Scholars
Kate Pride Brown
Georgia Institute of Technology
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United States
North America
Kate Pride Brown is an environmental and political sociologist whose research focuses on a range of issues, including environmental activism in Russia and Mongolia, as well as energy policy in the United States. She received her doctorate from Vanderbilt University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Her book, Saving the Sacred Sea: The Power of Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2018), examines the conflict between local and transnational environmentalists, multinational corporations, and the Russian government over the future of Lake Baikal, the largest, deepest and oldest freshwater lake on Earth. Dr. Brown has also published research on water and energy politics and policy in the United States. Among other honors, she has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State, and funding from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, American Councils, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER).
Country(ies) of Specialty
Mongolia Russia United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Renewable energy Social movementsHow to Connect
Publications
Book
Brown, Kate Pride. Saving the Sacred Sea: The power of civil society in an age of authoritarianism and globalization. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Relevant Articles
Brown, Kate Pride, et al. “Human impact and ecosystemic health at Lake Baikal.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 8.4 (2021): e1528.
Brown, Kate Pride. “Multilevel governance and minimum flow: the varying conservation outcomes of water conflict resolution.” Environment, Politics, and Society. Vol. 25. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. 25-44.
Brown, Kate Pride. “Water, water everywhere (or, seeing is believing): The visibility of water supply and the public will for conservation.” Nature and Culture 12.3 (2017): 219-245.
Hess, David J., and Kate Pride Brown. “Green tea: clean-energy conservatism as a countermovement.” Environmental Sociology 3.1 (2017): 64-75.
Brown, Kate Pride, and David J. Hess. “The politics of water conservation: Identifying and overcoming barriers to successful policies.” Water Policy 19.2 (2017): 304-321.
Brown, Kate Pride, and David J. Hess. “Pathways to policy: Partisanship and bipartisanship in renewable energy legislation.” Environmental Politics 25.6 (2016): 971-990.
Brown, Kate Pride. “In the pocket: energy regulation, industry capture, and campaign spending.” Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 12.2 (2016): 1-15.
Hess, David J., Quan D. Mai, and Kate Pride Brown. “Red states, green laws: ideology and renewable energy legislation in the United States.” Energy Research & Social Science 11 (2016): 19-28.
Brown, Kate Pride. “The prospectus of activism: discerning and delimiting imagined possibility.” Social Movement Studies 15.6 (2016): 547-560.