My frined's SOP

One of my best friends wants to apply for a schlarship, so she wrote a Statement of Purpose (for it).

As a resident of the first environmentally friendly city in Taiwan, I enjoy the clear sky, but at the same time, as a Pacific Islander, I force more risk from climate change. (I'm not really sure what she means by this last part. Can you clarify a bit?)

In my opinion, the most effective and efficient way to contribute to the upkeep of a better nature is to apply a doctor of philosophy degree in the field of the Environmental Politics and to makes a difference in the future of environmental policy.

In the long term, I aspire to open an interdisciplinary research facility between political science and environmental studies in Taiwan as well as exerting my capability to help the government in making policies for improving and at the same time not harming the nature.

Based on my over 6 years of training in BA and MA in Political Science, a GPA (learning performance) of over 3.7 in my major of International Relations, 3 related conference papers and the a master thesis on environmental politics in the top 25 universities in Asia, not only am I became a humanist, but also I found that traditional theories and political science courses cannot provide solutions with urgent environmental issues.

The course, International Environmental Policy and Law, inspired me to think that combining political science and environmental studies would be a lighthouse for sustainable development.

It can be proved by that attending international environment conferences is the only way to adopting conservations treaties, even if there are time-consuming negotiation processes.

As a result, my study purpose, aims, in short, is to build a theory of the international multilateral negotiation in the environmental field, and to generate a cooperation principle for countries to increase negotiation efficiency.

For establishing a solid academic foundation in Environmental Studies in deficient academic resource in my country, I grasped every possible opportunity to satisfy my thirst for knowledge.

I am working in the Center for Marine Policy Studies in NSYSU and have joined in the project of “A Study on the Strategies for UNFCCC Participation,” supervised by Prof.

Wen-Chen Shih, who is also my thesis committee member.

They have utilized their interdisciplinary backgrounds to figure out a road for the government to break through Taiwan's status quo in the international society.

This project proved that political methods are a unique solution to environmental conflicts, and a cooperation possibility between countries has existed. ("a unique solution" could have 2 meanings. The most common would be an "out-of-the-box, creative solution," and that is what most people would think of, but does she mean "the only solution"?)

Shih, showed me that environmental issues and social science can be mixed perfectly.

Now I am responsible for a project of the National Science Council on a Study of the Contents and Practices of the EC’s Integrated Maritime Policy.

This time, I intend to publish two journal articles related to the IMP’s effectiveness and the EU’s enlargement.

I also treasure the research position I obtained in 2009 to 2010 in the Lab of Fishery Resource Management in the Institute of Marine Affairs directed by Prof.

Shui-Kai Chang, who encouraged me to elaborate my social science training in/to the international marine environment. (Whether you use "in" or "to" is based on context. If she had not had any experience with the international marine environment, use "to," but if her professor just wanted her to do more work in that field, which she already had some experience with, use "in.")

Chang and I published a comparative study about the development of protected marine areas development.

This article observed that although there are several similar ways to manage sustainable fishery in Taiwan, it is scanty of ("it lacks") an effective governing process to maintain and enhance the outcome of conservation.

In addition, I assisted in managing the paperwork of international fishery organizations.

I found that there are complicated interests between the fishing industry and environmentalists.

It convinced me that mapping a shorten cut* for countries to cooperate with others in protecting the Earth and meeting countries' benefits** during my doctoral career in the Environmental Politics field is essential. (*Sorry, I'm not entirely sure what she means here. **Does she mean "meeting countries' demands" or "giving countries benefits"?)

In order to meet the grassroots characteristic of environmental issues, I participated in the Taiwan NGO, TEIA, which is in charge of international environmental news.

As a news translator, I chose and translated environmental news to officials in the Environmental Protection Administration, who only focused on green technology and engineering. (This comma also depends on context. If there are many people in the EPA, and some don't only focus on that, but she was specifically doing the translations for those who do, take the comma out. If "who focused on..." directly modifies the EPA in general, keep it.)

I was aware of the immediate need of filling the niche of traditional environmental science and political science up in Taiwan.

While I volunteered as an interpreter for Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior's visit call, part of members were majors in political science.

It strengthened my belief that environmental politics is worth it and should be studied further. (I was wondering about this yesterday too, but I think "environmental politics" should be lowercase in all of these instances, unless it is part of the name of an organization, etc. Can you make a note to her to make the previous ones lowercase too?)

Every single day I contribute myself to detecting and experiencing what Prof.

Anthony Giddens mentioned in his book “The Politics of Climate Change,” that “Climate change is now a mainstream political issue.

However, as of now there is no substantive framework for a policy which offers coherence and consistency as to how national governments should cope with the long-term political challenges of climate change.” For maintaining good living conditions on my island and the Earth, I am keen to proceed with academic training to a more advanced level which would allow me to build a substantive theory for environmental politics, and make an interdisciplinary integration between political science and environmental studies in the foreseeable future. (I'm not sure if I should have corrected that quote or not--I didn't know if it was a translation or the original thing--but there were just a few minor errors that stood out to me.)