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Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author and a recipient of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California. |
Panelists
Clint Andrews is a professor of Urban Planning and Policy Development and director of the Center for Green Building at Rutgers University. His research addresses behavioral, policy, and planning questions related to how people use the built environment. His current focus is on measuring and modeling occupant responses to local conditions. Dr. Andrews was educated at Brown and MIT as an engineer and planner. He has worked in the private sector as a design engineer and technology assessor, helped launch an energy planning project at MIT, and helped to found a science policy program at Princeton. He publishes both scholarly and popular articles and his books include Humble Analysis: The Practice of Joint fact-Finding, Regulating Regional Power Systems, and Industrial Ecology and Global Change. Andrews is a Fellow of AAAS, a current Distinguished Lecturer and a past president of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, and a winner of its Brian O’Connell Distinguished Service Award. He co-edits the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
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Robert Kopp is Associate Director of Rutgers Energy Institute and a Professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University. He serves as the director of Rutgers’ transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world’s coastlines. Prof. Kopp's research focuses on understanding uncertainty in past and future climate change, with major emphases on sea-level change and on the interactions between physical climate change and the economy. A climate scientist and energy policy expert, he is a lead author of Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus (Columbia University Press, 2015) and of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s 2017 Climate Science Special Report, a member of the National Academies’ Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon, and a contributing author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2014 Fifth Assessment Report. He has authored over sixty scientific papers and several popular articles in venues including the New York Times. Prof. Kopp is a past Leopold Leadership Fellow and a recipient of the International Union for Quaternary Research’s Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal and the American Geophysical Union’s William Gilbert Medal.
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Laura Lawson is Dean of Agriculture and Urban Programs and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She received her Masters in Landscape Architecture and Ph.D. in Environmental Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research includes historical and contemporary urban agriculture and community open space. Her scholarship includes City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America (2005), Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Urban Community Gardens in Seattle (co-author with Hou and Johnson, 2009), and numerous articles and book chapters. Dr. Lawson teaches community-based design studios and seminars focused on social issues in design and planning, participatory design, and the public landscape. In her role as dean, Dr. Lawson supports academic and outreach efforts that connect urban and suburban communities with agriculture in order to enhance the economy, landscape and culture of New Jersey.
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Jorge Marcone is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and a Core Faculty Member in the Program in Comparative Literature. Prof. Marcone holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin. At Rutgers, he has been a fellow with the Center for Cultural Analysis and the Center for Historical Analysis. Marcone’s field of specialization is the Environmental Humanities, as they inform, or are informed by cultural archives, repertoires, and interventions from Latin America and Spain. His current projects follow the impact of popular and indigenous environmentalisms in the national politics of Andean countries, as well as their relevance for on-going new research on political ecology and political ontology. In his research, Marcone pays special attention to the literature, film, and arts of Amazonia. He is interested in their affinities with theories of sustainability and community resilience to environmental change; and in the way texts, audio/visual media, and performances are conceived as the action of human and nonhuman agencies.
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