Robert Kates
Robert Kates is a geographer, independent scholar, and University Professor (Emeritus) at Brown University. His recent work includes serving as Co-chair of U.S. National Academies study, Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability, Co- Convenor of the international Initiative for Science and Technology for Sustainability, Executive Editor of Environment magazine, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Dr. Kates’ more recent books include the co-editorship or authorship of Hunger in History: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation (1989), he Earth as Transformed by Human Action (1990), a 2nd edition of The Environment as Hazard (1993), Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa (1993), and Global Change in Local Places (2003).
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Great Transition Values: Present Attitudes, Future Change
GTI Paper Series – Frontiers of a Great Transition n°9
Robert Kates, Anthony Leiserowitz, Thomas Parris, Tellus Institute, Great Transition Initiative, 2006 -
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
A report of the Global Scenario Group
Paul D. Raskin, Tariq Banuri, Gilberto Gallopín, Pablo Gutman, Al Hammond, Robert Kates, Rob Swart, Stockholm Environment Institute, Tellus Institute, Global Scenario Group, Great Transition Initiative, 2002
