Simone Pulver

Asst. Professor of Environmental Studies	Office:	Bren Hall 4001
	Phone:	(805) 893-3396
	Fax:	(805) 893-8686
	E-mail:	Pulver@es.ucsb.edu
	Website:	www.es.ucsb.edu/faculty/pulver.php
	Mailing Address:	Environmental Studies Program University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160
	Courses:	ES 131 International Environmental Law and Policy ES 106 Critical Thinking about Human-Environment Problems and Solutions

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.

Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Selected Publications:
Smith, A. and S. Pulver (2009) "Religious-Environmental Organizations: An Ethics-Based Environmentalism in Practice" Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, in press.

Pulver, S. and S. VanDeveer (2009) "'Thinking About Tomorrow': Scenarios, Social Science and Global Environmental Politics" Global Environmental Politics 9(2):1-13.

McAteer, E. and S. Pulver (2009) "The Corporate Boomerang: Shareholder transnational advocacy networks targeting oil companies in the Ecuadorian Amazon" Global Environmental Politics 9(1):1-30.

Pulver, S. (2009) "Climate Change Politics in Mexico" in Climate Change Politics in North America: The State of Play, Stacy VanDeveer and Henrik Selin, eds. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

O'Neill, B., S. Pulver, S. VanDeveer, and Y. Garb, eds. (2008) "Where Next With Global Environmental Scenarios?" Special issue of Environmental Research Letters

O'Neill, B., S. Pulver, S. VanDeveer, and Y. Garb (2008) "Introduction: Where Next With Global Environmental Scenarios?" Environmental Research Letters, 4pp.

Garb, Y., S. Pulver and S. VanDeveer (2008) "Scenarios in Society, Society in Scenarios: Toward a Social Analysis of Story-Driven Environmental Modeling" Environmental Research Letters, 8pp.

Dreher, K. and S. Pulver (2008) "Environment as 'High Politics'? Explaining Divergence in the United States and European Union's Hazardous Waste Policies" Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 17(3):308-320.

Pulver, S. ed. (2007), "Green Development: The Role of the Developing-Country Private Sector" Special issue of Studies in Comparative International Development, 42(3/4)

Pulver, S. (2007) "Introduction: Developing-country firms as agents of environmental sustainability?" Studies in Comparative International Development, 42(3/4):191-207.

Pulver, S. (2007) "Importing Environmentalism: Explaining Petroleos Mexicanos' proactive climate policy" Studies in Comparative International Development, 42(3/4):233-255.

Pulver, S. (2007) "Making Sense of Corporate Environmentalism: An environmental contestation approach to analyzing the causes and consequences of the climate change policy split in the oil industry." Organization & Environment, 20(1):44-83.

Pulver, S. et al. (2006) "Making Multilateral Environmental Agreements Work for the Poor." Tiempo: A bulletin on climate & development, 58(January):6-11.

Pulver, S. (2002) "Organizing Business: Industry NGOs in the Climate Debates." Greener Management International, 39(Autumn):55-67.

Reprinted in Begg, Kathryn, Frans van der Woerd, and David Levy, eds (2004) The Business of Climate Change: Corporate Responses to Kyoto. (Wiltshire, UK: Greenleaf Publishing Company)