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William C Clark Mar 20, 2025

CAPACITY BUILDING TO PROMOTE #EQUITY FOR #SUSTAINABILITY

Virtual seminar on 3/26 with Nasif Khan (BRAC - Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee), Sharmila Murthy (formerly Environmental Justice at the White House), Grant Wilson (Earth Law Center), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).

Capacity to promote equity both within and among generations

This seminar is the fourth in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development.

William C Clark Feb 1, 2025

CAPACITY TO MEASURE PROGRESS TOWARD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Virtual seminar on Feb 12 featuring Carrie Exton (OECD), Eli Fenichel (Yale University / OSTP), Mary Ruckelshaus (Natural Capital Project) and Alicia Harley (Harvard).
#sustainability #CapacityBuilding

Registration & additional information available here:
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/sustainability-science-program/c4sd-seminar-series

Building Capacity for Sustainable Development: a seminar series

This series brings together ideas from experts and practical experience to address major problems facing the planet. We will focus on six essential capacities for sustainability. The seminar series will include conversations with practitioners on how to develop and maintain these skills over time.

William C Clark Dec 17, 2024

#‪Food system #metrics are proliferating. This new blog by Fanzo et al reviews current offerings, argues importance of covering full spectrum of consumption-production components in relevant #nature-society-systems & assessing #resilience to shock. Valuable addition to the #CGIAR Foresight Initiative series: What do we know about the future of food systems?

https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/what-do-we-know-about-the-future-of-measuring-food-systems/

#sustainability

What do we know about the future of measuring food systems?

Many food system-related databases, tools, and dashboards are available, but need to be harmonized to be helpful for decision-makers.

CGIAR

William C Clark Dec 11, 2024

" #Sustainability of Animal-Sourced #Foods and Plant-Based Alternatives" is a new #PNAS Special Feature edited by Martin Qaim, Rodolphe Barrangou, & Pamela Ronald ( @pcronald )
(https://www.pnas.org/topic/561 ). It explores technical, environmental, nutritional, health, and socioeconomic dimensions of the question.

William C Clark Apr 24, 2024

Combining qualitative descriptions of system components and interactions with network representation for quantitative characterization of system structure can be used to understand the #sustainability of long term interactions between nature and society shown in this study of Indus Basin by Siddiqi, Wescoat & Selin (@noelleselin) here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215682121 in a contribution to PNAS Special Feature on "Modeling Dynamic Systems for Sustainable Development" ( https://www.pnas.org/topic/555 )

William C Clark Jan 16, 2024

How does human #migration affect the prospects for #sustainabledevelopment
My #PNAS Special Feature with Neil Adger, Sonja Fansen and Ricardo Safra de Campos explores the relation of migration flows to #wellbeing , #inequality , #environment & #socialcapital : https://www.pnas.org/topic/554 (#openaccess).

Migration can deepen inequality & increase environmental damage but also can be a positive force for sustainability if managed well.

More details in my LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/william-clark-13513320_migration-sustainabledevelopment-pnas-activity-7153080610155089921-gLcs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop.

William C Clark Dec 18, 2023

COP28 has finally called for a transition away from fossil fuels. What does scholarship have to offer on the question of "How?" This is the subject of my new paper with Frank Geels & Florian Kern on "#Sustainability transitions in consumption-production systems." PNAS 120(47), e2310070120 (2023); https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2310070120 [ #openaccess ]. Paper summarizes a Special Feature on the topic, available here: https://www.pnas.org/topic/551. More on my LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/william-clark-13513320_sustainability-openaccess-sustainability-activity-7142274067637698560-IPGe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

William C Clark Dec 7, 2023

Manufactured capital is a primary determinant of #sustainable development, with both positive and negative impacts on #wellbeing. Just where it is and how it's constituted matter for #Sustainability but are poorly documented. @davidfrantz et al. point the way forward with an elegant study on "Unveiling patterns in human dominated landscapes through mapping the mass of US built structures" in Nature Communications 14(1) https://nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43755-5

William C Clark Nov 27, 2023

Research frontiers for #Sustainability #Transitions in #Consumption - #Production Systems" are explored in a new PNAS Special Feature that I co-edited with Frank Geels & Florian Kern. It's #openaccess available here: https://www.pnas.org/topic/551. My comments on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/william-clark-13513320_openaccess-sustainability-consumption-activity-7134680291444436993-wk3M?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

William C Clark Sep 10, 2023

Lecture by Prof. Kelsey Jack of UC Santa Barbara (zoom, Sept 22):
"Building an Evidence Base for Climate Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries"

https://mailchi.mp/ssrc.org/centennial-lecture-series-climate-change-4994766?e=b40f73b74b

My website	https://wclark.scholars.harvard.edu/
Sustainability Science Program	https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/sustainability-science-program
Hashtags	#sustainability #AcademicMastodon #openaccess

Capacity to promote equity both within and among generations

Building Capacity for Sustainable Development: a seminar series

What do we know about the future of measuring food systems?

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