Science, Environment and Development Group

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Sustainability Science Program
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Group Directors:  Bill Clark and Nancy Dickson

The Science, Environment and Development (SED) Group collaborates internationally on research projects and outreach activities that seek to make science and technology knowledge more useful for problem-solving and decision-support activities in the arena of human development and natural environment systems. We currently focus on three related fields of work: research on fundamental issues of sustainability science; design and evaluation of institutions for promoting collaboration between experts and decision makers in the production of usable knowledge; and building social capacity to acquire and deploy such knowledge for sustainable development. [SED brochure (PDF)]

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What's New

2008 Sustainability Science Fellowship applications accepted through February 1, 2008

Kira Matus awarded EPA STAR fellowship

Suerie Moon awarded Hauser grant for research on civil society engagement in technical policy advocacy

Closing the Knowledge-Action Gap in Global Health: Lessons from Malaria

Workshop report on "Institutional innovations for improving health in developing countries"

AAAS Symposium on "Grand Challenges of Sustainability Science"

AAAS Symposium on "Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development"

NRC report on "Analysis of Global Change Assessments" uses SED salience, credibility and legitimacy framework

Clark on "Sustainability science: A room of its own"

Kousky on "Options contracts for contingent takings"

Jack, Kousky and Sims on "Incentive-based mechanisms for payments for ecosystem services"

Chhatre on "Democratizing Nature: Politics, Conservation, and Development in India"

Szlezák on "Linking knowledge and action in global health"

Cash et al on "Scale and cross-scale dynamics: Governance and information"

Cash et al on "Comparative analysis of El Nińo/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forecasting systems"

Mitchell, Clark, Cash and Dickson on "Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence"

van Kerkhoff and Lebel on "Linking knowledge and action for sustainable development"

van Kerkhoff and Szlezák on "Examining the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria through a knowledge system lens"

Heinz Center on "Data Needs and Management Challenges for National Reporting on Ecosystem Condition"

NAS Roundtable on "Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development: The Role of Program Management"

CID receives Fund for Sustainable Development from Italian Ministry for the Environment

 

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