treaties and Laws on Biodiversity Protection    09:03 min.

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William Burns was not able to be at the conference. Jane was kind enough to give a short summary of this complex issue.
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