International Scientific Advisory Board
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Tim Allen
Timothy F. H. Allen is Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies at the Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA). His research interests are in the following fields: theory of complex systems and ecology, in particular hierarchy theory and problems of scale; epistemology for biological systems; resource use and biosocial dynamics; narrative in science. He has (co)authored several books, among which Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity (1982) and Hierarchy Theory: A Vision, Vocabulary, and Epistemology (1996), and has published numerous scholarly works on issues of scale, hierarchy theory, and sustainability.
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Richard Aspinall
Richard Aspinall is a geographer with research interests in coupled human-environmental systems, especially in land use, environmental change, and ecosystem services, and in GIS. He worked at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, from 1987 to 1997 on a wide variety of land use topics, returning to the Institute as Chief Executive and Director from 2006-11. He worked at Montana State University from 1997-2004 as a Professor of Geography in the Department of Earth Sciences and as the Director of the Geographic Information and Analysis Center. During this time he also spent two years as Program Director of the Geography and Regional Science Program at the US National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. From 2004-6 he was Professor and Head of the Department of Geography at Arizona State University (ASU). Richard was also interim co-Chair of the IGBP/IHDP Global Land Project (GLP) from 2005-6 to establish the governance, management, and organizational structures to support the GLP. He is founding editor of the Journal of Land Use Science.
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Bruna De Marchi
Bruna De Marchi, sociologist, is presently based in Milan, Italy, and works as a private consultant. She is also a guest researcher at SVT (Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities) at the University of Bergen, Norway. Until 2007 she has headed the Mass Emergencies Programme at the Institute of International Sociology in Gorizia, Italy. In the early 1990s she was with the European Commission Joint Research Centre, in Ispra (Italy), as a seconded national expert. She has taught extensively in Europe and elsewhere. She has served in several committees, including the EC 6th Framework Research Programme Advisory Group on Science and Society. She has been principal investigator in many international projects related to her main research interests: the social dimensions of environmental change, human systems’ response to disasters, food safety, perception, communication and governance, public participation in health and environmental policies, social research methodology.
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Silvio Funtowicz
Silvio Funtowicz is now a professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities of the University of Bergen, Norway. He taught mathematics, logic and research methodology in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During the 1980’s he was a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, England. Since early 1990's, until his retirement in 2011, he was a member of the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC). He has authored publications on Post-normal science and the book Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy in collaboration with Jerry Ravetz, and numerous papers in the field of environmental and technological risks and policy-related research.
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Gilberto Gallopin
Gilberto Carlos Gallopin is an Argentinean and Italian Independent Scholar, with a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is an ecological systems analyst and sustainable development expert. He has worked in ecological systems analysis, global modeling, environmental impact assessment, environment and development nexus, scenario analysis, policy dialogues, and sustainability science; he published more than 160 papers. Some of his relevant experience includes: Regional Adviser on Environmental Policies, U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Programme Director at the Stockholm Environment Institute; Leader of the Land Use Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture; Senior Fellow of the International Institute for Sustainable Development; Senior Expert on Environment and Development in the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); 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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Ângela Guimarães Pereira
Ângela Guimarães Pereira was born in Mozambique. She has a PhD on Environmental Engineering from the New University of Lisbon in Portugal. In 1996 she started working at the Joint Research Centre in European projects about environmental and societal issues – including water resources governance, sustainability and climate change issues, which all included foresight activities and integration of information technologies in public engagement activities. At the JRC she currently works on ethics of information technologies including techno-science governance and current innovation framings. She has co-edited a book on Interfaces between Science & Society published in 2006 with Greenleaf and another on Science for Policy: Challenges and Opportunities in 2009 with Oxford University Press.
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Kozo Mayumi
Kozo Mayumi graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering, at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics of Kyoto University. Between 1984 and 1988 he studied under Professor Georgescu-Roegen at Vanderbilt University, Nashville (USA). He is now full Professor at Tokushima University, Japan. His research interests include energy analysis, bio-economics, ecological economics, mathematical models, and multi-scale integrated assessment of societal metabolism. He (co)authored several books, among which The Origins of Ecological Economics and The Biofuel Delusion, and numerous papers in the fields of bio-economics, ecological economics and energy.
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Giuseppe Munda
Giuseppe Munda is professor at the Department of Economics and Economic History at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He made his Ph.D. studies with the Free University of Amsterdam, where he got the Ph.D. in Economics and Econometrics (1993). He is member of various international scientific committees. He has been visiting professor in various universities (such as Université Panthèon-Sorbonne, University of Naples Federico II, Centre d`Economie et d' Ethique pour l' Environnement et le Dèveloppement (C3ED) located at the Universitè de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, University of Pisa, Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Torino, University of Buenos Aires, FLACSO, Quito site). From 2004 till 2008 he has been senior visiting researcher at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre and deputy director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (2009-2012). He has also been consultant for the Inter-American development Bank, OECD, the European Commission and for the European Environment Agency. He has participated in various European and national research projects. He has published more than 60 articles and book chapters in International Journals and specialised books. He has also written 2 books on multicriteria analysis with Springer.
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Andrea Saltelli
Andrea Saltelli has worked on physical chemistry, environmental sciences and applied statistics. His main disciplinary focus is on sensitivity analysis of model output, a discipline where statistical tools are used to interpret the output from mathematical or computational models. A second focus is the construction of composite indicators or indices. Presently he leads the Econometric and Applied Statistics Unit of the European Commission at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.
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Roger Strand
Roger Strand is Professor at the University of Bergen. He is an expert in uncertainty and complexity in the science-society interface; philosophy of natural, medical and environmental science; and ethical and social aspects of emerging science and technology. He teaches “theory of science with ethics” at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
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Joe Tainter
Joseph A. Tainter studied anthropology at the University of California and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975. He is currently a professor in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University. His previous positions include Project Leader of Cultural Heritage Research, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico and professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or editor of many articles and monographs. His best-known work is The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), which examines the collapse of Maya and Chacoan civilizations, and the Roman Empire, in terms of network theory, energy economics and complexity theory. Tainter argues that sustainability or collapse of societies follow from the success or failure of problem-solving institutions and that societies collapse when their investments in social complexity and their "energy subsidies" reach a point of diminishing marginal returns. He recognizes collapse when a society rapidly sheds a significant portion of its complexity.
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Sergio Ulgiati
Sergio Ulgiati is Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Life Cycle Assessment at the Parthenope University of Napoli, Italy. His education is in Physics and Physical Chemistry and his expertise in Energy, Exergy and eMergy Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Indicators. He has published more than 300 papers and book chapters in national and international scientific journals and specialized books. He is member of the Editorial Board of the journals Energy, Energies, Ecological Modelling, and Environment, Development and Sustainability. He is also the Chair and (co)organizer of the Biennial International Workshop “Advances in Energy Studies” (since 1998) and the Biennial International Emergy Research Conference (since 1999), and the President of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research (ISAER).
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