Who is Who in Climate Change?

Professor Steve Yearley, Director of the ESRC Genomics Policy & Research Forum, and a member of Edinburgh University's staff has been invited to serve as an international adviser to the American Sociological Association's ‘Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change’. The Task Force was established in February 2010 to produce a report applying a sociological analysis to the issue of climate change. prof. yearlye is the author of numerous books on climate change and sociology most notably Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization which focuses on the construction of the global environment as a topic for campaigning. Using detailed analyses of the global impacts of climate change and ozone depletion, Steve shows how the "global-ness" of environmental problems is made, contested and resolved. He analyses the politics of the use of the 'global' label and shows how the recognition of global environmental problems is the outcome of diplomatic, scientific and economic struggles. One of his other books, The Green Case: A Sociology of Environmental Arguments, Issues and Politics provides a comprehensive and objective account of the basis of "green" arguments and their social and political implications.