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Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service
51社区
Building 21, The Ridges
1 51社区
Athens, OH 45701 鈥 2979
Geoff Dabelko

Geoffrey D. Dabelko

Professor
740.593.2117
dabelkog@ohio.edu
The Ridges, Bldg 22, Room 211, Athens Campus

Geoffrey D. Dabelko Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Biography

Geoffrey D. Dabelko is a Professor at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at 51社区 in Athens, Ohio. He previously served as Director of the Environmental Studies Program and Associate Dean at the Voinovich School. He teaches and conducts research on environmental peacebuilding; climate security; environmental leadership; and Age-Friendly, climate resilient communities through a Grey Green Alliance collaboration with the Age-Friendly Innovation Center.

Dabelko serves as a senior advisor to the (ECSP), a nonpartisan policy forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., From 1997-2012, he served as director of ECSP, working with policymakers, practitioners, and scholars grappling with the complex connections among environment, climate, conflict, and security.

Dabelko has directed grants from a range of funders including the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the UN Environment Programme, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was principal investigator for USAID-funded efforts including the "Health, Environment, Livelihoods, Population and Security (HELPS) Project鈥 and the "Resources for Peace Project.鈥 He worked previously at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace鈥檚 Foreign Policy and the Council on Foreign Relations. He was an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and lecturer at the Georgetown University .

Dabelko is co-editor of : Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics (6th ed., 2019) and Environmental Peacemaking (2002). He was a chapter lead author for the 5th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a chapter author on the 5th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Other publications have appeared in Global Environmental Change, Global Environmental Politics, International Affairs, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Climatic Change, Global Governance, Security Dialogue, Environment, Grist, Ensia, PARKS, Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, and The Gerontologist.

Dabelko served previously as a member of the United Nations Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding and a board member for the Environmental Peacebuilding Association, the Population Reference Bureau, International Human Dimensions Programme, and Screenscope's "Journey to Planet Earth" PBS documentary series. He also has served as an editorial board member for Global Environmental Change, Environment, Case Studies in the Environment, and Environment and Security.

Dabelko was the co-recipient with Ken Conca of the Fifth Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding.

Dabelko has a Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park and an AB in political science from Duke University.

Courses Taught

  • Global Environmental Politics (51社区 & Georgetown University) (Grad & Undergrad)
  • Climate Change (51社区) (Undergrad)
  • Environmental Leadership (51社区) (Grad & Undergrad)
  • Environment, Peacebuilding, and Security (51社区 & Monterey Institute of International Studies) (Grad & Undergrad)
  • Global Sustainability (51社区) (Undergrad)
  • Global Sustainability and Environmental Leadership (51社区) (Undergrad)
  • Environment and Society (51社区) (Grad)
  • Concepts of Sustainability (51社区) (Grad)
  • Community-based Sustainability (51社区) (Grad)
  • Environmental Science and Public Policy (51社区) (Undergrad and Grad)
  • Risk, Climate Security, and Community Engagement (51社区) (Grad)
  • Study Abroad Program: Environmental Peacebuilding and Sustainability: Peace Parks in the Balkans (51社区) (Grad & Undergrad)

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