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Appendix H
Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability
Established in 2002, the National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability provides a forum for sharing views, information, and analyses related to harnessing science and technology for sustainability. Members of the Roundtable include senior decision makers from government, industry, academia, and non-profit organizations who deal with issues of sustainable development, and who are in a position to mobilize new strategies for sustainability.
The goal of the Roundtable is to mobilize, encourage, and use scientific knowledge and technology to help achieve sustainability goals and to support the implementation of sustainability practices. Three overarching principles are used to guide the Roundtable’s work in support of this goal. First, the Roundtable will focus on strategic needs and opportunities for science and technology to contribute to the transition toward sustainability. Second, the Roundtable will focus on issues for which progress requires cooperation among multiple sectors, including academia, government (at all levels), business, nongovernmental organizations, and international institutions. Third, the Roundtable will focus on activities where scientific knowledge and technology can help to advance practices that contribute directly to sustainability goals, in addition to identifying priorities for research and development (R&D) inspired by sustainability challenges.
In the summer of 2005, the Roundtable co-chairs convened a meeting with select leaders from the private sector, state government, nongovernmental organizations, academia, and the National Academies to help develop a strategic outlook for the second phase of the Roundtable. Meeting participants suggested a number of potential topics and modes of operations for the Roundtable. These
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ideas were used by the Roundtable co-chairs and staff to develop an action plan for activities to be undertaken by the Roundtable over the next few years.
To date, the Roundtable has explored topics such as linking knowledge with action for sustainable development, environmental regulation and its alternatives, sustainability indicators, rapid urbanization, and rebuilding the Gulf Coast Region in a sustainable manner. Major activities currently are being planned to examine the effectiveness of public-private partnerships for sustainability, certification of sustainable goods and services, urban environmental sustainability, sustainable energy, food security, and to discuss federal research and development activities to address selected high priority challenges to sustainability.
For Additional Information
For more information about the Roundtable, please contact Marina Moses, Director of the National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability, at mmoses@nas.edu or 202-334-2143.
Science and Technology for Sustainability Roundtable Membership
Emmy Simmons (Co-Chair) Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (retired), USAID
Thomas Graedel (Co-Chair) (NAE)
Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology, Yale University
Matt Arnold
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Ann M. Bartuska
Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture*
Arden Bement (NAE)
Director
National Science Foundation*
Michael Bertolucci
President
Interface Research Corporation
Nancy Cantor
President and Chancellor
Syracuse University
John Carberry
Director of Environmental Technology (retired)
DuPont
Leslie Carothers
President
Environmental Law Institute
William Clark (NAS)
Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development
Harvard University
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Glen T. Daigger (NAE)
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
CH2M HILL
Patricia Dehmer
Acting Director
Office of Science
U.S. Department of Energy*
Sam Dryden
Managing Director
Wolfensohn & Company
Nina Fedoroff (NAS)
Science and Technology Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State
U.S. State Department*
Marco Ferroni
Executive Director
Syngenta Foundation
Mohamed H. A. Hassan
Executive Director
The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)
Neil Hawkins
Vice President for Sustainability
The Dow Chemical Company
Geoffrey Heal
Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
Catherine (Katie) Hunt
Corporate Sustainability Director
Rohm and Haas
Lek Kadeli
Acting Assistant Administrator
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency*
Jack Kaye
Associate Director
Research of the Earth Science Division
National Aeronautics and Space Administration*
Gerald Keusch (IOM)
Assistant Provost, Medical Campus Associate Dean, School of Public Health
Boston University
Suzette Kimball
Acting Director
U.S. Geological Survey*
Kai Lee
Program Officer
Conservation and Science Program
Packard Foundation
Thomas E. Lovejoy
Biodiversity Chair
The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
Pamela Matson (NAS)
Dean, School of Earth Sciences
Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies
Stanford University
J. Todd Mitchell
Chairman
Board of Directors
Houston Advanced Research Center
M. Granger Morgan (NAS)
Professor and Head
Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
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Prabhu Pingali (NAS)
Head
Agricultural Policy and Statistics
Agriculture Development Division
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, Nutritional Sciences
Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Cornell University
Christopher Portier
Associate Director
National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Harold Schmitz
Chief Science Officer
Mars Inc.
Robert Stephens
International Chair
Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance
Denise Stephenson Hawk
Chairman
The Stephenson Group, LLC
Dennis Treacy
Vice President
Environmental and Corporate Affairs
Smithfield Foods
Vaughan Turekian
Chief International Officer
The American Association for the Advancement of Science*
Staff
Marina Moses, Director, Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability
Pat Koshel, Senior Program Officer
Derek Vollmer, Associate Program Officer
Kathleen McAllister, Research Associate
Emi Kameyama, Program Assistant
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Denotes ex-officio member