Joanne Kauffman
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Joanne Kauffman is an advisor to the Alliance for Global Sustainability and to other academic initiatives that support scientific research on sustainability, including the IR3S Program of the University of Tokyo and ETHSustainability at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. A political scientist, Kauffman has taught international environmental politics and policy at MIT and lectured widely in North America, Europe and Asia on issues in sustainability. She has written many articles and papers on policies to promote sustainable development and is the author of two related books: Managing Chemicals in the Environment (Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1984) and (with Hideo Yoshikawa) Science Has No National Borders a study of the reconstruction of science in post-WWII Japan (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994).

She serves on the Board of Directors of The Energy Research Institute-North America (TERI-NA) and is the series editor for the Springer Publications series, Science and Technology: Tools for Sustainable Development. Kauffman is currently working with Boston-based artist and photographer Julie Graham on a visual and analytical examination of the linkages between landscape, memory, and culture. She lives in a small rural village in southern France


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flag Agents of Change: Model Partnerships with Academia
as moderator at  MIT World Series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Conference,
together with: Lennart Billfalk, Ernest J. Moniz, Theodore Smith, Elizabeth Kolbert,
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