Stacy VanDeveer
Biography
Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor of Global Governance and Human Security in the John C. McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. During the 2023-24 academic year he was Zennstrom Visiting Professor of Climate Change Leadership in the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Area of Expertise
Global resources and energy politics, global environmental and resource governance, comparative politics, European Union, environmental change, human security and transnational climate change and biodiversity governance
Degrees
PhD, University of Maryland, Government and Politics
MA, University of Maryland, Government and Politics
BA, University of Illinois, Political Science
Professional Publications & Contributions
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Books
- Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance. Paul Tobin, Mat Paterson & Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2025)
- Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics, Jeannie Sowers, Stacy D. VanDeveer & Erika Weinthal, eds. Oxford University Press (2023).
- The Global Environment: Institutions, Law & Policy. 5th Edition. Regina S. Axelrod & Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. (CQ Press/Sage, 2020)
- Routledge Handbook of the Resource Nexus, Raimund Bleischwitz, Holger Hoff, Catalina Spataru, Esther van der Voet, and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. (Routledge, 2018)
- The European Union and Environmental Governance, Henrik Selin & Stacy D. VanDeveer (Routledge, 2015)
- Waste, Want or War? The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water & Minerals, Philip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz, Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp, Stacy D. VanDeveer (Routledge/Earthscan, 2015).
- Transnational Climate Change Governance. Harriet Bulkeley, Liliana Andonova, Michele Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew Hoffman, Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson, Charles Roger & Stacy D. VanDeveer (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
- Comparative Environmental Politics: Theory, Practice and Prospects. Paul Steinberg & Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. (MIT Press, 2012).
- Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance, Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. (MIT Press, 2009).
- Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives. Miranda Schreurs, Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. (Ashgate, 2009).
- EU Enlargement and the Environment: Institutional Change and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe. JoAnn Carmin and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. (Routledge, 2005).
- Saving the Seas: Values, Scientists, and International Governance. L. Anathea Brooks and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. (College Park, MD: Maryland Sea Grant College, 1997).
Articles
- “Multiple Pathways to Non-use Agreement(s) on Solar Geoengineering ” (w / Aarti Gupta, Frank Biermann, Rakhyun Kim, Carol Bardi), Ethics and International Affairs, Roundtable Contribution (Firstview online, 2024): 1-12.
- “Towards a Non-Use Regime on Solar Geoengineering: Lessons from International Law and Governance” (w/ Aarti Gupta, Frank Biermann, Ellinore van Driel, Nadia Bernaz, Dhanasree Jayaram, Rakhyun E. Kim, Louis J. Kotze, Dana Ruddigkeit & Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh). Transnational Environmental Law (13)(2)(2024): 368-399.
- “Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice” (w /Corey Johnson), Review of Policy Research (2024)(40)(2): 290-309.
- “Double Dividend? Transnational Initiatives & Governance Innovation for Climate Change andBiodiversity” (w/ Harriet Bulkeley, Michele Betsill & Anouk Fransen) Oxford Review of Economic Policy (39)(4)(2023): 796-809.
- “Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization” (w/ Mat Paterson and Paul Tobin), Global Environmental Politics (22)(2)(2022): 1-11.
- “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-Use Agreement” (Frank Biermann, Jeroen Oomen, Aarti Gupta, Saleem H. Ali, Ken Conca, Maarten A. Hajer, Prakash Kashwan, Louis J. Kotze, Melissa Leach, Dirk Messner, Chukwumerije Okereke, Asa Persson, Janez Potocnik, David Schlosberg, Michelle Scobie & Stacy D. VanDeveer). WIRE: Climate Change (January, 2022).
- “Sustaining Peace through Better Resource Governance: Three Potential Pathways for Environmental Peacebuilding” (w/Florian Krampe & Farah Hegazi), World Development (2021)(144).
- “Multi-Level Governance, Climate Change and Municipal Solid Waste Management: Insights from Murmansk” (w/Nadezhda Filimonova). Urban Studies and Practices Journal (2021): 80-101.
- “Resource Nexus Perspectives towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals" Raimund Bleischwitz, Catalina Spataru, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Michael Obersteiner, Ester van der Voet, Corey Johnson, Philip Andrews-Speed, Tim Boersma, Holger Hoff and Detlef P. Van Vuuren, Nature Sustainability (December)(1)(2018): 737-43.
- “Transnational Governance along the Mineral Life Cycle” (w / Graeme Auld & Michele Betsill) Annual Review of Environment and Resources (43)(2018): 425-53.
- “Roadmap Toward Justice in Urban Climate Adaptation Research” (w/ Linda Shi, Eric Chu, Isabelle Anguelovski, Alexander Aylett, Jessica Debats, Kian Goh, Todd Schenk, Karen Seto, David Dodman, Debra Roberts, & J. Timmons Roberts) Nature: Climate Change (6)(2016): 131-137.
- “Broader, Greener, Deeper: European Union Environmental Politics, Policies & Results” (w/ Henrik Selin) Annual Review of Environment & Resources (2015)(40): 309-35.
Additional Information
Professor VanDeveer's research interests include transnational climate change and biodiversity governance, EU environmental and energy politics, global environmental politics and institutions, comparative environmental politics, connections between environmental and security issues, the roles of expertise in policymaking, and the global politics of resources and consumption. In addition to authoring and co-authoring over 130 articles, book chapters, working papers and reports, he has co-edited or coauthored 12 books.
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He is Co-Investigator in the ClimBio Frontiers research project, with Professor Michele Betsill and Harriet Bulkeley, funding by the Independent Research Fund Denmark
He was previously awarded fellowships from Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington, DC. He received research grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the European Union, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), and the Research Council of Norway, among others. He co-edited the journal Global Environmental Politics (MIT Press) from 2013-17, which is among the highest ranked academic journals by impact factor in both political science and environmental studies.