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Dr. Harold Glasser

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Dr. Glasser focuses on why—and how—some individuals, organizations, and societies work to monitor, understand, and reduce ecocultural impacts (and are successful at becoming more ecoculturally sustainable) and others do not. The overarching theme is an effort to understand—and help bridge —the general disjunction between stated, widespread environmental concern and present-day unsustainable actions, lifestyles, and policies. He also applies theoretical insights from this research—along with tools such as social and organizational learning, multi-criteria analysis, life cycle analysis, systems dynamics, human factors research, quality of life indicators, and sustainability indicators/assessment—to develop evaluations, strategies, projects, and policies to assist schools, organizations, communities, businesses, and government in their efforts to bridge the gap between values and actions by promoting ecocultural sustainability through “doing more with less.”

Glasser has been Director of the Campus Sustainability Assessment Project, was series editor of the ten-volume Selected Works of Arne Naess (Springer, 2005), Chair of the Performance Measurement Working Group of the EPA’s Colleges and Universities Sector Assessment Project (2005), a Mesa Refuge Writers Retreat Fellow (2004), a visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Center for Development and Environment and Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo (1996), a lecturer at Schumacher College, UK (1995), and a visiting researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna (1992). Glasser currently directs the Energy Education for Sustainability Project, is a Resource Person for United Nations University—Institute of Advanced Study’s Education for Sustainable Development Program, a Senior Fellow at the University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, on the Advisory Council of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, and serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Development of Social Finance (Portland, OR), Michigan Interfaith Power and Light, and the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance. Glasser also serves on the editorial boards of: The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (Emerald), the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development (Sage), and the Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy (published Online by AU Press). He has written on education for ecocultural sustainability, deep ecology; environmental values, policy, and planning; multi-criteria analysis and product/policy evaluation; green accounting; campus sustainability assessment; and social learning. Glasser has lectured widely in Japan, Norway, Taiwan, India, the U.K., and throughout the U.S.

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