Environmental Governance
Main content start

The following activities and people highlight efforts at Stanford to understand, reimagine and strengthen democracy at the intersection of environmental governance, climate change and climate justice and issues related to sustainability that affect the stability and vibrancy of our democracies.
Upcoming Events
Research
-
Woods Institute: Policy & Engagement
Woods representation in Washington, D.C., allows our faculty and scholars to play a greater role in providing this vital scientific research to policy- and decision-makers in government, nonprofits, think tanks and other organizations. -
Existential Risks Initiative
The Stanford Existential Risks Initiative is dedicated to mitigating existential risks, such as extreme climate change, nuclear winter, global pandemics (and other risks from synthetic biology), and risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Engagement Opportunities
-
Woods Institute: Policy & Engagement
Woods representation in Washington, D.C., allows our faculty and scholars to play a greater role in providing this vital scientific research to policy- and decision-makers in government, nonprofits, think tanks and other organizations.
People in the Stanford Community
-
Senior Fellow (Adjunct)
-
Associate Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, at SIEPR and Associate Professor, by courtesy of Earth System Science
-
Program Associate
-
Professor of History and, by courtesy, of French and Italian
-
Senior Lecturer in the Program in Science, Technology and Society
-
Melvin and Joan Lane Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment & Professor of Earth System Science, of Biology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and at the Precourt Institute
-
Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Emeritus
-
Teaching Fellow, LLM Program in Environmental Law & Policy, Lecturer in Law
-
Managing Director, CAPRI
-
Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies, Emeritus
-
Senior Lecturer of Sociology
-
Assistant Professor of Political Science, by courtesy, of Environmental Social Sciences and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment
-
David and Susan Heckerman Professor and Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health and of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center)
-
Benjamin M. Page Professor, William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
-
Lecturer
-
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment
-
Visiting Professor
-
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Oceans and of Biology
-
Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law, Director of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, Professor (Teaching) of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
-
Member, Board Of Trustees
-
Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Emeritus
-
Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law, Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
-
Senior Research Scholar
-
Olive H. Palmer Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
Past Events
-
Past Event Campus Events
Environmental Justice and Sustainability Conference
Graduate School of BusinessOpen to: Faculty-*This event has already occurred. -
Past Event Campus Events
Markets vs. Mandates: Promoting Environmental Quality and Economic Prosperity
Hoover InstitutionOpen to: Everyone-*This event has already occurred. -
Past Event Campus Events
Lieff Cabraser on Barriers to Veterans’ Access to Justice and the Camp Lejeune Toxic Exposure Litigation
Stanford Law SchoolOpen to: Stanford community-*This event has already occurred.