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Oran Young, Professor –Institutional and International Governance,

Environmental Institutions

PhD, MA, Yale University; AB, Harvard

Oran Young 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. Professor Young served for six years as vice-president of the International Arctic Science Committee and was the founding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change within the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. He currently chairs the Scientific Steering Committee of the international project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Among the more than 20 books he has authored are The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change and Governance in World Affairs.

Contact Information:

Office: Bren Hall 4518

Phone: 805-893-8747
Fax: 805-893-7064

Email: young@bren.ucsb.edu

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Bren Courses Taught

Number

Title

241

Environmental Politics and Policy

247

Governance for Sustainable Development

248

Environmental Institutions: Rights, Rules, and Decision-Making Systems

595

MESM/PhD Seminar: The Science-Policy Interface in Environmental Science & Management

595

MESM/PhD Seminar: Seminar: Ecology of War

595

PhD Seminar: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Adaptability of Ecosystems, Social Systems, and Ecological Systems

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