brian o'neill Phone: (401) 863-9916
Office: Watson Institute
email: Brian_O'Neill_1@brown.eduTitle: Assistant Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies
Areas of Interest: Global climate change, population-environment interactions, and links between the science and policy of environmental issues.
Background:Brian C. O’Neill received his doctorate in earth systems science from New York University, and spent two years as a staff scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, before joining the Watson Institute. His research focuses on population-environment interactions and the science and policy of global climate change. His articles have appeared in Science, Climatic Change, Population and Development Review, Environment, Tellus, and in encyclopedias of global change and of social and behavioral sciences. He is the author of Population and Climate Change, written with F. L. MacKellar and W. Lutz (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Professor O’Neill is also a faculty associate at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown. He is currently on partial leave of absence at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria.
Recent Publications:
“A Guide to Global Population Projections”
“The Greenhouse Externality to Childbearing: A Sensitivity Analysis”
“Guide to Global Population Projects”
“Dangerous Climate Impacts and the Kyoto Protocol”