David G. Victor

David G. Victor (* 1965 ) is a political and climate scientist . He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego).

Life

Victor received a bachelor's degree in history and science from Harvard University in 1987 and a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 . After various academic positions, including at Stanford University , he has been Professor of International Relations and Industrial Policy at UC San Diego since 2009 and has also been an adjunct professor in the field of climate science since 2017.

In 2020 Victor was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Act

Victor's work often deals with highly regulated industries and he explains in his paper the lack of progress in these on issues of the climate crisis . His book Global Warming Gridlock (2011) on the subject was named one of the best books of 2011 by The Economist. He was involved in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). At the end of 2018, his study, published jointly with Yangyang Xu and Veerabhadran Ramanathan in the journal Nature , which showed that the earth's climate system is overheating faster than previously feared, caused a sensation worldwide.

Publications (selection)

Robert O. Keohane , David G. Victor (2011). The regime complex for climate change. Perspectives on Politics , 9 (1), 7-23.
David G. Victor (2011). Global Warming Gridlock. Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521865012
David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan , Jay Apt , John Steinbruner , Katharine Ricke (2009). The geoengineering option: A last resort against global warming. Foreign Affairs , 88, 64.

credentials

^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dgvictor/dgvcv.pdf
↑ Yangyang Xu , Veerabhadran Ramanathan , David G. Victor (2018). Global warming will happen faster than we think, 564, 30-32. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07586-5
^ Robert O. Keohane, David G. Victor: The Regime Complex for Climate Change . ID 1643813. Social Science Research Network, Rochester, NY July 20, 2010 ( ssrn.com [accessed January 27, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Victor, David G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Political and climate scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1965

[1] Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .

[dgvcv-2] ttp://pages.ucsd.edu/~dgvictor/dgvcv.pdf

[3] Yangyang Xu , Veerabhadran Ramanathan , David G. Victor (2018). Global warming will happen faster than we think, 564, 30-32. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07586-5

[4] Robert O. Keohane, David G. Victor: The Regime Complex for Climate Change . ID 1643813. Social Science Research Network, Rochester, NY July 20, 2010 ( ssrn.com [accessed January 27, 2019]).