COAS Scholars Lecture featuring Dr. Josh Gellers

1 UNF Dr,Jacksonville FL 32224

19 January, 2022

Description

This lecture series is made possible through generous support from private donations to the College of Arts and Sciences. China in Africa China has recently become the world’s largest lender to developing countries. But to what extent are China’s activities indicative of a new approach to South-South cooperation and does the country offer an alternative to Western aid? This talk examines the drivers and impacts of Chinese foreign assistance with a specific emphasis on Africa. The presentation closes with some tentative conclusions about the effects of the changing global landscape of development finance. Joshua C. Gellers, PhD, LEED Green Associate, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida, Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, and Core Team Member of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment. At UNF, he has received the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Outstanding International Leadership Award, and Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award. In 2017, he was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka. In 2020, Josh was named the Green Teacher of the Year (Higher Education) by the US Green Building Council Florida, Northeast Florida Region. Josh’s research focuses on environmental politics, human rights, and technology. His work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and cited in several UN reports. Josh runs EnviroRightsMap.org, a free Google Maps-based website that catalogs constitutional environmental rights throughout the world. He is the author of The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights (Routledge 2017) and Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law (Routledge 2020). Josh received his BA in Political Science from the University of Florida, MA in Climate and Society from Columbia University, and MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.