Ted Parson holds a joint appointment with the School of Law. His interests include environmental policy, particularly its international dimensions; the political economy of regulation; the role of science and technology in public issues; and the analysis of negotiations, collective decisions, and conflicts. His recent research has included projects on scientific and technical assessment in international policy-making; the policy implications of carbon-cycle management; the design of international market-based policy instruments; and development of policy exercises, simulation-gaming, and related novel methods for assessment and policy analysis.

Awards and Grants:
2007 - 2010: NSF Human and Social Dynamics, "Market creation as a tool of social transformation" -- $180,000. 2004: Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, International Studies Association

Research Interests:
regulation and technological innovation processes and methods of scientific assessment Environmental policy and international trade

Teaching Interests:
International environmental law and policy Analytic methods for decision-making Negotiations Climate Change

Selected Publications:
(since 2006 only)

A. E. Dessler and E. A. Parson, 2010. The Science and Politics of Climate Change: a Guide to the Debate. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (2nd ed.) 

D. W. Keith, E. A. Parson, and M. Granger Morgan, “Research on global sun block needed now”  Nature 463, 426-427 (January 28, 2010).  

E.A. Parson, “Ontario Electricity Policy: the climate challenge”, Ch 2 in Current Affairs: Perspectives on Electricity Policy for Ontario, D. Reeve, D. DeWees, and B. Karney, eds., University of Toronto Press (2009). 

E. A. Parson, “Useful Global Change Scenarios: current issues and challenges,” Environmental Research Letters 3:4, 045016 (Oct – Dec 2008).

E. A. Parson, “The Big One: Review Essay on Richard Posner’s Catastrophe: Risk and Response”, Journal of Economic Literature 45, pp. 147-164 (March, 2007).

E. A. Parson, V. Burkett, K. Fisher-Vanden, D. Keith, L. Mearns, H. Pitcher, C. Rosenzweig, M. Webster, Global-Change Scenarios: Their Development and Use. Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.1b, US Climate Change Science Program, 2007. 

E.A. Parson, “Reflections on air capture: the political economy of active intervention in the global environment”, Climatic Change 74:1-3, pp. 1-11 (January, 2006).