Simone Pulver

Assistant Professor

Contacts

Environmental Studies
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160

tel: (805) 893-3396
pulver@es.ucsb.edu

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Research Description

Professor Pulver's current research investigates the participation of developing-country firms in India and Brazil in the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism and the use of scenarios in global environmental governance.  In the past, her work has focused on the roles played by transnational oil corporations and transnational environmental advocacy NGOs in the UN climate negotiations. She is finalizing a book manuscript on this topic, tentatively titled "Private Interest versus Public Debate: Two Logics of Influence in the Global Climate Change Negotiations, 1991-2005.”

Biography

Dr. Pulver is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her doctorate in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and also holds an MA in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley, as well as a BA in Physics from Princeton University. Pulver's principal areas of specialization are global environmental politics, organizational theory, and the sociology of development. More narrowly, her research focuses on the engagement of non-state actors, i.e. firms, non-governmental organizations and scientific experts, in climate change politics at international and national levels and in industrialized and developing-country settings. Her current research investigates clean energy investments by developing-country firms in India and Brazil under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. She is also initiating a project that maps climate policy networks in Mexico. In the past, her work has focused on the roles played by transnational oil corporations and transnational environmental advocacy NGOs in the UN climate negotiations. She is finalizing a book manuscript on this topic, tentatively titled "Private Interest versus Public Debate: Two Logics of Influence in the Global Climate Change Negotiations, 1991-2005." Before coming to UC Santa Barbara, Dr. Pulver was a research professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies and the Center for Environmental Studies.