Editorial Advisory Panel in Social Science and Policy

In addition to its team of editors, Nature Climate Change has an external advisory panel in the fields of social sciences and policy to support further development of the journal in these areas. All final editorial decisions are made by the journal's editors. Our advisory panel includes the following members:

Suraje Dessai

Professor of Climate Change Adaptation
School of Earth and Environment
The University of Leeds
Leeds
UK
Research interests: climate change adaptation, uncertainty management, risk perception, science-policy interface

Riley E. Dunlap

Chair, American Sociological Association Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change
Regents Professor
Department of Sociology
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
USA
Research interests: sociology, public opinion, climate change politics and policy

Saleemul Huq

International Institute for Development, London
UK
Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development
Independent University
Dhaka
Bangladesh
Research interests: climate change adaptation, sustainable development

Myanna Lahsen

Associate Researcher
Center for Earth System Science
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
São José dos Campos
Brazil
Research interests: anthropology, communication

Diana Liverman

Co-Director, Institute for the Environment
Regents Professor of Geography and Development
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
The University of Arizona
Tuscon, AZ
USA
Research interests: geography, climate change and society, Latin America

Malte Meinshausen

Honorary Senior Research Fellow
University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Australia
Senior Researcher
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Potsdam
Germany
Research interests: mitigation, emissions pathways, international climate policy, uncertainties in climate projections

J. Timmons Roberts

Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology
Center for Environmental Studies
Brown University
Providence
USA
Research interests: environmental sociology, international development, equity and international climate policy and negotiations

Stacy VanDeveer

Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
University of New Hampshire Durham, NH
USA
Research interests: political science and international relations, environmental policy and governance, consumption and resource politics

David G. Victor

Co-Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation
Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
USA
Research interests: political science, international law and cooperation, human behaviour

Elke Weber

Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business
Columbia Business School
Columbia University
New York, NY
USA
Research interests: behaviour and decision analysis, risk perception, decisions under risk and uncertainty, behavioural barriers to climate change mitigation and adaptation