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Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability." National Research Council. 2010. Expanding Biofuel Production and the Transition to Advanced Biofuels: Lessons for Sustainability from the Upper Midwest: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12806.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability." National Research Council. 2010. Expanding Biofuel Production and the Transition to Advanced Biofuels: Lessons for Sustainability from the Upper Midwest: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12806.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability." National Research Council. 2010. Expanding Biofuel Production and the Transition to Advanced Biofuels: Lessons for Sustainability from the Upper Midwest: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12806.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability." National Research Council. 2010. Expanding Biofuel Production and the Transition to Advanced Biofuels: Lessons for Sustainability from the Upper Midwest: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12806.
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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

*

Denotes ex-officio member

Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability." National Research Council. 2010. Expanding Biofuel Production and the Transition to Advanced Biofuels: Lessons for Sustainability from the Upper Midwest: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12806.
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