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Buenos Aires,
Argentina
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Gilberto Gallopín is Regional Adviser on Environmental Policies at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology from Cornell University in 1969 and is an ecological systems analyst and sustainable development expert. He has worked on ecological systems analysis, food chain and niche theory, global modeling, environmental modeling, environmental impact assessment, environmental and land use prospective, the environment and development nexus, environment and quality of life, impoverishment and sustainable development, scenario analysis, and policy dialogues. He has published more than 100 papers in these areas. He is the editor of a book on ecological perspectives for Latin America, principal author of a book on problems and opportunities for sustainable development in Latin America and of a booklet on global scenarios and human choice, and co-author of the Latin American World Model and of a book on adaptive environmental impact assessment and management. Some of his relevant experience includes: Director of the Systems for Sustainable Development Programme, Stockholm Environment Institute; Leader of the Land Use Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia; Senior Fellow of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Winnipeg, Canada; Senior Expert on Environment and Development in the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria; Full Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and at the Fundacion Bariloche, Argentina, as well as the Executive President of the latter.
This Network Member is involved with the following projects:
Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)
Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development (KSSD)
This Network Member is classified within these Core Themes:
Connecting the ecological, economic, and social
Integrative methods for place-based analysis
Complex adaptive systems
This Network Member is directly associated with the following:
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EVENTS
Santiago Regional Workshop on Sustainability Science: Science and Technology for Sustainable Development
March 5, 2002 - Santiago, Chile
Organized locally by the Economic Commission for Latin America and ... Sustainable Development: Epistemological Challenges to Science and Technology
October 13, 2004 - Santiago, Chile
Convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America ... PUBLICATIONS
Sustainable development: epistemological challenges to science and technology (2005)
Gilberto C. Gallopín and Cecilie Modvar
Linkages between vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity (2006)
Gilberto C. Gallopín
The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research (2006)
Oran R. Young, Frans Berkhout, Gilberto C. Gallopin, Marco A. Janssen, Elinor Ostrom and Sander van der Leeuw
COMMENTARIES
The Challenges Posed by Sustainable Development to Science and Technology (2002)
Gilberto C. Gallopín
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PROJECTS
Sustainability Geoscope. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact...Formation of Climate Stressful Zones in Nigeria. Federal University of Technology, Chemical... DINAS-COAST (Dynamic and Interactive Assessment of National,... Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact... EVENTS
Social ecological systems in upland cultural.... June 17, 2008 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment as a.... July 9, 2008 Climate Change and Biodiversity in the.... February 25, 2008 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 Tony Patt, Boston University, United States Yuan Ren, Institute of Population Research, Fudan University, China PUBLICATIONS
Linkages between vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity. Gilberto C. Gallopín
Core Questions of Science and Technology for Sustainability.
B. Bolin, W. Clark, R. Corell, N. Dickson,...
Essay: Models and Conceptualizations of Sustainability. Gilberto Gallopin
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