Alexios Antypas

Academic rank: 
Associate Professor
Position: 
Director, Center for Environment and Security
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room: 
603
Phone number: 
327-3091
Qualifications: 
PhD in natural resources policy and sociology, University of Washington
MSc in environmental science, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
B.A. in history, Georgetown University
Academic/Professional Experience and Achievements: 

Dr. Antypas joined CEU in 2000. Since 2008, he is the Director of the Center for Environment and Security (CENSE). Prior to that he worked in:

  • Civic Education Project visiting professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Rezekne in Latvia.
  • Adjunct faculty, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lemoyne College, Syracuse, NewYork.
  • Consultant to UNDP, UNEP, the US Forest Service, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.

His research interests include

  • Global environmental governance
  • Environmental policy change and transformation
  • Human rights and the environment
  • Science-policy studies
Academic/research topics: 
environmental justice
reform of environmental policy
global environmental governance
science-policy studies

Publications

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Book
Cherp, A., A. Antypas, and R. A. Mnatsakanian. Environment and Security : Transforming Risk into Cooperation : The Case of Eastern Europe. The United Nations Environment Programme, 2007.
Ürge-Vorsatz, D., L. Mez, G. Miladinova, A. Antypas, A. Baniak, and M. Bursik. The impact of structural changes in the energy sector of CEE countries on the creation of sustainable energy path : special focus on investment in environmentally friendly energy and impact of such a sustainable energy path on employment and access condit. Budapest: Central European University, 2003.
Antypas, A.. The dynamics of legitimation and the case of the US Forest Service : a theoretical and historical discussion. Walla Walla, Wash.: U.S. Forest Service, 1995. Abstract
Book Chapter
Antypas, A., S. Stec, and T. Steger. "Transition and Governance : The Case of Post-Communist States." In Multilevel Governance of Global Environmental Change : Perspectives from Science, Sociology and the Law, edited by G. Winter, 358-383. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Antypas, A., R. J. McLain, J. Gilden, and G. Dyson. "Federal nontimber forest products policy and management." In Nontimber forest products in the United States, edited by E. T. Jones, R. McLain and J. F. Weigand. Development of western resources. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Antypas, A.. "The Institutional Development of the Commoditized Economy." In Privileged Goods, Commoditization and Its Impact on Environment and Society, edited by J. P. Manno, 149-172. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2000.
Shannon, M. A., and A. Antypas. "Open institutions : uncertainty and ambiguity in 21st-century forestry." In Creating a forestry for the 21st century : the science of ecosystem management, edited by K. A. Kohm and J. F. Franklin, 437-446. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.
Journal Article
Anthony, Brandon P., Peter Scott, and A. Antypas. "Sitting on the fence? Policies and practices in managing human-wildlife conflict in Limpopo Province, South Africa." Conservation & Society 8, no. 3 (2010): 225-240. Abstract
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Antypas, A., C. Cahn, R. Filcak, and T. Steger. "Linking Environmental Protection, Health, and Human Rights in the European Union : An Argument in Favour of Environmental Justice Policy." Journal of Environmental Law and Management 20, no. 1 (2008): 8-21.
Medarova, K., and A. Antypas. "Implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Bulgaria : limping towards effectiveness." Environmental Liability 14, no. 1 (2006): 13.
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Ürge-Vorsatz, D., S. Rezessy, and A. Antypas. "Renewable electricity support schemes in Central Europe: A case of incomplete policy transfer." Energy and Environment 15, no. 4 (2004): 699-721. Abstract
Stec, S., and A. Antypas. "Other International Developments." Environmental Policy & Law 34, no. 3 (2004): 125-132. Abstract
Ürge-Vorsatz, D., S. Rezessy, and A. Antypas. "Renewable Electricity Support Schemes in Central Europe: a Case for Incomplete Policy Transfer." 15, no. 4 (2004): 699-721.
Antypas, A., and O. Avramovski. "Polycentric Environmental Governance in the Western Balkans : Towards Stability and Sustainable Development." Environmental Policy & Law 34, no. 2 (2004).
Cherp, A., and A. Antypas. "Dealing with continuous reform: towards adaptive EA policy systems in countries in transition." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 5, no. 4 (2003): 455-476.
Antypas, A., and S. Stec. "Towards a Liability Regime for Damages to Transboundary Waters by Industrial Accidents : A New Protocol in the UNECE Region." Environmental Law and Management 15, no. 5 (2003): 295.
Antypas, A.. "A new age for environmental democracy : the Aarhus Convention in Hungary." Environmental Liability 11, no. 6 (2003): 199.
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Stec, S., A. Antypas, T. Jansen, and E. Gulácsy. "Transboundary Environmental Governance and the Baia Mare Cyanide Spill." Review of Central and East European Law 27, no. 4 (2001): 639-691.
Shannon, M. A., and A. Antypas. "Civic science is democracy in action." Northwest Science 70, no. 1 (1996): 66-69.
Report
Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Lutz Mez, Gergana Miladinova, A. Antypas, Martin Bursik, Andrzej Baniak, Judit Jánossy, Diana Nezamoutinova, Jan Beranek, and György Drucker. The impact of structural changes in the energy sector of CEE countries on the creation of a sustainable energy path: Special focus on investments in environmentally friendly energies and impact of such a sustainable energy path on employment and access c. Luxembourg: European Parliament, 2003.
Thesis
Antypas, A.. Translating ecosystem science into ecosystem management and policy : a case study of network formation. Washington: University of Washington, 1998.