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Usable Knowledge for Managing Responses to Global Environmental Change: Recommendations to promote collaborative assessments and information systems
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 1998-09)
The recent agreement in Kyoto underscores the critical relationship between scientific understandings of global environmental change and national, international, and even local policies.For the first time, representatives ...
A Transition toward Sustainability
(2001)
This Article discusses the challenges and opportunities facing efforts to shape a transition toward more sustainable relations between humans and their planet. Ii begins with a review of international goals Jot human ...
Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development
(2015)
Sustainable development requires harnessing technological innovation to improve human well-being in current and future generations. However, poor, marginalized, and unborn populations too often lack the economic or political ...
Crafting Usable Knowledge for Sustainable Development
(2016)
This paper distills core lessons about how researchers (scientists, engineers, planners, etc.) interested in promoting sustainable development can increase the likelihood of producing usable knowledge. We draw the lessons ...
Using inclusive wealth for policy evaluation: Application to electricity infrastructure planning in oil-exporting countries
(Elsevier BV, 2017)
Decision-makers often seek to design policies that support sustainable development. Prospective evaluations of how effectively such policies are likely to meet sustainability goals have nonetheless remained relatively ...
Biofuels and Sustainable Development
(2008)
The goals and concerns surrounding the debate over government policies related to the greater use and production of biofuels were addressed in an executive session convened by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at ...
Sustainability Science: A room of its own
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007)
Sustainability science has emerged over the last two decades as a vibrant field of research and innovation. Today, the field has developed a core research agenda, an increasing flow of results, and a growing number of ...
Witches, Floods, and Wonder Drugs: Historical Perspectives on Risk Management
(Springer, 1980)
Risk is a people problem, and people have been contending with it for a very long time indeed. I extract some lessons from this historical record and explore their implications for current and future practice of risk ...
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003)
The challenge of meeting human development needs while protecting the earth's life support systems confronts scientists, technologists, policy makers, and communities from local to global levels. Many believe that science ...
Overcoming the Challenges to the Implementation of Green Chemistry
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007)
The Harvard-Yale-ACS GCI Green Chemistry Project is investigating the overall question of the circumstances under which firms can enact innovations that have both economic and environmental benefits, through a focused ...