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William Barnett

Meg Caldwell

Jennifer Davis

  • Department Affiliation: Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Second Affiliation: Woods Institute for the Environment
  • Area of Study: the intersection of economic development and environmental management, with particular emphasis on cost-effective, sustainable water supply and sanitation (W&S) service delivery in developing countries
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Bill Durham

  • Department Affiliation: Anthropological Sciences
  • Secondary Affiliation: Human Biology
  • Area of Study: Biological anthropology, ecological and evolutionary anthropology, cultural evolution, conservation and community development, resource management, environmental issues; Central and South America.
  • Centers & Institutes: Morrison Institute of Population and Resource Studies, faculty board
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Ursula Heise

Thomas Heller

Henning Hillmann

Suki Hoagland

Terry Karl

David Kennedy

Doug McAdam

Grant Miller

Erica Plambeck

  • Department Affiliation: Graduate School of Business
  • Area of Study: International sustainable development, sustainable business, incentives in operations and supply chain management, stochastic models of manufacturing systems
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Debra Satz

Richard Scott

  • Department Affiliation: Sociology, Professor Emeritus
  • Area of Study: Institutional theory in organizations with social movement theory; institutional change at the community level; institutional conflicts at the global level.
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†Karen Seto

  • Department Affiliation: Department of Environmental Earth System Science
  • Secondary Affiliation: Center for Environmental Science and Policy
  • Area of Study: Socioeconomic and political drivers of land use and land cover change, satellite remote sensing, urbanization in Asia, geographic information science
  • Centers & Institutes: Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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Richard Shavelson

  • Department Affiliation: School of Education
  • Secondary Affiliation: Psychology
  • Area of Study: The study of inquiry-based science instruction and its impact on students' knowledge structures and performances, and on gender differences as well as the study of accountability and assessment in higher education; addressing policy and practice issues in measurement reform.
  • Centers & Institutes: Woods Institute for the Environment
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Buzz Thompson

  • Department Affiliation: Stanford Law School
  • Secondary Affiliation: Co-director, Woods Institute for the Environment
  • Area of Study: Environmental Economics and Policy, Environmental Law
  • Centers & Institutes: Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program, Stanford Fishery Policy Project
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David Victor

  • Department Affiliation: Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  • Secondary Affiliation: Political Science (by courtesy)
  • Area of Study: Energy policy - the future role of natural gas, electric power market reform, and rural energy development; genetically modified foods/plants and related trade policy; climate change policy; role of technology, innovation and competition in development; and forest policy
  • Centers & Institutes: Program in Energy and Sustainable Development, Center for Environmental Science and Policy, and Council on Foreign Relations (New York)
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Richard White