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Appendix B

Workshop Participants

David Dzombak (Chair) (NAE)
Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head
Carnegie Mellon University

Joseph Arvai
Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Director
University of Michigan

Elena Bennett
Associate Professor
School of Environment
McGill University

Blair Bowers
Caset Associates, Ltd

Ralph J. Cicerone (NAS)
President
National Academy of Sciences

William Clark (NAS)
Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development
Harvard University

Robert Costanza
Professor and Chair in Public Policy
Australian National University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Participants." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Transitioning Toward Sustainability: Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23533.
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John Crittenden (NAE)
Director, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology

Steven Davis
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine

Thomas Dietz
Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy
Michigan State University

Kristie Ebi
Professor, Department of Global Health
University of Washington

Thomas Graedel (NAE)
Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology
Yale University

Marilu Hastings
Vice President, Sustainability Program
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alan Hecht
Director for Sustainable Development Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Mark Howden
Chief Research Scientist
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation

Lek Kadeli
Acting Assistant Administrator
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Anthony Ku
Senior Engineer
Manufacturing and Materials Technologies
GE Global Research

Margaret Leinen
Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences
Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Participants." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Transitioning Toward Sustainability: Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23533.
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Steven Lohrenz
Dean and Professor
School for Marine Science and Technology
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Wolfgang Lutz
Director, World Population Program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Alison Macalady
Associate Program Officer
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Roberta Marinelli
Executive Director
Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Southern California

Pamela Matson (NAS)
Chester Naramore Dean, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Stanford University

Jerry Miller
Director, Science and Technology for Sustainability Program
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Gerald Nelson
Professor Emeritus
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dusan Pejakovic
Program Officer, Science
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Marty Perreault
Director, President’s Circle
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Prabhu Pingali (NAS)
Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Cornell University

Stephen Polasky (NAS)
Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics
University of Minnesota

Yasmin Romitti
Research Assistant
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Participants." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Transitioning Toward Sustainability: Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23533.
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Karen Seto
Associate Dean of Research
Professor of Geography and Urbanization
Yale University

Steven Skerlos
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan

William Solecki
Professor and Founder Director, Emeritus CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities
Hunter College

Susan Trumbore (NAS)
Director
Department Biogeochemical Processes
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

John Weyant
Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University

Julie Zimmerman
Professor, Green Engineering
Yale University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Participants." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Transitioning Toward Sustainability: Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23533.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Participants." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Transitioning Toward Sustainability: Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23533.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Participants." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Transitioning Toward Sustainability: Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23533.
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In 1999 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a landmark report, Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability, which attempted to “reinvigorate the essential strategic connections between scientific research, technological development, and societies’ efforts to achieve environmentally sustainable improvements in human well-being.”1 The report emphasized the need for place-based and systems approaches to sustainability, proposed a research strategy for using scientific and technical knowledge to better inform the field, and highlighted a number of priorities for actions that could contribute to a sustainable future.

The past 15 years have brought significant advances in observational and predictive capabilities for a range of natural and social systems, as well as development of other tools and approaches useful for sustainability planning. In addition, other frameworks for environmental decision making, such as those that focus on climate adaptation or resilience, have become increasingly prominent. A careful consideration of how these other approaches might intersect with sustainability is warranted, particularly in that they may affect similar resources or rely on similar underlying scientific data and models.

To further the discussion on these outstanding issues, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on January 14–15, 2016. Participants discussed progress in sustainability science during the last 15 years, potential opportunities for advancing the research and use of scientific knowledge to support a transition toward sustainability, and challenges specifically related to establishing indicators and observations to support sustainability research and practice. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

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