DISC Faculty

Erika S. Weinthal
Associate Professor

Office Location: A135 LSRC
Office Phone: (919) 613-8080
Email Address: weinthal@duke.edu

Specialties:
environmental policy
energy
water quality

Education:
PhD Political Science, Columbia University, 1998
MPhil Political Science, Columbia University, 1994
MA Political Science, Columbia University, 1993
BA Government and Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, 1989

Research Categories: environmental policy, international environmental institutions, the political-economy of the resource curse, water cooperation and conflict, and environmental security.

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • ENVIRON 152S.01, Environment and conflict Synopsis
    Perkins 2-088, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
  • ENVIRON 398.05, Program area symposium
    French sci 2231, F 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • ENVIRON 274.01, Environmental politics Synopsis
    Lsrc a247, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • ENVIRON 398.05, Program area symposium
    Lsrc b101, F 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. B. Daniels, E. Weinthal and B. Hudson, Is an Exemption from U.S. Groundwater Regulations a Loophole or Noose?, Policy Sciences, vol. 41 (2008), pp. 205-220 .
  2. P. Jones Luong & E. Weinthal, Rethinking the Resource Curse: Ownership Structure, Institutional Capacity, and Domestic Constraints, Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 9 (2006), pp. 241-263 .
  3. E. Weinthal & P. Jones Luong, Combating the Resource Curse: An Alternative Solution to Managing Mineral Wealth, Perspectives on Politics, vol. 4 no. 1 (2006), pp. 35-53 [pdf] .
  4. E. Weinthal, Y. Parag, A. Vengosh, A. Muti, & W. Kloppmann, ", The EU Drinking Water Directive: The Boron Standard and Scientific Uncertainty, European Environment, vol. 15 no. 1 (2005), pp. 1-12 .
  5. Weinthal, E., Vengosh, A. Marie, A., Gutierrez A, & Kloppmann, W., The Water Crisis in the Gaza Strip: Prospects for remediation, Ground Water, vol. 43 (2005), pp. 653-660 [pdf] .

Highlight:
Dr. Weinthal specializes in global environmental politics and natural resource policies with a particular emphasis on water and energy. The main focus of her research is on the origins and effects of environmental institutions. Her previous research examined the impact of multilateral and bilateral development organizations on water resource management and institution building in the Aral Sea basin in Central Asia. Her research on water politics in conflict regions (e.g. the Gaza Strip in the Middle East) focuses on how the environment might be harnessed for peace building. Her current book project on the resource curse explicates the links between a countrys natural resource base and its institutional capacity through systematically comparing the energy-rich Soviet successor states with other energy-rich developing countries.

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