JoAnn Carmin studies the socio-political and organizational dimensions of
environmental decision-making, both in the United States and in Eastern Europe.
She is particularly interested in the impact that environmental groups and other civil
society actors have on environmental policy and plan development and implementation.
Dr. Carmin’s current research focuses on the reactions that nongovernmental
organizations and community members have to development proposals and on civil
society responses to environmental disasters and environmental health hazards.

Over the past four years Dr. Carmin has taught courses on community involvement,
social movements, current and emerging topics in environmental policy and planning,
and indicators of sustainable development. She received her B.S. and M.S. from
Cornell University in management and organizational theory and her Ph.D. from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in environmental policy and planning. She
is a Fellow at the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies and,
during the 2002-2003 academic year, was a Visiting Research Scholar in residence
at Duke University’s Center for Environmental Solutions.


Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications
JoAnn Carmin. Forthcoming. “Resources, Opportunities, and Local Environmental
Action in the Democratic Transition and Early Consolidation Periods in the Czech
Republic.” Environmental Politics, 12 (3).

JoAnn Carmin, Nicole Darnall, and Joao Mil-Homens. Forthcoming. “Stakeholder
Involvement in the Design of U.S. Voluntary Environmental Initiatives: Does
Sponsorship Matter?” Policy Studies Journal, 31 (4).

JoAnn Carmin, Barbara Hicks, and Andreas Beckmann. Forthcoming. “Leveraging
Local Action: Grassroots Initiatives and Transnational Collaboration in the Formation
of the White Carpathian Euroregion.” International Sociology, 18 (4).

JoAnn Carmin. 2003. “Local Action in a Transitional State: Community Responses
to Proposed Development in the Czech Republic, 1992-1996.” Social Science
Quarterly, 84 (1): 189-207.

Toddi A. Steelman and JoAnn Carmin. 2002. “Community Based Watershed
Remediation: Connecting Organizational Resources to Social and Substantive
Outcomes.” In Dianne Rahm (ed.), The Politics of Toxic Waste: 21st Century
Challenges (pp. 145-178). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.

JoAnn Carmin and Deborah B. Balser. 2002. “Selecting Repertoires of Action in
Environmental Movement Organizations: An Interpretive Approach.” Organization
& Environment, 15 (4): 365-388.

JoAnn Carmin and Barbara Hicks. 2002. “International Triggering Events, Transnational
Networks, and the Development of the Czech and Polish Environmental Movements.”
Mobilization, 7 (3): 305-324.