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Appendix A: The Committee on Incorporating Sustainability in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Appendix A: The Committee on Incorporating Sustainability in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Pages 127-132
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, 1983-1985. His past activities include member and chairman of the National Institutes of Health Toxicology Study Section; the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; and the National Board of Public Health Examiners.
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His previous positions have included assistant professor of public policy at Princeton University, executive vice president of the Conservation Foundation, executive director of the National Commission on the Environment, and assistant administrator for policy at EPA. In 2000 he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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He chairs the Strategic Advisory Council for the University of Michigan Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise and serves on the boards of Keystone Center, Global Water Challenge, World Envi
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His research interests include ecosystem services, natural capital, biodiversity conservation, endangered species policy, integrating ecologic and economic analysis, renewable energy, environmental regulation, and common property resources. He has served as coeditor and associate editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, as associate editor for International Journal of Business and Economics, and is currently serving as an associate editor for Conservation Letters, Ecology and Society and Ecology Letters.
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Dr. Ruffing has worked as a development economist for the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; provided technical assistance in external debt management to developing countries for the UN Conference on Trade and Development; repre sented the UN at numerous debt rescheduling exercises carried out by the "Paris Club" of official creditors; was secretary to the UN Committee for Development Policy, where he provided technical expert support for 10 years; prepared the UN macroeconomic forecasts for the world economy based on Project LINK from 1989 to 1993; and served as deputy director for the UN Division for Sustainable Development for 7 years.
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Lauren Zeise, Ph.D., is Chief of the Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment Branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency. She oversees or is otherwise involved in a variety of California's risk assessment activities, including cancer and reproductive toxicant assessments; development of frame works and methodologies for assessing cumulative impact, nanotechnology, green chemistry and safer alternatives, and susceptible populations; the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program; and health risk characterizations for environmental media, food, fuels, and consumer products.
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