Barry Rabe holds a joint appointment with the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy and is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.  He is also a faculty associate and former director of the Program in the Environment. During the 2008-09 academic year, he will be a visiting professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.  Rabe has published widely on issues of state, local and intergovernmental involvement across a range of environmental issues.  Much of his recent work has examined "bottom-up" approaches to climate change, with particular emphasis on the expanding state government role in this area.  In 2007, he received the Daniel Elazar Award for Career Contribution to the Study of Federalism from the American Political Science Association.  In 2006, he received a Climate Protection Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency.   His most recent book is STATEHOUSE AND GREENHOUSE: THE EMERGING POLITICS OF AMERICAN CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY (Brookings, 2004).

Teaching Interests:
In recent years, Rabe's course offerings have included:

Public Management (Ford School 587)

The Politics of Environmental Protection (Ford School 563, SNRE 686, SPH 686)

Environmental Politics and Policy (Program in the Environment 312)

Climate Change Politics and Policy (Program in the Environment 302)

Selected Publications:

• Rabe, B.G. 2008. States on Steroids: The Intergovernmental Odyssey of American Climate Change Policy in Review of Policy Research, vol. 25 (March): 105-128.
• Rabe, B.G. 2008. "Regionalism and Global Climate Change Policy," in Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century, Timothy Conlan and Paul Posner eds. (Brookings Press): 176-205.
• Rabe, B.G. 2008. "Climate Change and Multilevel Governance: The Evolving State and Local Roles," in Toward Sustainable Communities, Daniel Mazmanian and Michael Kraft eds. (MIT Press) (Co-authored with Michele Betsill).
• Rabe, B.G. 2008. "Sustainability in a Regional Context: The Case of the Great Lakes Basin," in Toward Sustainable Communities, Daniel Mazmanian and Michael Kraft eds. (MIT Press) (Co-authored with Marc Gaden)
• Rabe, B.G. 2007. "Environmental Policy in the Bush Era: The Collision Between the Administrative Presidency and State Experimentation," Publius: The Journal of Federalism 37 (Summer): 413-431.
• Rabe, B.G. 2007. "Beyond Kyoto: Designing Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases in Competing Federal System," Governance, vol. 20 (July): 423-444.