Social Science Research Council

The Research on Global Environmental Change (GEC) program executed its program areas through five research consortia / working groups, chaired by one or two committee members.  The following working groups organized many collaborative workshops, conferences, and seminars, and produced numerous publications.

Land-Use/Cover Changes, 1990 - 98
Land-Use/Cover Changes drew upon the themes proposed by the Human Interactions group of the Committee on Global Change of the National Academy of Sciences to investigate the conceptual development of the role of land-use changes as a principal type of human environmental change.
Billie Lee Turner II (Chair);
Robert McDowell; Steve Rayner; John F. Richards; Jennifer Robinson; Vernon Ruttan.

National Implementation of International Accords, 1990 -1998
National Implementation of International Accords explored how participating countries implement and comply with existing international environmental agreements and whether such agreements are likely to be effective.
Edith Brown Weiss (Chair);
Erach Bharucha; Piers M. Blaikie; Steven G. Bunker; Abram Chayes;  Antonia Handler Chayes; Ellen T. Comisso; Murillo de Aragao; James Vincent Feinerman; Koichiro Fujikura; Michael J. Glennon; Peter Hardi; Ronald J. Herring; Philipp Hidebrand; Harold K. Jacobson; Sheila Jasanoff; Elena Nikitina; Michel C. Oksenberg; Michael Ross; Alberta Sbragia; Thomas C. Schelling; John A. Mope Simo; David Vogel; Andreas R. Ziegler; Wu Zijin; William Zimmerman

Environmentalism and the Poor, with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), and the International Social Science Council (ISSC), 1991 – 1998
Environmentalism and the Poor analyzed interactions between patterns of natural resource use, perceptions of the environment, and ecologically-rooted social conflict.
Lourdes Arizpe (Chair);
Alberto Palloni; Rosina Wiltshire

Social Learning in the Management of Global Environmental Risks, 1991 – 1998
Social Learning in the Management of Global Environmental Risks & Regional Observatories studied how societies adapt local knowledge to managing environmental risks from ozone depletion, global warming, and acidification.
William C. Clark (Chair);
Nancy Dickson; Rod Dobell; Josee van Eijndhoven; Peter Haas; Fen Hampson; Jill Jager; Ida Koppen; Marc Levy; Angela Liberatore; Diana M. Liverman; Edward Parson; Vladimir Pisarev; Miranda Schreurs; Vassily Sokolov; Ferenc Toth; Cor Worrell; Brian Wynne

Landed Property Rights, 1992 – 1998
Landed Property Rights examined the systems of landed property rights that govern land use throughout the world, and how adaptable these systems are.
John F. Richards (Chair);
Arun Agarwal; Imran Ali; Meena Bhargava; Daniel Bromley; Philip Brown; David Feeny; Eric T. Freyfogle; James Giblin; David Gilmartin; Stephen F. Gudeman; Sumit Guha; Ronald J. Herring; J.M. Lusugga Kironde; Margaret McKean; Jennifer Nedelsky; Peter Perdue; Karen Polenske; Steven E. Sanderson; Omar Razzaz; Robert Repetto; Alberto Rivera; Anna I. Tsing; James Wescoat; Karen Wigen