Cutler J. Cleveland
Encyclopedia
American Library Association
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award. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of the Digital Universe
Digital Universe
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Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth
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Early life
Cutler Cleveland holds a B.S. in EcologyEcology
Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
and Systematics
Systematics
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from Cornell University
Cornell University
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, a M.S. in Marine Science from Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University
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, and a Ph.D. in Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
in 1988.
Career
Cleveland is Professor of GeographyGeography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
and Environment
Environmental science
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...
at Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (CEES).
Cleveland is a member of the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Energy Statistics, an advisory group to the Department of Energy
United States Department of Energy
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. He has been a consultant to private and public organizations, including the Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank
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, the United Nations
United Nations
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Commission on Sustainable Development
Sustainable development
Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come...
, Charles River Associates, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, the US Department of Energy, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency
United States Environmental Protection Agency
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He has been published in Nature
Nature (journal)
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, Science
Science (journal)
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, Energy, Resource and Energy Economics, and Ecological Economics
Ecological economics
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Cleveland has received a number of awards for his work, including an Adelman-Frankel Award from the United States Association of Energy Economics for "unique and innovative contributions to the field of energy economics". He has won publication awards from the International Association of Energy Economics, the American Library Association
American Library Association
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, and the National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation
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Personal life
Cutler Cleveland is married to Karen Lefkowitz. They have two children, Molly Alexandra Cleveland and Sam Cutler Cleveland.Works
- Cleveland, Cutler J.; Stern, David I.; Costanza, Robert (Eds.) The Economics of Nature and the Nature of Economics, Advances in Ecological Economics Series, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1858989809
- Cleveland, Cutler J.; Morris, Christopher G. (Eds.) Dictionary of Energy: Expanded Edition, Elsevier Science; 2009. ISBN 9780080964911
- Hall, Charles A. S.; Cleveland, Cutler J.; Kaufmann, Robert. Energy and Resource Quality: The Ecology of the Economic Process, University Press of Colorado, 1992. ISBN 0870812580
- Cleveland, Cutler J.; Kaufman, Robert K. Environmental Science, McGraw-Hill, 2007. ISBN 0072984295
- Cleveland, Cutler J. (Ed.) Concise Encyclopedia of the History of Energy, Academic Press, 2009. ISBN 9780123751171
- Cleveland, Cutler J. Energy and the Environment, Asian Development Bank, 2001. ISBN 9715613713
External links
- Faculty profile at Boston University
- Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University