Erika S. Weinthal, Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy

Erika S. Weinthal

Please note: Erika has left the "International Comparative Studies Program" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Dr. Weinthal specializes in global environmental politics and environmental security with a particular emphasis on water and energy. Current areas of research include (1) global environmental politics and governance, (2) environmental conflict and peacebuilding, (3) the political economy of the resource curse, and (4) climate change adaptation. Dr. Weinthal’s research spans multiple geographic regions, including the Soviet successor states, the Middle East, South Asia, East Africa, and North America. Dr. Weinthal is author of State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic Politics and International Politics in Central Asia (MIT Press 2002), which received the 2003 Chadwick Alger Prize and the 2003 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize. She has co-authored Oil is not a Curse (Cambridge University Press 2010) and co-edited Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Earthscan Press, 2014) and The Oxford Handbook on Water Politics and Policy (Oxford University Press 2018). She is a member of the UNEP Expert Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding and a co-editor of Global Environmental Politics. In 2017 she was a recipient of the Women Peacebuilders for Water Award under the auspices of “Fondazione Milano per Expo 2015”. 

Office Location:  9 Circuit Drive, Environment Hall 4119, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 613-8080
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2024):

Teaching (Fall 2024):

Education:

Ph.D.Columbia University1998
M.Phil.Columbia University1994
MA Political ScienceColumbia University1993
B.A.Oberlin College1989
Specialties:

environmental policy
energy
water quality
environmental values
justice
Recent Publications

  1. Albright, EA; Coleman Flowers, C; Kramer, RA; Weinthal, ES, Failing septic systems in Lowndes County, Alabama: citizen participation, science, and community knowledge, Local Environment, vol. 29 no. 2 (January, 2024), pp. 135-142 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Patel, E; Weinthal, E, Rights, resilience, and water in turbulent times, in Global Environmental Politics in a Turbulent Era (March, 2023), pp. 37-48, ISBN 9781802207132
  3. Vengosh, A; Weinthal, E, The water consumption reductions from home solar installation in the United States., The Science of the total environment, vol. 854 (January, 2023), pp. 158738 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Daoudy, M; Sowers, J; Weinthal, E, What is climate security? Framing risks around water, food, and migration in the Middle East and North Africa, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, vol. 9 no. 3 (May, 2022) [doi]  [abs]
  5. Weinthal, E, Klimat: Russia in the age of climate change, International Affairs, vol. 98 no. 2 (March, 2022), pp. 793-795, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]