News from IBES
Summer reads from IBES scholars
Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.
Read Article
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Scott Frickel
Professor of Environment and Society & Sociology
Research Interests
Environment-society interactions, Experts and knowledge/ignorance, Social movements, Social theory, Risk and disaster, Urbanization
Recent News
Chemical & Engineering News
Scientists face deficiencies in leadership countering US policies
IBES and Sociology Professor Scott Frickel offered commentary for this article.
Read Article
The Brown Daily Herald
What Brown experts, RI officials think about the EPA’s planned climate rollbacks
IBES Professors Kim Cobb, Scott Frickel, and Meredith Hastings offered commentary for this article, condemning the rollback of federal environmental oversight.
Read Article
The New York Times
Hit by ‘Gut Punches,’ Scientists Band Together to Protest Trump
IBES and Sociology Professor Scott Frickel offered commentary about the tradition of science activism.
Read Article
IBES and Sociology Professor Scott Frickel offered commentary about science organizing and activism.
Read Article
The Brown Daily Herald
‘Students built this’: IBES celebrates 10th anniversary
IBES faculty, students, and alumni discussed the institute's rich history and what lies ahead.
Read Article