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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 guide the Roundtable’s work in support of
this goal. First, the Roundtable focuses on strategic needs and opportunities for science and
technology to contribute to the transition toward sustainability. Second, the Roundtable focuses
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 focuses 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 September 2009, the Roundtable adopted a two-pronged strategy to address sustainability. The
first part of this strategy attempts to define inter-sectoral dynamics essential to long-term science
and technology approaches to sustainability. The second looks to apply these approaches and
concepts to sustainability challenges.
Focus on Long-Term Science and Technology Strategy for Sustainability
Acknowledging that sustainability is an interdisciplinary topic that crosses domains,
sectors, and institutions, the Roundtable launched a series of discussions to outline the
major connections between human and environmental systems. This focus builds on the
comparative advantage of the Roundtable versus the field-specific boards around the
National Research Council. Past discussions topics included energy linkages (September
2009), water linkages (May 2010), land linkages (October 2010) and linkages of non-
renewable materials (May 2011).
Applied Sustainability
As a second area of programmatic emphasis, the Roundtable is sharpening its focus on
sustainability challenges in applied situations where STS works with specific
communities within our RT membership.
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The Roundtable is the key component of the Science and Technology for Sustainability (STS)
Program in the division of Policy and Global Affairs at the National Research Council. The
Roundtable is being supported by the National Academies’ George and Cynthia Mitchell
Endowment for Sustainability. STS is the institutional focal point within the National Academies
for examining sustainability science and technology issues. Sustainability leaders in the
government, academia, private sector and non-governmental organizations recognize STS as a
sustainability leader driving current approaches in the field.
For more information, please visit our website at: www.nas.edu/sustainability or contact Marina
Moses, Director of the National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for
Sustainability (mmoses@nas.edu; 202-334-2143).
Members of the Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability
Thomas Graedel (Co-Chair) (NAE), Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology, Yale
University
Ann M. Bartuska (Co-Chair), Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education and
Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Paul Anastas, Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency*
Michael Bertolucci, Former President, Interface Research Corporation
Nancy Cantor (IOM), President and Chancellor, Syracuse University
Leslie Carothers, President, Environmental Law Institute
Stephen R. Carpenter (NAS), Stephen Alfred Forbes Professor of Zoology, Center for
Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Glen T. Daigger (NAE), Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, CH2M HILL
Marco Ferroni, Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
Steve Fetter, Assistant Director, At-Large, Principal Assistant Director of Environment, The
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Bernard D. Goldstein (IOM), Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational
Health, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health
Mohamed H. A. Hassan, Executive Director, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing
World
Neil C. Hawkins, Vice President of Sustainability, The Dow Chemical Company
Katie Hunt, Director, Technology Collaboration Development in Core R&D, The Dow
Chemical Company
Michael Kavanaugh (NAE), Principal, Geosyntec Consultants
Jack Kaye, Associate Director, Research of the Earth Science Division, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration*
Marcia K. McNutt (NAS), Director, U.S. Geological Survey*
J. Todd Mitchell, Chairman, Board of Directors, Houston Advanced Research Center
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, J.
Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics and
Management, Cornell University
Christopher Portier, Director, National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic
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Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subra Suresh (NAE), Director, National Science Foundation*
Robert Stephens, International Chair, Multi-State Working Group on Environmental
Performance
Denise Stephenson Hawk, Chair, The Stephenson Group, LLC
Dennis Treacy, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer,
Smithfield Foods
B.L. Turner II (NAS), Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society, School of
Geographical Sciences, Arizona State University
Staff
Marina Moses, Director, Science and Technology for Sustainability Program
Pat Koshel, Senior Program Officer
Jennifer Saunders, Program Officer
Dominic Brose, Program Officer
Emi Kameyama, Program Associate
Dylan Richmond, Research Assistant
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