Pamela A. Matson presented the inaugural lecture in the Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series sponsored by the Delaware Environmental Institute on October 30, 2014, at Gore Recital Hall on the University of Delaware campus. Her talk was titled "Science for a Sustainability Transition: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution."
To help meet the needs of a still-growing and more-consuming human population while at the same time protecting the planetary life support systems, scientists are increasingly engaging in use-inspired fundamental research that both improves understanding and supports decision making. This talk will present the results of biophysical and social science research in an intensive wheat-growing region of Mexico to illustrate how new knowledge of the coupled human-environmental system, effectively linked to decision-making, can aid in a transition to sustainability.
