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  • 2012 - Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

David G. Victor is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple fields including medicine, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, global and planetary change, renewable energy, sustainability, environment, and automotive engineering.

The focal areas of David G. Victor's research involve climate change policy and economics, energy, environment, and transportation policies, electric vehicles and infrastructure, transportation and mobility innovations, as well as liver disease diagnosis, treatment, and transplantation.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by David G. Victor include:

  • "Pandemic, War, and Global Energy Transitions" (2022), published in Energies
  • "Emergency deployment of direct air capture as a response to the climate crisis" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Climate policy models need to get real about people - here's how" (2021), published in Nature
  • "Determining the credibility of commitments in international climate policy" (2022), published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Explaining successful and failed investments in U.S. carbon capture and storage using empirical and expert assessments" (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors of David G. Victor include Ryan Hanna, Marcel Lumkowsky, Astrid Dannenberg, Emily K. Carlton, and Teevrat Garg.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in publication venues such as:

  • Nature
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Nature Energy

David G. Victor has authored books published by Princeton University Press, including two editions of Fixing the Climate in 2022.

Among awards received, David G. Victor was honored with the Heinz I. Eulau Award from the American Political Science Association in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The Regime Complex for Climate Change

    Robert O. Keohane;David G. Victor

  • The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources

    Kal Raustiala;David G. Victor

  • The future mobility of the world population

    Andreas Schafer;David G Victor

  • Dynamics of energy technologies and global change

    Arnulf Grübler;Nebojša Nakićenović;David G Victor

  • The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming

    David G. Victor

  • Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet

    David G. Victor

  • A Realistic Policy on International Carbon Offsets

    Michael Wara;David G. Victor

  • Global warming will happen faster than we think.

    Yangyang Xu;Veerabhadran Ramanathan;David G. Victor

  • Cooperation and discord in global climate policy

    Robert O. Keohane;David G. Victor;David G. Victor;David G. Victor

  • Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar

    Christopher T. M. Clack;Christopher T. M. Clack;Staffan A. Qvist;Jay Apt;Morgan Bazilian

  • The implementation and effectiveness of international environmental commitments : theory and practice

    David G. Victor;Kal Raustiala;Eugene B. Skolnikoff

  • The Cognitive Revolution and the Political Psychology of Elite Decision Making

    Emilie M. Hafner-Burton;D. Alex Hughes;David G. Victor

  • On the regulation of geoengineering

    David G. Victor

  • The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments

    D.G. Victor;K. Raustiala;E.B. Skolnikoff

  • The Behavioral Revolution and International Relations

    Emilie M. Hafner-Burton;Stephan Haggard;David A. Lake;David G. Victor

  • Climate change: Embed the social sciences in climate policy

    David G Victor

  • Political Science Research on International Law: The State of the Field

    Emilie M. Hafner-Burton;David G. Victor;Yonatan Lupu

  • Technological innovation and economic performance

    Benn Steil;David G. Victor;Richard R. Nelson

  • A model of household energy services in a low-income rural African village

    M.I. Howells;T. Alfstad;D.G. Victor;G. Goldstein

  • Response of Arctic temperature to changes in emissions of short-lived climate forcers

    M. Sand;T. K. Berntsen;K. von Salzen;M. G. Flanner

  • Oil and governance : state-owned enterprises and the world energy supply

    David G. Victor;David R. Hults;Mark C. Thurber

  • Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040

    David G. Victor;Amy M. Jaffe;Mark H. Hayes

  • The Regime Complex for Climate Change

    David G. Victor;Robert O. Keohane

  • Global Warming Gridlock: Putting it all together

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Frequent Co-Authors

Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Veerabhadran Ramanathan University of California, San Diego
Charles F. Kennel
Charles F. Kennel University of California, San Diego
M. Granger Morgan
M. Granger Morgan Carnegie Mellon University
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Nebojsa Nakicenovic International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Stanford University
Jan Kleissl
Jan Kleissl University of California, San Diego
James H. Fowler
James H. Fowler University of California, San Diego
Mark Howells
Mark Howells Loughborough University
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine
Arnulf Grubler
Arnulf Grubler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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