Disintegrating Assessments? A Research Agenda for Socio-Environmental Science and (Human) Security

The Honorable Sharon E. Burke directs New America’s Resource Security program, which examines the intersection of security, prosperity, natural resources, and public policy. Before joining New America, Sharon served in the Obama Administration as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy, a new office that worked to improve the energy security of U.S. military operations. Prior to her service at the U.S. Department of Defense, Sharon held a number of senior U.S. government positions, including at the Department of State in the George W. Bush Administration, and she was a Vice President and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She attended Williams College and Columbia University, where she was a Zuckerman and International fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs.  

Dr. Geoffrey D. Dabelko is Professor and Associate Dean at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, Ohio University. He directed the School’s Environmental Studies Program from 2012–2018. Geoff is senior advisor to the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center, where he served as program director from 1997–2012. He was a Lead Author of the "Human Security" chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment and has been principal investigator for grants from the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, U.S. Agency for International Development, and United Nations (UN) Foundation. Geoff is a member of the UN Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. He is co-editor of Environmental Peacemaking and Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics. He holds a PhD in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park and AB in political science from Duke University.