Holly Jean Buck is an Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo, and a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC’s seventh assessment report (Working Group III). She is an environmental social scientist whose research focuses on public engagement with emerging climate technologies. Her research has appeared in journals like Nature Climate Change, Climatic Change, Nature Sustainability, and Environmental Research Letters, and she is the author of After Geoengineering (Verso, 2019) and Ending Fossil Fuels (Verso, 2021). Her current book project, developed while on a 2024-2025 Harvard Radcliffe fellowship, involves how rural regions engage in technological future-making. She holds a Ph.D in Development Sociology from Cornell University and a M.Sc. in Human Ecology from Lund University.
Holly Jean Buck
Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo