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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 157-162
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. He is cochair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change, and is on the Executive Steering Committee of the START Programme of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program.
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Her research focuses on global environmental governance, particularly related to the issue of climate change and more specifically the multilevel nature of climate change governance, including levels of political jurisdiction from the local to the global and across the public and private sectors. Her current projects investigate the ways that institutions and actors interact across various tiers and spheres of governance and the implications for addressing the threat of climate change and for understanding of global environmental governance.
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Recent and ongoing studies include climate change and water management in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, climate change visualization, and methods for incorporating climate change adaptation into municipal planning and forest management. He is currently a member of the advisory committee for the Columbia Basin Trust program, Communities Adapting to Climate Change.
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professor of sustainable enterprise; associate professor of management and organizations; associate professor of natural resources; and associate director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, at the University of Michigan. He studies organizational culture, values, and behavior, with a particular emphasis on corporate strategies for addressing climate change.
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Her research interests include the impacts of global environmental change, especially in the coastal, public health, and forest sectors; societal responses to environmental hazards in the face of uncertainty; the use of science to support policy and decision making; and the effective communication of climate change to facilitate social change. Her current work focuses on developing adaptation strategies to climate change at local and state levels, identifying ways to promote community resilience, and building decision support systems.
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Andrus Public Affairs Center at Wesleyan University. His research focuses on adaptation and the potential damage from global climate change.
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