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Nives
Dolšak
nives@uw.edu
Associate Professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

http://faculty.washington.edu/nives/

Major Interests

  • Common-pool resource governance
  • Environmental Policy
  • Market instruments
  • Human dimensions of global environmental change
  • Climate change policy
  • International environmental regime
  • Quantitative Social Research Methods

Education

  • B.A., Economics, 1992, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Joint Ph.D., Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Recently taught courses

GRADUATE:
Development and the Environment
Governmental Responses to Global Climate Change
International Environmental Policy
International Organizations and Ocean Management
Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation
Public Policy Process

UNDERGRADUATE:
Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict
Energy Policy

Selected Publications

Books

Nives Dolšak and Elinor Ostrom (editors). 2003. The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (2nd Print)

Elinor Ostrom , Thomas Dietz , Nives Dolšak , Paul Stern , Susan Stonich , and Elke Weber (editors). 2002. The Drama of the Commons. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press.

Recent Articles and Chapters

Nives Dolšak. 2012. "Climate Change Policies in the Transitional Economies of Europe and Eurasia." Voluntas. Published Online before printing, March 2012. DOI: 10.1007/s11266-012-9260-6.

Nives Dolšak. “Rights to Pollute: Assessment of Tradable Permits for Air Pollution.” 2012. In Property in Land and Other Resources, Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom (Eds). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, pp. 159-187.

Nives Dolšak and Karen Sampson.2011. “Diffusion of Market Instruments: The Case of Air Pollution.” Administration and Society.Published Online Before printing, April 2011. DOI:10.1177/0095399711400047.  

Nives Dolšak. “Common Goods”. 2010. Invited Core Article, International Encyclopedia of Political Science, George Kurian (Ed). Washington, D.C.: C.Q. Press.

Nives Dolšak. 2009. “Climate Change Policy Implementation: A Cross ‐Sectional Analysis.” Review of Policy Research, 26(5): 551-570.

Nives Dolšak. 2007. “An Assessment of Tradable Permits for Common ‐Pool Resources.” Review of Policy Research, 24 (6): 541-565.

Andrew Miller and Nives Dolšak. 2007. “Issue Linkages in International Environmental Policy: International Whaling Commission and Japanese Development Aid.” Global Environmental Politics, 7 (1): 69-96.

Nives Dolšak and Maureen C. Dunn. 2006. “Investments in Global Warming Mitigation: The Case of “Activities Implemented Jointly.”” Policy Science, 39 (3): 233-248.