Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

We wish to thank Dr. Patricia White, NSF Sociology Program Director for her help in planning this workshop
and preparing this report; Dr. Tom Baerwald, NSF Geography and Regional Sciences Program Director, for
presenting a broad overview of climate change research programs in the Foundation; Karen Duke, NSF Social and
Political Sciences Cluster Program Specialist for her administrative and technical support; Monique Laney and
Lindsey Feitz, University of Kansas graduate assistants to Joane Nagel, for their help in organizing the workshop,
designing and maintaining the workshop website, and writing the workshop report; Natalie Parker, Assistant
Director, University of Kansas Center for Research on Global Change, Institute for Policy & Social Research, for
her help in preparing the final report; the 28 workshop participants who submitted the informed and imaginative
papers contained in Appendix 3; and all workshop participants who contributed constructive and creative
comments and useful recommendations during and after the workshop, especially those who responded to a draft
of the workshop report.

Workshop Participants

Student Associates

Anna-Lisa Aunio, McGill University Umar Moulta-Ali, Ohio State University

Xiaodong Chen, Michigan State University Vikrum Sequeira, University of Texas at Austin

Lindsey Feitz, University of Kansas Rachel Shwom, Michigan State University

Monique Laney, University of Kansas John Tribbia, University of Colorado at Boulder

Philip Mancus, University of Oregon

Tom Baerwald, National Science Foundation

Nancy Beller-Simms, National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

Michele Betsill, Colorado State University

Steven Brechin, Syracuse University

Jeffrey Broadbent, University of Minnesota

Robert Bullard, Clark Atlanta University

Penelope Canan, University of Central Florida

JoAnn Carmin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University

Riley Dunlap, Oklahoma State University

Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina

Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Alps-Adria University

Dana R. Fisher, Columbia University

Ken Frank, Michigan State University

Eric Hanley, University of Kansas

Sharon Harlan, Arizona State University

Patricia Romero Lankao, National Center for

Atmospheric Research

Marta Maldonado, Iowa State University

Sabrina McCormick, Michigan State University

Aaron McCright, Michigan State University

Linda Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric

Research

Joane Nagel, University of Kansas

Kari Norgaard, Whitman College

Simone Pulver, Brown University

Timmons Roberts, College of William and Mary

Eugene Rosa, Washington State University

Joel Scheraga, Environmental Protection Agency

Rachel Slocum, St. Cloud State University

Paul Stern, National Research Council

Kathleen Tierney, University of Colorado

Beverly Wright, Dillard University

Richard York, University of Oregon

Sammy Zahran, Colorado State University