Those who would like to brush up on this subject prior to taking the survey are welcome to visit the CASSE webpages (www.steadystate.org), where we specialize in precisely these topics. Here are some of the signatories of the CASSE position on economic growth:
Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; cofounder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Albert Bartlett, Emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado; former president of the American Association of Physics Teachers; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; author of The Essential Exponential! Wendell Berry, Farmer; author of more than forty books; past fellow of both the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation John Bodley, Professor of cultural anthropology at Washington State University; author of Cultural Anthropology: Tribe, State, and the Global System, Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, and Victims of Progress James Brown, Professor of biology at the University of New Mexico; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member of the National Academy of Sciences; author of Macroecology; coauthor of Biogeography John Cairns, Professor of environmental biology at Virginia Tech University; emeritus director of the Center for Environmental and Hazardous Materials Studies; member of the National Academy of Sciences; author of 63 books, including Goals and Conditions for a Sustainable Planet and Handbook of Ecotoxicology Joe Cech, Professor of wildlife, fish, and conservation biology at the University of California, Davis; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the Copeia editorial board Herman Daly, Professor of ecological economics at the University of Maryland; cofounder of the International Society for Ecological Economics; author of Beyond Growth and Steady-State Economics; coauthor of For the Common Good; recipient of the Right Livelihood Award Richard Douthwaite, Cofounder of Feasta (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability); author of The Growth Illusion and The Ecology of Money Paul Erlich, President of Stanford University's Center for Conservation Biology; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; author of The Dominant Animal Robert Goodland, Former senior environmental advisor to the World Bank; chair of the Ecological Society of America; president of the International Association for Impact Assessment Roger Gottlieb, Professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; author of This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment and A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth contributing editor to Tikkun Magazine Richard Heinberg, Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute; author of The Party's Over, Powerdown, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything Hazel Henderson, Founder of Ethical Markets Media; fellow of Britain's Royal Society of Arts; author of The Axiom and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy Carsten Henningsen, Cofounder Portfolio 21; chair of Progressive Investment Management Steven Hollenhorst, Professor of protected area policy at the University of Idaho; board member of the Idaho Environmental Education Association; founder and president of the West Virginia Land Trust Helen Ingram, Emerita professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine; coauthor of Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy and Saving Water in a Desert City Wes Jackson, Founder and President of The Land Institute; author of New Roots for Agriculture and Becoming Native to This Place; MacArthur Fellow; recipient of the Right Livelihood Award James Karr, Emeritus professor of fisheries and biology at the University of Washington; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; creator of the Index of Biotic Integrity Andrew Kimbrell, Executive director of the International Center for Technology Assessment and the Center for Food Safety; environmental attorney; author of 101 Ways to Help Save the Earth and Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food Sharachchandra Lele, Senior fellow and coordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development; coauthor of Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Issues and Cases from South Asia Richard Lindroth, Professor of ecology at the University of Wisconsin; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fulbright Senior Scholar Jerry Mander, Founder of the International Forum on Globalization; author of In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations and Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television; coauthor of Alternatives to Economic Globalization Joan Martinez-Alier, Professor of economics and economic history at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; author of Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society and The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation; past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics Rania Masri, Professor of environmental at the University of Balamand (Lebanon); director of the Southern Peace Research and Education Center Bill McKibben, Global warming activist; author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy; founder of stepitup07.org David Mech, Senior scientist with the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey; adjunct professor of wildlife at the University of Minnesota; founder and vice chair of the International Wolf Center; author of The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years with the Pack Gerald Niemi, Professor of biology at the University of Minnesota at Duluth; Director of the Center for Water and the Environment at the Natural Resources Research Institute; fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture; author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh; coauthor of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture; recipient of the Right Livelihood Award Reed Noss, Professor of conservation biology at the University of Central Florida; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; chief scientist of Conservation Science, Inc.; member of the board of governors of the Society for Conservation Biology; coauthor of Saving Nature's Legacy David Orr, Professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College; author of The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment and The Nature of Design; contributing editor of Conservation Biology Renat Perelet, Research leader at the Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; coauthor of Dictionary of Environmental Economics and Conflict and the Environment Tony Prato, Professor of agricultural economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia; co-director of the Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems; director of the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit John Proops, Professor of ecological economics at Keele University; past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics; coauthor of Ecological Economics: Concepts and Methods William Rees, Professor of community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia; past president of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; co-creator of the ecological footprint concept; coauthor of Our Ecological Footprint Vandana Shiva, Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology; author of Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization and Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge; recipient of the Right Livelihood Award Colin Soskolne, Professor of epidemiology at the University of Alberta; scientific and research associate of the University of Alberta Hospitals; associate editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology; lead editor of Sustaining Life on Earth: Environmental and Human Health through Global Governance Michael Soule, Emeritus professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz; cofounder and first president of the Society for Conservation Biology; founder and president of The Wildlands Project; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; coauthor of Introductory Biology and Conservation and Evolution Gus Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; founder and president of the World Resources Institute; cofounder of the Natural Resources Defense Council; author of Red Sky at Morning and The Bridge at the Edge of the World. Douglas Tompkins, Conservation philanthropist; president of the Foundation for Deep Ecology; cofounder of The North Face and ESPRIT clothing companies; Peter Victor, Professor of economics and environmental studies at York University; advisory council member of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science; founding president of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; author of Managing without Growth: Smaller by Design, Not Disaster Brian Czech, Ph.D., President Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy The CASSE position on economic growth may be e-signed at www.steadystate.org <http://www.steadystate.org/> . Brian Czech, Visiting Professor Natural Resources Program Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University National Capital Region, Northern Virginia Center 7054 Haycock Road, Room 411 Falls Church, Virginia 22043 ________________________________ From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news on behalf of David Meek Sent: Mon 2009-03-16 22:08 To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Advancing Conservation in a Social Context survey Greetings, The Advancing Conservation in a Social Context project is asking for your help in our research into the relationship between conservation and development goals. As part of our research, we are conducting a series of surveys that examine the relationship between conservation and development goals. We are looking for participants who are professionally involved in conservation and/or development, including but not limited to students, practitioners, and professors. Please feel free to pass on this link ( http://acscsurvey.asu.edu <http://acscsurvey.asu.edu/> ) to anyone else you think would be interested. The link in this email (http://acscsurvey.asu.edu/) will direct you to a web page that hosts our three surveys. Please read the brief description of each one, and decide which you would like to take. If you choose, you can take more than one, or all three. The survey will be open until April 1st after which point it will be closed. Each survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes. Your responses will be kept completely private and we will not retain any personal identifying data. Should you desire, you can stop taking the survey at any point. The surveys investigate the following issues: Ecosystem services * What is the relationship between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services? * How does biodiversity conservation affect other things you might care about? * How do you think biodiversity conservation affects other ecosystem services? Are other ecosystem services enhanced by biodiversity conservation, or not? Development Goals * What is the relationship between biodiversity conservation and development goals. * There is a lot of debate about how conservation and development goals are connected. Do they help, hinder, or not affect each other? Conservation and Development * How are the benefits of conservation and development distributed, do trade-offs exist, and if so what are the trade-offs? * Who are the beneficiaries of conservation and development activities. Do all people benefit? Only some? What are the trade-offs between conservation and development? * This survey focuses on the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals, which are goals for human development, like universal education. Biodiversity conservation, or the maintenance of the number of species in an area, is one Millenium Development Goal. Thank you in advance for considering to participate in our study. Best wishes, David Meek Research Assistant Advancing Conservation in a Social Context http://www.tradeoffs.org <http://www.tradeoffs.org/> Who We Are: This survey is part of a broader research project on Advancing Conservation in a Social Context, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Please see www.trade-offs.org or email acsc.tradeoff.sur...@gmail.com for more information
