Braden Allenby
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Braden R. Allenby is an American environmental scientist, environmental attorney
and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University
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Allenby graduated cum laude from Yale University
in 1972, received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia
Law School in 1978, his Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia
in 1979, his Masters in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University
in the Spring of 1989, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers
in 1992.
He joined AT&T
in 1983 as a telecommunications regulatory attorney, and was an environmental attorney and Senior Environmental Attorney for AT&T from 1984 to 1993. From 1991 to 1992 he was the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC. His areas of expertise include Design for Environment, industrial ecology, telework and netcentric organizations, and earth systems engineering and management
. During 1992, he was the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering
in Washington, DC. From 1995 to 1997 he was Director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
, on temporary assignment from his position as Research Vice President, Technology and Environment, for AT&T
. In June, 2000, he chaired the second Gordon Conference on Industrial Ecology
.
In 2007 he is President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology; Chair of the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
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He is a member of the Virginia Bar, and has worked as an attorney for the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Communications Commission
, as well as a strategic consultant on economic and technical telecommunications issues. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. He is currently a former member of different boards.
, earth systems engineering and management
, industrial ecology
, NBIC (i.e., nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technology, and cognitive science), convergence and technological evolution.
He has taught courses on industrial ecology
and design for environment
at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
and at the University of Wisconsin Engineering Extension School; and has lectured widely on earth systems engineering and management
, industrial ecology
, and design for Environment
.
Allenby has authored a number of articles and book chapters on his above mentioned interests, and writes a column for the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Various Articles:
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Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
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Biography
Dr. Allenby was born in Highland Park, Illinois December 29, 1950 to Dr. Richard J. Allenby, jr.(1923- ) and Julia T. Allenby(1925–2002). He is the oldest of three brothers, Dr. Kent Allenby(1952- ) and Peter Allenby(1957- ).Allenby graduated cum laude from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in 1972, received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
Law School in 1978, his Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
in 1979, his Masters in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
in the Spring of 1989, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
in 1992.
He joined AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
in 1983 as a telecommunications regulatory attorney, and was an environmental attorney and Senior Environmental Attorney for AT&T from 1984 to 1993. From 1991 to 1992 he was the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC. His areas of expertise include Design for Environment, industrial ecology, telework and netcentric organizations, and earth systems engineering and management
Earth systems engineering and management
Earth systems engineering and management is a discipline used to analyze, design, engineer and manage complex environmental systems. It entails a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, engineering, environmental science, ethics and philosophy...
. During 1992, he was the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
in Washington, DC. From 1995 to 1997 he was Director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , just outside Livermore, California, is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center founded by the University of California in 1952...
, on temporary assignment from his position as Research Vice President, Technology and Environment, for AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
. In June, 2000, he chaired the second Gordon Conference on Industrial Ecology
Industrial ecology
Industrial Ecology is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modeled as a network of industrial processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resources into commodities which can be bought and sold to meet the...
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In 2007 he is President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology; Chair of the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is the graduate business school associated with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Darden School is one of the world's leading business schools, offering MBA, Ph.D. and Executive Education programs...
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He is a member of the Virginia Bar, and has worked as an attorney for the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
, as well as a strategic consultant on economic and technical telecommunications issues. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. He is currently a former member of different boards.
Work
His areas of expertise include: design for environmentDesign for Environment
Design for the Environment Program is a United States Environmental Protection Agency program, created in 1992, that works to prevent pollution, and the risk pollution presents to humans and the environment. The EPA DfE program provides information regarding safer electronics, safer flame...
, earth systems engineering and management
Earth systems engineering and management
Earth systems engineering and management is a discipline used to analyze, design, engineer and manage complex environmental systems. It entails a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, engineering, environmental science, ethics and philosophy...
, industrial ecology
Industrial ecology
Industrial Ecology is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modeled as a network of industrial processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resources into commodities which can be bought and sold to meet the...
, NBIC (i.e., nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technology, and cognitive science), convergence and technological evolution.
He has taught courses on industrial ecology
Industrial ecology
Industrial Ecology is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modeled as a network of industrial processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resources into commodities which can be bought and sold to meet the...
and design for environment
Design for Environment
Design for the Environment Program is a United States Environmental Protection Agency program, created in 1992, that works to prevent pollution, and the risk pollution presents to humans and the environment. The EPA DfE program provides information regarding safer electronics, safer flame...
at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is one of the graduate professional schools of Yale University. Founded to train foresters, it now trains leaders and creates new knowledge that will sustain and restore the health of the biosphere and the well-being of its people...
and at the University of Wisconsin Engineering Extension School; and has lectured widely on earth systems engineering and management
Earth systems engineering and management
Earth systems engineering and management is a discipline used to analyze, design, engineer and manage complex environmental systems. It entails a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, engineering, environmental science, ethics and philosophy...
, industrial ecology
Industrial ecology
Industrial Ecology is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modeled as a network of industrial processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resources into commodities which can be bought and sold to meet the...
, and design for Environment
Design for Environment
Design for the Environment Program is a United States Environmental Protection Agency program, created in 1992, that works to prevent pollution, and the risk pollution presents to humans and the environment. The EPA DfE program provides information regarding safer electronics, safer flame...
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Allenby has authored a number of articles and book chapters on his above mentioned interests, and writes a column for the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Publications
Books:- 1994, The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems, National Academy Press
- 1994, Environmental Threats and National Security: An International Challenge to Science and Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- 1995, Industrial Ecology, Prentice-Hall
- 1996, Design for Environment, Prentice-Hall
- 1997, Industrial Ecology and the Automobile, Prentice-Hall
- 1998, Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation, Prentice-Hall
- 2001, Information Systems and the Environment, National Academy of Engineering – Technology & Engineering
- 2005, Reconstructing earth : Technology and environment in the age of humans. Washington, DC: Island Press.
- 2009, Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering, Prentice-Hall
Various Articles:
- Earth systems engineering and management, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, (2000)
- “Earth systems engineering and management: A manifesto,” Environmental Science & Technology 41, no. 23 (2007): 7960–7965.
- “The ontologies of industrial ecology?,” Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal 3, no. 1 (2006): 28–40.
- “Toward inherently secure and resilient societies,” Science 309, no. 5737 (2005): 1034.
- “The Anthropocene as Media: Information Systems and the Creation of the Human Earth,” American Behavioral Scientist 52, no. 1 (2008): 107.
- “From human to transhuman: Technology and the reconstruction of the world,” Templeton lecture, October 22 (2007): 2007.
- “Ethical Systems in an Age of Accelerating Technological Evolution,” in Electronics and the Environment, 2006. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on, 2006, 42–44.
- “Complexity in urban systems: ICT and transportation,” in IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, 2008. ISEE 2008, 2008, 1–3.
- “Educating engineers in the anthropocene,” in IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, 2008. ISEE 2008, 2008, 1–3.
- “Sustainable Engineering Education: Translating Myth to Mechanism,” in Electronics & the Environment, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on, 2007, 52–56.
- “Earth systems engineering: The role of industrial ecology in an engineered world,” Journal of Industrial Ecology 2, no. 3 (1999): 73–93.
- “Industrial ecology,” foresight 2, no. 02 (2000).
- “Understanding industrial ecology from a biological systems perspective,” co-written with W.E.Cooper, Environmental Quality Management 3, no. 3 (1994).
- “Culture and industrial ecology,” Journal of Industrial Ecology 3, no. 1 (1999): 2–4.
See also
- Industrial EcologyIndustrial ecologyIndustrial Ecology is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modeled as a network of industrial processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resources into commodities which can be bought and sold to meet the...
- Earth Systems Engineering and ManagementEarth systems engineering and managementEarth systems engineering and management is a discipline used to analyze, design, engineer and manage complex environmental systems. It entails a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, engineering, environmental science, ethics and philosophy...
- GeoengineeringGeoengineeringThe concept of Geoengineering refers to the deliberate large-scale engineering and manipulation of the planetary environment to combat or counteract anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in 2007 that geoengineering options, such...
- Design for environmentDesign for EnvironmentDesign for the Environment Program is a United States Environmental Protection Agency program, created in 1992, that works to prevent pollution, and the risk pollution presents to humans and the environment. The EPA DfE program provides information regarding safer electronics, safer flame...
External links
- Video of talk on Life on a Terraformed Planet
- Video of TV appearance at ASU Spotlight panel discussion on Biodesign
- Video of talk on Earth Systems Engineering and Management
- Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management at Arizona State University
- Article on ESEM in the Encyclopedia of Earth
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