Sandra Postel directs the independent Global Water Policy Project
and lectures, writes, and consults on global water issues. In 2010
she was appointed Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic
Society. Sandra is co-creator of Change the Course, the national
water stewardship initiative awarded the 2017 US Water Prize for
restoring billions of gallons of water to depleted rivers and
wetlands. During 2000-2008, Sandra was a visiting senior lecturer
in Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College, and, late in
that term, directed the college's Center for the Environment. From
1988 until 1994, she was vice president for research at the
Worldwatch Institute. Sandra is a Pew Scholar in Conservation and
the Environment and has been named one of the Scientific American
50, an award recognizing contributions to science and technology. A
leading authority and prolific author on international water
issues, Sandra has been hailed for her "inspiring, innovative and
practical approach" to promoting the preservation and sustainable
use of freshwater. She is the author of Replenish: The Virtuous
Cycle of Water and Prosperity (Island Press, 2017), Pillar of Sand:
Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? and Last Oasis: Facing Water
Scarcity, chosen by Choice magazine as a 1993 Outstanding Academic
Book. Last Oasis appears in eight languages and was the basis for a
1997 PBS documentary. Sandra's article "Troubled Waters" was
selected for inclusion in the 2001 edition of Best American Science
and Nature Writing. She is also the co-author, with Brian Richter,
of Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature (Island
Press 2003). Sandra co-founded and regularly contributes to
National Geographic's freshwater blog, Water Currents. Sandra has
authored more than 100 articles for popular and scholarly
publications, including Science, Natural History, Scientific
American, Foreign Policy, Ecological Applications, Technology
Review, Environmental Science and Technology, International
Wildlife, and Water Alternatives. She has written some 20 op-ed
features that have appeared in more than 30 newspapers in the
United States and abroad, including the New York Times, the L.A.
Times, and the Washington Post. A frequent conference speaker and
lecturer, she has also served as a commentator on CNN's
Futurewatch, addressed the European Parliament on environmental
issues, and appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, ABC's Nightline, and
NPR's Science Friday. She also appears in the BBC's Planet Earth,
Leonardo DiCaprio's The 11th Hour, and the National Geographic
Channel's Breakthrough series. Sandra is Water Fellow of the Post
Carbon Institute, and has served as advisor to the Division on
Earth and Life Studies of the U.S. National Research Council, as
well as to American Rivers. She has served on the Board of
Directors of the International Water Resources Association and on
the editorial boards of Ecosystems, Water Policy, and Green
Futures. She received a B.A. (summa cum laude) in geology and
political science at Wittenberg University and an M.E.M. with
emphasis on resource economics and policy at Duke University.
Sandra has been awarded several honorary Doctor of Science degrees,
as well as the Duke University School of Environment's
Distinguished Alumni Award. Until his death in 2010, Stephen H.
Schneider was the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, professor of biology, and
a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at
Stanford University.
He served as a consultant to Federal Agencies and/or White House
staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton and
George W. Bush administrations.His research included modeling of
the atmosphere, climate change, and "the relationship of biological
systems to global climate change." Over the course of his career,
his groundbreaking work helped draw public attention to the issue
of climate change. He was the founder and editor of the journal
Climatic Change and authored or co-authored over 450 scientific
papers, proceedings, legislative testimonies, edited books and book
chapters, some 140 book reviews, editorials, published newspaper
and magazine interviews and popularizations. Stephen Buchmann is a
pollination ecologist specializing in bees and their flowers.
Buchmann is an adjunct professor with the departments of Entomology
and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of
Arizona. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he has
published nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and ten books,
including The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology,
and How They Change Our Lives, and The Forgotten Pollinators with
Gary Paul Nabhan. Buchmann is a frequent guest on many public media
venues including NPR's All Things Considered and Science Friday.
Reviews of his books have appeared in The New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Time and Discover magazines and other national
publications. He is an engaging public speaker on topics of
flowers, pollinators, and the natural world. His many awards
include the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, and an NSTA Outstanding
Science Trade Book.
"...the authors define ecosystem services, summarize historical perspectives, offer means of monetary valuation, and present some specific categories of damage.... [This] volume performs a highly valuable service, alerting readers in economic terms of the ultimately genocidal shortsightedness of abusing global biosphere."-- "Environment"
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