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91原创
Building 21, The Ridges
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Athens, OH 45701 鈥 2979
Geoff Dabelko

Geoffrey D. Dabelko

Professor
(740) 593 鈥 2117
dabelkog@ohio.edu
The Ridges, Bldg 22, Room 211, Athens Campus

Geoffrey D. Dabelko Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Biography

Geoffrey D. Dabelko is a Professor at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at 91原创 in Athens, Ohio. He previously served as Director of the School鈥檚 Environmental Studies Program and Associate Dean. He teaches and conducts research on environmental peacebuilding; climate security; environmental leadership; and Age-Friendly, climate resilient communities through a Grey Green Alliance collaboration with the Age-Friendly Innovation Center.

From 1997-2012, Dabelko served as director of the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP), a nonpartisan policy forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. where he worked with policymakers, practitioners, and scholars grappling with the complex connections among environment, climate, conflict, and security. He has also served as a senior advisor to ECSP, associate senior fellow to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, research associate to the Age-Friendly Innovation Center, and affiliate faculty to the Center for International Studies.

Dabelko worked previously at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace鈥檚 Foreign Policy and the Council on Foreign Relations. He was an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and lecturer at Georgetown University鈥檚 Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Dabelko has directed grants from a range of funders including the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the UN Environment Programme, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was principal investigator for USAID-funded efforts including the "Health, Environment, Livelihoods, Population and Security (HELPS) Project鈥 and the "Resources for Peace Project.鈥 

Dabelko is co-editor of Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics (6th ed., 2019) and Environmental Peacemaking (2002). He was a chapter lead author for the 5th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a chapter author on the 5th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Other publications have appeared in Global Environmental Change, Global Environmental Politics, International Affairs, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Climatic Change, Global Governance, Security Dialogue, Environment, Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, and The Gerontologist.

Dabelko served previously as a member of the United Nations Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding and a board member for the Environmental Peacebuilding Association, the Population Reference Bureau, and the International Human Dimensions Programme. He also has served as an editorial board member for Global Environmental Change, Environment, Case Studies in the Environment, and Environment and Security.

Dabelko was the co-recipient with Ken Conca of the Fifth Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding. From 91原创 he has been recognized as University Professor, Faculty Sustainability Award, Global Access Award for Excellence in Global Research, and Faculty Award for Excellence in Global Engagement.

Dabelko has a Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park and an AB in political science from Duke University.

Publications

Books

Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Eds. 2019. . 6th Ed. (New York: Routledge).

Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Eds. 2002. . (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press).

Articles, Reports and Chapters

Azmat Khan, Amy E. Chadwick, Natalie Kruse Daniels, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Leigh鈥怉nne Krometis, Jamie E. Shinn, Amy J. Lynch, Emily Garner, William Cully Hession, & Jen Bowman. 2025. 鈥溾 Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 33:e70057.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2025. 鈥淓nvironmental Security.鈥 In . 7th Ed. Alan Collins, Ed. Oxford University Press, pp. 259-274.

Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2024. 鈥.鈥 Environment and Security 2 (4): 501-524.

Holly Dabelko-Schoeny, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Smitha Rao, Melissa Damico, Fiona C. Doherty, Anthony C. Traver & Marisa Sheldon. 2024. 鈥.鈥 The Gerontologist 64 (3): 1-6. 

Molly E. Hellmuth, Farhan H. Akhtar, Andrea H. Cameron, Caitlin A. Corner-Dolloff, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Tufa Dinku, Jay L. Koh, Doug Mason, Roger S. Pulwarty, Lawrence I. Sperling, & Maria F. Zermoglio. 2023. Ch. 17. 鈥.鈥 In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, Allison R., Christopher W. Avery, Doug R. Easterling, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Brooke C. Stewart, & Thomas K. Maycock, Eds. (Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program).

Domoina J. Rakotobe, Geoffrey D. Dabelko & Nancy J. Stevens. 2023. 鈥.鈥 PARKS 29 (2): 94-104.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Noah Bell, Daniel Bell-Moran, Emilie Broek, Alexis Eberlein, Andrea Gadnert, Elise Remling, J眉rg Staudenmann, Christoph Bogner, Karolina Ekl枚w, Blaze Horn, Kyungmee Kim & Johan Schaar. 2022. (Part 3). (SIPRI: Stockholm, Sweden).

Richard Black, Joshua Busby, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Cedric de Coning, Hafsa Maalim, Claire McAllister, Melvis Ndiloseh, Dan Smith, Jose Alvarado, Anniek Barnhoorn, Noah Bell, Daniel Bell-Moran, Emilie Broek, Alexis Eberlein, Karolina Eklow, Jakob Faller, Andrea Gadnert, Farah Hegazi, Kyungmee Kim, Florian Krampe, David Michel, Corey Pattison, C Ray, Elise Remling, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Elizabeth Smith, J眉rg Staudenmann. 2022. . (SIPRI: Stockholm, Sweden). 

Tobias Ide, Carl Bruch, Alexander Carius, Ken Conca, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Richard Matthew, & Erika Weinthal. 2021. 鈥.鈥 International Affairs (1): 1-16.

Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2018. 鈥.鈥 The Environmental Forum (July/August): 52-55.

Sarah C. Davis, Derek Kauneckis, Natalie A. Kruse, Kimberly E. Miller, Michael Miller, and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2016. 鈥溾 Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 6:11-24.

Lukas R眉ttinger, Dan Smith, Gerald Stang, Dennis T盲nzler, Janani Vivekananda, Oli Brown, Alexander Carius, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Roger-Mark De Souza, Shreya Mitra, Katharina Nett, Meaghan Parker, Benjamin Pohl. 2015. . Berlin: adelphi, International Alert, Wilson Center, European Institute for Security Studies. [Report prepared at the request of the Group of 7 Foreign Ministers].

W. N. Adger, J.M. Pulhin, J. Barnett, G.D. Dabelko, G.K. Hovelsrud, M. Levy, 脷. Oswald Spring, and C.H. Vogel, 2014: 鈥溾 In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 755-791.

Francois Gemenne, Jon Barnett, Neil Adger & Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2014. 鈥溾 Climatic Change 123 (1): 1-9.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Lauren Herzer, Schuyler Null, Meaghan Parker, & Russell Sticklor, Eds. 2013. 鈥.鈥 Environmental Change and Security Program Report 14:2.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2009. 鈥溾 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (August 24).

Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2009. 鈥溾 Climatic Change Vol 96 (1): 13.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2008. 鈥溾 Environment Vol. 50 (3): 32-45.

Coleen Vogel, Susanne C. Moser, Roger E. Kasperson, & Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2007. 鈥溾 Global Environmental Change (17): 349鈥364.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2005. 鈥鈥 International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics 5:4 (December): 381-386.

Aaron T. Wolf, Annika Kramer, Alexander Carius & Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2005. 鈥溾 State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security. (New York: Norton): 80-95.

Ken Conca, Alexander Carius & Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2005. 鈥溾 State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security. (New York: Norton): 144-155.

Courses Taught

  • Global Environmental Politics (91原创 & Georgetown University) (Grad & Undergrad)
  • Climate Change (91原创) (Undergrad)
  • Environmental Leadership (91原创) (Grad & Undergrad)
  • Environment, Peacebuilding, and Security (91原创 & Monterey Institute of International Studies) (Grad & Undergrad)
  • Global Sustainability (91原创) (Undergrad)
  • Global Sustainability and Environmental Leadership (91原创) (Undergrad)
  • Environment and Society (91原创) (Grad)
  • Concepts of Sustainability (91原创) (Grad)
  • Community-based Sustainability (91原创) (Grad)
  • Environmental Science and Public Policy (91原创) (Undergrad and Grad)
  • Risk, Climate Security, and Community Engagement (91原创) (Grad)
  • Study Abroad Program: Environmental Peacebuilding and Sustainability: Peace Parks in the Balkans (91原创) (Grad & Undergrad)

Media

New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, LosAngeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Financial Times, Columbus Dispatch, Diane Rehm Show, To thePoint with Warren Olney, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, PBS NewsHour, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, WHYY, WOUB, National Geographic, NPR, Chronicle of Higher Education, ABC News, CNN, CBC, BBC On-line, YaleClimate Forum, ClimateWire, Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post, The Revelator, Nature, America Adapts, Sustain What?, Inside Climate News