Environmental and Energy Studies

Professor Ruben Mnatsakanian and PhD candidates Naira Harutyunyan, Anastasia Idrisova, and Nora Mzavanadze from the CEU Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy authored the UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) -5, Chapter 11 “Europe”.

We are very pleased to share the news that Jolly Wasambo, PhD graduate of 2011, received an appointment from the President of Malawi to the position of Environmental and Soil Health Expert within the newly established Green Belt Initiative.

We are pleased to announce that the University Doctoral Committee has chosen Jolly Wasambo's thesis as one of the three best dissertations this year.

Jolly Wasambo graduated in 2011.

Prof. Brandon Anthony (faculty) and Diane Matar (PhD student) recently published their research findings on the management effectiveness of protected areas in Syria, Lebanon & Jordan. Based on a new set of global indicators, and within the IUCN-WCPA Framework, Brandon and Diane identify particular factors which contribute to the success of protected area management systems in the region, and offer recommendations for improvement.

In the journal Climate and Development, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and PricewaterhouseCoopers test the viability of this strategy by examining trends in Europe’s electricity sector.

CEU's first ever Sustainability Report draft is prepared by students in Tamara Steger's course in Environmental Politics: Environmental Activism and Communication.

Late last year, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy Tamara Steger was transfixed by Internet videos showing hundreds of people descending on Wall Street to protest social inequality. From her office in Budapest, she wondered how the Occupy Wall Street movement might represent a new kind of social activism.

“Was it really any different from how people had been talking about social and environmental justice issues?” she says. “Were people thinking differently about these issues now?”

Agnes Botos, PhD student served as co-author of the article 'Regulating Industrial Chemicals: Lessons For U.S: Lawmakers from the European Union’s REACH Program'.

The article was released in February through a panel discussion on 'TSCA Reform: What are the Lessons from Europe's Early Experience with REACH?' at The Willard Intercontinental Hotel, Washington, D.C.

PhD candidate of the Environmental Sciences and Policy, Doctoral Program, Nora Mzavanadze, contributed as a Reviewer to the first GEO-Cities report for Tbilisi, Georgia