Research Interests

Sustainable development; Interactions of environment, development, and security concerns in international affairs, with special emphasis on the role of science and technology

Related Publications

Clark, William C. & Alicia G Harley. 2020. "Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 45: 331–86.

Collins, Ross D., Noelle E. Selin, Olivier L. de Weck, and William C. Clark. 2017. "Using Inclusive Wealth for Policy Evaluation: Application to Electricity Infrastructure Planning in Oil-Exporting Countries." Ecological Economics 133: 23-34.

Clark, William C., Nancy M. Dickson, and Pamela A. Matson. 2016. "Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development" (Special Feature Based on a Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (17): 4750-4622.

Matson, Pamela, William C. Clark and Krister Andersson. 2016. Pursuing sustainability: A guide to the science and practice. Princeton University Press.

Anadon, Laura Diaz, Gabriel Chan, Alicia G. Harley, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Sharmila L. Murthy, and William C. Clark. 2016. "Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1525004113. http://pnas.org/content/early/2016/08/11/1525004113.abstract.

Clark, W.C., Tomich, T.P., van Noordwijk, M., Guston, D., Catacutan, D., Dickson, N.M. & McNie, E. 2016, "Boundary work for sustainable development: Natural resource management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(17): 4615-22. (Originally published on line 2011 at doi: 10.1073/pnas.0900231108).

Anadon, Laura Diaz, Gabriel Chan, Alicia Harley, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Sharmila L. Murthy, and William C. Clark. 2015. "Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-079. 2015.

Cavender-Bares, J., Hefferman, J., King, E., Polasky, S., Balvanera, P. & Clark, W.C. 2013, "Sustainability and Biodiversity" in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, ed. S.A. Levin, 2nd edn, Academic Press, Waltham, MA, Vol. 7, pp. 71-84. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00390-7

Matus, K.J.M., Clark, W.C., Anastas, P.T. & Zimmerman, J.B. 2012, "Barriers to the Implementation of Green Chemistry in the United States", Environmental science & technology, vol. 46, no. 20, pp. 10892-10899. doi:10.1021/es3021777