William Cummin Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the

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. 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,”National Research Council Policy Division Board on Sustainable Development. Washington, DC: Natl Acad Press; 1999. Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability. and in 2016 co-authored a textbook on Sustainability Science. 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. He co-leads the Sustainability Science Program at Harvar

and he is also on the board of directors of the ASU School of Sustainability, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.

Awards

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

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in 1983. He received an honorary doctorate from

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in 2012 for his work on sustainability science.

Education

He earned a BSc from Yale in 1971 and a PhD in

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from

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in 1979.

References

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