Josh Gellers

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Title
MAIA Director; Associate Professor
Department
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
Institution
University of North Florida

Education

  • PhD, Political Science, University of California, Irvine
  • MA, Political Science, University of California, Irvine
  • MA, Climate & Society, Columbia University
  • BA, Political Science, University of Florida

Research Interests

Environmental Law   Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligences   Sustainable Development Goals  

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Biography

Josh Gellers, PhD, LEED Green Associate, is an Associate Professor and Director of the MA in International Affairs Program in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida, Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, and Expert with the Global AI Ethics Institute. He is also a 2016-17 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka. Josh's research focuses on environmental politics, rights, and technology. His work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and cited in high-level reports: UNDP (2014), UNDP (2015), UNEP (2017), UNGA (2018), UNEP (2019), UNESCAP (2019), UN (2019), and EU (2021). Josh runs Enviro Rights Map, 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).

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Contact Information

  1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224

  (904) 620-2849

Research
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List of Publications (114)
In 2023
114

2023 Gellers, J.C. "AI Ethics Discourse: A Call to Embrace Complexity, Interdisciplinarity,

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113

* Cited in UN General Assembly (2018), European Union (2023).

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112

2023 Gellers, J.C. 2023. "The Flawed Case Against More-than-Human Rights." Open Global

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111

2023 Gellers, J.C. and Gunkel, D. "Artificial Intelligence and International Human Rights

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In 2022
110

2022 Nyenhuis, R., and Gellers, J.C. "Experiential Exercises' Effects on Students' Attitudes

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109

2022 Leal Filho, W., Yang, P., Azul, A.M., Eustachio, J.H.P.P., Gellers, J.C., Dinis, M.A.P., Gielczyk, A., and Kozlova, V. "Deploying Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Development Research." Environment, Development and Sustainability. Online First.

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108

* Cited in European Parliament (2021), UNU/UNEP (2022).

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107

2022 Gellers, J.C. "Emerging Technologies and Earth System Governance in the

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106

2022 Gellers, J.C. "Everything You Know About the Lemoine-LaMDA Affair is Wrong."

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105

2022 Gellers, J.C. "Is 2022 the Year AI Ethics Takes Sustainability Seriously?" Global

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104

Trends in AI 2022, Global AI Ethics Institute, Notes no. 1: 15-18.

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103

* Cited in UN ESCAP Report (2019), UN ESCAP Report (2022).

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In 2021
102

2021 Kotze , L.J., Kim, R.E., Blanchard, C., Gellers, J.C., Holley, C., Petersmann, M., van Asselt, H., Biermann, F., and Hurlbert, M. "Earth System Law: Exploring New Frontiers in Legal Science." Earth System Governance (Special Issue on Earth System Law: Towards a New Legal Paradigm for the Anthropocene). 11: 100126.

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2021 Gellers, J.C. "Earth System Law and Rights for Nonhumans in the Anthropocene." Earth System Governance (Special Issue on Earth System Law: Towards a New Legal Paradigm for the Anthropocene). 7: 100083.

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2021 Gellers, J.C. and Jeffords, C. "Implementing Environmental Rights: Reviewing the

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99

2021 Guruswamy, L., Gellers, J.C., and Atapattu, S.A. "Colombo International Financial City:

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2021 Gellers, J.C. "Review of Sing C. Chew, Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual

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97

Reality: Life in the Digital Dark Ages, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021."

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96

2021 Gellers, J.C. "Review of Kate Darling, The New Breed: What Our History With Animals

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95

Reveals About Our Future With Robots, New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2021." Science.

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In 2020
94

2020 Gellers, J.C. Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law.

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93

** Reprinted in A. Grear (Ed.), Environmental Justice, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2020).

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In 2019
92

2019 Gellers, J.C. and Jeffords, C. "Environmental Rights in the Asia Pacific Region: Taking

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91

2019 Gellers, J.C. and Jeffords, C. "Environmental Determinants of Chinese Development

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90

* Cited in UNDP (2015), UNEP Global Environmental Outlook (2019),

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UN Global Sustainable Development Report (2019).

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88

2019 Gellers, J.C. and Cheatham, T.J. "Sustainable Development Goals and Environmental

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87

2019 Jeffords, C. and Gellers, J.C. "Rights-based Approaches to Development in the Asia-

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In 2018
86

2018 Gellers, J.C. and Jeffords, C. "Towards Environmental Democracy? Procedural

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85

2018 Jeffords, C. and Gellers, J.C. "Implementing Substantive Constitutional

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84

2018 Gellers, J.C. (as Civis). "No. 2: Other Defects of the Present Confederation." In D.A.

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In 2017
83

2017 Gellers, J.C. The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights. New York:

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82

2017 Jeffords, C. and Gellers, J.C. "Constitutionalizing Environmental Rights: A Practical

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81

2017 Gellers, J.C. "Review of Ben Boer et al., The Mekong: A Socio-Legal Approach to River

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In 2016
80

2016 Gellers, J.C. "The Great Indoors: Linking Human Rights and the Built Environment."

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79

2016 Gellers, J.C. "Crowdsourcing Global Governance: Sustainable Development Goals, Civil Society, and the Pursuit of Democratic Legitimacy." International Environmental

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78

2016 Gellers, J.C. "Crowdsourcing Sustainable Development Goals from Global Civil

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77

Basin Development, New York: Routledge, 2016." Global Environmental Politics. 17(3):

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In 2015
76

2015 Gellers, J.C. "Environmental Constitutionalism in South Asia: Analyzing the Experiences of Nepal and Sri Lanka." Transnational Environmental Law. 4(2): 395-423.

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2015 Gellers, J.C. "Greening Critical Discourse Analysis: Applications to the Study of

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74

2015 Gellers, J.C. "Explaining the Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights: A

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In 2014
73

2014 McLarty, D., Davis, N., Gellers, J.C., Altenbernd, E., and Nasrollahi, N. "Sisters in

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In 2013
72

Guest Editor, New Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy, 2013

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In 2012
71

2012 Gellers, J.C. "Greening Constitutions with Environmental Rights: Testing the

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70

2012 Gellers, J.C. "Review of Kerri Woods, Human Rights and Environmental

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In 2011
69

2011 Gellers, J.C. "Righting Environmental Wrongs: Assessing the Role of Legal

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In 2010
68

Sustainability, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010." International Environmental

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2010 Gellers, J.C. "Review of Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder

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In 2008
66

Research Frontiers, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008." International Environmental

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Unspecified
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* Named "Book of the Week" by AI with AI podcast

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** Discussed on Sentientism, The Dolores Project, Philosophical Disquisitions,

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Liminal Spaces, and Machine Ethics podcasts

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*** Reviewed in Science & Engineering Ethics, Earth System Governance, and

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Routledge (Law, Justice and Ecology Series).

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* Reviewed in Global Environmental Politics, Transnational Environmental Law

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and Epistemic Humility." AI & Society. Online First.

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Towards the Global Poor." Journal of Political Science Education. 19(1) 119-133.

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Stock and Assessing Impacts." Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law. 22(2): 190-

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56

Finance in Africa." Journal of Environment and Development. 28(2): 111-141.

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Environmental Rights and Environmental Justice." Global Environmental Politics. 18(1):

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Guide." Journal of Human Rights Practice. 9(1): 136-145.

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Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. 7(2): 243-261.

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Environmental Law." Critical Discourse Studies. 12(4): 482-493.

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Global Quantitative Analysis." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. 6(1): 75-

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Sustainability: Municipal Partnerships for Social, Environmental, and Economic

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Isomorphism Thesis." Review of Policy Research. 29(4): 522-542.

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Anthropocene: Editorial." Earth System Governance (Special Issue on AI &

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Can AI Be Sentient? Multiple Perspectives on Sentience and on the Potential Ethical

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Implications of the Rise of Sentient AI, Global AI Ethics Institute, Notes no. 2: 27-29.

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Justice: Realization through Disaggregation?" Wisconsin International Law Journal.

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Pacific Region: The Role of Environmental Rights." Technical background paper. Asia-

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Pacific SDG Partnership. Available at: http://sdgasiapacific.net/download/Rights-based-

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Systems in Redressing Environmental Grievances." Journal of Environmental Law and

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* Reprinted in J.R. May and E. Daly (Eds.), Environmental Constitutionalism,

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Law: Implications for Humans and Technology in the 21st Century and Beyond." In A.

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Zwitter and O.J. Gstrein (Eds.), Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data

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and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 430-455. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

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Evidence from Research and Practice." In J. Sowers, S.D. VanDeveer, and E. Weinthal

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(Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics, pp. 518-537. Oxford:

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An Example of Unsustainability and Injustice?" In S.A. Atapattu, C.G. Gonzalez, and

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S.L. Seck (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable

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Development, pp. 225-240, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Environmental Rights: A Quantitative Assessment of Current Practices Using Benchmark

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Rankings." In J.R. May & E. Daly (Eds.), Implementing Environmental

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Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges, pp. 34-58, Cambridge: Cambridge

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Carrillo (Ed.), The Icelandic Federalist Papers, pp. 7-9, Berkeley: Berkeley Public Policy

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Society." In R. Matthew, C. Harron, K. Goodrich, B. Maharramli, & E. Nizkorodov

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(Eds.), The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era

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of Global Change: The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene: Continuity and Change in

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Global Environmental Politics, pp. 415-438, Singapore: World Scientific Publishers.

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(Eds.), Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and

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"AI, Design, and More-than-Human Justice" (invited chapter; under review)

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"With Happiness and Justice for All? Gross National Happiness and the More-than-human

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International Review Panel, Lund Conference on Earth System Governance, Earth System

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Sprout Award Committee, Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association,

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(6x); AI & Society (4x); Journal of Human Rights; Science & Engineering Ethics;

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Robonomics; Environmental Politics (4x); Technology in Society; Earth System

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Governance (3x); International Journal of Social Robotics; Ethics & Bioethics; Human-

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Machine Communication; AI and Ethics; Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2x); SN Social

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Sciences; Jurisprudence; Natural Resources Forum; Political Studies; Environmental

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Science & Policy (2x); Critical Discourse Studies; Journal of Environmental Policy &

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Planning (2x); Frontiers in Political Science; Journal of Environment and Development

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(2x); Journal of International Dispute Settlement; Critical Policy Studies; Research in

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Social Movements, Conflicts and Change; Futures; Journal of Environmental

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Management; Global Environmental Politics; Policy Design and Practice; Community

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Development; International Relations; The Review of Communication; Journal of

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8

Cleaner Production; Review of Policy Research; Environmental Sociology; International

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Environmental Agreements; International Journal of Health Policy and Management;

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Kyklos; Policy Sciences; Journal of Sustainable Development; Publius: The Journal of

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Federalism; International Journal of Drug Policy (2x)

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Academic Press Referee, Routledge; Palgrave Macmillan; Taylor & Francis (3x); MDPI;

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Cambridge University Press; MIT Press; Westview Press

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External Grant Referee, Paris Institute for Advanced Study; Air Force Office of Scientific

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Research; NWO (Dutch Research Council); Fulbright Program (2x); Swiss National

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