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Planetary boundaries: the scientists and experts
Tariq Banuri , Stockholm Environment Institute, BostonDr. Banuri is Senior Fellow and Director of the Future Sustainability Program of the Stockholm Environment Institute. He has broad experience in national as well as global forums on integrating the goal of globalization into policies and actions of key stakeholders. He has served on national as well as international institutions of policy, advocacy, and research, including as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the World Future Council, the chair of the Board of Governors of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), and in the past on the board of governors of Pakistan´s central bank, Pakistan´s Environmental Protection Council and the Steering Committee on Higher Education, and as a Coordinating Lead Author of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Robert W. Corell, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, US Robert Corell is a Senior Policy Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and an Affiliate of the Washington Advisory Group. Furthermore, he recently completed an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard´s Kennedy School of Government. Corell is currently actively engaged in research concerned with both climate and global change and with the interface between science and public policy. In this context, he co-chaired an international team that developed approaches to harness science, technology and innovation for sustainable development. Further, he chaired the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) and was the Assistant Director for Geosciences at the US NSF where he had responsibility for all the Earth-related sciences, as well as chairing the climate and global change programs at NSF. He also chaired the President´s National Science and Technology Council´s Committee for all federal climate and global change programs and was principal U.S. delegate to many international bodies with interests in and responsibilities for global change research programs. Prior to joining the NSF, he was a professor and administrator at the University of New Hampshire.
Robert Costanza, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont Dr. Robert Costanza is the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Dr. Costanza's research has focused on the interface between ecological and economic systems, particularly at larger temporal and spatial scales. This includes landscape level spatial simulation modelling; analysis of energy and material flows through economic and ecological systems; valuation of ecosystem services, biodiversity, and natural capital; and analysis of dysfunctional incentive systems and ways to correct them. Costanza has Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1979 in systems ecology, with a minor in economics. He also has a Masters degree in Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida. Prior to his position at the University of Vermont , he was director of theUniversity of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor in the Center for Environmental Science, at Solomons, and in the Biology Department at College Park. Furthermore, Costanza is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and was chief editor of the Society's journal: Ecological Economics from its inception until 9/02. He currently serves on the editorial board of eight other international academic journals. He is past president of the International Society for Ecosystem Health. He has served on the Scientific Steering Committee for the LOICZ and AIMES core project of the IGBP; the US EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT); the National Research Council Board on Sustainable Development, Committee on Global Change Research; the National Research Council, Board on Global Change; the US National Committee for the Man and the Biosphere Program, and the National Marine Fisheries Service Committee on Ecosystem Principles. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers.
Bo Ekman, Tällberg Foundation, SwedenBo Ekman is founder and chairman of Nextwork and was previously chairman and chief executive of the Sifo Management Group. Prior to Sifo, he was for many years member of the management board of Volvo. Today, Ekman is an advisor to boards of directors and top managers in the fields of business environment analysis, strategic development, innovation and change management in Sweden as well as internationally. A lecturer and author on subjects of management and change, Ekman is a frequent participant in the public debate on business, social and cultural developments. In 1981, he founded Tällberg Foundation, a venue for international workshops on global issues.
Victoria J. Fabry, California State University San Marcos, USDr. Victoria Fabry is a Professor of Biological Sciences at California State University San Marcos. She is a biological oceanographer whose research interests encompass the role of marine organisms in geochemical cycles, particularly the interactions of organisms that calcify with changing seawater chemistry as a result from ocean acidification. Fabry earned a doctorate degree in biology at the University of California Santa Barbara and conducted post-doctoral work in marine chemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prior to joining the faculty at California State University , she worked as a biogeochemist at the International Atomic Energy Agency Marine Environmental Laboratory in Monaco. She has testified on ocean acidification before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology and was awarded the 2008 Sverdrup Lecture Award by the American Geophysical Union. She is a member of numerous national and international committees concerned with ocean acidification research.
Carl Folke , Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden Professor Carl Folkeis Scientific Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre and Director at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. His research emphasizes on the roles that living systems at different scales play as the foundation in social and economic development and how to govern and manage for resilience in integrated social-ecological systems. In 1995 he received the Pew Scholar Award in Conservation and the Environment and in 2004 the Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America. He has written more than 150 scientific papers and published 10 books. He has served as adviser to the Swedish Government on environmental issues and collaborated with UN organizations on issues like biodiversity, freshwater management, and sustainable cities. He is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2002 and serves on its Environmental Committee. Carl has given numerous invited speaker presentations world wide; public lectures, policy seminars and interviews. He is among the founders of the Resilience Alliance and serves on its Executive Committee and has been engaged in the development of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE).
James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute of Space Science, USDr. James Hansen heads the NASA Institute for Space Studies inNew York City , which is a division of Goddard Space Flight Center 's (Greenbelt ,MD), Sciences and Exploration Directorate. He is an Adjunct Professor of Geology at Columbia University ´s Earth Institute and was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of Dr. James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. Since the late 1970s, he has worked on studies and computer simulations of the Earth's climate, for the purpose of understanding the human impact on global climate. Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and, in 2001, received both the Heinz Award for environment as well as the American Geophysical Union's Roger Revelle Medal. Dr. Hansen received the World Wildlife Federation´s Conservation Medal from the Duke of Edinburgh in 2006 and was designated by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in 2006. Dr. Hansen is also a 2007 Laureate of the Dan David Prize for the field of Quest for Energy.
Eric Lambin, University of Louvain, Belgium Eric Lambin is Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He was previously Assistant Professor at Boston University and Expert for the European Commission at the Joint Research Center (Ispra). He has been Chair of the « Land-Use and Land-Cover Change » (LUCC) programme of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). His research interests include the monitoring of land change by remote sensing and the modelling of land-use changes and some of their impacts on coupled human-environment systems.
Martin Lees, The Club of Rome, GermanyMartin Lees is Secretary General of the Club of Rome, Zurich. He is also Senior Adviser to the Chinese Government on climate change and sustainable development and on the Xiao Kang program for a harmonious society. Since 1995 he is also Moderator of the International Advisory Board of the Toyota Motor Corporation. Between 2001 and 2005, he was Rector of the University for Peace of the United Nations, Costa Rica. Between 1983 and 2000, he was responsible for several high level programmes of International Cooperation withChina , including an advisory programme for the leadership, “China and the World in the Nineties". Furthermore, he is founder and 15 year member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. In 1984 he served as Assistant Secretary General, UN, and was the Executive Director of the InterAction Council of former Heads of State and Government in Vienna.
Tim Lenton, University of East Anglia, UKTim Lenton is a Professor of Earth System Science at University of East Anglia. He has a BA (first class) in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge(1994) and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia (1998). His research focuses on developing a theoretical understanding of planet Earth as a whole system. Lenton worked for 6 years at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh before returning in 2004 to the University of East Anglia. He has produced some of the first projections of climate and carbon cycle change on the millennial timescale and has recently led a widely-reported study of potential tipping points in the climate system. In 2004, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize and two years later the European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award as well as the BA Charles Lyell Award Lecture. In 2008, he received the Geological Society Wollaston Fund.
Diana Liverman, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, UK Diana Liverman is Director of the Environmental Change Institute and Professor of Geography at Oxford University. Her research focuses on the human dimensions of global environmental change including climate change policy and impacts, food systems, land use change, and environmental management in the Americas. Liverman has previously chaired the U.S. NRC Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change and the science committee of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change (IAI). She has been a member of several committees including the UK Human Dimensions Committee, and advisory boards for NASA, the NOAA Global Change Program, and the U.S. National Centre for Atmospheric Research. She is a member of editorial boards of the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Global Environmental Change, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and Climatic Change.
Catherine McMullen, UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment, NairobiCatherine McMullen is currently a Science and Assessment Specialist and Climate Change Focal Point in the Division of Early Warning and Assessment, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi. She serves as editor of, and writer for, the UNEP/GEO Year Book series. Her scientific background is in Fluvial Geomorphology and she has a degree in Science Writing with a specialty in Earth System Science. She has worked for the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Department of Canada, the Canadian International Development Agency, the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Science Foundation, Friends of the Earth Canada, and Greenpeace International.
Kevin Noone, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Secretariat,SwedenKevin Noone is Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), and Professor of Meteorology at the Department of Applied Environmental Science at Stockholm University. With degrees in Chemical and Civil & Environmental Engineering, he has previously been a faculty member in departments of Meteorology at Stockholm University in Sweden, and Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island in the US. His early research work focused on transparent semiconductors for use as solar cells in the generation of electricity. His current research interests include multiphase atmospheric chemistry, climate, and Earth System science. As part of the Earth System Science Partnership, he works to bring both natural and social science approaches to bear on environmental issues. He is author/co-author on more than 100 scientific publications, and regularly publishes and speaks for non-scientific audiences. Noonis also a member of a number of international research organizations, and is Associate Editor of the journals Ambio and Atmospheric Research.
Johan Rockström , Stockholm Resilience Centre/Stockholm Environment InstituteJohan Rockström is Executive Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Stockholm Environment Institute. He is also associate professor in natural resources management at Stockholm University and executive director of Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Rockström has twelve years of research and development work in developing countries, with more than 40 scientific publications in areas of water resource management, agricultural development, environmental management, systems research and resilience research. He has served as regional advisor to the Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA) of Sida, Sweden´s development agency. He has contributed to the management and strategic planning of WaterNet, a regional capacity building programme on Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in Southern Africa, as well as 40 higher-learning and research institutions in 12 countries. Furthermore, Rockström is coordinator of several national and regional research and development projects linked to the Global Water Partnership, the Global Dialogue on Water for Food and Environmental Security, and the Resilience Alliance. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Comprehensive Assessment on Water Management in Agriculture, and the African Conservation Tillage Network. Rockström has carried out research activities on agricultural water management and watershed management in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Marten Scheffer, Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen UniversityProfessor Marten Scheffer leads the Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group at Wageningen University. His research focuses on unravelling the mechanisms that determine the stability and resilience of complex systems. Furthermore, he has also worked with a range of scientists from other disciplines to address issues of stability and shifts in natural and social systems. Examples include the feedback between atmospheric carbon and the earth temperature, the collapse of ancient societies, inertia and shifts in public opinion, evolutionary emergence of patterns of species similarity, the effect of climatic extremes on forest dynamics and the balance of facilitation and competition in plant communities. Scheffer is member of the editorial boards of ‘Ecosystems´ and ‘Ecology and Society´, and has written the books ‘Ecology of Shallow Lakes´ and ‘Critical Transitions in Nature and Society´ (in preparation) and the popular science book ‘Vijver, Sloot en Plas´. Scheffer is at the Scientific Boards of the Resilience Alliance, the Beijer Institute and the European Santa Fe institute ‘Para Limens´. He has received several awards including the 2004 Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America.
Jasper Sky, Global Thermostat Project Jasper Sky is the managing coordinator of the Global Thermostat Project (GTP). Based at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam, the project aims to organize teams of climate impacts researchers from around the world to assess the vulnerability of several key global ecological systems. Prior to initiating GTP, Sky worked in new technology ‘due diligence´ assessments for venture capital firms (including assessment of some early-stage hydrogen and neural network technologies), as an environmental policy advisor to senior Canadian federal politicians, and as a land use management policy consultant to the government of British Columbia and to Canadian conservation NGOs. In addition, he is co-founder of BESCanada (Best Electoral System for Canada), a consultative process involving academics, civil society activists and Members of Parliament, aimed at generating a consensus proposal for reforming the Canadian federal electoral system. He has a Master´s degree in Resource and Environmental Management from Simon Fraser University and a B.Sc. in applied mathematics and physics from the University of British Columbia.
Will Steffen, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, AustraliaProfessor Will Steffen is Director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University, Canberra. He is also Science Adviser for the Australian Government. From 1998 to mid-2004, he served as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm ,Sweden. His research interests span a broad range within the field of Earth System science, with a special emphasis on terrestrial ecosystem interactions with global change, the global carbon cycle, incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis, and sustainability and the Earth System.
Uno Svedin, Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas)Uno Svedin is Director of International Affairs at the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He has a PhD in Physics from Stockholm University and has been a Scholar in the Swedish Secretariat of Future Studies. His field of interest lies in the interface between science and policy. Before taking on the position as Director of International Affairs at Formas, Svedin was the Director of Research at the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN). He has also worked as Professor in Water and Environmental Studies at the University of Linköping. Svedin has published a number of books and articles on environmental issues, future studies, sustainable development and research policy. He has also chaired various groups and committees including EU Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development, the International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research, and a member of the EU 5-year evaluation of the EU/JRC-system of institutes.
Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenSverker Sörlin is Professor of Environmental History in the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He has a PhD in the History of Science and Ideas from Umeå University and was the first director of the Swedish Institute for Studies in Education and Research, SISTER (2000-2003). Sörlin has held visiting positions at the University of California ,Berkeley(1993),University of Cambridge (2004-05), and the University of Oslo (2006). Among his publications in English are co-edited books such as Denationalizing Science, which appeared in the Sociology of Science Yearbook in 1992. Other books include Sustainability — the Challenge (1998); Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practice (2002), Knowledge Economy vs. Knowledge Society (2007). In Swedish he has authored or edited some thirty books. For his general history of European science and ideas 1492-1918, he received the August [for Strindberg] Prize for the best non fiction book of the year 2004. Along with his academic career he has conducted evaluations and inquiries in Sweden and internationally, and served on the boards of universities, museums, and foundations for research funding and environmental concern. He has engaged in public debates on education and research policy, and in environmental and research policy advice.
David Wasdell, Meridian Programme, UKDavid Wasdell is Director of the Meridian Programme and a reviewer of the Workgroup I (Climate Science) section of the IPCC AR4. In addition to worldwide consultancy and key-note presentations, Wasdell is also the founder of the Unit for Research into Changing Institutions (1981). He has a First Division Degree in Mathematics and Physics of which he was awarded a Durham University Prize. He also has a second degree in Theology. Since 2005 he has focused on the dynamics of climate change, in particular the tipping point as the whole earth system is triggered by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions into positive feedback and accelerated runaway global heating. In August 2006 he launched the Apollo-Gaia Project. In 2007 he was lead author and co-editor of the Westminster Briefing ‘Feedback Dynamics and the Acceleration of Climate Change´ delivered to the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group.
Anders Wijkman, Member of European ParliamentAnders Wijkman has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1999 and is currently a member of the Committees on Environment, Development Cooperation and Climate Change. Prior to his election to the European Parliament, he served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP (1995-1997), Director-General of SAREC - Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries - (1992-1994), Secretary-General of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (1989-1991) and Secretary Ceneral of the Swedish Red Cross (1979-1988). He is chairman of GLOBE EU and the ZERI Foundation. He is a member of the Club of Rome, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and a Board member of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is vice chairman of the Board of Tällberg Foundation and author of several books on sustainable development, Hiv/Aids and European integration.
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