Yale School of Management - Faculty

Professor Emeritus School of Management

Professor Brewer is a policy scientist whose professional career began at the RAND Corporation in 1970, where he was a senior staff member of the social science department. He began at Yale in 1974 and held the Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser (1984-90) and Edwin W. Davis Chairs (1990-91). He also directed Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies in 1990-91. Between 1991 and 1998, he was the dean of the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources & Environment and also a professor in that school and in the Michigan Business School. In November 1997 he was appointed by His Majesty the King of Sweden to be the King Carl XVI Gustaf Professor of Environmental Sciences for 1998-99. At the same time he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy. From 1999-2001 he was Professor of Resource Policy in the Energy and Resource Group (ERG) at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2001 he returned to Yale and reclaimed the Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Chair.

Achievements and Awards
Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science, 2006-Present
Member, The Royal Swedish Academy, 1998-Present
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1970-Present
Fellow, Society for Values in Higher Education, 1968-Present

Editorships
Editorial Board:
Policy Sciences
Environmental Editor:
Policy Sciences

Selected Books
A Nation Empowered: Decision Support for Climate Change (with R. Corell and others), National Academies Press, 2008

Decision Making for the Environment (with P. Stern and others), National Academies Press, 2005

Caught Unawares: The Energy Decade in Retrospect (with M. Greenberger, W. Hogan and M. Russell), Ballinger, 1983

Selected Articles
"Inventing the Future: Scenarios, Imagination, Mastery and Control" Sustainability Science, Vol. 2, No. 2, 159-177, 2007

"The Sustainability Generation: Preparing Future Leaders," Human Ecology Review, Vol.3, No.3, 271-74, 2004

"The Changing World of Continuing and Professional Education," Continuing Higher Education Review, Vol. 64, 23-34, 2000

"Closing the Gap Between Ecosystem Management and Ecosystem Science" (with J. Berry, J.C. Gordon and D.R. Patton), Policy Sciences, Vol. 31, No. 1, 55-80, 1998

Education
PhD Yale University, 1970
MS San Diego State University, 1966
AB University of California at Berkeley, 1963