prof. dr. J. Gupta


  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
    GPIO : Governance and Inclusive Development
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht  166
    1018 WV  Amsterdam
  • J.Gupta@uva.nl

Joyeeta Gupta is professor of environment and development in the global south at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft. She is also a member of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute.

She is editor-in-chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (IF 2.0) and is on the editorial board of journals like Carbon and Law Review, International Journal on Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Policy, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Catalan Environmental Law Journal, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law and the new International Journal of Water Governance.

She was and continues to be lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore and of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment which won the Zaved Second Prize. She has published extensively. She is on the scientific steering committees of many different international programmes including the Global Water Systems Project and Earth System Governance. She has published extensively.

She is on the scientific steering committees of many different international programmes including the Global Water Systems Project and Earth System Governance.

Her current book: "The history of Global Climate Governance" is in press at Cambridge University Press.  

Selected books

  • Gupta, J. (1997). The Climate Change Convention and Developing Countries - From Conflict to Consensus?, Environment and Policy Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht;  
  • Gupta, J. (2001). Our Simmering Planet: What to do About Global Warming, Zed Publishers, London. 

Selected edited books

  • Faure, M., J. Gupta and A. Nentjes (eds.) (2003),Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: The Role of Institutions and Instruments to Control Global Change, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham Glos
  • Van Ierland, E., J. Gupta and M. Kok (eds.) (2003). Issues in International Climate Policy: Theory and Policy, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham Glos
  • Gupta, J. and M. Grubb (eds.) (2000), Climate Change and European Leadership: A Sustainable Role for Europe, Environment and Policy Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
  • Dellapenna, J. and J. Gupta (eds.) (2009). The Evolution of the Law and Politics of Water, Springer Verlag, Dordrecht
  • Gupta, J. and N. van de Grijp (eds.) (2010). Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation: Theory, Practice and Implications for the European Union, Cambridge University Press
  • Gupta, J., N.van der Grijp and O. Kuik (eds.) (2013). Climate Change, Forests and REDD: Lessons for Institutional Design, Routledge.  

Research Themes

  • The influence of changing geopolitics and governance patterns on North-South issues in relation to   environment and development;
  • Relationship between the environment and development at Global to Local (Glocal) levels; and
  • Promoting sustainable development through discourses on integration, coherence, mainstreaming, nexus approach. 

Key disciplinary approaches

Law, politics, policy

Key focus

Environment (climate change, forests, ecosystems), Water, Energy and Development

Key words

adaptive, inclusive multi-level  governance; changing governance patterns; human rights and environmental principles; adaptive capacity

 AS PROMOTER: COMPLETE PHDs

'05 - '13 Nana Amma Anokye, VUA, "Stakeholder participation in Water Resources Management: The Case of Densu Basin in Ghana"

’05 – ’11

Joseph Boateng Agyenim, VUA, “Investigating institutional arrangements for integrated water resource management in developing countries: The Case of White Volta Basin, Ghana”

’04 – ’08

Kyla Tienhaara, VUA, “The Expropriation of Environmental Governance: Protecting Foreign Investors at the Expense of Public Policy” (published by Cambridge University Press).

’01 – ’07

Co-promoter, Preeti Soni (WOTRO), VUA,“Global Solutions Meeting Local Needs: Climate Change Policy Instruments for Diffusion on Cleaner Technologies in the Small-Scale Industries in India”

’00 – ’04

Co-promoter, Antoinette Hildering, Law Faculty, VUA, “International Law, Sustainable Development and Water Management”

 

AS PROMOTER: ONGOING PHDS

'14 - '18 Dilanti Koralagama, Well-being of fisher families in Sri Lanka. 

’13 - '17

Peggy Somuah, Participatory spatial knowledge management in Ghana's forest zone

'13 - '17

Lucia Galarza, Adaptation and climate change in Ecuador 

’13 – ’17

Darryl Colebrander, Coastal Zone Management and Climate Change, South Africa

’13 – ’17

Selvarajah Ravindran, Marine policy, Srilanka

’13 – ’16

Kirstin Conti, Ground water law and policy, American

’12 – ’17

Simone Lovera, Agency in REDD, Paraguay

’12 – ’17

Margot Hurlbert, Adaptation policy, External student, Canada

’12 - ’17

Raquel dos Santos, UNESCO-IHE Delft: Pro-Poor Policy Instruments for Urban Water Access

’12 – ’16

Pedi Obani, UNESCO-IHE Delft: The Human Right to Sanitation

’11 – ’15

Joost Edixhoven, TU Delft, self-financed, part-time scholar: phosphorous governance

’09 – ’14

Marcel van den Heuvel, Self-financed, part-time scholar, IVM: education & negotiation in water

 '08 - '14

Mairon Bastos Lima, Self-financed scholar, IVM: biofuel governance

'06 - '13

Harro van Asselt, VUA, 'The fragmentation of Global Climate Governance'
'05 - '14 Monica Sanz, UNESCO-IHE: micro and small enterprises and water governance

 

 

EDITORSHIPS

’99 –     

Editor in Chief since 2004; and Associate Editor since 1999, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (IF 2.0), Kluwer Academic Publishers; since 2004 Springer

’12 –

Member, Editorial Board, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL)

’11 –

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Water Governance, Baltzer Science Publishers.

’10 –

Member, Editorial Board, Catalan Environmental Law Journal, Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental

’09 –

Member, Editorial Board, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (IF 3.168), Elsevier

’07 –

Member, Editorial Board, Carbon and Climate Law Review, Lexxion

’06 –’10

Member, Editorial Board, International Community Law Review, Brill

’01 –

Member, Editorial Board, Environmental Science and Policy, (IF 2.978) Elsevier Science

’98 –      

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprise Ltd

’90 – ’91

Member, Editorial Board, Change, Ministry of Environment, The Netherlands

’88 – ’89

Legal reporter, International Banking Law Journal, Kluwer/Longman, UK

Journalistic work

’85 – ’87

Weekly Consumer Columnist, Indian Express Newspaper, Gujarat, India

’85 – ’87

Speaker on Youth Forum Talks on All India Radio

’84 – ’85

Fortnightly University Columnist, The Times of India, Gujarat, India

’84 – ’85

Series on Facets of History, The Times of India, Gujarat, India      

’81 – ’87

Freelancer - India Abroad, Multinational Monitor & Harvard Law Record (USA), Indian Express, The Times of India, Hindustan Times, Telegraph, The Indian Post (India)

Commision memberships and professional affiliations

SCIENTIFIC STEERING COMMITTEES

’11 – ’15

Climate Change Committee, International Law Association

’08 – ’13

Earth System Governance Project

’10 – ’11

EU’s Global Europe 2030/2050 - Expert Group, on the EU’s future research priorities.

’07 – ’08

Scientific Planning Committee, IHDP Earth System Governance Project

’04 –’13

Global Water Systems Project

’04 – ’10

International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

’01 – ’10

Vice Chair since 2005; Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) of  International Geosphere, Biosphere Programme, the World Climate Research Programme and International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change

’03 – ’07

Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) of the IHDP

’03 – ’06

Member RC 46 on Global Environmental Change, International Political Science Assoc (IPSA). 

’03 –’12

Member of the Committee on the International Law on Sustainable Development, International Law Association (ILA)

’02 – ’04

Member, Research Network on Transnational Institutions on the Environment (TIE), Germany

International Epistemic Communities and Advisory CommitteEs

’13 -  15

Scientific Advisory Board, EU-FP7 Proposal: Forward Looking Analysis of Grand Societal Challenges and Innovative Policies, FLAGSHIP, ISIS, Italy

’13  - ’15

Member, Advisory Board, post graduate programme on Climate Change Law and Policy,  University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

’11

Member, Science Group to make Proposals on the Scientific Content of the future Assessments of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

’10 – ’12

Lead author, Global Environmental Outlook-5, UNEP

’10 – ’14

Lead author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – Fifth Assessment Report

’03 – ’05

Lead author, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

’04 – ’06

Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – Fourth Assessment Report

’03

Member, Scoping Report for IPCC – Fourth Assessment Report

’98 – ’00

Lead author, IPCC Special Report on Technology Transfer

National Scientific and Advisory Commissions

’13 -

Advisory and supervision committee, Knowledge collection and research department, National Commission on Sustainable Development (NCDO)

’11 – ’15

Vice-president, Commissie Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (COS)

’11 – ’15

Member, Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV)

’10 – ’12

Member, National Knowledge Network Sustainability, Climate and Energy

’09 – ’10

2010  Member, Vrienden van Wetenschap, Innovatie Platform Headed by Prime-Minister

’08 – ’11

Member, Commission, Huygens Scholarship Programme, Ministry of Education.

’05 – ’10

Vice-President, Global Change Commission, Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW)

’04 – ’10

Member, Board, Research for Global Development, WOTRO/N.W.O.

’02 – ’05

Member, Programme Council, Netherlands Follow-Up Programme on Climate Change Research

’01 – ’04

Member, Netherlands Human Dimensions Programme Commission, on Institutions, (KNAW)

’04 – ’06

Member, Netherlands Global Change Commission, KNAW

’00 – '05

Fellow, Amsterdam Institute of International Development

UNIVERSITY

’03 – ’12

Member, Council of Advice of the Centre for International Cooperation, Vrije Universiteit

PROFESSIONAL

Member

International Law Association

Member

International Political Science Association

Member

Nederlandse Vereniging van Internationale Recht

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

’12 – ’14

Raad van Toezicht, OXFAM NOVIB

’13

Advisory Board, Advisory Board member of Stichting CXI AD group

’02 – ’

Member, Comité van Aanbeveling, Kerkinactie klimaatcampagne

’95 – ’01

Member, then Chairman (from ’00), Foundation WASTE, Gouda

‘98 –  ’01

Trustee, Stichting de Noordzee (Foundation: The Northsea), Utrecht

’95 – ’98

Trustee, Foundation for International Security, Groningen

’96 - ’98

Trustee, Foundation TRACKS (orphans in Calcutta), Amsterdam

’92 -’93

Member, "Speergroep Commissie" on North-South Issues of Evert Vermeer Stichting

’92

Volunteer, International Water Tribunal

’89 – ’91

Volunteer, Bhopal Never Again Action Group

 

2015

  • J. Gupta (2015). Assessments. In J.-F. Morin & A. Orsini (Eds.), Essential concepts of global environmental governance (pp. 9-10). Abingdon [etc.]: Routledge.

2014

2013

2012

2014

2013

  • J. Gupta (2013). Climate change and water law: the regimes compared. In V.I. Grover (Ed.), Impact of climate change on water and health (pp. 30-45). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
  • J. Gupta (2013). Global water governance. In R. Falkner (Ed.), The handbook of global climate and environment policy (Handbooks of global policy) (pp. 19-36). Chichester [etc.]: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • J. Gupta, R. Matthews, P. Meyfroidt, C. Haug, O. Kuik & N. van der Grijp (2013). The future of forests. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 229-258). London: Routledge.
  • J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp, L. Bigot, M. Bastos Lima, J.Y.B. Kuiper & F. von Blücher (2013). Comparative analysis of Vietnam, Indonesia, Cameroon and Peru. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 185-206). London: Routledge.
  • J. Gupta, R. Matthews, P. Minang, M. van Noordwijk, O. Kuik & N. van der Grijp (2013). Climate change and forests: from the Noordwijk Declaration to REDD. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 1-24). London: Routledge.
  • J.Y.B. Kuiper, N. van der Grijp, J. Gupta & C. Betgen (2013). Case study: Cameroon. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 143-162). London: Routledge.
  • M. Bastos Lima, J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & F. Agus (2013). Case study: Indonesia. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 121-142). London: Routledge.
  • L. Bigot, N. van der Grijp, J. Gupta & V.T. Phuong (2013). Case study: Vietnam. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 99-120). London: Routledge.
  • C. Haug & J. Gupta (2013). The emergence of REDD on the global policy agenda. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 77-98). London: Routledge.
  • C. Haug & J. Gupta (2013). Global forest governance. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 52-76). London: Routledge.
  • J. Gupta, H.Y. Shin, R. Matthews, P. Meyfroidt & O. Kuik (2013). The forest transition, the drivers of deforestation and governance approaches. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 25-51). London: Routledge.
  • J. Gupta & N. Sanchez (2013). The Common But Differentiated Responsibility (CBDR) principle elaborated in relation to other principles of law. In M.C. Bassiouni, J. Gomula, P. Mengozzi, J.G. Merrills, R. Nieto Navia, A. Oriolo, W. Schabas & A. Vigorito (Eds.), Global trends: law, policy & justice: essays in honour of professor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo (The global community: yearbook of international law and jurisprudence) (pp. 23-39). New York: Oceana.
  • F. von Blücher, N. van der Grijp, J. Gupta & P. Santa Maria (2013). Case study: Peru. In J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp & O. Kuik (Eds.), Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design (Routledge research in international environmental law) (pp. 163-184). London: Routledge.

2014

  • J. Gupta (2014). Sharing our Ecospace. . Rede, uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar 'Environment and Development in the Global South' aan de Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen (2014, June 5). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.[go to publisher's site]

2013

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