Radiology Grand Rounds | March 29, 2021

Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Grand Rounds

"Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change"

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March 29, 2021 | Noon - 1 p.m.

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This grand round is designed for faculty, residents, staff and medical students.

Learning objectives of this presentation include:

• Understanding the constraints on government climate mitigation efforts
• Understanding the role of worldview in shaping climate science acceptance and policy support
• Understanding the drivers and effects of private environmental governance regarding climate change
• Examining the roles and responsibilities of the health care system in climate mitigation 

_{Vanderbilt University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Vanderbilt University Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.}

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Michael Vandenbergh is a leading scholar in environmental and energy law whose research explores the relationship between formal legal regulation and informal social regulation of individual and corporate behavior. His work with Vanderbilt’s Climate Change Research Network involves interdisciplinary teams that focus on the reduction of carbon emissions from the individual and household sector. His corporate work explores private environmental governance and the influence of social norms on firm behavior and the ways in which private contracting can enhance or undermine public governance. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Vandenbergh was a partner at a national law firm in Washington, D.C. He served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1993 to 1995. He began his career as a law clerk for Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1987-88. In addition to directing Vanderbilt’s Climate Change Research Network, Professor Vandenbergh serves as co-director of the law school’s Energy, Environment and Land Use Program. He was named a David Daniels Allen Distinguished Professor of Law in fall 2013. A recipient of the Hall-Hartman Teaching Award, he teaches courses in environmental law, energy, and property. Professor Vandenbergh has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and at Harvard Law School. He is a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers and a member of the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

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Jonathan Gilligan is Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is director of Vanderbilt's interdisciplinary Grand Challenge Initiative on Climate and Society and a member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment, the Vanderbilt Initiative on Smart-City Operations Research, and the Computational Thinking and Learning Initiative.

Gilligan received his BA in Physics, with a minor in Philosophy from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University, for which he performed the first measurements of molecular spectra accurate enough to resolve quantum-electrodynamic effects.

He was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he worked with David Wineland using laser-cooled trapped atomic ions to study the fundamental properties of quantum measurements and improve the accuracy of atomic clocks.

He led a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado using a multichannel gas chromatograph on a NASA airborne mission to study ozone depletion, for which he received a NASA Group Achievement Award and a NOAA Outstanding Scientific Paper award.

In 1994, Gilligan joined Vanderbilt’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, where he applied physics to material science, biology, and medicine, later becoming the Robert T. Lagemann Assistant Professor of Living State Physics.

In 2003 he joined Vanderbilt's newly-established Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, where he collaborates on interdisciplinary research into interactions between human behavior, society, and environmental change. His recent research projects include studying the role of the private sector in regulating greenhouse gas emissions, studying water-conservation policies in U.S. cities, studying interactions between climate change, land use, and rural agricultural communities in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and applying machine-learning methods to studying gentrification and its impacts on inequalities in mobility and access to public transport.

Gilligan has published one book and 95 scholarly articles and holds two patents. His paper, “Household Actions Can Provide a Behavioral Wedge to Rapidly Reduce U.S. Carbon Emissions” (co-authored with Thomas Dietz, Gerald Gardner, Paul Stern, and Michael Vandenbergh) has been cited more than 1,200 times and his paper, “Beyond Gridlock” (co-authored with Michael Vandenbergh) won the 2017 Morrison Prize, for the highest-impact paper of the year on sustainability law and policy. His book, Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change (co-authored with Michael Vandenbergh) was recognized with a Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for Research in 2018 and was named one of the most important books on environmental policy of the last 50 years by Environmental Forum.