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

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 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).