Selin Named Managing Editor of Journal EPC
Henrik Selin, associate professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was named managing editor of the academic journal Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (EPC).
“I have been an editor at EPC since 2010, and was selected as the new managing editor to replace the outgoing managing editor Andrew Jordan last summer. My first official issue as managing editor came out this month,” said Selin. “Andrew [Jordan] left some big shoes to fill, but I hope to be able to further the develop the journal for the future.”
EPC, one of four environmentally focused journals published by UK-based Pion Press, publishes six issues per year and seeks to advance debates on a wide range of pressing contemporary policy issues arising from attempts made to govern the economy, society, and the environment.
For his first issue, Selin selected a special “Editor’s Choice” paper focused on the perception of corporate lobbyists in Brussels. But his plans for he journal are ambitious.
“In the past 20 years or so, EPC has gone from having a heavy Europe focus to truly being a global journal, bringing in scholarship from Africa, Asia, New Zealand, and more,” Selin said. “But there are still great challenges. I think most academic journals are currently undergoing a period of transition, as they look at what it means to publish and disseminate research online, sometimes even before it appears in hard copy. We are going to continue to update our journal for a 21st century world.”
An editorial on Selin’s new role at EPC appears below.
Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His book Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management was published by MIT Press. He is the co-editor of two books,Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policy Making and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press, with Stacy VanDeveer) and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate, with Miranda Schreurs and Stacy VanDeveer). He is also the author and co-author of more than three dozen peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters.