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September 1984 - July 1987
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- Project Manager
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- Research Scholar and Leader of Program on "Sustainable Development of the Biosphere: Interactions between the Global Economy and the World Environment."
September 1981 - July 1984
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- Research Assistant
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- Research on energy/environment interactions, risk assessment; editor of "Carbon Dioxide Review.”
September 1971 - June 1980
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- PostDoc Position
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- Member of C.S. Holling's interdisciplinary team exploring theory and practice of ecological policy design.
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September 1971 - June 1979
September 1967 - June 1971
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Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serve...
This PNAS Special Feature, and the NAS Sackler Symposium on which it is based, explores the barriers and opportunities for better linking knowledge with action in support of sustainable development. Its contributions grapple with the transscientific questions of which practical ends merit our attention, the inadequacy of our tools for the tasks at...
This paper distills core lessons about how researchers (scientists, engineers, planners, etc.) interested in promoting sustainable development can increase the likelihood of producing usable knowledge. We draw the lessons from both practical experience in diverse contexts around the world, and from scholarly advances in understanding the relationsh...
Meeting fundamental human needs while preserving Earth's life support systems will require an accelerated transition toward sustainability. A new field of sustainability science is emerging that seeks to understand the fundamental character of interactions between nature and society and to encourage those interactions along more sustainable traject...
To understand the implications of migration for sustainable development requires a comprehensive consideration of a range of population movements and their feedback across space and time. This Perspective reviews emerging science at the interface of migration studies, demography, and sustainability, focusing on consequences of migration flows for n...
The need for faster and deeper transitions toward more sustainable development pathways is now widely recognized. How to meet that need has been at the center of a growing body of academic research and real-world policy implementation. This paper presents our perspective on some of the most powerful insights that have emerged from this ongoing work...
This Perspective evaluates recent progress in modeling nature–society systems to inform sustainable development. We argue that recent work has begun to address longstanding and often-cited challenges in bringing modeling to bear on problems of sustainable development. For each of four stages of modeling practice—defining purpose, selecting componen...
Available as Open Access ebook at https://www.sustainabilityscience.org/guide.
This project is a dynamic Research Guide to the principal findings of sustainability science. The goal of the project is to provide a synthesis of research in the field that highlights its principle insights and their practical implications for the pursuit of sustainabl...
The main purpose of this Supplementary Material is to explain how we arrived at the list of influential research programs listed in Table 1 of this Research Guide (see An Integrative Framework for Sustainability Science). In addition, we provide additional information about those programs: their substantive focus, their “footprint” on sustainabilit...
This review synthesizes diverse approaches that researchers have brought to bear on the challenge of sustainable development. We construct an integrated framework highlighting the union set of elements and relationships that those approaches have shown to be useful in explaining nature–society interactions in multiple contexts. Compelling evidence...
This review synthesizes diverse approaches that researchers have brought to bear on the challenge of sustainable development. We construct an integrated framework highlighting the union set of elements and relationships that those approaches have shown to be useful in explaining nature-society interactions in multiple contexts. Compelling evidence...
This final article in Environment's Earth Day series explores the environmental surprises of the recent past and those yet to come. It speculates on ways of anticipating and responding to surprise, indeed, of using it creatively to sustain human use of the Earth.
Decision-makers often seek to design policies that support sustainable development. Prospective evaluations of how effectively such policies are likely to meet sustainability goals have nonetheless remained challenging. Evaluating policies against sustainability goals can be facilitated through the inclusive wealth framework, which characterizes de...
This paper presents insights and action proposals to better harness technological innovation for sustainable development. We begin with three key insights from scholarship and practice. First, technological innovation processes do not follow a set sequence but rather emerge from complex adaptive systems involving many actors and institutions operat...
Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particula...
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the City of London and its hinterlands. My purpose in writing it has been to provide an empirical puzzle for use in teaching and theorizing about the long term coevolution of social-environmental systems and the pote...
Extraordinary rates of biodiversity loss, coupled with rising human population and consumption rates, threaten the sustainability of Earth’s life support systems. An inclusive wealth framework that considers the current and future stocks and flows of human and Earth system assets, including biodiversity, provides one means of examining progress tow...
Biological systems exhibit extraordinary diversity, whether considering the genetic variation within species, the differ- ences among the more than 8 million recognized species found on the Earth, or the range of environments inhabited and shaped by those organisms. Over the past two centuries, the expansion of human populations, resource demands,...
This paper investigates the conditions under which firms are able to develop and implement innovations with sustainable development benefits. In particular, we examine "green chemistry" innovations in the United States. Via interviews with green chemistry leaders from industry, academia, nongovernmental institutions (NGOs), and government, we ident...
Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted the importance of "boundary work" through which research communities organize their relations with new science, other sources of knowledge, and the worlds of action and policymaking. A growing body of scholarship po...
Now published in revised form as "Boundary work for sustainable development: Natural resource management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(17):4615 · August 2011 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900231108 ·
Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in kno...
Background/Question/Methods Sustainability science is an emerging field of use-inspired research that addresses how to improve human well-being in ways that account for the ultimate dependence of that well-being on the natural environment. In the course of addressing this ultimate question, there arise a number of subsidiary challenges for sustaina...
Note: Correct title (misprint in journal) is "Evidence of scarce intelligence"
We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general and on climate scientists in particular. All citizens should understand some basic scientific facts. There is always some uncertainty associated with scientific conclusions; science
never absolutely proves anything. When someone says that society should...
In the last in a series of four articles highlighting the changing nature of global health institutions, Suerie Moon and colleagues propose future actions to strengthen these institutions.
In the first in a series of four articles highlighting the changing nature of global health institutions, Nicole Szlezák and colleagues outline the origin and aim of the series.
We developed a “continual engagement” model to better integrate knowledge from policy makers, communities, and researchers
with the goal of promoting more effective action to balance poverty alleviation and wildlife conservation in 4 pastoral ecosystems
of East Africa. The model involved the creation of a core boundary-spanning team, including comm...
Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster the social-ecological sustainability of a rapidly changing planet. Recent developments identify three strategies that make optimal use of current understanding in an environment of inevitable uncertainty and abrupt change: reducing the magnitude of, and exposure and sensitivit...
We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market access by the poor to fodder and natural resource management to livestock parasite drug resistance. We found that these projects c...
This paper asks ‘What kinds of approaches and institutions, under what sorts of conditions, are most effective for harnessing scientific knowledge in support of strategies for environmentally sustainable development and poverty alleviation?’ In applying an innovative conceptual framework to a diverse set of sustainable poverty-focused projects unde...
The goals and concerns surrounding the debate over government policies related to the greater use and production of biofuels were addressed in an executive session convened by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Venice International University on May 19th and 20th, 2008. The session attracted more than 25 of the w...
On July 26-29, 2007, researchers, scholars, and practitioners convened at Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, to share, learn about, and discuss, preliminary findings from a research project conducted by the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) South Asia and the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University called, "Integrating knowledg...
For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor, the engineered landscape of the island's rice terraces has taken shape. According to Stephen Lansing, the need for effective cooperation in water management links thousands of farmers together in hierarchies of productive relationships that...
This document consists of the External review of the ASB, together with the response by ASB to the review and the comments on the review by the CGIAR Science Council. The review, chaired by William Clark, developed and applied an original methodology for conducting the review.
The U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change was a federally coordinated nationwide effort that involved thousands of experts and stakeholders. To draw lessons from this effort, the 10 authors of this paper, half of whom were not involved in the Assessment, developed and administered an extensive surv...
Despite scientific progress in everything from nanotechnology to the exploration of Mars, vexing questions remain about our own planet: For example, is humankind about to disrupt the natural dynamics of the Earth System? What will we need to do to avoid this and steer ourselves toward a sustainable future?
This paper provides a context for the Dahlem Workshop on “Earth System Analysis for Sustainability.” The authors begin by characterizing the contemporary epoch of Earth history in which humanity has emerged as a major—and uniquely self-reflexive—geological force. They turn next to the extraordinary revolution in our understanding of the Earth syste...
J. Michael Hall received the Smith Medal at the 2004 Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony on 15 December, in San Francisco, California. The medal is given for extraordinary service to geophysics.
Demonstrates how understanding the intertwined evolution of the Earth's geosphere and biosphere can contribute to the achievement of global sustainability.
Earth System Analysis for Sustainability uses an integrated systems approach to provide a panoramic view of planetary dynamics since the inception of life some four billion years ago and to iden...
Demonstrates how understanding the intertwined evolution of the Earth's geosphere and biosphere can contribute to the achievement of global sustainability.
Earth System Analysis for Sustainability uses an integrated systems approach to provide a panoramic view of planetary dynamics since the inception of life some four billion years ago and to iden...
Anthropogenic interference has resulted in climate change, ocean acidification, eutrophication and toxic pollution of the earth and it's ecosystems. The Earth System Analysis is an international research program on global environmental change to understand these processes in order to work towards global sustainability
I am honored and delighted to be here today at the launching of the Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research (ZICER). With many of my colleagues around the world, I look on ZICER as both as a grand new home for many of the uniquely strong programs in environmental science and policy that the University of East Anglia has nurtured o...
The challenge of meeting human development needs while protecting the earth's life support systems confronts scientists, technologists, policy makers, and communities from local to global levels. Many believe that science and technology (S&T) must play a more central role in sustainable development, yet little systematic scholarship exists on how t...
Incl. abstract, bib. This paper argues for a broader emphasis on sustainable security and sustainable development, and for examining both opportunities as well as threats to security. The authors note that many of the significant risks arising from human and natural interactions do not emerge at global or local levels, but at intermediate scales. T...
The State of the Nation's Ecosystems project was created to provide a "just the facts" report on the status of U.S. ecosystems - intended to inform opinion leaders and policy makers in much the same way statistics on unemployment and inflation provide data for economic policy debates. This article provides insight into the process behind the report...
This book reports the results of a grand experiment in how lay publics might be more effectively engaged in linking science and technology to the quest for sustainable development. The experiment integrates three long-established but usually isolated lines of thought. The first concerns the appropriate role of science and technology in a transition...
Sustainability concerns have occupied a place on the global agenda since at least the Brundtland Commission’s 1987 report
“Our Common Future” (World Commission on Environment and Development 1987; Clark 1986). The prominence of that place has been rising, however. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan reflected a growing consensus when
he wrote in his Mi...
In this paper, I summarize 3 years of intensive consultation among members of the world's scientific community on the question of how science and technology could be more effectively harnessed to meet the goals of sustainable development. I begin with a review of the historical roots of the sustainability science movement and characterize the R&D a...
The boundary between science and policy is only one of several boundaries that hinder the linking of scientific and technical information to decision making. Managing boundaries between disciplines, across scales of geography and jurisdiction, and between different forms of knowledge is also often critical to transferring information. The research...
The recognition that information matters in world affairs raises a number of questions as to when, how, and under what conditions it influences the behavior of policy actors. Despite the vast and growing array of institutions involved in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information potentially relevant to global governance generally, and gl...
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This is a profoundly disturbing article, pointing to persistent and pervasive cultural biases of academics to young women scholars. NYTimes: http://nyti.ms/1f0jL3m Hint: The answer has more to do with “The Big Bang Theory” than with longstanding theories about men’s so-called natural aptitude.
Many papers look at parts of this story. But the strategic picture of the multiple ways in which fossil fuel use damages health, ecosystems, climate, materials, etc. remains largely untold. The US NAS study 'Hidden Costs of Energy' should have answered this question, but chose to focus on the parts in which most study had been done, rather than providing a strategic overview with approximate answers. Interested both in scholarly papers, and popular versions.
A recent essay in the NY Times on the subject (see link) inspired the question....
For years I have used the free program Connotea to capture and index web sites and online content relevant to sustainability research. Now Connotea is being discontinued. There are several options as replacements, but I would be most interested in picking one that is popular with other sustainability researchers to maximize the benefits of using the shared tag and other community options. So what do readers of this site use? Note that I am not after one to prepare formal bibliographies (for which I use Refworks). My interest is rather in easy and effective ways to download, annotate, and share web content.
Cite-U-like?
Mendeley?
Zotero?
Other?
