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Ad Hoc Advisory Group to the Consortium on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development. 2005. "Harnessing Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development." A report to the International Council for Science (ICSU) - Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS) - TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/consortium_ahag_rpt_0503.pdf.

Alcock, Frank, and William C. Clark. 2002. "Mobilizing Science and Technology for Sustainable Development." Report of a Workshop hosted by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, on behalf of the Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, International Council for Science, and Third World Academy of Sciences, 10-12 April 2002, Cambridge, MA, USA, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/ists_cfia_rpt_final.pdf. [Workshop description]

Buizer, James, and Nancy Dickson. 2004. "Report of the Retreat on Institutions for Sustainability Research and Education." Tempe, AZ: International Institute for Sustainability, Arizona State University.

Cash, David, Neil Adger, Fikret Berkes, Po Garden, Louis Lebel, Per Olsson, Lowell Pritchard, and Oran Young. Forthcoming. "Scale and Cross-scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multi-level World." Ecology and Society.

Cash, David, Mohamed Hassan, William C. Clark, Calestous Juma, and Frank Alcock. 2002. "Lessons Learned from the International Workshop on Science, Technology and Sustainability: Harnessing Institutional Synergies." Draft Report of the Workshop organized by the Third World Academy of Sciences on behalf of the Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, 6-9 February 2002, Trieste, Italy, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/twas_rpt_v1_020222.pdf. [Workshop materials]

Clark, William C. Forthcoming. "The Sciences of Sustainable Development." Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Clark, William C. 2003. "Institutional Needs for Sustainability Science." Paper presented 5 September in the "Governance and Science for Sustainability" session of the Third Sustainability Days and official opening of the Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research, 4-10 September 2003, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/clark_governance4ss_030905.pdf. [Conference description]

Clark, William C. 2002. "Research Systems for a Transition Toward Sustainability." In Challenges of a Changing Earth. Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, 10-13 July 2001, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Edited by W. Steffen, J. Jäger, D. J. Carson, and C. Bradshaw. Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/BC_ResSys_Amsterdam02.pdf. [Conference proceedings]

Clark, William C. 2003. "Sustainability Science: Challenges for the New Millennium." An address on 4 September at the official opening of the Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research and the Third Sustainability Days, 4-10 September 2003, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/clark_zicer_opening030904.pdf. [Conference description]

Clark, William C., James Buizer, David Cash, Robert Corell, Nancy Dickson, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Helen Doyle, Gilberto Gallopín, Gisbert Glaser, Leah Goldfarb, Anil K. Gupta, J. Michael Hall, Mohamed Hassan, Anthony Imevbore, Maurice M. Iwu, Jill Jäger, Calestous Juma, Robert Kates, Dörthe Krömker, Morihiro Kurushima, Louis Lebel, Yee Cheong Lee, Wolfgang Lucht, Akin Mabogunje, Diego Malpede, Pamela Matson, Bedrich Moldan, Gloria Montenegro, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Ling G. Ooi, Timothy O’Riordan, Dorsamy Pillay, Thomas Rosswall, Jose Sarukhán, and Judi Wakhungu. 2002. "Science and Technology for Sustainable Development: Consensus Report of the Mexico City Synthesis Workshop, 20-23 May 2002." Cambridge, MA: Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/synthesis02/output/ists_mexico_consensus.pdf. [Workshop materials]

Clark, William C., Paul J. Crutzen, and Hans J. Schellnhuber. 2004. "Science for Global Sustainability: Toward a New Paradigm." Chapter 1 in Earth System Analysis for Sustainability, edited by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Paul J. Crutzen, William C. Clark, Martin Claussen, and Hermann Held. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; also published as CID Working Paper No. 120. Cambridge, MA: Science, Environment and Development Group, Center for International Development, Harvard University, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262195135chap1.pdf and http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/120.htm.

Cruz, Juan Bernardo Moreno. 2004. "A Sustainable Policy Making - Energy System for Columbia." International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Interim Report IR-04-009. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis 2003 Young Scientists Summer Program, Third World Academy of Sciences, and Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Publications/Documents/IR-04-009.pdf. [YSSP description]

Dowdeswell, Elizabeth, and Stuart Smith. 2002. "Science and Technology for Sustainability: North American Challenges and Lessons." Report of the Ottawa Regional Workshop on Science and Technology for Sustainability, 25-26 March 2002, Ottawa, Canada, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/ists_regws_ottawa_rpt.pdf. [Workshop description]

Gallopín, Gilberto C., and Cecilie Modvar. 2005. "Sustainable Development: Epistemological Challenges to Science and Technology." Report of the Workshop on Sustainable Development: Epistemological Challenges to Science and Technology, 13-15 October 2004, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile, http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/publicaciones/xml/3/21103/P21103.xml&xsl=/dmaah/tpl/p9f.xsl&base=/dmaah/tpl/top-bottom.xslt. [Workshop description]

Gallopín, Gilberto C. 2002. "Report on the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Workshop on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development: Summary of Discussions and Conclusions." Summary Report of the Santiago Regional Workshop on Sustainability Science, 5-7 March 2002, Santiago, Chile, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/ists_regws_santiago_summary.pdf (English) or http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/ists_regws_santiago_summary_esp.pdf (Spanish). [Workshop description, August 2002 editorial]

Hassan, Mohamed. 2003. "TWAS and Sustainability: Then and Now." TWAS Newsletter 15(3): 12-14, http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/NL15_3_PDF/04-Hassan_12-14_lo.pdf.

Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability. 2002. "Newsletter of the Network for Science and Technology for Sustainability." Summer 2002, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/sts-network_newsletter_summer02.pdf

International Council for Science, Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, and Third World Academy of Sciences. 2002. Science and Technology for Sustainable Development. ICSU Series on Science for Sustainable Development, No. 9. Paris:  ICSU, http://www.icsu.org/Gestion/img/ICSU_DOC_DOWNLOAD/70_DD_FILE_Vol9.pdf. [Abstract]

Jäger, J. 2003. "Wissenschaft für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung." In Den Globalen Wandel Gestalten: Forschung und Politik für einen Nachhaltigen Globalen Wandel, edited by J. Kopfmüller. Berlin, Germany.

Juma, Calestous. 2002. "The Global Sustainability Challenge: From Agreement to Action." Int. J. Global Environmental Issues 2(1/2): 1-14, http://sustsci.aaas.org/content.html?contentid=584.

Karlsson, Sylvia, and Jill Jäger. 2002. "European Science for Sustainability - Achievements and Challenges." Report of the Bonn Regional Workshop on Science for Sustainability, 27 February - 1 March 2002, Walberberg (Bonn/Köln), Germany, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/ists_regws_walberberg.pdf. [Workshop description]

Kates, Robert W. 2003. "The Nexus and the Neem Tree: Globalization and a Transition toward Sustainability." In Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment, edited by James Gustave Speth. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Kates, Robert W., William C. Clark, Robert Corell, J. Michael Hall, Carlo C. Jaeger, Ian Lowe, James J. McCarthy, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Bert Bolin, Nancy M. Dickson, Sylvie Faucheux, Gilberto C. Gallopín, Arnulf Gruebler, Brian Huntley, Jill Jäger, Narpat S. Jodha, Roger E. Kasperson, Akin Mabogunje, Pamela Matson, Harold Mooney, Berrien Moore III, Timothy O’Riordan, and Uno Svedin. 2001. "Sustainability Science."  Science  292: 641-2. [Abstract and link to full text available at http://sustsci.aaas.org/content.html?contentid=586; longer version of paper with full citations available at http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/2000-33.pdf]

Kates, Robert W., Thomas M. Parris, and Anthony A. Leiserowitz. 2005. "What is Sustainable Development? Goals, Indicators, Values, and Practice." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 47(3): 8-21, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/whatisSD_env_kates_0504.pdf.

Khagram, Sanjeev, William C. Clark, and Dana Firas Raad. 2003. "From the Environment and Human Security to Sustainable Security and Development." Journal of Human Development 4(2): 289-313, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/khagram_etal_jhd03l.pdf. 

Lebel, Louis. 2005. "Transitions to Sustainability in Production-Consumption Systems." Journal of Industrial Ecology 9(1-2): 11-13, http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/JIEC/v9n1_2/jiec_9_1-2_011_0.pdf.

Lebel, Louis. 2004. "Taking a Consumption Perspective on Global Environmental Change." APN Newsletter 10(1): 4-6, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/lebel_consumption_apn0401.pdf.

Lebel, Louis. 2002. "Chiang Mai Workshop on Sustainability Science: Knowledge, Technology and Institutions for Sustainability Transitions in Asia." Synthesis Report of the Chiang Mai Regional Workshop on Sustainability Science, 4-6 February 2002, Chiang Mai, Thailand, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/ists_regws_chiangmai_synthesis.pdf. [Workshop description]

Lebel, Louis et al. Forthcoming. "Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems: Towards an Integrative and Actionable Research Agenda." USER Working Paper. Chiang Mai, Thailand: USER.

Leiserowitz, Anthony A., Robert W. Kates, and Thomas M. Parris. 2004. "Sustainability Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Review of Multi-national and Global Trends." CID Working Paper No. 113. Cambridge, MA: Science, Environment and Development Group, Center for International Development, Harvard University, http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/113.htm.

Lienin, Stephan F., Bernd Kasemir, and Roland Stulz. 2004. "Bridging Science with Application for Sustainability: Private-Public Partnerships in the Novatlantis Pilot-Region of Basel." Duebendorf, Switzerland: novatlantis - sustainability at the ETH domain, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/ists_novatlantis04.pdf.

Lui, Sissi. 2004. "Strategic Typology of Impact Pathways for Natural Resource Management: A Case Study of the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme." Nairobi, Kenya: Alternatives to Slash and Burn Programme, CGIAR, http://www.asb.cgiar.org/PDFwebdocs/Abridged_SLiu_ASB_impactpathways_22May2004.pdf.

Mabogunje, Akin L. 2004. "Framing the Fundamental Issues of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa." CID Working Paper No. 104. Cambridge, MA: Sustainable Development Program, Center for International Development, Harvard University; also published as TWAS Working Paper 1. Trieste, Italy: Third World Academy of Sciences, http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/104.htm.

Mabogunje, Akin L. 2001. "Chairman's Statement from the Abuja Regional Workshop on Sustainability Science." 13-15 November 2001, Abuja, Nigeria, http://sustsci.aaas.org/files/abuja-sustsci0111_chair-statement.pdf. [Workshop description, Additional workshop documents]

Mabogunje, Akin L., and Robert W. Kates. 2004. "Sustainable Development in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria: The Role of Social Capital, Participation, and Science and Technology." CID Working Paper No. 102. Cambridge, MA: Sustainable Development Program, Center for International Development, Harvard University, http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/102.htm.

Mahabir, Sharda. 2004. "Integrated Water Resource Management in Trinidad and Tobago." International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Interim Report IR-04-008. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis 2003 Young Scientists Summer Program, Third World Academy of Sciences, and Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Publications/Documents/IR-04-008.pdf. [YSSP description]

Malpede, Diego. 2003. "Divide No More." TWAS Newsletter 15(3): 29-33, http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/NL15_3_PDF/07-Malpede_29-33_lo.pdf.

Malpede, Diego, and Jill Jäger. 2003. "Arab States Sustainability Roundtable." Report of a planning meeting hosted by the Third World Academy of Sciences, 12-13 June 2003, Trieste, Italy, http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/ists_arab_pm_rpt.pdf.

Obasi, Godwin O. P. 2001. "Sustainability Science in Africa." Paper presented at keynote address given 13 November at the Abuja Regional Workshop on Sustainability Science, 13-15 November 2001, Abuja, Nigeria, http://sustsci.aaas.org/content.html?contentid=598. [Workshop description, Additional workshop documents]

Parris, Thomas M., and Robert W. Kates. 2003. "Characterizing and Measuring Sustainable Development." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 28: 559-586, http://www.isciences.com/NewSite/AR198-EG28-13[001-028].pdf.

Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim, Paul J. Crutzen, William C. Clark, Martin Claussen, and Hermann Held, eds. 2004. Earth System Analysis for Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim, Paul J. Crutzen, William C. Clark, and Julian Hunt. 2005. "Earth System Analysis for Sustainability." Environment 47(8): 10-25, http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sed/docs/hjs_esa_environment_0510.pdf.

Shemdoe, Riziki Silas. 2004. "Local Knowledge on Ecosystem Management Practices and Human Plague Problems in West Usambaras, Tanzania." International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Interim Report IR-04-007. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis 2003 Young Scientists Summer Program, Third World Academy of Sciences, and Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Publications/Documents/IR-04-007.pdf. [YSSP description]

Singh, Inder. 2003. "Battling Malaria in Uganda: Connecting Biomedical Research and Healthcare Policies." TWAS Newsletter 15(4).

Third World Academy of Sciences. 2002. "Meeting in India: International Meetings of TWAS and TWNSO Take Stock of the State of Science and Technology in the South." TWAS Newsletter 14(4): 7-15, http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/NL14_4_PDF/NL14_4_all_low.pdf.

Third World Academy of Sciences. 2002. "Science for Sustainability." TWAS Newsletter 14(1): 14-18, http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/NL14-1.pdf.

Third World Academy of Sciences. 2001. "Harvard and TWAS Examine Research and Development in the Developing World." TWAS Newsletter 13(3): 23-24, http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/NL13-3.pdf.

Third World Academy of Sciences. 2001. "Sustainability Drives TWAS Workshop." TWAS Newsletter 13(4): 24-26, http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/NL13-4.pdf.

Timmer, Vanessa. 2004. "Characteristics of Leadership and Five Equator Prize 2002 Finalists." CID Graduate Student Working Paper No. 3. Cambridge, MA: Science, Environment and Development Group, Center for International Development, Harvard University, http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/grad/003.htm. Subsequently published as Timmer, Vanessa, and Calestous Juma. 2005. "Taking Root: Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction Come Together in the Tropics." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 47(4): 24-44.

Timmer, Vanessa. 2004. "Community-based Conservation and Leadership: Frameworks for Analyzing the Equator Initiative." CID Graduate Student Working Paper No. 2. Cambridge, MA: Science, Environment and Development Group, Center for International Development, Harvard University, http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/grad/002.htm. Subsequently published as Timmer, Vanessa, and Calestous Juma. 2005. "Taking Root: Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction Come Together in the Tropics." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 47(4): 24-44.

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