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Senior Research Associate
Center for International Development at Harvard University, Harvard University, United States
Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States of America
Tel: +1 617-496-9469
Fax: +1 617-496-8753
Email:
http://sust.harvard.edu/people.htm#ndickson
Nancy Dickson is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Her interests focus on institutional arrangements and processes for facilitating more productive interactions among the research, assessment, and decision making communities involved in problems of environmental change and sustainable development. She conducted research on the long-term evolution of social responses to global environmental change, co-editing the book Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks (MIT Press 2001), and co-authoring chapters on topics ranging from the role of the media to the evaluation of research and assessment programs. She co-authored an article on science and technology for sustainability (Science 292, 2001). She is Executive Director of the Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability Program that seeks to contribute to the strategies with which the next generation of national and international global environmental change programs might more effectively integrate and support its research, assessment, and decision support activities relating to global change and sustainable development. She is also working with an independent group of scholars from around the world on an Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability. She was Executive Director of the Global Environmental Assessment Project, a research and training effort to improve the effectiveness of scientific advice in international environmental policy making. She trained as an environmental planner at Cornell University.
Ms. Dickson recommends:
Juma, Calestous. Forthcoming. "The global sustainability challenge: From agreement to action." International Journal of Global Environmental Issues.
This paper argues that the sustainability transition is a
knowledge-intensive process involving considerable investment in
science and technology. It entails significant adjustments in global,
regional and national institutions to reflect the imperatives of
sustainability. The paper outlines the kinds of institutional
adjustments that are needed to promote the transition towards
sustainability.
This Network Member owns the following projects:
Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)
This Network Member is involved with the following projects:
Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development (KSSD)
This Network Member is classified within these Core Themes:
Environment
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management
Connecting the ecological, economic, and social
Integrative methods for place-based analysis
Driving forces relevant to a sustainability transition
Complex adaptive systems
Impacts and response
This Network Member is directly associated with the following:
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PROJECTS
Water Management, Livelihoods, and Landscapes in the... Comision Fulbright (Quito)Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in... University of Georgia, United States,... DINAS-COAST (Dynamic and Interactive Assessment of National,... Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact... EVENTS
Social ecological systems in upland cultural.... June 17, 2008 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human.... December 2, 2009 Sustainability Issues and Challenges for Spatial.... March 23, 2009 MEMBERS
Merce Aguera Cabo, Knowledge Methodologies Sector (KAM), Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizens (IPSC), Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC-EC), Italy Wolfgang Cramer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany Lindsey Christensen, Cirrus LLC and Entrix PUBLICATIONS
Grand Challenges in Sustainability Science Symposium Presentations.
Organized by Pamela Matson, Robert Kates , and Vaughan Turekian;
Saving Fish and Fishers Toward Sustainable and Equitable Governance.... The World Bank Agriculture and Rural Development Department
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being. John P. Holdren
COMMENTARIES
Sustainability, Scale, and Critical Connections. Lisa Harrington
Integrated Assessments, Long-Term Trends, and Science-Policy Interfaces. Mohd Nordin Hasan
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