Books
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate
(with A.E. Dessler).
2nd ed.
Cambridge University Press (2010).
1st ed.: 2006.
Global-Change Scenarios: Their Development and Use
(with V. Burkett, K. Fisher-Vanden, D. Keith, L. Mearns, H. Pitcher, C. Rosenzweig, M. Webster).
Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.1b, US Climate Change Science Program (2007).
Protecting the Ozone Layer: Science and Strategy.
Oxford University Press (2003).
(Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, International Studies Assoc., 2004)
Governing the Environment: Persistent Challenges, Uncertain Innovations
(edited by Edward A. Parson).
University of Toronto Press (2001).
(Also published in French translation as
Gérer l’environnement, les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2001).
Climate Change Impacts on the United States (two volumes: “Foundation” and “Overview”).
US Global Change Research Program, Cambridge University Press (2001).
National Assessment Synthesis Team (member of collective author).
Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks: a Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain
(edited by W.C. Clark et al.).
MIT Press (2001).
Vols. 1 and 2. Social Learning Group (member of collective author).
Articles, Chapters, and Reviews
International Governance of Climate Engineering (with Lia N. Ernst),
14
Theoretical Inquiries in Law
307
(2013).
Full Text
Sequential Climate Change Policy (with D. Karwat),
2
Wiley Interdisciplinary Review: Climate Change
744-56
(2011).
Research on Global Sun Block Needed Now (with D.W. Keith and M. Granger Morgan),
463
Nature
426-27
(Jan. 28, 2010).
Ontario Electricity Policy: The Climate Challenge, in
Chapter 2
Current Affairs: Perspectives on Electricity Policy for Ontario
(edited by D. Reeve, D. DeWees, and B. Karney, University of Toronto Press, 2009).
Useful Global Change Scenarios: Current Issues and Challenges, 3(4)
Environmental Research Letters
045016
(Oct.-Dec. 2008).
Review Essay: The Big One, 74
Journal of Economic Literature
147-64
(2007).
Reviewing Catastrophe: Risk and Response, by Richard Posner.
Reflections on Air Capture: The Political Economy of Active Intervention in the Global Environment, 74
Climatic Change
1-11
(2006).
Grounds for Hope: The Assessment of Technological Options to Manage Ozone Depletion, in
Assessments of Regional and Global Environmental Risks: Designing Processes for the Effective Use of Science in Decision-Making
(edited by A. Farrell and J. Jäger, Resources for the Future Press, 2005).
Environmental Health Implications of Global Climate Change (with R. Watson, J. Patz, D. Gubler, and J.H. Vincent),
7
Journal of Environmental Monitoring
834-43
(Dec. 2005).
Book Review, 37
Canadian Journal of Political Science
439-41
(2004).
Reviewing
Restoration of the Great Lakes: Promises, Practices, Performances, by M. Sproule-Jones.
Securing Truth for Power: Information Strategy and Regulatory Policy-Making (with C. Coglianese and R. Zeckhauser),
89
Minnesota Law Review
277-341
(2004).
Collective Silence and Individual Voice: the Logic of Information Games (with R.J. Zeckhauser, and C. Coglianese),
in
Collective Choice: Essays in Honor of Mancur Olson
49-70
(edited by J. Heckelman and D. Coates, Springer-Verlag, 2003).
Climate and the Water, Forests, and Salmon of the Pacific Northwest (with E.A. Parson, P.W. Mote and ten other authors),
61
Climatic Change
45-88
(Nov. 2003).
Understanding Climate Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Adaptation in the United States: Building a Capacity for Assessment (with E.A Parson, R.W. Corell and ten other authors),
57
Climatic Change
9-42
(Mar. 2003).
The Technology Assessment Approach to Climate Change, 84
Issues in Science and Technology
65-72
(Summer 2002).
Implementing the Climate Regime’s Clean Development Mechanism (with R.B. Mitchell),
10
Journal of Environment and Development
125-46
(June 2001).
Environmental Trends: a Challenge to Canadian Governance, Chapter 1, in
Governing the Environment: Persistent Challenges, Uncertain Innovations
3-29
(edited by Edward A. Parson, University of Toronto Press, ).
Persistent Challenges, Uncertain Innovations: A Synthesis, Chapter 9, in
Governing the Environment: Persistent Challenges, Uncertain Innovations
345-80
(edited by Edward A. Parson, University of Toronto Press, 2001).
Leading While Keeping in Step: Canadian Management of Global Atmospheric Risks, Chapter 10 (with A.R. Dobell, A. Fenech, D. Munton, and H. Smith),
in
Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks: a Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain
235-57
(edited by W.C. Clark et al., MIT Press, ).
Social Learning Group. Also secondary author on four other chapters in volume.
Socioeconomic Context for Climate Impact Assessment, Chapter 3 (E.A. Parson and M.G. Morgan, with A. Janetos, L. Joyce, B. Miller, R. Richels, and T. Wilbanks),
in
Climate Change Impacts on the United States. A Report of the National Assessment Synthesis Team, US Global Change Research Program
93-107
(Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the Pacific Northwest, Chapter 9 (with P.W. Mote, A. Hamlet, N. Mantua, A. Snover, W. Keeton, E. Miles, D. Canning, K.G. Ideker),
in
Climate Change Impacts on the United States. US Global Change Research Program
247-80
(Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for Alaska, Chapter 10 (with L. Carter, P. Anderson, B. Wang, and G. Weller),
in
Climate Change Impacts on the United States. US Global Change Research Program
283-312
(Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Environmental Trends and Environmental Governance in Canada, 26
Canadian Public Policy
S123-S143
(Aug. 2000).
Joint Implementation of Greenhouse Gas Abatement Under the Kyoto Protocol’s “Clean Development Mechanism”: Its Scope and Limits (with K. Fisher-Vanden),
32
Policy Sciences
207-24
(Sep. 1999).
The Montreal Protocol: The First Adaptive Global Environmental Regime?, in
Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects
(edited by P.G. LePrestre, J.D. Reid, and E.T. Morehouse, Jr., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998).
Games and Simulations (with D.W. Keith),
in
Human Choice and Climate Change
(edited by S. Rayner and E. Malone, Battelle Press, 1998).
Fossil Fuels without CO2 Emissions (with D.W. Keith),
Science 282 (5391)
1053-54
(6 Nov. 1998).
Informing Global Environmental Policy-making: A Plea for New Methods of Assessment and Synthesis, 2(4)
Environmental Modeling and Assessment
267-79
(1998).
Integrated Assessment Models of Global Climate Change (with K. Fisher-Vanden),
22
Annual Review of Energy and the Environment
589-628
(1997).
International Environmental Negotiations: The Current State of Empirical and Analytical Study, 13
Negotiation Journal
161-83
(April 1997).
International Protection of the Ozone Layer, in
Green Globe Yearbook: 1996
(edited by H.O. Bergeson and G. Parmann, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oxford University Press, 1996).
What Can You Learn From a Game?, in
Wise Choices: Games, Decisions, and Negotiations
(edited by R. Zeckhauser, R. Keeney, and J. Sebenius, Harvard Business School Press, 1996).
Three Dilemmas in the Integrated Assessment of Climate Change, 34
Climatic Change
315-26
(1996).
Integrated Assessment and Environmental Policy-Making: in Pursuit of Usefulness, 23
Energy Policy
463-75
(1995).
Sustainable Development as Social Learning: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Challenges for the Design of a Research Program (with W.C. Clark),
in
Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions
428-60
(edited by L. Gunderson, C.S. Holling, and S. Light, Columbia University Press, 1995).
Cooperation in the Unbalanced Commons (with R. Zeckhauser),
in
Barriers to the Conflict Resolution
212-34
(edited by K. Arrow, R. Mnookin, L. Ross, A. Tversky and R. Wilson, Norton, 1995).
Equal Measures or Fair Burdens: Negotiating Environmental Treaties in an Unequal World (with R. Zeckhauser),
in
Shaping National Responses to Climate Change
81-114
(edited by H. Lee, Island Press, 1995).
Von dem Peripherie ins Zentrum der Aussen politik? Die internationale Umweltpolitik, in
Amerikanische Weltpolitik nach dem Ost-West-Konflikt
(edited by M. Dembinski, P. Rudolf, and J. Wilzewsk, Nomos Verlag, 1994).
Protecting the Ozone Layer, in
Institutions for the Earth
(edited by P.M. Haas, R.O. Keohane, and M.A. Levy, MIT Press, 1993).
Assessing UNCED and the State of Sustainable Development,
Proceedings of the American Society of International Law
508-13
(1993).
Policy-advisory and Popular Articles
Fiscal and Regulatory Approaches to Limiting Greenhouse Gases, Briefing to Meeting on Breaking the Climate Change Deadlock, Paris, March 2008.
Synthesis Report, Launch Workshop, The 3E Initiative. Report of first meeting, Merrickville Ontario. 1-3 Nov. 2007.
Report of Planning Meeting, Canada Low-Carbon Project, Calgary, July 16, 2007.
How to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Guide for Policy-makers in Canada and Elsewhere. Part 1: National Policies; Part 2: Internation Action. Briefing Note for Planning Meeting, Canada Low-Carbon Project. May 24, 2007.
An L-14 Leadership Initiative Within the UN Climate-change Process, Briefing Note Prepared for Side event at Clinton Global Initiative, May 11, 2007.
Beyond the Kyoto Impasse,
New York Times
A23
(July 31, 2001).
A Breakthrough in Climate-Change Policy? (with D. W. Keit),
Scientific American
78-79
(Feb. 2000).
International Ozone Agreements: Response to Comments by Ian Rowlands (with O. Greene),
37(3)
Environment
3
(April 1995).
The Complex Chemistry of the International Ozone Agreements (with O. Greene),
37(2)
Environment
16
(March 1995).
Appraising the Earth Summit (with P. Haas and M. Levy),
34(8)
Environment
(Oct. 1992).
A Summary of the Major Documents signed at the Earth Summit and Global Forum (with P. Haas and M. Levy),
34(8)
Environment
(Oct. 1992).
A World Atmosphere Fund (with A.R. Dobell),
Policy Options
(Nov. 1988).
Technical Reports and Working Papers
The International Policy Environment for Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Report to National Energy Technology Laboratory, US DOE, April 2003.
Implementing Joint Implementation: Developing a Management and Performance System for the Kyoto Protocol’s "Clean Development Mechanism" (with R.B. Mitchell),
ENRP Discussion Paper E-98-06.
Harvard University (June, 1998).
Explaining the Form of Assessments: Why do we get the assessments we do? (with S. Agrawala, A. Patt, R. Keohane, R. Mitchell, L. Botcheva, W. Clark, E. DeSombre, J. McCarthy, and E. Shea),
ENRP Discussion Paper E-97-12.
Harvard University (1997).
Global Environmental Assessment (with W.C. Clark and N. Dickson),
ENRP Discussion Paper E-97-15.
Harvard University (1997).
Joint Implementation and its Alternatives: Choosing Systems to Distribute Mitigation and Finance (with K. Fisher-Vanden),
ENRP Discussion Paper E-97-03.
Harvard University (1977).
A Global Climate Change Policy Exercise: Results of a Test Run, July 27-29 1999,
Working Paper WP-96-90.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria (August 1996).
Thematic Guide to Integrated Assessment Models of Global Climate Change Socio-economic Data and Analysis Center, NASA Mission to Planet Earth, 1966.
Climate Treaties and Models, Background Study, Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress, Washington DC, June 1994.
Negotiating Climate Cooperation: Learning from Theory, Simulations, and History.
Harvard University (May 1992).
Doctoral dissertation in Public Policy.
The Transport Sector and Global Warming, Disc. Paper G-90-07, Harvard Global Environmental Policy Project. (Appeared in abridged form as the transport sector chapter in Changing by Degrees, OTA's Feb. 1991 Report on Global Climate Change)
Midwest-Northeast Transmission: A Partial Solution to Acid Rain? Discussion Paper E-88-05, Energy and Environment Policy Center, Harvard University.