No.6 Oran Young——Critical Transitions in the Global Political Order

Prof. Oran Young

Oran Young is Ajunct Professor of Institute for Gloabl Public Policy at Fudan University, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California (Santa Barbara). He is a renowned Arctic expert and a world leader in the fields of international governance and environmental institutions. His scientific work encompasses both basic research focusing on collective choice and social institutions, and applied research dealing with issues pertaining to international environmental governance and the Arctic as an international region. Dr. Young served for six years as founding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the US National Academy of Sciences. He chaired the Scientific Steering Committee of the international project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC). He was a founding co-chair of the Global Carbon Project and from 2005 to 2010 chaired the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. An expert on Arctic issues, Dr. Young chaired the Steering Committee of the Arctic Governance Project and is the senior councilor to the North Pacific Arctic Conferences. Among the more than 20 books he has authored are The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change and Governance in World Affairs and Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance.   

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