“Urban Climate Impacts and Adaptation Options”, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 24, 2012.
“Climate, Resources, and Environmental Security on an Urbanized Globe” Resource Geopolitics for the 21st Century: Security Dilemmas in the Anthropocene, Transatlantic Academy, American University, Washington, DC, May 8, 2012.
“The Myths of Climate Economics and Policy: From Global Imperatives to Local Analysis and Action”, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, December 1, 2011.
“Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptive Responses in Metropolitan Boston”, Urban Environmental Leadership Program, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 30, 2011.
“Rationale, History and Approaches of Ecological Economics”, School of Design and the Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 12. 2011.
“Using Dynamic Modelling to Foster Understanding of Interactions among Social, Economic and Climatic Changes”, Center for Sustainable Asian Cities, National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 11, 2011.
“Urban Adaptation to Climate Change: Imperatives and Strategies”, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 10, 2011.
“Ancillary Benefits and Costs of Responses to Climate Change”,Climate Economics and Law Conference, University of Bern, Switzerland, June 16-17, 2011.
“Big Issues in Geography: Energy and Environment”, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, May 19, 2011.
“Modeling in Industrial Ecology”, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 4, 2011.
“Regional Responses to Energy Supply and Climate Change Challenges”, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, February 3, 2011.
“Regional Responses to Energy Supply and Climate Change Challenges”, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, January 26, 2011.
“Climate Long-term Impacts on Metro Boston”, Envisioning Sustainable Cities, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 7, 2010.
“Harnessing Co-benefits of Urban Adaptation to Climate Change”, National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, October 17-18, 2010.
“Generating Understanding of Social, Economic and Climate Dynamics in Interaction”, ISEE User Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, October 4-6, 2010.
“The Dynamics of Regional Co-benefits and Co-costs from Climate Mitigation and Adaptation” International Geographical Union, Groningen, The Netherlands, July 1-4, 2010.
“Adapting to Urban Climate Change Impacts”, Technology Solutions for Vietnam’s Sustainable Economic Development Goals, Hanoi, Viêt Nam, May 25, 2010.
“Public Policy and Private Sector Opportunities to Help Move Towards a Sustainable Future”, 10th Annual Conference of the National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington DC, January 20 – 22, 2010.
“Challenges of Adapting to a Changing Climate in an Urbanized World”, BioScience Day, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, November 12, 2009.
“Social and Economic Benefits of Climate Information”, World Climate Conference 3, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, August 31- September 4, 2009.
“Sustainability Research in a Changing Climate”, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, May 13, 2009.
“Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change”, Strategies to Survive the 21st Century, Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 30, 2009.
“Contributing Engineering Solutions in a Changing Climate”, A. James Clark School of Engineering Sustainability Lecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 22, 2009.
“Urban Energy Use and Carbon Emissions”, The World Bank Group, Energy Week 2009, Washington, DC, March 31-April 2, 2009.
“University of Maryland’s Climate Action Plan”, Sustainability Speakers Series, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, March 25, 2009.
“Concepts and Tools of Ecological Economics”, Joint General Services Administration (GSA), HOK and University of Maryland Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER) Workshop on Sustainable Development in the Federal Portfolio of Programs and Actions, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC, March 6, 2009.
“Challenges at the Technology, Environment, Society Interface”, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Workshop on Future Horizons in Plant Science, Chevy Chase, Maryland, January 7, 2009.
“Water, Development and Urbanization: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing Climate”, Institute for Global Chinese Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, January 5, 2009.
“Environmentally Sustainable Development”, Annual Conference of the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan, December 5, 2008.
“Adaptive and Anticipatory Infrastructure Management: Lessons from Climate Impacts Research, 2nd transatlantic INFRADAY Conference, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, November 14, 2008.
“Water in the Urban Environment: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing Climate in Maryland and Asia”, Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership, Baltimore, Maryland, October 23, 2008.
“Climate Impacts and the Cost of Inaction: Data, Modeling and Policy”, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, October 14, 2008.
“Water in the Urban Environment: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing Climate”, 2nd Annual Meeting of the OECD Roundtable Strategy for Urban Development, Milan, Italy, October 9-10.
“Climate Impacts and Cost of Inaction: Empirical Evidence and Policy Options for the USA”, The Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, September 18, 2008.
“Climate Neutrality and Campus Action”, Environmental Policy Roundtable, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, September 12, 2008.
“Hot Research for Cool Campuses”, Department of Geography Seminar Series, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, September 11, 2008.
“Economic and Social Development in a Changing Environment: The Challenges from Fossil Fuel Dependence and Climate Change”, International Forum on the Beijing Olympic Games: Urban and Environmental Development, Beijing, China, July 5-6, 2008
“Climate Change: Environmental, Social and Economic Challenges”, Climate Change, Chesapeake Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers, Chesapeake Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, and Maryland Association of Sanitarians, Baltimore, Maryland, June 18, 2008.
“Adapting to Climate Change: The Roles of Engineering, Economics and Policy”, Escola Tècnica Superior de Enginieria Camins, Canals i Ports (Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain, June 13, 2008.
“The Economics of Climate Change and Adaptation”, APROMA, Barcelona, Spain, June 12, 2008.
“Campus Carbon Inventory: Approach and Challenges”, University System of Maryland Commitment to Climate Change Workshop, Shady Grove, Maryland, May 1, 2008.
“US Climate Impacts and the Cost of Inaction”, Climate Change Impacts Interagency Workgroup, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, April 24, 2008.
“Campus Carbon Inventory and Climate Action Plan”, Sustainability Speakers Series, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 16, 2008.
“Cool Campus: Context and Challenge for Climate Action”, National Association of College and University Business Officers ‘Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference’, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 1, 2008.
“Planners, Municipal Officials and Climate Change”, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, Boston, Massachusetts, March 11, 2008.
“Climate and Urban Energy Systems: Possible Impacts and Adaptation”, International Energy Agency, Paris, France, January 29, 2008.
“The Energy-Climate Change Connection: Mitigation and Adaptation Issues”, Climate Information: Responding to User Needs, University of Maryland, College Park, October 22-23, 2007.
“Integrating Engineering, Economic and Social Sciences with Climate Change Research”, Inside Maryland, College Park, October 19, 2007.
“University of Maryland Carbon Inventory”, Sustainability for Campus Facilities Planners and Capital Budget Officers, The University System of Maryland, Shady Grove, October 11, 2007.
“Cities and Climate Change – Impacts and Adaptation”, Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland, College Park, October 8, 2007.
“Hot Nights (and Days) – Life in Bremen, Germany, Under an Altered Climate”, Environment Roundtable, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, August 31, 2007.
“Klimaauswirkungen und Adaption in Städten: Neue Einsichten und Herausforderungen” (Climate Impacts and Adaptation: New Insights and Challenges), Symposium on Sustainability and Global Change, University of Hamburg, Germany, June 21-22, 2007.
“Wenn’s heiß wird in Bremen: Wie kann sich Bremen an den Klimawandel anpassen?” (When Things get Hot in Bremen: How Can Bremen Adapt to Climate Change?) Talk about Nachhaltigkeit, Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen, Germany, June 19, 2007.
“Klimawandel – Auswirkungen und Anpassunsstrategien” (Climate Change – Impacts and Adaptation Strategies) Key Note Address, ecolo, Bremen, Germany, January 26, 2007.
“Dynamische Modellierung für Investitions- und Politikentscheidung” (Dynamic Modeling for Investment and Policy Making), Applied Systems Engineering Lecture Series, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, January 24, 2007.
“Resilienz – Ein Neues Paradigma für Planung und Management?” (Resilience – A New Paradigm for Planning and Management?”) artec, Institute für Nachhaltigkeit, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, November 1, 2006.
“Increasing Regional Resilience by Managing the Interrelations Among Population, Infrastructure and Institutions”, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Environment Canada and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, April 19-21, 2006.
“The Economics of Sustainability and the Sustainability of Economics”, School of Architecture, Symposium on Industrial Ecologies of Construction, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 21, 2006.
“Integrative Environmental Research: Reaching Across Disciplines and Institutions”, Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, February 13, 2006.
“Climate Impacts and Adaptation in Urban Areas”, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, October 21, 2005.
“Materials Entropy, Economics and Policy”, 2nd International Conference on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Chemistry, and 9th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, Washington, D.C., June 20 – 24, 2005.
“Constraints and Opportunities for Planning and Management in a Rapidly Changing Environment”, Industrial Ecology Lecture Series, Universität Bremen, Germany, June 8, 2005.
“Technology Choice in Industry”, Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, Joint Global Change Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, May 24, 2005.
“Climate Impacts on Urban Infrastructure”, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, January 16, 2005.
“Urban Change and Climate Impacts”, CSIRO, Social and Economic Integration, Canberra, Australia, January 24, 2005.
“Anticipatory Management of Urban Infrastructure Systems”, US Army Corps of Engineers Climate Impacts Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland, November 9, 2004.
“Anticipatory Management”, The Gordon Research Conferences, Industrial Ecology, Oxford University, Oxford, England, August 6, 2004.
“Anticipatory Management of Urban Infrastructure Systems for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change”, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, Maryland, May 18, 2004.
“The Economics of Sustainability and the Sustainability of Economics”, Symposium on The Science of Sustainability, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle, Washington, February 15, 2004.
“Preparing Urban Infrastructure for Impacts of Climate Change”, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 13, 2004.
“Perspectives and Plans for Environmental Research”, Institute for Environmental Studies, IVM, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 29, 2004.
“Vulnerabilities and Adaptation of Urban Infrastructure in a Variable and Changing Climate”, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, IVM, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 30, 2004.
“Modeling Urban Infrastructure Vulnerabilities to Climate Change: Methodologies and Applications”, University of Maryland Department of Geography Seminar Series, College Park, Maryland, November 20, 2003.
“Dynamic Modeling of Ecological and Economic Systems”, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, November 18, 2003.
“The Frontiers of Ecological Economics”, Opening Plenary, The Cutting Edge of Ecological Economics in Australasia, Auckland, New Zealand, November 16, 2003.
“Urban Infrastructure Vulnerabilities and Dynamics in a Changing and Variable Climate”, Department of Geography, University of Southern California, and Center for Sustainable Cities, November 7, 2003.
“Public Policy Water Issues”, Conference on Maryland Water Policy Issues – What does the Future Hold?, Water Resources Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, October 24, 2003.
“The Joys and Perils of Large-Scale Interdiscisplinary Research“, Ecological Economics Student Group Seminar Series, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, May 9, 2003.
“Impacts of Climate Change on Localities“, Meeting of the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials, Baltimore, Maryland, May 7, 2003.
“Technological Constraints on Environmental Investment and Policy Making“, EAWAG, Zürich, Switzerland, April 24, 2003.
“Dynamic Modeling of Climate Change Impacts on Urban Areas“, Department of Biological Resources Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 8, 2003.
“Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Urban Areas“, EAWAG and ETH (Swiss Federal Technical University), Zürich, Switzerland, March 4, 2003.
“Industrial Dynamics and Capital Vintage Effects: Implications for Environmental Investments and Policy“, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, March 4, 2003.
“Synergies between Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change”, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, February 13 – 18, 2003.
“Climate’s Long-term Impacts on Metro Boston”, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 5th State and Local Climate Change Partner’s Conference, Annapolis, Maryland, November 20 – 22, 2002.
“Cities in Transition: Climate Impacts and Adaptation”, Inaugural Symposium: Climate Change – What’s at Stake and What can be Done? Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, Maryland, March 15, 2002.
“Dynamic Industrial Systems Analysis for Policy Assessment”, Research Seminar Series, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, December 5, 2001.
“Towards a New Economics of Sustainability”, Ecological Economics Seminar Series, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, November 9, 2001.
“The CLIMB Project: The Model and its Components”, Climate Change – Action in the Region, Metropolitan Area Planning Council Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1, 2001.
“Mauritius Environmental Resource Management and Industrial Development (MERMAID)”, Keynote Address to the MERMAID 2001 Workshop, University of Mauritius and Mauritius Research Council, Reduit, Mauritius, June 25, 2001.
“Potential impacts of Climate Change on Metropolitan Energy Infrastructure”, Symposium: Power, Climate and Water – A Coalescence of Critical Issues, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 30, 2001.
“Climate Change and Urban Infrastructure”, CASE News Media Program: World Climate Change in the 21st Century – Understanding it Globally, Experiencing it Locally, University of Maryland, College Park, April 4, 2001.
“Dynamic of Metals in an Industrial Metabolism”, Department of Physical resource Theory, Physics and Physical Engineering, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden, March 12, 2001.
“Economics for Sustainability”, Keynote Address to the EPA ORD Workshop on Sustainability Research, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 20, 2000.
“Integrated Analysis and Management of Natural Resources in Mauritius”, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius, June 5, 2000.
“Modeling the Dynamics of Resource Use and Technology Change for Investment and Policy Decision-making”, The Maryland School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, March 13, 2000.
“Identifying Investments in Industry and Urban Infrastructure with Guidance from Stakeholders”, Center for Analysis, Assessment and Mitigation of Regional Impacts from Climate Change, and Critical Research Initiatives Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, February 7, 2000.
“Integrated Economic Analysis of Technology Change and Resource Use for Environmental Policy”. The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, January 25, 2000.
“Climate Change Policies and the US Pulp and Paper Industry”, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC., December 10, 1999.
“Dynamic Modeling for Consensus Building in Environmental and Investment Decision Making”, Center for Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, December 6, 1999.
“Dynamic Modeling of Social and Environmental Systems”, Faculty of Environmental Science and The Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, May 5, 1999.
“Understanding Industrial Responses to Climate Change Policies: The Case of US Pulp and Paper”, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, April 9, 1999.
“Modeling Industrial Responses to Climate Change Policies”, Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, March 31, 1999.
“Dynamic Modeling of Human-Environment Systems”, Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, March 2, 1999.
“Modeling for Consensus Building in Complex Settings”, Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, February 16, 1999.
“Creating Knowledge by Analogy”, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, December 4, 1998.
“Material Cycles and Energy Flows in the Industrial Ecology”, Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, November 6, 1998.
“Using Dynamic Modeling to Assess Climate Change Policies” Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, November 5, 1998.
“Introduction of Dynamic Modeling: Dynamic Modeling of Physical Flows in the Economy”, Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, November 4, 1998.
“Models sobres las interactiones Economia-Ecologia” (Models of Economy-Ecology Interactions), Fundació Bancaixa, Valencia, Spain, November 3, 1998.
“Dynamic Ecological Economic-Modeling”, Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, November 2, 1998.
“Industrial Responses to Climate Change Policies”, The Tellus Institute, Boston, MA, June 25, 1998.
“Dynamic Modeling of the US Iron and Steel Industry”, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Washington, D.C., April 30, 1998.
“Dynamic Modeling: Theory, Concepts, Tools and Applications”, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius, Lecture Series from March 10 – 21, 1998.
“Modeling Impacts of Energy and Carbon Taxes on US Industry”, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, November 24, 1997.
“Dynamic Modeling of Industrial Processes”, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, April 30, 1996.
“Oscillators, Thinkers, Midwives: Understanding Complex Living Systems”, Department of Chemistry Clark University, March 18, 1996.
“Modeling the Dynamics of Resource Extraction, Emissions and Economic Adjustment”, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, Campo Grande, Brazil, November 9, 1995.
“Teaching Systems Thinking Through Dynamic Modeling”, Faculty Forum on Technology Enhanced Environments, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, October 19, 1995.