BECS comprises expertise in: Socio-ecological systems, including climate-ecosystem interactions and resilience of human communities; 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; Energy, natural resource management, and public and environmental health policy; and Environmental governance, institutions, and processes, including risk analysis and governance.
BECS Members
Richard H. Moss (Chair) Joint Global Change Research Institute University of Maryland	Maria Carmen Lemos School of Natural Resources & Environment University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Arun Agrawal School of Natural Resources & Environment University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Dennis Ojima Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Colorado State University
Joseph Arvai Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment & Economy University of Calgary	Jonathan Overpeck Institute of the Environment University of Arizona
Anthony Bebbington (NAS) Graduate School of Geography Clark University	Stephen Polasky (NAS) Department of Applied Economics University of Minnesota
William Chandler Transition Energy Annapolis, Maryland	J. Timmons Roberts Center for Environmental Studies Brown University
F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin, III (NAS) Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska	James L. Sweeney Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Stanford University
Ruth DeFries (NAS) Department of Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology Columbia University	Gary Yohe Department of Economics Wesleyan University
Kristie L. Ebi Department of Medicine Stanford University	Read about members