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Dr. Lance Gunderson
Associate Professor, Emory University
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Email Lance Gunderson
Phone: 404-727-2429
Fax: 404-727-4448
Address:
1131-002-1AA (EC:Environmental Studies)
Math & Science Ctr E511
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Biography
Lance Gunderson is a systems ecologist who is interested in how people assess, understand and manage large ecosystems. He was the founding chairman of the Department of Environmental Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (1999-2005) and is currently an associate professor. He has also served as the executive director of the Resilience Network, a program of the Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, as Vice Chair of the Resilience Alliance and on the Science Advisory Board of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, and Chair of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density. He is also Co-Editor in Chief of the online journal Ecology and Society. He is a Beijer Fellow, with the Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. His ongoing research interests are in two major categories: 1) understanding how ecosystem processes and structures interact across space and time scales and 2) how scientific understanding influences resource policy and management. His main interests are in the human and institutional dimensions to resource ecology.
