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Dean, School of Earth Sciences
Stanford University, United States
Stanford University, Mitchell Hall 101
397 Panama Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2210
United States of America
Tel: +1 650-723-2750
Fax: +1 650-725-6566
Email:
http://pangea.stanford.edu/matsonlab/members/Matson.html
Pamela A. Matson is Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University. She is a co-investigator on the Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability Program. Her research addresses the links between development and environment, focusing primarily on agricultural and other land use issues in the Yaqui Basin, Sonora, Mexico. She and her collaborators (including economists and agronomists) have carried out interdisciplinary studies of intensive agricultural fertilization in the Yaqui Valley, and have identified win-win management alternatives for agriculture in the region -- alternatives that will save farmers money at the same time as they reduce environmental costs. The team of researchers is now expanding the physical and intellectual boundaries of their work to incorporate economic, social, hydrologic, and ecological interactions and dynamics across the tightly linked land-coast-sea system. Matson's research in the Yaqui Valley has dovetailed with her writing and policy work on issues of sustainability. As a member of the National Research Council's Board on Sustainable Development, Matson used the Yaqui Valley as one of several case studies that argue for the need for "place-based integrative analysis" -- understanding the dynamics and forces of change in social and biophysical systems as one integrated system, through the use of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research, management, and policy making. She received a B.S. in biology from the University of Wisconsin in 1975, a M.S. in environmental science from Indiana University in 1980, and a Ph.D. in forest ecology from Oregon State University in 1983. Until 1993, she was a research scientist at NASA/Ames Research Center. From 1993-1997, she was a professor of ecosystem ecology at the University of California, Berkeley. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994. In 1995, Matson was selected as a MacArthur Fellow, and in 1997 was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
This Network Member owns the following projects:
Integrated Studies of Sustainability: Land-Water Systems of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico
This Network Member is involved with the following projects:
Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development (KSSD)
Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)
This Network Member is classified within these Core Themes:
Health and Environment
Guidance (institutions and incentives)
Environment
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management
Connecting the ecological, economic, and social
Cities
Integrative methods for place-based analysis
Driving forces relevant to a sustainability transition
Complex adaptive systems
Agriculture
Poverty and Hunger
Impacts and response
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PROJECTS
Governance, Environment and Development in the Niger... Lancaster University, United Kingdom, and...Development of African Scientific Network (ASN): A... North Carolina Agricultural and Technical... Sustainability Geoscope. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact... EVENTS
Lustrom Symposium. November 1, 2007 Meeting Global Challenges in Research Cooperation. May 27, 2008 Social ecological systems in upland cultural.... June 17, 2008 MEMBERS
Thangavel Palanivel, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS), Japan Mohan Munasinghe, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Sri Lanka Mary Tiffen, Drylands Research, United Kingdom PUBLICATIONS
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being. John P. Holdren
A Handbook of Governance and Socioeconomics of Large Marine Ecosystems. Stephen B. Olson, Jon G. Sutinen, Lawrence Juda, Timothy M....
Grand Challenges in Sustainability Science Symposium Presentations.
Organized by Pamela Matson, Robert Kates , and Vaughan Turekian;
COMMENTARIES
Sustainability, Scale, and Critical Connections. Lisa Harrington
Integrated Assessments, Long-Term Trends, and Science-Policy Interfaces. Mohd Nordin Hasan
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