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Dr. Lee Addams
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI)
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
105 Monell Building
P.O. Box 1000
61 Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964-8000
USA
Tel: (1) 845-680-4456
Email: addams "at" iri.columbia.edu
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

Lee Addams is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, where he is also affiliated with the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI). His research interests lie at the nexus of water resources, climate and agriculture, addressing the problems faced by water managers and farmers by incorporating hydrological modeling within the decision-making framework. Current work at the Earth Institute/IRI models the use of short-lead climate forecasts in conjunction with groundwater resources, with the aim of reducing vulnerability to climate variability. Trained as a hydrogeologist, Lee received his PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University as part of the Hydrogeology Group. Working closely with the Stanford Yaqui Valley Sustainability Project at Stanford, his dissertation was entitled Water Resource Policy Evaluation Using a Combined Hydrologic-Economic-Agronomic Modeling Framework: Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico. Lee also holds a BS in Applied Physics.

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Mr. James Buizer
Office of Sustainability Initiatives, Office of the President
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 872203
Tempe, AZ 85287-2203
USA
Tel: (1) 480-965-6515
Fax: (1) 480-965-0865
Email: buizer "at" asu.edu
Project affiliation: Collaborator

James L. Buizer is Executive Director of the Office of Sustainability Initiatives in the Office of the President of Arizona State University (ASU) and Special Advisor to ASU President Michael Crow. He also serves as Director for Science Applications with ASU's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs. He is responsible for the design and implementation of University-wide sustainability research, education and applications initiatives. He is working with the Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development Project on an empirical study focusing on water resource management in the Southwest United States and northeast Brazil. Prior to this, he served as Director of the Climate and Societal Interactions Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, D.C., where he built a number of institutions that bridge science and society. He received his degrees in Oceanography, Marine Resource Economics, and Science Policy from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

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Dr. David Cash
Director of Air Policy
Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
100 Cambridge Street, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
USA
Tel: (1) 617-626-1164
Email: david.cash "at" state.ma.us
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

David W. Cash is the Director of Air Policy in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. Cash spent the past ten years at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government conducting pre-doctoral and post-doctoral research as part of the Global Environmental Assessment (GEA) Project, the Sustainability Science Project, and the Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development (KSSD) Project. He also developed and co-taught a new introductory course for the undergraduate concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP). His research while at Harvard focused on how to effectively harness research, assessment, and technological development in reaching goals of sustainable development and on how to integrate negotiation skills and technical know-how in contentious multi-party, multi-level issues. He has studied climate change and forecasting, water management, agricultural development, biodiversity, and land use. He assisted in the U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change and is currently consulting for the international Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. His primary interest is to understand and help design systems that better mobilize science and technology to solve problems at the nexus of human and environment interactions. Cash received his PhD in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a BS in Biology from Yale University.

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Prof. William C. Clark
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA)
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-495-3981
Fax: (1) 617-495-8963
Email: william_clark "at" harvard.edu
Kennedy School faculty page: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/faculty/William_Clark
Project affiliation: Director, Principal Investigator

William C. Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Trained as an ecologist, his research focuses on the interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, with a special emphasis on the role of science and technology in shaping those interactions. Clark is co-author of Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management (Wiley, 1978) and Redesigning Rural Development (Hopkins, 1982); editor of the Carbon Dioxide Review (Oxford, 1982); and coeditor of Sustainable Development of the Biosphere (Cambridge, 1986), The Earth as Transformed by Human Action (Cambridge, 1990), Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks (MIT, 2001), and Environment magazine. He is a member of the U.S. National Research Council’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and its Coordinating Committee on Global Change. He co-chaired the recent study by the U.S. National Research Council on Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability, and chairs the Heinz Center’s program The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems: Measuring the Lands, Waters, and Living Resources of the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2002). With Nancy Dickson, Clark co-directs the Science, Environment and Development Group at Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID). Clark is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize, the Humboldt Prize, and the Kennedy School’s Carballo Award for excellence in teaching.

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Ms. Nancy Dickson
Center for International Development
    at Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Office 501, One Eliot Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-496-9469
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: nancy_dickson "at" harvard.edu
Project affiliation: Executive Director

Nancy Dickson is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Development at Harvard University and co-directs the Science, Environment and Development Group with Bill Clark. Her work focuses on understanding why the gap between what decisionmakers want from science and technology, and what science and technology is offering to decision makers persists, and what changes in institutions, procedures and program design can help to bridge this gap. She has managed international, interdisciplinary research projects at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government since 1991. She is Executive Director of the Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development (KSSD) Project, an effort to promote systems that use research and development work in support of problem solving and decision making activities for sustainable development.  From 2000-2003 she was Executive Director of the Sustainability Science Project that sought to understand the coupled human-environment system, and set forth both new research agendas for sustainability science and interactions between scholars and practitioners (PNAS 100, 2003). From 1995-2001 she was Executive Director of the Global Environmental Assessment (GEA) Project.  Her research on the long-term evolution of social responses to global environmental change was published in Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks that she also co-edited (Social Learning Group, MIT Press, 2001). She trained as a regional planner at Cornell University.

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Ms. Kristen Eddy
Center for International Development
    at Harvard University
Office 503, One Eliot Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-495-8132
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: kristen_eddy "at" harvard.edu
Project affiliation: Manager of Collaboration Technologies

Kristen Eddy is Manager of Collaboration Technologies for the Science, Environment and Development Group directed by Bill Clark and Nancy Dickson, as well as Managing Editor and Webmaster for the Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability. Some of the projects on which she works include Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development (KSSD), Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability, and the Global Environmental Assessment (GEA) Project. Her current work focuses on the ways in which virtual conferencing technologies can facilitate and catalyze collaboration among members of a highly distributed research team. This involves synchronous technologies such as videoconferencing, web conferencing, and audio conferencing, and asynchronous technologies such as web sites (both static and database-driven), discussion forums, and listservs. She is also Project Manager for an interactive video project funded by Harvard's Provost Fund for Innovation in Instructional Technology. A 3-way collaboration among Harvard, the Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER) at Chiang Mai University, and a small agricultural community in Northern Thailand, this project is experimenting with video communication with two motivating goals: (1) to extend Harvard's case method teaching by bringing the perspectives of actual developing country policy practitioners into the classroom in an interactive (though asynchronous) dialogue with students, and also (2) to explore the potential for video technology to aid in the conduct of sustainable development research and particularly as a means to overcome cultural and literacy barriers in effectively communicating the results of that research back to the communities in need of development assistance. Previously Eddy was the Manager of Electronic Media Services for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, responsible for designing, creating, and maintaining the Center’s multiple web sites in such a way that content could be posted by a large group of non-technical contributors. Prior to joining the Belfer Center, Eddy worked with Harvard's Environmental Information Center and the University Committee on Environment (UCE) on several of the school's online environmental resources. She has a BA from Harvard in Environmental Science and Public Policy.

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Dr. Gilberto C. Gallopín
Division of Sustainable Development and Human Settlements
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Casilla 179 D
Santiago, Chile
Tel: (56-2) 210-2329
Fax: (56-2) 208-0484
Email: gilberto.gallopin "at" cepal.org
Project affiliation: Co-Investigator

Gilberto C. Gallopín is currently Regional Adviser on Environmental Policies for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). He has been performing research, technical assistance, and post-graduate training -- and has published more than 100 papers -- in the areas of ecological systems analysis, food chain and niche theory, global modeling, environmental modeling, environmental impact assessment, environmental and land use prospective, environment and development nexus, environment and quality of life, impoverishment and sustainable development, scenario analysis, policy dialogues, and science and sustainability. He is not only an interdisciplinary practitioner has also researched the process and dynamics of interdiscipline in environmental studies. Gallopín is the editor of a book on ecological prospective 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; 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 (SEI); Leader of the Land Use Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia; Senior Fellow of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), 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 Fundación Bariloche, Argentina, as well as the Executive President of the latter.

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Mr. Po Garden
Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Chiang Mai University
Chiang Mai 50200
Thailand
Tel: (66) 53-854-347
Fax: (66) 53-263-215
Email: po "at" sea-user.org
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

Po Garden is a researcher at Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER) based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He earned his BS in Environmental and Biological Science at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and his MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Garden’s research focuses on linkages between social and ecological systems. In the past year he has been working to understand the relationship between biodiversity and livelihoods of upland farmers in northern Thailand. In southern Thailand, his project involves looking at social impact, coastal land development, and environmental politics of shrimp aquaculture transformation. Previously, Garden has been working as an environmental consultant for industries as well as for non-profit groups. Prior, he was a journalist for an international wire service and a television reporter for a local news channel.

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Prof. Kathy Jacobs
Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science
University of Arizona
350 North Campbell Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85721
USA
Tel: (1) 520-792-9591 x15
Email: kjacobs "at" ag.arizona.edu
Project affiliation: Collaborator

Kathy Jacobs is Associate Professor and Specialist in the Water Resources Research Center of the Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, and Deputy Director of the Center for Sustainability of semi-Arid Region Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA) at the University of Arizona. Her research areas include climate and water management, drought planning, state and regional water policy and management, connecting science and decision-making, and stakeholder engagement. She was the director of the Tucson Active Management Area (AMA) of the Arizona Department of Water Resources from 1988-2001, and worked on statewide rural water resources issues and was the lead staff person developing Arizona’s drought plan from 2002-2003. In 2001-2002 she worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on the use of scientific information in policy and decisionmaking. Jacobs earned her M.L.A. in environmental planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been involved in all aspects of implementation of the Arizona 1980 Groundwater Management Act, including establishing water rights and permits; developing mandatory conservation requirements for municipal, agricultural, and industrial water users; developing plans for artificial recharge; and writing the Assured Water Supply Rules that require new subdivisions in AMAs to prove a 100 year supply of water. She has served on three National Research Council panels: Valuing Groundwater (1994), Review of the Climate Change Science Plan (2004), and Endangered Species on the Platte River (2004). She was also the Water Sector liaison on the Synthesis Team for the U.S. National Assessment of the Consequences of Climate Variability and Change (1998-2000).

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Ms. Patti Kristjanson
Leader, Innovation Works: Linking Knowledge with Action
International Livestock Research Institute
PO Box 30709 Nairobi, Kenya 00100
Ph: 254-20-422-3000 Fax: 254-20-422-3001
Cellphone: (254)733-634-817; In Kenya: 0733-634-817
Email: P.Kristjanson@cgiar.org
Website: http://www.ilri.org
 

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Dr. Louis Lebel
Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Chiang Mai University
Chiang Mai 50200
Thailand
Tel: (66) 53-854-347
Fax: (66) 53-263-215
Email: llebel "at" loxinfo.co.th, louis "at" sea-user.org
Project affiliation: Co-Investigator

Louis Lebel is the Director of Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER), Chiang Mai University, and the Science Coordinator for START (global change SysTem for Analysis, Research, and Training) in the Southeast Asian region. He began his career as a freshwater ecologist, but after coming to work in Thailand in the early 1990s he became interested in health and development issues, in addition to maintaining an interest in the environment. Now, most of his primary research and research coordination efforts involve attempts to better synthesize and integrate understanding of nature-society interactions. Lebel is a member of the Resilience Alliance. He sits on the international steering committee for the Global Carbon Project, the international Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS), and the Southeast Asian Regional Committee for START (SARCS).

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Dr. Amy Luers
Global Environmental Program
Union of Concerned Scientists
2397 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 203
Berkeley, CA 94704
USA
Tel: (1) 510-843-1872 x305
Email: aluers "at" ucsusa.org
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

Amy Luers is a Climate Impacts Scientist in the Global Environmental Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Her current work focuses on assessing the potential impacts of climate change in California and identifying particularly vulnerable sectors. Luers received her PhD in Environmental Science from Stanford University. Her dissertation is entitled From Theory to Practice of Vulnerability Assessments, Applied to the Yaqui Valley Region of Sonora, Mexico. From 2000-2002 she was a pre-doctoral fellow with the Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability Program. Prior to starting her doctoral studies, Luers worked for 10 years on rural water development and watershed management projects in California and Latin America. She holds bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Environmental Resource Engineering and master's degrees in Environmental Systems Engineering and International Policy Studies.

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Dr. David Mánuel-Navarrete
Division of Sustainable Development and Human Settlements
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Casilla 179 D
Santiago, Chile
Tel: (56-2) 210-2313
Fax: (56-2) 208-0484
Email: david.manuel-navarrete "at" cepal.org
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

David Mánuel-Navarrete is Research Assistant at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). During his undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences and Master in Ecological Economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Mánuel-Navarrete studied the application of participatory integrated assessment tools to environmental decision-making processes. His master’s thesis applied multicriteria methods for assessing alternative shrimp culture developments in the Fonseca Gulf (Nicaragua and Honduras). Extensive fieldwork provided him with skills for involving local communities and integrating their place-based knowledge in the process of framing environmental issues. During his doctorate on geography at the Environmental Studies Faculty at the University of Waterloo (Canada), Mánuel-Navarrete complemented his interdisciplinary background with the study of complexity theory. His PhD dissertation redefines the notion of ecological integrity in order to explore the interplay between (1) the meaning individuals and communities ascribe to their relationship with their environment, and (2) their actual interaction with the environment. This framework was applied through extensive interaction with local communities in the Maya rainforest (Mexico and Guatemala). In ECLAC, Mánuel-Navarrete is analyzing how differences in context alter the effectiveness of knowledge systems for sustainable development through comparison of a range of land-degradation syndromes in Latin America. He is also exploring the combination of multiple types of knowledge and understanding (e.g., tacit, research-based, interdisciplinary, multi-scale) and how this combination can contribute to foster a transition toward sustainability.

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Prof. Pamela Matson
School of Earth Sciences
Stanford University
Mitchell Hall 101
397 Panama Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2210
USA
Tel: (1) 650-723-2750
Fax: (1) 650-725-6566
Email: matson "at" stanford.edu
Stanford University home page: http://pangea.stanford.edu/research/matsonlab/members/Matson.htm
Project affiliation: Co-Investigator

Pamela Matson is the Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies in the Center for Environmental Science and Policy at Stanford University. Her research focuses on ecological and biogeochemical responses to changes in land use, agricultural intensification, climate change, and nitrogen deposition in the tropics; and on decision making at the intersection of development and environmental issues in developing regions. Matson participated in early efforts to link land use, biology, and atmospheric sciences within projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), serving as vice-chair of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project from 1992-1996 and on the IGBP Science Committee until 2002. A member of the U.S. National Research Council (NRC)’s Board on Sustainable Development from 1995-2001, she co-authored the book Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability, and also served on the Board on Global Change of the NRC. She currently is chair of the NRC’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and a member of the Coordinating Committee on Global Change. Matson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1994, and is a MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is the immediate past President of the Ecological Society of America. Matson also serves on the board of trustees of several institutions, including the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, the National Parks Conservation Association, and the World Wildlife Fund, and participates in other national and international committees. In 2002 she was named the Burton and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford.

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Ms. Ellen McCullough
Agricultural and Development Economics Division (ESA)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome
Italy
Tel: (39) 06-5705-5815
Fax: (39) 06-5705-5522
Email: ellen.mccullough "at" fao.org
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

Ellen McCullough is a Consultant in the Agricultural and Development Economics (ESA) division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy. Her research group, headed by Prabhu Pingali, hopes to identify research and policy priorities for facilitating small farmer participation in a more globalized and urbanized food systems. Through a network of case studies in Kenya, Mozambique, Bhutan, India, and China, they are using village and household surveys to understand small farmer fates. McCullough joined the FAO from Stanford University, where she was a Research Fellow at the Center for Environmental Science and Policy (CESP) within the Institute for International Studies. There, her research focused on economic, social and environmental components of the Yaqui Valley agricultural system in Sonora, Mexico. More specifically, she studied the research and development process for agriculture and the role of farmer groups in facilitating technology development and adoption. Research for her master's degree centered on responses to a long-term regional drought in the Yaqui Valley. Her primary interest is to understand how science and technology can make worldwide agricultural systems more sustainable. McCullough received both her MS and BS degrees at Stanford University in Earth Systems, an interdisciplinary program linking natural sciences, economics, and public policy.

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Mr. George Saliba
Water Resources Research Center
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
University of Arizona
350 North Campbell Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85719
USA
Tel: (1) 520-792-9591
Fax: (1) 520-792-8518
Email: salibag "at" email.arizona.edu
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

George Saliba is a graduate researcher with the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona. He earned his bachelors degree in Geography and Regional Development from the University of Arizona. His research focuses on Human Environment issues. In the past year Saliba has been examining water availability, water practices, and water policy along the Arizona/Mexico border in relation to climate variability and urban growth and development. Additionally he has spent time at the Environmental Protection Agency working on brownfields redevelopment strategies.

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Dr. Nicole Szlezák
Center for International Development
    at Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Office 506, One Eliot Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-496-0426
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: nicole_szlezak "at" ksg04.harvard.edu
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

Nicole Szlezák is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID), and a PhD candidate in Public Policy at Harvard. Her work focuses on the role of science and research in shaping health policy. Together with Lorrae van Kerkhoff, she is currently working on a study investigating the role of research-based knowledge in decision making at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with a special focus on the Global Fund's projects in China. Szlezák holds a medical degree (MD) from Humboldt University in Berlin, and a doctoral degree in medicine (Dr. med. degree) from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. She recently graduated from the Master in Public Administration Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Prior to coming to Harvard, Szlezák was a clinical researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Tuebingen, Germany, and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon/Africa, where her work focused on malaria and schistosomiasis.

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Ms. Drinya Totrakool
Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Chiang Mai University
Chiang Mai 50200
Thailand
Tel: (66) 53-854-347 x14
Fax: (66) 53-263-215
Email: drinya "at" sea-user.org
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

Drinya Totrakool is a researcher at Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER), Chiang Mai, Thailand. She earned her BA in Thai and her MA in Environmental Management at Chiang Mai University. Her thesis is entitled "Political Representation of a Hmong Community in the Discourse on Natural Resources Management in Northern Thailand" at Ban Mae Sa Mai, Pong Yang Sub-district, Mae Rim Province, Thailand. Prior, she was a research assistant in Man and Environmental Management Research Project, Graduate School, Chiang Mai University. Before she started working with USER, Totrakool was a Coordinator for the joint regional dialogue on government and civil society, Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development, Towards an Asian Agenda, which was organized by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), the Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) and the Centre for Ecological Economics (CEE, Chulalongkorn University). She also worked as a short-term consultant for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, South East Asia Regional Office, on development and drafting of a strategy paper on sustainable development implementation for South East Asia, with focus on Thailand over the next 5-10 years. Totrakool's research focuses on the politics of resources management, upland livelihood, knowledge systems, and how to link science, knowledge systems and governance into a better air quality management issue.

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Dr. Lorrae van Kerkhoff
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Building 62
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
Tel: (61) 2-6125-5616
Fax: (61) 2-6125-5614
Email: lorrae.vankerkhoff "at" anu.edu.au
Project affiliation: Research Fellow

Lorrae van Kerkhoff is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. In 2004 she received a Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship and a Land and Water Australia Traveling Fellowship to spend a year at Harvard’s Center for International Development, where she examined how scientific and technical information have been used to shape interventions into malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis in an innovative global public health organization. She completed her doctorate in 2002 from the Australian National University where she investigated the concept of integrated research, and how it is being understood and implemented. Her broad interests include the role of language in the development of new conceptual areas; informal learning as a part of professional research practice; and the interplay between large socio-political forces such as globalization and the knowledge economy on research oriented to public management, particularly in relation to sustainability and global public health.

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Alumni Fellows

Dr. Tun Myint
Burma Center for Law and Democracy
School of Law
Indiana University
211 South Indiana Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
USA
Tel: (1) 812-855-7995
Fax: (1) 812-855-0555
Email: tmyint "at" indiana.edu
Project affiliation: Research Fellow (2004)

Tun Myint is a Visiting Scholar at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and a Senior Fellow at the Burma Center for Law and Democracy at the School of Law at Indiana University – Bloomington. Myint is a member of the Biocomplexity Project at the Center for Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) at Indiana University. He is also an appointed Research Fellow at the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC), a core science project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).  His broader research interest is threefold: (1) to understand the ways in which human choices, their interests, and their daily issues cause institutional transformation at multiple layers; (2) how that institutional transformation shapes governance of human affairs at various layers and scales; and (3) to understand how organization of governance and orders at various layers characterizes nature-society interactions in global environmental change and governance. Myint spent three months in 2001 as a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology where he did his field research on chemical pollution cleanup regimes in the Rhine River Basin. In 2002, he spent nine months at the Regional Center for Social Sciences and Sustainable Development at Chiang Mai University as a Research Associate for field research on the Nam Theun 2 Dam in Lao P.D.R. and Pak Mun Dam in Thailand in the Mekong River Basin.  He graduated with BA (honor) in Political Science and East Asian Studies as double major and with MPA from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) before his PhD in Law and Social Sciences from joint SPEA-Law School program at Indiana University - Bloomington.

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