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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Roundtable Roster ." National Research Council. 2010. Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Research and Development on Urban Systems: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12969.
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Appendix C

The Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability was established by the National Academies in 2002 to provide a forum for sharing views, information, and analyses related to harnessing science and technology for sustainability. Members of the Roundtable include senior decision makers from government, industry, academia, and non-profit organizations who deal with issues of sustainable development, and who are in a position to mobilize new strategies for sustainability. Through its activities, the Roundtable identifies new ways in which science and technology can contribute to sustainability. The Roundtable does not make formal recommendations or produce official reports, but it is anticipated that all members will take good ideas back to their institutions to be acted upon.

The goal of the Roundtable is to mobilize, encourage, and use scientific knowledge and technology to help achieve sustainability goals and to support the implementation of sustainability practices. Three overarching principles are used to guide the Roundtable’s work in support of this goal. First, the Roundtable focuses on strategic needs and opportunities for science and technology to contribute to the transition toward sustainability. Second, the Roundtable focuses on issues for which progress requires cooperation among multiple sectors, including academia, government (at all levels), business, nongovernmental organizations, and international institutions. Third, the Roundtable focuses on activities where scientific knowledge and technology can help to advance practices that contribute directly to sustainability goals, in addition to identifying priorities for research and development (R&D) inspired by sustainability challenges.

ROUNDTABLE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY#

Thomas Graedel (Co-Chair), Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology, Yale University

Emmy Simmons (Co-Chair), Former Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade, USAID

Matt Arnold, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Ann M. Bartuska, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture*

Arden Bement, Director, National Science Foundation*

Michael Bertolucci, President, Interface Research Corporation

Nancy Cantor, President and Chancellor, Syracuse University

John Carberry, Former Director of Environmental Technology, DuPont

Leslie Carothers, President, Environmental Law Institute

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

Glen T. Daigger, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, CH2M HILL

Patricia Dehmer, Acting Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy*

Sam Dryden, Managing Director, Wolfensohn & Company

Nina Fedoroff, Science and Technology Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. State Department*

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Roundtable Roster ." National Research Council. 2010. Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Research and Development on Urban Systems: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12969.
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Marco Ferroni, Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

Mohamed H. A. Hassan, Executive Director, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)

Neil C. Hawkins, Vice President of Sustainability, The Dow Chemical Company

Geoffrey Heal, Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

Catherine (Katie) Hunt, Corporate Sustainability Director, Rohm and Haas Company

Lek Kadeli, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency*

Jack Kaye, Associate Director, Research of the Earth Science Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration*

Gerald Keusch, Assistant Provost of the Medical Campus and Associate Dean, School of Public Health, Boston University

Suzette Kimball, Acting Director, U.S. Geological Survey*

Kai Lee, Conservation & Science Program, Packard Foundation

Thomas E. Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment

Pamela Matson, Dean of the School of Earth Sciences and Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University

J. Todd Mitchell, Chairman, Board of Directors, Houston Advanced Research Center

M. Granger Morgan, Professor and Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Prabhu Pingali, Head, Agricultural Policy and Statistics, Agriculture Development Division, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Per Pinstrup-Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, Nutritional Sciences, Professor, Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Christopher Portier, Associate Director, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Harold Schmitz, Chief Science Officer, Mars Inc.

Robert Stephens, International Chair, Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance

Denise Stephenson Hawk, Chair, The Stephenson Group, LLC

Dennis Treacy, Vice President, Environmental and Corporate Affairs, Smithfield Foods

Vaughan Turekian, Chief International Officer, The American Association for the Advancement of Science*

STAFF

Marina Moses, Director, Science and Technology for Sustainability Program

Pat Koshel, Senior Program Officer

Derek Vollmer, Program Officer

Kathleen McAllister, Research Associate

Emi Kameyama, Senior Program Assistant

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membership as of September 2009

*

denotes ex-officio member

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Roundtable Roster ." National Research Council. 2010. Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Research and Development on Urban Systems: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12969.
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More than half of the world's people now live in cities. In the United States, the figure is 80 percent. It is worthwhile to consider how this trend of increased urbanization, if inevitable, could be made more sustainable. One fundamental shortcoming of urban research and programs is that they sometimes fail to recognize urban areas as systems. Current institutions and actors are not accustomed to exploring human-environment interactions, particularly at an urban-scale. The fact is that these issues involve complex interactions, many of which are not yet fully understood. Thus a key challenge for the 21st century is this: How can we develop sustainable urban systems that provide healthy, safe and affordable environments for the growing number of Americans living in cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas?

To address this question, the National Research Council organized a workshop exploring the landscape of urban sustainability research programs in the United States. The workshop, summarized in this volume, was designed to allow participants to share information about the activities and planning efforts of federal agencies, along with related initiatives by universities, the private sector, nongovernmental groups, state and local agencies, and international organizations. Participants were encouraged to explore how urban sustainability can move beyond analyses devoted to single disciplines and sectors to systems-level thinking and effective interagency cooperation. To do this, participants examined areas of potential coordination among different R&D programs, with special consideration given to how the efforts of federal agencies can best complement and leverage the efforts of other key stakeholders. Pathways to Urban Sustainability offers a broad contextual summary of workshop presentations and discussions for distribution to federal agencies, regional organizations, academic institutions, think tanks and other groups engaged in urban research.

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