Maxwell T. Boykoff
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 2006
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program (ENVS)
E-mail: Boykoff@colorado.edu
Office: 1333 Grandview
Phone: 303-735-6316
Web:http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/ about_us/meet_us/max_boykoff/
Research Interests
Boykoff’s research interests include environmental governance, science and policy interactions, as well as political economics and the environment.
Current Research
Max Boykoff's research has concentrated on interactions between state and non-state actors at the interface of environmental science, policy and practice. Woven through these endeavors, he has engaged in two primary research areas:
- issues in the cultural politics of climate change, and
- transformations of carbon-based economies and societies
These pursuits also intersect with issues of public understanding and engagement/action as well as ongoing considerations of ethics, environmental justice movements, and climate adaptation.
Selected Publications
Boykoff, M.and Goodman, M. (2008) "Conspicuous Redemption: Promises and Perils of Celebrity Involvement in Climate Change" Geoforum 40 (2009) 395–406.
Boykoff, M. (2009) ""We Speak for the Trees": Media Reporting on the Environment" for Annual Review of Environment and Resources, for vol. 34, forthcoming.
Boykoff, M. (2008) ‘Media and Scientific Communication: A Case of Climate Change’ in Communicating Environmental Geoscience, special issue: Liverman, D.G.E., Marker, B. and Pereira, C.P. (eds), Geological Society of London, pp. 11-18. Available translated into spanish for Iberoamerican Communication Review.
Boykoff, M. (2008) "The cultural politics of climate change discourse in UK tabloids", Political Geography, 27(5), 549-569.
Boykoff, M. and Mansfield, M. (2008) "Ye Olde Hot Aire": Reporting on human contributions to climate change in the UK tabloid press", Environ. Res. Lett. 3 (2008) 024002 (8pp).
Boykoff, M. (2008) Lost in Translation? United States Television News Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change, 1995-2004 Climatic Change, 86(1), 1-11.
Books:
Boykoff, M. (for 2010) ‘Who Speaks for Climate? Making sense of mass media reporting on climate change’, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Boykoff, M. (ed.) (2009) ‘The Politics of Climate Change’, forthcoming with Routledge/Europa.
Goodman, M, Boykoff, M. and Evered, K. (2008) "Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale" Ashgate.
Max Boykoff is a teaching faculty rostered in the Environmental Studies Program. For information on his fall 2009 teaching schedule see: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_4800/
