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William Cummin Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.[1]
William C. Clark | |
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Born | Greenwich, Connecticut | December 20, 1948
Education | University of British Columbia |
Awards | MacArthur Fellows |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sustainability Science |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Thesis | Spatial structure and population dynamics in an insect epidemic ecosystem (1979) |
Doctoral advisor | C. S. Holling |
William Clark known for his long-term efforts to promote sustainability science. He co-chaired the US National Research Council report on Sustainability ‘Our Common Journey,”[2] and in 2016 co-authored a textbook on Sustainability Science.[3] He is also established and is now co-editor of its sustainability science section of the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[4] He co-leads the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard , and he is also on the board of directors of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.
Clark is a member of the USA’s National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1983. He received an honorary doctorate from Leuphana University in 2012 for his work on sustainability science.[5]
He earned a BSc from Yale in 1971 and a PhD in Ecology from University of British Columbia in 1979.
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