We congratulate Janina Grabs for winning the Oran R. Young Prize for the best early-career paper of the 2019 Mexico Conference – Is private environmental governance an oxymoron? The effectiveness of market-based sustainability standards in improving ecosystem conservation.
The Oran R. Young Prize awarded by the Earth System Governance Project seeks to reward and encourage cutting-edge research on earth system governance by early-career scholars who could become the next generation of leading scholars in the field of environmental governance research – a field shaped and significantly influenced by the pioneering work of Prof. Oran R. Young. Read more about the Prize here.
Runner-up to the winning paper is a study on Where does novelty come from? A social network analysis of transnational municipal networks engaged in global climate governance by Marielle Papin-Manjarrez (Laval University).
Janina Grabs is a postdoctoral researcher in ETH Zurich’s Environmental Policy Lab.
For winning the 2019 Oran R. Young Prize, Janina Grabs will receive a presentation plaque and a book-voucher from The MIT Press worth 250 USD.
The 2019 Prize Committee:
- Rakhyun E. Kim (Prize Committee Chair)
- Kenneth W. Abbott
- Frank Biermann
- John Dryzek
- Victor Galaz
- Sikina Jinnah
- Louis Kotzé
- Leticia Merino
- Ronald B. Mitchell
- Kanako Morita
