Rob Coppock

Rob Coppock was one of the speakers at the Doors of Perception 3, November 1995.

Rob Coppock is a senior fellow at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington.
At present, he is deputy director of the German-American Academic Council Foundation in Washington, D.C. Among other things, he has worked as director, visiting professor and program officer for a great number of organisations and institutions, including the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, the National Research Council in Washington, DC and the International Institute for Environment and Safety in Berlin, Germany. His research topics include climate change and policy; risk perception and communication; health risks, costs and benefits for environmental decision-making and environmental impact and social interactions.

Mr. Coppock has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the NRC Special Achievement Award and the Staff Performance Award of the Commission on Physical Sciences of the NRC.

He was the founding director of the `2050 project', a joint venture between the Santa Fe Institute, The Brookings Institute and the World Resource Institute. Its funding was cut because `corporate America was not interested in 60 years ahead'. `2050' is still doing `regional scenarios'. Coppock's topic at Doors 3 will be `ways of thinking about sustainability'.

Publications:

• 1995 Scenarios of Sustainability: The Challenge of Describing Desirable Futures with Dale S. Rothman in: Robert W. Kates, Martin L. Parry and Tomas E. Downing (Eds.), Global Environmental Change and Food Policy (in preparation)
• 1988 Risk Analysis in the US and in the UK: Regulations, Mechanisms and Perspectives in Risiko und Risikomanagement: Oekologie & Gesellschaft (3), Helbig & Lichtenhahn, Basel, Switzerland, 85-100.
• 1984 Social Constraints on Technological Progress, Gower Publishing, Aldershot, England.
• 1978 The Influence of Himalayan Tourism on Sherpa Culture and Habitat : Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch 28/6 61-68
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