Spring 2008 Events

April 18-19, 2008 - "Consumption and Climate Change," Interdisciplinary Conference, Flynn Auditorium, Law School. This conference attracted experts from law, the humanities, and the natural, social, and behavioral sciences, who discussed the relationships between consumption practices and climate change. The conference was co-sponsored by the law school's Regulatory Program, the Vanderbilt Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, and the Climate Change Research Network, and by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) and the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C.

March 19, 2008: "Equity Offsets: A Workshop on Justice and the Environment" - The Vanderbilt Climate Change Research Network, the Social Justice Program and several co-sponsors sponsored a workshop which explored the ways in which equity offsets can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by subsidizing the purchase of fuel-efficient goods and services by individuals with limited financial resources, as well as the international, national and local implications of the equity offset concept.

Past Events

  • Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, Executive Director of the Global Footprint Network, “Methodological and Policy Challenges in the Footprint World"
  • William Boyd, Associate, Burlington and Covington, "Deforestation, Climate Change, and Emerging Forms of Global Environmental Governance"
  • "Consumption, Law and the Environment" Workshop

Climate Change Network

The Vanderbilt Climate Change Research Network

Climate change is widely regarded as one of the most difficult problems facing modern society. Developing legal, economic, and social responses requires interdisciplinary research that is theoretically sophisticated and policy-relevant.

The Climate Change Research Network at Vanderbilt includes a team of faculty and graduate students who are conducting theoretical and applied research on one of the most important and most widely overlooked sources of greenhouse gases: individual and household behavior.

Affiliated Faculty

  • Brooke Ackerly, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
  • Jack Barkenbus, Research Fellow, Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies
  • Lisa Bressman, Regulatory Program, Vanderbilt Law School
  • James Clarke, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
  • Mark Cohen, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
  • Ford Ebner, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
  • Florence Faucher-King, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
  • Douglas Fisher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
  • James Fraser, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University
  • Jonathan Gilligan, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University
  • Joni Hersch, Law & Economics Program, Vanderbilt Law School
  • Michael Vandenbergh, Regulatory and Environmental Law programs, Vanderbilt Law School
  • W. Kip Viscusi, Law & Economics Program, Vanderbilt Law School
  • Kenneth Wallston, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Affiliated Gradutate & Professional Students
  • Chris Bowles (law)
  • Amanda Carrico (psychology)
  • Maggie Johnson (law)
  • Irek W. Kuzmierczyk (comparative politics and international relations)
  • Ann Olsen (environmental management)
  • Manuel Reimer (program evaluation and environmental behavior)
  • Sonalina Sapra (political science)
  • Courte Voorhees (community psychology)

Program Directors / Contact Information

 


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