Social Sciences and Environment (SSE) Publications
Published on: Nov 13, 2007

Books & Articles

Council programs have supported various publications that are representative of social science contributions to environmental history, adaptation, natural resources, international, environmental institutions and accords, land use, environmental aid, and the economics of climate change.
  • Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (Ohio University Press, 2007)
    Diana K. Davis
  • Ideological Protectionism: The Bush Administration’s Misuse of Science and Information in the Policy Process (GSC Quarterly 12, Spring 2004)
    Christopher M. Tucker
  • Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia (Duke University Press, 2003)
    Edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
  • Energy Market Restructuring and the Environment: Governance and Public Goods in Globalized Markets (University Press of America, 2002)
    Edited by Martha Harris
  • Banking on the Environment: Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation) (MIT Press, 2002)
    Tamar Gutner
  • Land, Property, and the Environment (ICS Press, 2002)
    John F. Richards
  • Learning to manage global environmental risks - Vol. 1: A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion and acid rain. (MIT Press, 2001)
    W. C. Clark, J. Jaeger, J. v. Eijndhoven and N. M. Dickson (eds.)
  • Learning to manage global environmental risks - Vol. 2. A functional analysis of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion and acid rain. (MIT Press, 2001)
    W. C. Clark, J. Jaeger, J. v. Eijndhoven and N. M. Dickson (eds.)
  • Securing Global Cooperation in the Age of Globalization: Reflections on Some Conclusions From the Work on Globalization at the Gorbachev Foundation (GSC Quarterly 7, 2001)
    Ngeta Kabiri.
  • Engaging Countries: Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords (MIT Press, 1998)
    Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K. Jacobson (eds.)
  • "From a Fictional Globe to POETic Ecosystems: Modelling Human Interactions with the Environment," in H.-J. Schnellnhuber and V. Wnezel (eds.), Earth System Analysis: Integrating Science for Sustainability. (Springer-Verlag, 1998)
    Richard C. Rockwell
  • "Compliance with International Environmental Accords: Achievements and Strategies" in Rolén, Mats, Uno Svedin, and Helen Sjöberg, eds., International Governance on Environmental Issues (Springer-Verlag, 1997)
    Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K. Jacobson
  • Water Resources Planning and Climate Change Assessment Methods (Climatic Change, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 25-40, September 1997)
    David C. Major and Kenneth D. Frederick
  • Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Criteria (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997)
    Kenneth D. Frederisck, David C. Major, and Eugene Z. Stakhiv (eds.)
  • Borneo in Transition: People, Forests, Conservation, and Development. (Oxford University Press, 1996)
    Christine Padoch and Nancy Lee Peloso
  • Institutions for Environmental Aid: Pitfalls and Promise (MIT Press, 1996)
    Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy
  • Regions at Risk: Comparisons of Threatened Environments. (United Nations University Press, 1995)
    J.X. Kasperson, R.E. Kasperson, and B. L. Turner, II (eds.)
  • The First Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community: An Overview (Human Dimensions Quarterly, 1(3):1-3, Summer 1995)
    David Major, Steven Sanderson, and John Richards
  • "The Conceptual Foundations of Multiobjective River Basin Planning and Their Contemporary Relevance." In US EPA, Proceedings, Watershed '93: A National Conference on Watershed Management, EPA Report 840-r-94-002 (United States Government Printing Office, 1994)
    David C. Major
  • Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate (Westview, 1994)
    Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone, and David C. Major
  • "Culture and Cultural Change," in William B. Meyer and B. L. Turner II (eds.), Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
    Richard C. Rockwell
  • The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
    B. L. Turner, William C. Clark, Robert W. Kates, and John F. Richards
  • On the Origins of Innovative Planning (Water International, 18(1):71-72, March 1993)
    Harry E. Schwartz and David C. Major
  • "Flood Plain Management: Comment." In Martin Reuss, ed., Water Resource Administration in the United States: Policy, Practice, and Emerging Issues. (Michigan State University Press, 1993)
    David C. Major
  • The View from 1996: a future history of research on human dimensions of global environmental change. (Environment, 12-17, 33-38, January / February 1992)
    Richard C. Rockwell and Richard H. Moss
  • Some Economics of Global Warming (American Economic Review, March 1992)
    Thomas C. Schelling
  • "Economic Responses to Global Warming: Prospects for Cooperative Approaches," in Rudiger Dornbush and James M. Poterba, eds., Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses (MIT Press, 1991)
    Thomas C. Schelling
  • The earth as transformed by human action: Global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years (Cambridge University Press with Clark University, 1990)
    Turner II, B. L., W. C. Clark, R. W. Kates, J. F. Richards, J. T. Mathews and W. B. Meyer (eds.)
  • Large-scale Regional Water Resources Planning: The North Atlantic Regional Study. Water Science and Technology Library, Vol.7 (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990)
    Harry E. Schwartz and David C. Major

SSRC Items

Committee members and staff from the Research on Global Environmental Change (GEC) program wrote a number of short pieces for Items. Items is an SSRC quarterly publication, sent to university llibraries, international and domestic partner institutions, SSRC beneficiaries, and other contacts.
 
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