Christine Overdevest

 

Address                  Department of Sociology
University of Florida
3219 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117330
Gainesville, FL  32611-7330
voice:  352/392-0265 ext.256
fax:  352/392-6568
coverdev@soc.ufl.edu

 

 

Current Positions

 

2008—2009                Visiting Fellow, International Business Institute,

                                    Stockholm School of Economics

2005—present             Assistant Professor,

                                                Department of Sociology, University of Florida

                                                Affiliate Faculty, School for Natural Resources and Environment

                                                Affiliate Faculty, Water Institute

           

Education

 

2005    Ph.D.   Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1992    M.A.    Department of Sociology, University of Georgia

1988    B.A.    Department of Sociology, University of Georgia

                                                                       

 

 

Articles and Book Chapters

 

Overdevest, Christine. Forthcoming. Comparing Forest Certification Schemes:  The Case of Ratcheting Standards in the Forest Sector.  Special Issue on Law and Legitimacy in Transnational Governance  Socio-Economic Review

 

Overdevest, Christine and Brian Mayer.  Forthcoming. Citizen Science and the Next Generation of Environmental Law.  In Beyond Environmental Law.  David Driesen and Alyson Flournoy, (Eds),  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Overdevest, C., Alena Bleicher, and Matthias Gross.  Forthcoming.  The Experimental Turn in Environmental Sociology: Pragmatism and New Forms of Governance.  In Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges. Matthias Gross and Harald Heinrichs, (Eds.) Springer:  New York.

 

Overdevest C. and B. Mayer.  2008.  Harnessing the Power of Information through Community Monitoring: Insights from Social Science.  Texas Law Review.  (86)7:1493-1526.

 

Perz, S.G., Brilhante, S., Brown, F., Caldas, M., Ikeda, S., Mendoza, E., Overdevest, C. Reis, V., Fernando Reyes, J., Rojas, D., Souza, C., Walker, R.  2008. Road building, land use and climate change: prospects for environmental governance in the Amazon.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 (1498):1889-1897.

 

Perz, S.G.  C. Overdevest, E.Y. Arima, M.M. Caldas, and R.T. Walker.  2007. Official Road Building in the Amazon: Dilemmas and Models for Road Governance. Environmental Conservation.  34: 112-121.

 

Overdevest, C. and M.G. Rickenbach.  2006.  Forest Certification and Institutional Governance:  An Empirical Study of Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Holders in the United States.  Forest Policy and Economics. 9(1):93-102.

 

Rickenbach M.G. and C. Overdevest. 2006.  More than Markets:  Assessing FSC Certification as a Policy Tool.  Journal of Forestry.  104(3):143-147.

 

Overdevest, C.  2005.  Information Politics, Treadmill Politics, and Public Policy:  Toward a Political Economy of Information.  Organization and Environment.  18: 72-90. 

 

Overdevest, C.  2004.  Codes of Conduct and Standard Setting in the Forest Sector:  Constructing Markets for Democracy?  Industrial Relations/Relations Industrielles.   59(1):172-198.

 

Overdevest, C.., Orr. C.S., and K. Stepenuck   2004.  Volunteer Stream Monitoring and Local Participation in Natural Resource Issues.   Human Ecology Review.  Winter 2004:177-185.

 

Gergel, S.E., Bennett, E.M., Greenfield, B.K., King, S., Overdevest, C., and B. Stumborg.  2004.  A Test of the Environmental Kuznets Curve Using Long-term Watershed Inputs.  Ecological Applications. 14(2):555–570.

 

Overdevest. C. 2003. Readings in Environmental Governance.  Course Syllabus.  In Rik Scarce and Michael Mascarenhas.  (Eds).  Syllabi and Instructional Material in Environmental Sociology, 5th edition. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

 

Overdevest, C. 2000. Participatory Democracy, Representative Democracy, and the Nature of Diffuse and Concentrated Interests:  a Case Study of Public Involvement on a National Forest District. Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal 13: (7) 685-696.

 

Tarrant, M., Overdevest, C. Bright, A., Cordell, H.K. and English, D.B.K. 1997.

Rural Resident Attitudes Toward Ecosystem Management: An Examination of

Attitude Change and Behavioral Prediction. Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal 10 (6): 537-550.

 

Overdevest, C. and Green G.P. 1995.  Forest Dependence and Community Well-Being. A Segmented Market Approach. Society and Natural Resources:  An International Journal 8 (2) 111-131.

 

 

Books

 

Cordell, H. K. and Overdevest, C. 2001. Footprints on the Land:   Population Trends the Future of Natural Resources in the United States.  Champaign:  Sagamore Publications.  314 pp.

 

 

 

Papers Presented to Professional Audiences

 

2009.  Overdevest, C.  Performativity, Counter-performativity and the Case of FLEGT.  Institute of International Business, Seminar Series.  February 6, 2009.  Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

2008.  Overdevest, C.  Ratcheting Standards in the Forest Sector.  Institute of International Business, Seminar Series.  November 7, 2008.  Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

2008.  Overdevest, C. Performativity, Counterperformativity and the Case of FLEGT.  Energizing Markets – Making and Breaking Boundaries for The Regimes of Value. October 30 – November 1, 2008.  Copenhagen Business School., Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

2008. Overdevest C.  Ratcheting Standards in the Forest Sector.  University of Wisconsin-Madison, sponsored by Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy and Department of Rural Sociology.  May 2, 2008. Invited.

 

2008.  Overdevest C. and B. Mayer.   Harnessing the Power of Information through Community Monitoring: Insights from Social Science.  Texas Law Review Symposium on Harnessing the Power of Information for the Next Generation of Environmental Law.  University of Texas School of Law. February 1-2, 2008. Invited

 

2007.  Overdevest, C. “Harnessing the Power of Information:  Bucket Brigades as Example.”  Next Generation Environmental Law Roundtable Meeting.  UF Levin College of Law. Thursday, March 1, 2007.  Invited

 

2007. Overdevest, C. The Governance Hypothesis: A Pragmatist Approach?  German Environmental Sociology Summit 007:  International and Interdisciplinary Challenges.  November 8 – 10, 2007.  University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany.

 

2007. Mayer, B. and C. Overdevest.  Bucket Brigades and Community-Based Environmental Monitoring.  Society for the Social Studies of Science, Annual Conference.  October 11-13, 2007. Montreal, Canada.

 

2007. Overdevest. C. and B. Mayer.  Bucket Brigades:  A Research Proposal   American Sociology Association Annual Meeting.  August 10-15, 2007. NY, NY

 

2005.  Overdevest, C.  “Certification and Standard Setting in Forest Sector:  Incorporating Social and Economic Values in Forest Policy and Practice?”  Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Canada.  August 7-12, 2005.  Panel on “Ecosystem Services and Responsible Investing:  Trends and Developments.”  Invited

 

2005.  Overdevest, C.  Forest Certification and Institutional Governance:  An Empirical Study of Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Holders in the United States.  American Sociological Association Annual meeting, August 13-17, 2005.  Philadelphia, PA.

 

2004.  Overdevest, C. Information Politics, Treadmill Politics, and Public Policy:  Toward a Political Economy of Information. American Sociology Association Annual meeting.  August 13-17, 2004. San Francisco, CA.

 

2003.  Overdevest, C.  Information Politics, Treadmill Politics, and Public Policy:  Toward a Political Economy of Information.  Symposium on Environment and the Treadmill of Production.  Sponsored by the Environment and Society Research Committee (RC24) of the International Sociological Association. October 31-November 1, 2003. University of Wisconsin.

 

2003.  Overdevest, C.  Codes of Conduct and Standard Setting in the Forest Sector:  Constructing Markets for Democracy?  International Symposium on Corporate Codes of Conduct and the Social Regulation of the Global Firm.  Equity, Efficiency or Ethics?  April  30—May 1, 2003  University of Montreal, Canada.

 

2003.  Overdevest, C.  Institutional Innovations and Social Regulation in the Forest Sector:  Key Actors and Mechanisms.   American Sociological Association Annual Meetings.  August 15-18, 2003.  Atlanta, Georgia.

 

2002.  Overdevest, C.  Ratcheting Environmental Standards?  Investigating the Case for Democratic Experimentalism and New Governance in the Forest Sector.  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 16-19, Chicago Illinois.

 

2002.  Clendenning, G., B.M. Kahn, C.A. Overdevest, and B.Vail.  Does it Pay to be Green?: An Empirical Study of Theories of Environmental Improvement.  Ninth Annual Symposium on Society and Resource Management.  June 2-5, Bloomington Illinois.

 

2000.  Overdevest, C.A.,  Bennett, E.,  Gergel, S.E.,  Greenfield, B.K., Stumborg B. A Reassessment of the Kuznets Curve Using Long Term Environmental Indicators. Eighth International Symposium on Society and Resources Management, Bellingham Washington, June 2-5, 2000. 

 

2000.  Overdevest, C.A. and H.K. Cordell.  Footprints on the Land: Population Trends and the Future of Natural Resources in the United States.  Eighth International Symposium on Society and Resources Management, Bellingham Washington, June 17-22, 2000. 

 

 

Teaching       

 

Environmental Sociology (Undergraduate Level), University of Florida

Economic Sociology (Undergraduate Level), University of Florida

 

Environmental Governance (Graduate Seminar), University of Florida

 

Sociology/Rural Sociology 541.   Readings in Environmental Governance.  University of Wisconsin-Madison  Department of Sociology and Rural Sociology.  Spring 2003.

 

 

 

Funding and Scholarly Awards      

 

University of Florida Water Institute Program Initiation Fund (PIF).  Scenario-Based Analysis of Surface Water Withdrawals from the St. Johns River Basin. $50,000 (with Trevor Boyer).  2008. 

University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Preliminary Studies Grant (PSG), Bucket Brigades and Citizen Science, $15,000 (with Brian Mayer), 2008.

Research Fellow, Stockholm School of Economics, International Business Institute, 2008-2009

School of Natural Resources and Environment, Institutional Innovations for Illegal Logging: A Preliminary Assessment, $5,000, 2006. 

School of Natural Resources and Environment, Adaptive Governance. The Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida. First Annual Report to the Governor and Legislature (subcontracted through School of Natural Resources and Environment) $  2,000 (with Alyson Flournoy), 2006

John H. Kolb Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in Rural Sociology, 2005

Vilas Travel Award, 2004-2005                                                                                            

World Affairs and the Global Economy Dissertation Fellowship, 2004-2005                     

National Science Foundation Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research

Traineeship (IGERT) Fellow, 1998-2003                                                                              

European Union Center Fellowship to study environmental governance

in a transatlantic context,  Fall 2003.                                                                                     

European Union Center Travel Grant, Spring 2003                                                  

World Affairs and the Global Economy Travel Grant, Spring 2003                                     

Public Innovations Project Funding, Columbia University, 2002-2003                                

IGERT Dissertation Funding Award, 2002-2003                                                     

IGERT Dissertation Funding Award, 2001-2002                                                     

American Sociological Association Graduate Student Paper Competition.

Environment and Technology Section, 2003. 2nd place.

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society 1988.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 1988.

National Golden Key Honor Society 1987, 1988.