“Thinking About Tomorrows”: Scenarios, Global Environmental Politics, and Social Science Scholarship

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May 01 2009 "Thinking About Tomorrows": Scenarios, Global Environmental Politics, and Social Science Scholarship Simone Pulver, Simone Pulver Simone Pulver is the Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor (Research) of International Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. She also holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor (Research) of Environmental Studies at the Brown University Center for Environmental Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and MA in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests center on global environmental governance, organizational theory, and green development, with a particular focus on non-state actors and global climate change. She has published papers in Environmental Research Letters, Global Environmental Politics, Greener Management International, Organization & Environment, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, and Studies in Comparative International Development. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Stacy D. VanDeveer Stacy D. VanDeveer Stacy D. VanDeveer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include international environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, the connections between environmental and security issues, and the role expertise in policy making. He has received fellowships from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He has received research funding from the US National Science Foundation, the European Union, and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), among others. In addition to authoring and co-authoring numerous articles, book chapters, working papers and reports, he co-edited several books, including Changing Climates in North American Politics (forthcoming); Comparative Environmental Politics (forthcoming); Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics (forthcoming); EU Enlargement and the Environment (2005); and Saving The Seas (1997). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Simone Pulver Simone Pulver is the Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor (Research) of International Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. She also holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor (Research) of Environmental Studies at the Brown University Center for Environmental Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and MA in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests center on global environmental governance, organizational theory, and green development, with a particular focus on non-state actors and global climate change. She has published papers in Environmental Research Letters, Global Environmental Politics, Greener Management International, Organization & Environment, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, and Studies in Comparative International Development. Stacy D. VanDeveer Stacy D. VanDeveer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include international environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, the connections between environmental and security issues, and the role expertise in policy making. He has received fellowships from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He has received research funding from the US National Science Foundation, the European Union, and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), among others. In addition to authoring and co-authoring numerous articles, book chapters, working papers and reports, he co-edited several books, including Changing Climates in North American Politics (forthcoming); Comparative Environmental Politics (forthcoming); Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics (forthcoming); EU Enlargement and the Environment (2005); and Saving The Seas (1997). *This GEP Forum contribution was motivated by a March 2007 workshop held at Brown University, the results of which were published as a special issue of Environmental Research Letters on the topic "Where Next with Global Environmental Scenarios?" Please direct correspondence to either Simone Pulver, Brown University, [e-mail] or Stacy VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire, [e-mail]. Online ISSN: 1536-0091 Print ISSN: 1526-3800 © 2009 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 Global Environmental Politics (2009) 9 (2): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.2009.9.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Simone Pulver, Stacy D. VanDeveer; "Thinking About Tomorrows": Scenarios, Global Environmental Politics, and Social Science Scholarship. 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