Mailing address
Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
79 JFK St.
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Nancy Dickson
Associate Director, Global Environmental Assessment Project; Executive Director, Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
Contact:
Telephone: (617) 496-9469
Email: nancy_dickson@harvard.edu
Experience
Nancy Dickson is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard' 's Kennedy School of Government. Her interests focus on institutional arrangements and processes for facilitating more productive interactions among the research, assessment and decision making communities involved in problems of environmental change and sustainable development. She conducted research on the long-term evolution of social responses to global environmental change, co-editing the book Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks (MIT Press 2001), and co-authoring chapters on topics ranging from the role of the media to the evaluation of research and assessment programs. She recently co-authored an article on science and technology for sustainability (Science 292). She is Executive Director of the Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability project, which seeks to contribute to the strategies with which the next generation of national and international global environmental change programs might more effectively integrate and support its research, assessment and decision support activities relating to global change and sustainable development. She is also working with an independent group of scholars from around the world on an Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability.
June, 2001
Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks - Vol. 1: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain. Vol. 2: A Functional Analysis of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain
Book
By William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP; and Nancy Dickson, Associate Director, Global Environmental Assessment Project; Executive Director, Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
April 27, 2001
Sustainability Science
Journal Article, Science, issue 5517, volume 292
By William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP;, Robert Kates, Visiting Scholar, J. Michael Hall, Senior Research Fellow, Nancy Dickson, Associate Director, Global Environmental Assessment Project; Executive Director, Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability and Robert Corell, Senior Research Fellow
December, 2000
"Sustainability Science"
Discussion Paper
By William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP;, Robert Kates, Visiting Scholar, Nancy Dickson, Associate Director, Global Environmental Assessment Project; Executive Director, Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability and Robert Corell, Senior Research Fellow
September, 2000
"Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Risks"
Discussion Paper
By David Cash, Affiliate, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Edward Parson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, J. Michael Hall, Senior Research Fellow, Nancy Dickson, Associate Director, Global Environmental Assessment Project; Executive Director, Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability, Robert Corell, Senior Research Fellow and William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP;
December, 1995
"The Press and Global Environmental Change: An International Comparison of Elite Newspaper Reporting on the Acid Rain Issue from 1972 to 1992"
Discussion Paper
By William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP; and Nancy Dickson, Associate Director, Global Environmental Assessment Project; Executive Director, Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
