Environmental and natural resource politics and policy
Social movements
Political ecology
Law, rights, and the environment
Brandon Barclay Derman is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, in the School of Integrated Science, Sustainability and Public Health, part of the College of Health, Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Springfield. Dr. Derman received his Ph.D. in Geography (with additional specialization in Sociolegal Studies) from the University of Washington. Professor Derman specializes in environmental politics, law, policy and justice, with an emphasis on climate change. His research interests include climate justice, energy transitions, political and policy-making alliances, and environmental alienation. Dr. Derman's 2020 book is Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and Politics of Connection (Palgrave Macmillan). His work has also appeared in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Political Geography, the South African Journal of Human Rights, the Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Climate Policy, the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, and in edited volumes on climate justice and global health governance.
Books
Derman, B. Climate Justice: Five Angles on the Crisis and the Movement. Palgrave Macmillan. (2024)
Derman, B. Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection. Palgrave Macmillan. (2020)
Journal Articles
Derman, B. “Polyvocal Articulations of Climate Justice and the Commonality of Loss.” Political Geography 99 (2022): 102765
Derman, B. “Revisiting Limits to Legal Mobilization for Global Climate Justice: Power, Complexity, and the Legibility of Responsibility.” Oñati Socio-Legal Series 9, no. 3 (2019): 333-360.
Derman, B. “Climate Governance, Justice and Transnational Civil Society.” Climate Policy 14, no. 1 (2014): 23-41.
Derman, B. “Contesting Climate Injustice During COP17.” South African Journal on Human Rights 29, no. 1 (2013): 170-179.
Herbert, S., B. Derman, and T. Grobelski. “The Regulation of Environmental Space.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 9 (2013): 227-248.
Albrecht, J., B. Derman, and L. Ramasubramanian. “Geo-ontology Tools: The Missing Link.” Transactions in GIS 12, no. 4 (2008): 409–424.
Camay, S., L. Ramasubramanian, B. Derman, E. Bohn, J. Albrecht, W. Milczarski, M. Boile, and S. Theofanis. “Ferry Parking and Landside Access Study: Implementing Public Outreach and Impact Assessment.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2077, no. 1 (2008): 39–45.
Book Chapters and Sections
Derman, B. “Legal Geographies.” In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Audrey Kobayashi, Elsevier, 2019.
Derman, B. “‘Climate Change is About Us’: Fence-line Communities, the NAACP, and the grounding of climate justice.” In Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice, edited by Jafrey, T., Routledge, 2018.
Derman, B. “Participation of Corporations in International Organizations.” In Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance: An Interdisciplinary Guide, edited by Lee, K. and B. Hawkins, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Derman, B. “Contesting Climate Injustice during COP17.” In Climate Talk: Rights, Poverty and Justice, edited by Dugard, J., A. St. Clair, and S. Gloppen, Johannesburg: Juta, 2013.
Environmental Justice Task Force, Springfield Faith Coalition for the Common Good
ENS 332/IGS 331: Cultural Geography; ENS 419: Environmental Law; ENS 463: Our Changing Climate; ENS 476: Environmental Ethics; ENS 483: National Environmental Policy Act; ENS 552: Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities; ENS 581 Environmental Policy and Analysis; ENS 587: Natural Resources Policy and Administration; Urban GIS (University of Washington); Coastal GIS (University of Washington)