Review process
This site informs about the review process for the 2011 Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance.
The call for papers closed on 15 September 2010. Our International Review Panel reviewed all abstracts submitted by that date. Authors of submitted abstracts were notified per email on the outcome of the review process around 20 November 2010.
The review system for the 2011 Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance is as follows:
- All abstracts were evaluated independently and anonymously by at least 4 members of the International Review Panel, allotted on a random basis.
- Abstracts were ranked on a scale from 5 points (excellent/highly appropriate for the conference) to 1 point (not appropriate/rejection).
- Based on the five grades that we received for each abstract from our review panel, we calculated an average grade for every abstract, and then ranked all abstracts accordingly. To the extent possible, we also took written comments from reviewers into account, and we specifically looked at abstracts where evaluators have differed by more than 2 points.
- We received 333 abstracts from colleagues in 39 countries, with a generally very high quality. In order to keep the conference at a reasonable size to allow for meaningful discussions we decided to accept the best 230 abstracts, thus ensuring an acceptance rate of less than 70%.
The 2011 Colorado Conference International Review Panel
Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
Derek Armitage, Wilfrid Laurier University
Jörg Balsiger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Sandra R. Baptista, Columbia University
Michele Betsill, Colorado State University
Frank Biermann, Free University Amsterdam
Max Boykoff, University of Colorado
Sarah Burch, University of Oxford
Susana Camargo Vieira, University of Itauna
Tony Cheng, Colorado State University
Leila da Costa Ferreira, University of Campinas
Lúcia da Costa Ferreira, University of Campinas
Klaus Dingwerth, University Bremen
Lorraine Elliott, Australian National University
Peter Feindt, Cardiff University
Pedro Fidelman, James Cook University
Marcilio Toscano , Franca Filho State University of Paraiba
Kathy Galvin, Colorado State University
Andrea Gerlak, University of Arizona
Pieter Glasbergen, Utrecht University
Aarti Gupta, Wageningen University
Joyeeta Gupta , Free University Amsterdam
Klaus Jakob, Free University Berlin
Sikina Jinnah, American University
Norichika Kanie, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Louis Lebel, Chiang Mai University
Diana Liverman, University of Arizona
Elizabeth L Malone, Joint Global Change Research Institute
Rafael Martins, State University of Campinas
Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon
Donald R. Nelson, University of Georgia
Barry Ness, Lund University
Annika E. Nilsson, Stockholm Environment Institute
Sebastian Oberthür, Free University Brussel
Dennis Ojima, Colorado State University
Felix Olorunfemi, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research
Henk Overbeek, Free University Amsterdam
Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück
H. Carolyn Peach Brown, University of Prince Edward Island
Robin Reid, Colorado State University
Robert Falkner , London School of Economics
Uwe Schneidewind, Wuppertal Institute
Heike Schroeder, Oxford University
Andrew Seidl, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Anton Shkaruba, Central European University
Bernd Siebenhühner, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
R.B. Singh, University of Delhi
Jon Birger Skjærseth, Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Dimitris Stevis, Colorado State University
Pete Taylor, Colorado State University
Jessica Thompson, Colorado State University
Kyla Tienhaara, Australian National University
Harro van Asselt, Oxford University
Nicolien van der Grijp, Free University Amsterdam
Steve Vanderheiden, University of Colorado at Boulder
Marcela Velasco, Colorado State University
Edurado Viola, University of Brasília
Linda J. Yarr, Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia