Stacy D Vandeveer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacy D Vandeveer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacy D |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandeveer |
| SIGNATURE | VANDEVEER S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5941-8020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 290 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Changing Contours of Climate Politics
While climate change was on the political agenda for at least a decade before Global Environmental Politics was established, what climate change politics is has dramatically shifted through its lifetime. Framed initially in terms of a collective action problem and interstate cooperation, both how climate policy and politics is practiced and how we have come to understand it have changed. This article charts and provides explanations for the princ…
Three Pathways to Nonuse Agreement(s) on Solar Geoengineering
Recent years have seen increasing calls by a few scientists, largely from the Global North, to explore “solar geoengineering,” a set of speculative technologies that would reflect parts of incoming sunlight back into space and, if deployed at planetary scale, have an average cooling effect. Numerous concerns about the development of such speculative technologies include the many ecological risks and uncertainties as well as unresolved questions o…
Towards a Non-Use Regime on Solar Geoengineering
In recent years, some scientists have called for research into and potential development of 'solar geoengineering' technologies as an option to counter global warming. Solar geoengineering refers to a set of speculative techniques to reflect some incoming sunlight back into space, for example, by continuously spraying reflective sulphur aerosols into the stratosphere over several generations. Because of the significant ecological, social, and pol…
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics
Comparative environmental politics (CEP) is a vibrant field of scholarship and practice that addresses a range of environmental issues facing communities, non-state actors, and nation-states. It draws not only on the disciplinary study of politics and policy, but also, as this volume shows, is enriched by interdisciplinary insights from anthropology, geography, sociology, law, and development studies. Moreover, the governance of environmental iss…
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics
Solar geoengineering
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering as a speculative part of the climate policy portfolio. We contend, in particular, that solar geoengineering at planetary scale is not governable in a globally inclusive and just manner within the current international polit…
Climate Governance Antagonisms
In this forum, we highlight a discord in strategies around climate change policy and politics. On one hand, there is widespread concern for the pursuit of climate policy stability: stability in the design of policy and institutions, but particularly making policy and institutional development irreversible. However, much recent literature has revived an insistence on the inevitability of political conflict for pursuing the often large transitions …
Energizing Comparative Environmental Politics and Comparative Political Economy
Globally, the long, slow trickle of financial capital and human resources moving into more renewable energy sectors and projects for wind, solar, and biofuel energy sources increasingly looks like a flood. Talk of global and national energy transitions is seemingly everywhere. But, of course, this is all happening in parallel—and sometimes in competition—with continuing, massive investments in additional oil and gas extraction. As their titles su…
Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice
Regionalism has long conceptual and empirical histories across social sciences, and areas of the international and transnational practice of economics, imperialism, and environmental governance. However, energy regionalism remains in the early stages of development both conceptually and empirically. This article reviews three areas of diverse and interdisciplinary scholarship, including international relations, geography, and regional environment…
Sustaining peace through better resource governance
For international and domestic actors, post-conflict peacebuilding is one of the most difficult policy arenas to understand and in which to operate. Environmental and natural resource governance have the potential to facilitate peacebuilding in such contexts, but existing research has not yet produced a cohesive theoretical understanding of the pathways by which natural resource management strategies can facilitate positive peace. This paper expl…
Rare Earth Politics across Time, Space, and Scale
Regional Governance and Environmental Problems
Only recently has international environmental politics scholarship focused more explicitly on “regionalism” as a distinct phenomenon, one which has received much more sustained attention among specialists in international security and international political economy. By the early twenty-first century, regional environmental governance had become commonplace. Since the term “region” has had different connotations in different disciplines, the anal…
Resource nexus perspectives towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Grassroots Global Governance
Craig M. Kauffman’s Grassroots Global Governance is an exceptionally good book, and an excellent example of the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical value to be gained in “global” environmental politics research by taking local and national contexts and dynamics – indeed comparative politics – seriously.The book emerges from a coherent, complex, and nuanced comparative and international research agenda, grounded equally in detailed local fieldw…
Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research
European Union and Environmental Governance
Transnational Climate Change Governance
The world of climate politics is increasingly no longer confined to the activities of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the politics of climate change has been the emergence of new forms of transnational governance that cut across traditional state-based jurisdictions and operate across public and private divides. This book provides the first comprehensive, cutting-edge account of the world of…
Governing Climate Change Transnationally
With this paper we present an analysis of sixty transnational governance initiatives and assess the implications for our understanding of the roles of public and private actors, the legitimacy of governance ‘beyond’ the state, and the North–South dimensions of governing climate change. In the first part of the paper we examine the notion of transnational governance and its applicability in the climate change arena, reflecting on the history and e…
Navigating Regional Environmental Governance
Global environmental governance is growing increasingly complex and recent scholarship and practice raise a number of questions about the continued feasibility of negotiating and implementing an ever-larger set of global environmental agreements. In the search for alternative conceptual models and normative orders, regional environmental governance (REG) is (re)emerging as a significant phenomenon in theory and practice. Although environmental co…
Networked Baltic Environmental Cooperation
Consuming Environments
Climate Change Regionalism in North America
Global institutions and debates about climate change governance attract considerable academic and media attention. The main multilateral forums are arenas for high-profile political negotiations, inter-state conflicts, and thousands of nongovernmental actors. Similarly, national climate change politics and policy are significant to decision makers and scholars, and local and urban climate change activism and planning also draw notable interest. H…
US climate change politics and policymaking
The United States is often identified as a global laggard on climate change policymaking and implementation. Although this reputation may be deserved by the US federal government, a look across all levels of the US federal political system and a multitude of political actors demonstrates the existence of a significant number of climate change and energy‐related activities. This brief review of US climate change politics covers climate change poli…
Thinking About Tomorrows”
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 Environment…
Scenarios in society, society in scenarios
Scenario analysis, an approach to thinking about alternative futures based on storyline-driven modeling, has become increasingly common and important in attempts to understand and respond to the impacts of human activities on natural systems at a variety of scales. The construction of scenarios is a fundamentally social activity, yet social scientific perspectives have rarely been brought to bear on it. Indeed, there is a growing imbalance betwee…
Actors, Norms, and Impact
This article reviews three recent developments in international cooperation theory: the introduction of nonstate actors, the study of norms and ideas, and increased examination of the effectiveness, or impact, of international cooperation. Through the lens of the agent-structure debate, we critique the literature that addresses these themes. We argue, first, for a view of structure that goes beyond material properties; second, that more attention…
Political Science and Prediction
This article analyzes how U.S. climate change politics and policy making are changing in the public, private and civil society sectors, and how such changes are likely to influence U.S. federal policies. It outlines the current status of U.S. climate change action and explores four overlapping pathways of policy change: (1) the strategic demonstration of the feasibility of climate change action; (2) the creation and expansion of markets; (3) poli…
Solar geoengineering
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering as a speculative part of the climate policy portfolio. We contend, in particular, that solar geoengineering at planetary scale is not governable in a globally inclusive and just manner within the current international polit…
Sustaining peace through better resource governance
For international and domestic actors, post-conflict peacebuilding is one of the most difficult policy arenas to understand and in which to operate. Environmental and natural resource governance have the potential to facilitate peacebuilding in such contexts, but existing research has not yet produced a cohesive theoretical understanding of the pathways by which natural resource management strategies can facilitate positive peace. This paper expl…
Environmental assessments
Mapping Institutional Linkages in European Air Pollution Politics
The growing literature about linkages between international institutions remains littered with proposed taxonomies. Most of these taxonomies are conceptual, rather than empirically driven, remaining too vague to offer guidance for empirical research regarding linkages as possible avenues of influence across international institutions. This article argues that institutional linkages are potential causal pathways by which policy making and implemen…
It's Capacity, Stupid
Issues associated with state inability (or incapacity) to meet international commitments—and how to build such capacity—are now ubiquitous in the theorizing, practice and research agendas of international environmental cooperation. Yet “capacity” and “capacity building” remain under-specified at the conceptual level. They are neglected areas of empirical research, and generally unreflective in practice. International and national level policy-mak…
Thinking About Tomorrows”
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 Environment…
Navigating Regional Environmental Governance
Global environmental governance is growing increasingly complex and recent scholarship and practice raise a number of questions about the continued feasibility of negotiating and implementing an ever-larger set of global environmental agreements. In the search for alternative conceptual models and normative orders, regional environmental governance (REG) is (re)emerging as a significant phenomenon in theory and practice. Although environmental co…
Enlarging EU Environments
states is an enormous step in the historic process of European economic, political and cultural integration. It was, quite literally, unimaginable 15 years ago. The notion of expanding the EU to include Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries followed the collapse of the communist systems in the region in 1989. Many justifications for EU enlargement have been offered, but it is clear that advocates of the idea viewed CEE membership in the EU…
Resource nexus perspectives towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Networked Baltic Environmental Cooperation
Climate Governance Antagonisms
In this forum, we highlight a discord in strategies around climate change policy and politics. On one hand, there is widespread concern for the pursuit of climate policy stability: stability in the design of policy and institutions, but particularly making policy and institutional development irreversible. However, much recent literature has revived an insistence on the inevitability of political conflict for pursuing the often large transitions …
Capacity Development for the Environment
The notion of capacity development is very much in vogue as an integral element of environmental management in developing countries. We contend that current capacity development for the environment (CDE) efforts are limited in focus, emphasizing mainly implementation while paying insufficient attention to problem recognition and analysis as well as designing and assessing potential management strategies. At the same time, CDE programs and practit…
US climate change politics and policymaking
The United States is often identified as a global laggard on climate change policymaking and implementation. Although this reputation may be deserved by the US federal government, a look across all levels of the US federal political system and a multitude of political actors demonstrates the existence of a significant number of climate change and energy‐related activities. This brief review of US climate change politics covers climate change poli…
Baltic Sea Hazardous Substances Management
The introduction into the Baltic Sea of hazardous substances that are persistent, bioaccumulate, and are toxic is an important environmental and human health problem. Multilateral efforts to address this problem have primarily been taken under the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM). This article examines past HELCOM efforts on hazardous substances, and discusses future challenges regarding their management. The article finds that past actions on hazard…
Rare Earth Politics across Time, Space, and Scale
Climate Change Regionalism in North America
Global institutions and debates about climate change governance attract considerable academic and media attention. The main multilateral forums are arenas for high-profile political negotiations, inter-state conflicts, and thousands of nongovernmental actors. Similarly, national climate change politics and policy are significant to decision makers and scholars, and local and urban climate change activism and planning also draw notable interest. H…
Redefining Security Around the Baltic
Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice
Regionalism has long conceptual and empirical histories across social sciences, and areas of the international and transnational practice of economics, imperialism, and environmental governance. However, energy regionalism remains in the early stages of development both conceptually and empirically. This article reviews three areas of diverse and interdisciplinary scholarship, including international relations, geography, and regional environment…
Assessing Conventional Wisdom
Central and East European (CEE) states are implementing sweeping environmental policy reforms as they gain EU membership. This concluding chapter draws attention to key arguments in the volume and elaborates on four key themes that enrich conventional notions about Europeanisation and challenge prevailing views about the impacts that CEE states are having on environmental quality in an enlarged EU: the importance of capacity limitations and effor…
Three Pathways to Nonuse Agreement(s) on Solar Geoengineering
Recent years have seen increasing calls by a few scientists, largely from the Global North, to explore “solar geoengineering,” a set of speculative technologies that would reflect parts of incoming sunlight back into space and, if deployed at planetary scale, have an average cooling effect. Numerous concerns about the development of such speculative technologies include the many ecological risks and uncertainties as well as unresolved questions o…
Consuming Environments
Post-communist politics
Transition to democracy in Poland
Post-communist politics
European Insecurities
Redefining Security Around the Baltic
It's Capacity, Stupid
Issues associated with state inability (or incapacity) to meet international commitments—and how to build such capacity—are now ubiquitous in the theorizing, practice and research agendas of international environmental cooperation. Yet “capacity” and “capacity building” remain under-specified at the conceptual level. They are neglected areas of empirical research, and generally unreflective in practice. International and national level policy-mak…
Environmental assessments
International Relations and Global Climate Change . Urs Luterbacher , Detlef F. Sprinz
Mapping Institutional Linkages in European Air Pollution Politics
The growing literature about linkages between international institutions remains littered with proposed taxonomies. Most of these taxonomies are conceptual, rather than empirically driven, remaining too vague to offer guidance for empirical research regarding linkages as possible avenues of influence across international institutions. This article argues that institutional linkages are potential causal pathways by which policy making and implemen…
Baltic Sea Hazardous Substances Management
The introduction into the Baltic Sea of hazardous substances that are persistent, bioaccumulate, and are toxic is an important environmental and human health problem. Multilateral efforts to address this problem have primarily been taken under the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM). This article examines past HELCOM efforts on hazardous substances, and discusses future challenges regarding their management. The article finds that past actions on hazard…
Baltic Sea Hazardous Substances Management
The introduction into the Baltic Sea of hazardous substances that are persistent, bioaccumulate, and are toxic is an important environmental and human health problem. Multilateral efforts to address this problem have primarily been taken under the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM). This article examines past HELCOM efforts on hazardous substances, and discusses future challenges regarding their management. The article finds that past actions on hazard…
Enlarging EU Environments
states is an enormous step in the historic process of European economic, political and cultural integration. It was, quite literally, unimaginable 15 years ago. The notion of expanding the EU to include Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries followed the collapse of the communist systems in the region in 1989. Many justifications for EU enlargement have been offered, but it is clear that advocates of the idea viewed CEE membership in the EU…
Actors, Norms, and Impact
This article reviews three recent developments in international cooperation theory: the introduction of nonstate actors, the study of norms and ideas, and increased examination of the effectiveness, or impact, of international cooperation. Through the lens of the agent-structure debate, we critique the literature that addresses these themes. We argue, first, for a view of structure that goes beyond material properties; second, that more attention…
Assessing Conventional Wisdom
Central and East European (CEE) states are implementing sweeping environmental policy reforms as they gain EU membership. This concluding chapter draws attention to key arguments in the volume and elaborates on four key themes that enrich conventional notions about Europeanisation and challenge prevailing views about the impacts that CEE states are having on environmental quality in an enlarged EU: the importance of capacity limitations and effor…
Canadian-U.S. Environmental Cooperation
Introduction Canadian-U.S. environmental relations manifest a growing importance of transborder state and provincial cooperation and policy-making. (2) This trend is clear in American climate change action. Though the Canadian and American federal governments have adopted diverging positions on climate change policy, extensive sub-national climate change action across the Canadian-U.S. border is developing in northeast America. In this region, Ca…
Capacity Development for the Environment
The notion of capacity development is very much in vogue as an integral element of environmental management in developing countries. We contend that current capacity development for the environment (CDE) efforts are limited in focus, emphasizing mainly implementation while paying insufficient attention to problem recognition and analysis as well as designing and assessing potential management strategies. At the same time, CDE programs and practit…
Political Science and Prediction
This article analyzes how U.S. climate change politics and policy making are changing in the public, private and civil society sectors, and how such changes are likely to influence U.S. federal policies. It outlines the current status of U.S. climate change action and explores four overlapping pathways of policy change: (1) the strategic demonstration of the feasibility of climate change action; (2) the creation and expansion of markets; (3) poli…
Scenarios in society, society in scenarios
Scenario analysis, an approach to thinking about alternative futures based on storyline-driven modeling, has become increasingly common and important in attempts to understand and respond to the impacts of human activities on natural systems at a variety of scales. The construction of scenarios is a fundamentally social activity, yet social scientific perspectives have rarely been brought to bear on it. Indeed, there is a growing imbalance betwee…
Where next with global environmental scenarios
Scenarios have become a standard tool in the portfolio of techniques that scientists and policy-makers use to envision and plan for the future. Defined as plausible, challenging and relevant stories about how the future might unfold that integrate quantitative models with qualitative assessments of social and political trends, scenarios are a central component in assessment processes for a range of global issues, including climate change, biodive…
Thinking About Tomorrows”
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 Environment…
US climate change politics and policymaking
The United States is often identified as a global laggard on climate change policymaking and implementation. Although this reputation may be deserved by the US federal government, a look across all levels of the US federal political system and a multitude of political actors demonstrates the existence of a significant number of climate change and energy‐related activities. This brief review of US climate change politics covers climate change poli…
Networked Baltic Environmental Cooperation
Consuming Environments
Climate Change Regionalism in North America
Global institutions and debates about climate change governance attract considerable academic and media attention. The main multilateral forums are arenas for high-profile political negotiations, inter-state conflicts, and thousands of nongovernmental actors. Similarly, national climate change politics and policy are significant to decision makers and scholars, and local and urban climate change activism and planning also draw notable interest. H…
Governing Climate Change Transnationally
With this paper we present an analysis of sixty transnational governance initiatives and assess the implications for our understanding of the roles of public and private actors, the legitimacy of governance ‘beyond’ the state, and the North–South dimensions of governing climate change. In the first part of the paper we examine the notion of transnational governance and its applicability in the climate change arena, reflecting on the history and e…
Navigating Regional Environmental Governance
Global environmental governance is growing increasingly complex and recent scholarship and practice raise a number of questions about the continued feasibility of negotiating and implementing an ever-larger set of global environmental agreements. In the search for alternative conceptual models and normative orders, regional environmental governance (REG) is (re)emerging as a significant phenomenon in theory and practice. Although environmental co…
Political science (33 works) · Law (23 works) · Economics (22 works) · Politics (22 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Corporate governance (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Climate change (13 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (13 works)