David Ciplet

David Ciplet is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. He is a sociologist focused on issues of global political economy, environmental inequality, and climate justice. From the negotiating halls of the United Nations to community center meeting rooms, his research uses participatory qualitative methods to explore processes of power and social change in climate change, energy and adaptation politics. He is concerned with uncovering how related policies unequally impact socially marginalized groups, and the possibilities to achieve more environmentally just processes and outcomes. His book, with Timmons Roberts and Mizan Khan, Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality (MIT Press, 2015), explores how we arrived at an inequitable and scientifically inadequate international response to climate change. Ciplet's current research investigates the impacts of extreme temperatures for people who are incarcerated. He is also working on a book about strategic pathways to challenge global inequality related to climate change policies. He is a founding member and Executive Co-Director of the CU Boulder Just Transition Collaborative. He is also a founding member and the Director of the Climate and Incarceration Research Collective. See David Ciplet's profile on the Environmental Studies website.