BESTNet People
Director: Charles Perrings
Steering Committee
The Director is guided by a Steering Committee which provides a connection both to Diversitas and to BESTNet’s other international partners.
Edward Barbier
John S. Bugas Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Wyoming (Resource economics)
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Peter Daszak
Executive Director
Consortium for Conservation Medicine
(Johns Hopkins, Tufts University, USGS Nat’l Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) and the Wildlife Trust) (Infectious diseases)
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Rodolfo Dirzo
Professor of Biological Sciences
Stanford University (Ecology) Profile
Michael Donoghue
Director
Peabody Museum of Natural History
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University (Systematics)
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Louise Jackson
Orr Chair in Environmental Plant Sciences
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
University of California Davis (Botany/Agricultural extension)
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Ann Kinzig
Assoc Professor
Global Institute of Sustainability and School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University (Ecology)
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Robert Naiman
Professor
College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences
University of Washington (Zoology)
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Steven Polasky
Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics
Department of Applied Economics and Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
University of Minnesota (Ecological and Environmental Economics)
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