Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS)
BECS comprises expertise in:
Decision sciences, including both analysis and decision-support; Theory, policy, and practice of national and international sustainable development; Biophysical and biogeochemical processes, including climate dynamics and elemental cycles; Economic policy and analysis, including economic drivers of land use change, valuation of ecosystem services, and costs of impacts of environmental change; Socio-ecological systems, including climate-ecosystem interactions and resilience of human communities; Energy, natural resource management, and public and environmental health policy; and Environmental governance, institutions, and processes, including risk analysis and governance.
The members of BECS are:
Richard H. Moss (Chair) Joint Global Change Research Institute University of Maryland Arun Agrawal School of Natural Resources & Environment University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Joseph Arvai Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, & Economy University of Calgary Anthony Bebbington Graduate School of Geography Clark University William Chandler Transition Energy F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin, III (NAS) Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Ruth DeFries (NAS) Department of Ecology, Evolution, & Environmental Biology Columbia University Kristie L. Ebi Technical Support Unit, IPCC Working Group II Carnegie Institution for Science	Maria Carmen Lemos School of Natural Resources & Environment University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Dennis Ojima Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Colorado State University Jonathan Overpeck Institute of the Environment University of Arizona Stephen Polasky (NAS) Department of Applied Economics University of Minnesota J. Timmons Roberts Center for Environmental Studies Brown University James L. Sweeney Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Stanford University Gary W. Yohe Department of Economics Wesleyan University

Last updated: February 24, 2012