Robert Kates
Visiting Scholar
Experience
Robert Kates is a Visiting Research Scholar. He continues as an executive editor of Environment magazine and in 1999 saw to completion (with Bill Clark) the National Academy of Sciences report, Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability. He continues as co-PI on the Association of American Geographers research project on Global Change in Local Places and with Tom Wilbanks and saw their paper "Global change in local places: How scale matters" published (Climatic Change 43:601-628). He took part in a Heinz Center study on coastal erosion and helped organize a Maine State meeting on global climate change.
March 7, 2002
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
Book
By Robert Kates, Visiting Scholar
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
January, 1999
Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability
Book
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 and Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
May, 1990
"Human Sources of Global Change: A Report on Priority Research Initiatives for 1990-1995"
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 Robert Kates, Visiting Scholar
May 1990
Human Sources of Global Change: A Report on Priority Research Initiatives for 1990-1995
Discussion Paper
By Vicki Norberg-Bohm, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP; and Robert Kates, Visiting Scholar
Human Sources of Global Change: A Report on Priority Research Initiatives for 1990-1995
The Earth as Transformed by Human Action
Book
By William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP; and Robert Kates, Visiting Scholar
