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Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of
Panel Members and Staff
ROGER E. KASPERSON (Chair), is research professor and distinguished
scientist at the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University. He has
taught at Clark University, the University of Connecticut, and Michigan
State University. His expertise is in risk analysis, global environmental
change, and environmental policy. Dr. Kasperson is a Fellow of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Society
for Risk Analysis. He has served on numerous committees of the National
Research Council (NRC). He chaired the International Geographical Com-
mission on Critical Situations/Regions in Global Environmental Change
and has served on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). He is cochair of the Scientific Advisory Commit-
tee of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change, and is on the Executive
Steering Committee of the START Programme of the International Geo-
sphere Biosphere Program. He is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has authored
or coedited 22 books and monographs and more than 143 articles or chap-
ters in scholarly journals or books and has served on numerous editorial
boards for scholarly journals. From 2000 to 2004, Kasperson was execu-
tive director of the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden. He was a
coordinating lead author of the vulnerability and synthesis chapters of the
Conditions and Trends volume of the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment
and a member of the core writing team for the Synthesis of the overall
assessment. Kasperson has been honored by the Association of American
Geographers for his hazards research and in 2006 he was the recipient of
the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society for Risk Analysis. In
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2007, he was appointed as associate scientist at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the United States. He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago.
RICHARD N. ANDREWS is professor of environmental policy in the De-
partment of Public Policy, the Department of City and Regional Planning,
and the Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology in the College of
Arts and Sciences, and in the Department of Environmental Sciences and
Engineering in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University
of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. His research and teaching are on
environmental policy in the United States and worldwide, including books
on the history of U.S. environmental policy and on the National Environ-
mental Policy Act, and research grants on environmental policy innova-
tions in the United States, the Czech Republic, and Thailand. Beyond the
university, he has twice chaired the Section on Societal Impacts of Sciences
and Engineering of AAAS, and also has served as a member of its Com-
mittee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy. He has chaired or served
on study committees for the NRC, the Science Advisory Board of EPA, the
National Academy of Public Administration, and the Congressional Office
of Technology Assessment. He was principal environmental staff member
for the 1984 The Future of North Carolina study, which was commissioned
by the governor. A member of the UNC faculty since 1981, Andrews served
as chair of the UNC faculty from 1997 to 2000. Before joining the Caro-
lina faculty, he taught for 9 years in the University of Michigan’s School of
Natural Resources, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer and an analyst
for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. He earned the AB degree
from Yale, and the Ph.D. and a professional master’s degree from UNC’s
Department of City and Regional Planning.
MICHELE M. BETSILL is associate professor of political science at Colo-
rado State University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the
Global Environmental Assessment project at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government, the Colorado State University faculty in residence at
the Central and East European Studies Program at the Economics University
of Prague, and a visiting scientist at NCAR. Her research focuses on global
environmental governance, particularly related to the issue of climate change
and more specifically the multilevel nature of climate change governance, in-
cluding levels of political jurisdiction from the local to the global and across
the public and private sectors. Her current projects investigate the ways that
institutions and actors interact across various tiers and spheres of gover-
nance and the implications for addressing the threat of climate change and
for understanding of global environmental governance. She is coauthor of
Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental
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Governance (Routledge, 2003) and coeditor of NGO Diplomacy: The In-
fluence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental
Negotiations (MIT Press, 2008) and numerous peer-reviewed articles. She
received her B.A. from DePauw University, M.A. degrees from the University
of Denver and the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in political
science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
STEWART J. COHEN is senior researcher with the Adaptation and Impacts
Research Section of Environment Canada, and an adjunct professor with
the Department of Forest Resources Management of the University of Brit-
ish Columbia. Dr. Cohen’s research interests are in climate change impacts
and adaptation at the regional scale, and exploring how climate change can
affect sustainable development. Recent and ongoing studies include climate
change and water management in the Okanagan region of British Colum-
bia, climate change visualization, and methods for incorporating climate
change adaptation into municipal planning and forest management. He is
currently a member of the advisory committee for the Columbia Basin Trust
program, Communities Adapting to Climate Change. Previously, he led the
Mackenzie Basin Impact Study, a 7-year effort focused on climate change
impacts in the western Canadian Arctic, completed in 1997. His earlier
work included research on impacts in the Great Lakes and Saskatchewan
River Basins, and advising the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation
Research Network. He has been a lead author for the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, and the
U.S. Climate Change Science Program report, Global Climate Change Im-
pacts in the United States, published in 2009. He also published a textbook
(with Melissa Waddell), entitled Climate Change in the 21st Century, a
study guide for promoting interdisciplinary collaboration. Dr. Cohen is a
geographer having received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. from McGill Uni-
versity, University of Alberta, and University of Illinois, respectively.
THOMAS DIETZ is professor of sociology and of crop and soil sciences,
director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program, and assistant
vice president for Environmental Research at Michigan State University.
He is a fellow of AAAS, a Danforth Fellow, past-president of the Soci-
ety for Human Ecology and has received the Distinguished Contribution
Award from the Section on Environment, Technology and Society of the
American Sociological Association and the Sustainability Science Award of
the Ecological Society of America. His research interests include the role
of deliberation in environmental decision making, the human dimensions
of global environmental change and cultural evolution. He holds a B.G.S.
from Kent State University and a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of
California, Davis.
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ANDREW J. HOFFMAN is the Holcim (U.S.) professor of sustainable
enterprise; associate professor of management and organizations; associate
professor of natural resources; and associate director of the Erb Institute
for Global Sustainable Enterprise, at the University of Michigan. He studies
organizational culture, values, and behavior, with a particular emphasis on
corporate strategies for addressing climate change. Previously, he was as-
sociate professor of organizational behavior at the Boston University School
of Management; was a senior fellow at the Meridian Institute working on
promoting discussion among senior industry, government and nongov-
ernmental representatives; and developing a training program for senior
chemical industry executives on constructive engagement with external
stakeholders. He also served previously as an analyst for the Amoco Oil
Company, modeling the expected costs and potential strategies for dealing
with the Clean Air Act Amendments and other environmental statutes. Dr.
Hoffman has written numerous books and articles about corporate strate-
gies for addressing climate change, and has organized and moderated con-
ferences on Corporate Strategies That Address Climate Change; Reframing
the Climate Change Debate; and Senior Level Dialogues on Climate Change
Policy; bringing together senior executives from business, government and
the environmental community to discuss the scientific, strategic and policy
implications of controls on greenhouse gas emissions. He has a Ph.D. (inter-
departmental degree) from MIT from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Manage-
ment and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ is director of the Yale Project on Climate
Change and a research scientist at the School of Forestry and Environ-
mental Studies at Yale University. He is also a principal investigator at the
Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University.
He is an expert on American and international public opinion on global
warming, including public perception of climate change risks, support
and opposition for climate policies, and willingness to make individual
behavioral change. His research investigates the psychological, cultural,
political, and geographic factors that drive public environmental perception
and behavior. He has conducted survey, experimental, and field research at
scales ranging from the global to the local, including international studies,
the United States, individual states (Alaska and Florida), municipalities
(New York City), and with the Inupiaq Eskimo of Northwest Alaska. He
also recently conducted the first empirical assessment of worldwide public
values, attitudes, and behaviors regarding global sustainability, including
environmental protection, economic growth, and human development. He
has served as a consultant to Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Govern-
ment, the United Nations Development Program, the Gallup World Poll,
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the Global Roundtable on Climate Change at the Earth Institute (Columbia
University), and the World Economic Forum.
LOREN LUTZENHISER is professor of urban studies and planning at
Portland State University. Dr. Lutzenhiser’s teaching interests include envi-
ronmental policy and practice, energy behavior and climate, technological
change, urban environmental sustainability, and social research methods.
His research focuses on the environmental impacts of socio-technical sys-
tems, particularly how urban energy/resource use is linked to global en-
vironmental change. Particular studies have considered variations across
households in energy consumption practices, how energy-using goods are
procured by government agencies, how commercial real estate markets
work to develop both poorly-performing and environmentally exceptional
buildings, and how the “greening” of business, may be influenced by local
sustainability movements and business actors. He recently completed a ma-
jor study for the California Energy Commission reporting on the behavior
of households, businesses and governments in the aftermath of that state’s
2001 electricity deregulation crisis. He is currently exploring the relation-
ships between household natural gas, electricity, gasoline, and water usage.
He holds a Ph.D. in sociology.
SUSANNE C. MOSER is director and principal researcher of Susanne
Moser Research and Consulting. Previously, she was a scientist at the Insti-
tute for Study of Science and Environment at NCAR in Boulder, Colorado.
She has also served as staff scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a
visiting assistant professor at Clark University, and a fellow in the Global
Environmental Assessment Project at Harvard University. Her research
interests include the impacts of global environmental change, especially
in the coastal, public health, and forest sectors; societal responses to envi-
ronmental hazards in the face of uncertainty; the use of science to support
policy and decision making; and the effective communication of climate
change to facilitate social change. Her current work focuses on developing
adaptation strategies to climate change at local and state levels, identifying
ways to promote community resilience, and building decision support sys-
tems. She is a fellow of the Aldo Leopold and Donella Meadows Leadership
Programs. She received a diploma in applied physical geography from the
University of Trier in Germany and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geography
from Clark University.
PAUL C. STERN is a principal staff officer at the NRC/National Academy
of Sciences, director of its Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global
Change, and study director for this panel. His research interests include
the determinants of environmentally significant behavior, particularly at
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the individual level; participatory processes for informing environmental
decision making; processes for informing environmental decisions; and the
governance of environmental resources and risks. He is coauthor of the
textbook Environmental Problems and Human Behavior (2nd ed., 2002);
coeditor of numerous NRC publications, including Public Participation in
Environmental Assessment and Decision Making (2008), Decision Making
for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Priorities (2005), The
Drama of the Commons (2002), Making Climate Forecasts Matter (1999),
Environmentally Significant Consumption: Research Directions (1997),
Understanding Risk (1996), Global Environmental Change: Understand-
ing the Human Dimensions (1992), and Energy Use: The Human Dimen-
sion (1984). He directed the study that produced Informing Decisions in a
Changing Climate (2009). He coauthored the article “The Struggle to Gov-
ern the Commons,” which was published in Science in 2003 and won the
2005 Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America.
He is a fellow of AAAS and the American Psychological Association. He
holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Clark
University, all in psychology.
GARY W. YOHE is John E. Andrus professor of economics and direc-
tor of the John E. Andrus Public Affairs Center at Wesleyan University.
His research focuses on adaptation and the potential damage from global
climate change. It examines micro-responses to investigate the degree to
which assuming efficient markets biases the estimates of cost and/or limits
the range of potential adaptation; estimations of reduced-form cost func-
tions when data are scarce; and the role of uncertainty and the search for
robust and/or hedging strategies in formulating policy. He holds a Ph.D. in
economics from Yale University.
