Executive Director and Founder
Coastal Carolina University/ RISE Center, a United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development
Pamela Martin joined Coastal Carolina University's Department of Political Science in 1999. In 2015, she became the 19th recipient of the HTC Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Lecturer Award. In 2008, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research and teach at La Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador in 2009. Her research and writing focus on global environmental politics, energy, sustainable development, and international relations and policy. Martin is also the Executive Director and founder of the RISE Center, a United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has written and edited numerous books and articles in her field, including "Ending the Fossil Fuel Era,” for which she and her co-editors were awarded the Best Book Award for Environmental Studies by the International Studies Association. Her most recent book (MIT 2021) focuses on pathways to implement the Sustainable Development Goals through Earth Jurisprudence. Martin also directs the grant-funded CCU Solar Ambassador team, which places solar panels on non-profits in our community. She has worked closely on international collaborations with Ecuador and has written extensively about oil extraction in the Amazon and their constitutional rulings on Rights of Nature.
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MON-DD-01: Nature as Client: Co-creating with More-than-Human Species
Monday, October 13, 2025
8:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT