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Making the Impossible Possible: Adapting to Rapid Climate Change

Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany. His research interests center on the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies and associated developments in different major social institutions of modern society (e.g. science, politics, governance, the economy and globalization) as well as the societal consequences of climate change. He has published more than 40 books and over 100 refereed articles. Among his recent book publications are: Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society (Transaction Books, 2004); Knowledge (with Reiner Grundmann, Routledge, 2005), Moral Markets (Paradigm Publishers, 2008), Who owns Knowledge: Knowledge and the Law (with Bernd Weiler, Transaction Books, 2008), Knowledge and Democracy (Transaction Publishers, 2008) and Society (with Reiner Grundmann, Routledge, 2009) and Climate and Society (with Hans von Storch, World Scientific Publishers).

The Economics of Sustainability: Can we create a sustainable future?

Howard has been involved with sustainable agricultural and agroforestry systems, plant breeding, molecular biology and food production systems for over 40 years. A former college professor, he was one of the founders of Seeds of Change and at Mars, Incorporated, is responsible for their plant science globally, investigation of potential new plant-based solutions for use in their brands, review and oversight of existing and future plant-based research. A former Fulbright Scholar, Ford Foundation Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Award winner, in 2007 Howard was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organic Trade Association and was recognized by USDA for his work on the international cacao breeding project. In 2008 Howard was appointed to direct the Mars, Incorporated global effort on the genome sequencing of Theobroma cacao, with IBM and USDA- ARS, was made a Fellow of the World Agroforestry Centre, organized the Kumasi Cacao Consensus Symposium, authored the IAASTD chapter on Biotechnology and Biodiversity and is member of the National Research Council Committee on Citrus and Greening. He is a founding member of the Keystone Roundtable on Sustainable Agriculture, co-chair of the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry and is chairperson of the External Advisory Board of the Agriculture Sustainability Institute at UC Davis. His collaborations span all continents and have involved the National Academies of Science, The World Bank, parastals and NGO’s, and the Ford Foundation, the Gates Foundation, amongst many organizations. He has presented at science meetings globally and is frequently quoted in the international press. He is an award-winning author of four books, including Chocolate: History, Culture and Heritage, and is currently co-authoring two books—The Science of Theobroma Cacao: Botany, Chemistry & Medicine and the Future of Agroforestry and Landuse Globally

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