Billie L. Turner II
Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society
Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
Research Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
Web: http://geoplan.asu.edu/turner
Prof. Turner’s major research interests are Human-environment relationships, land change science, sustainability, tropical forests, and ancient Maya. He is currently engaged in land change science focused on land change and ecosystem service change in xeric environments. In addition, Professor Turner has served on a large number of panels, committees and boards of the Association of American Geographers, National Research Council-National Academy of Sciences, Social Science Research Council, and International Council of Science. He helped to form the Global Land Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and International Human Dimensions Programme and currently serves on the Scientific Steering Committee of DIVERSITAS as well as a panel of America's Climate Choices, a congressionally mandated study of the National Academy of Sciences directed to outreach on global environmental change. Prof. Turner is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
