Globalization and Sustainable Development

About

William Clark is a professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at KSG. Clark serves on the scientific advisory committees for the Science and Technology for Sustainability Initiative, the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research. He 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 transformed by human action (Cambridge, 1990), Learning to manage global environmental risks (MIT, 2001), and Environment magazine. He co-chaired the recent study by the US National Research Council on Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability. Clark is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the MacArthur Prize, the Humboldt Prize, and the KSG's Carballo Award for excellence in teaching.