My name is Peter Davern I'm a professor
of international relations in the
Department of Political Science at the
University of British Columbia.
My own research has focused on three factors. I've looked in particular at the
importance of consumption, the importance of corporations and the role of social
movements. And tried to understand how
the interaction of those three forces
have either caused global environmental
change or contributed to solutions to
particular environmental problems. The
team of us working together, it's very
scholarly and we're writing for
scholarship. But at another level many of
us are seeing ourselves as what we think
about as scholar activists and we're
trying to also write more for the
general public try and play a role in
the public conversation. And in that
sense trying to influence consumers but
also policymakers to think in more
complex ways about how trade and foreign
direct investment and our own personal
consumption might be leading to global
environmental problems.
