Dr. Marcel Bursztyn :: Sustainability Science Program :: Center for International Development

Sustainability Science Program

Dr. Marcel Bursztyn
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
504B Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-495-1417
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: marcel_bursztyn "at" ksg.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability Science

Marcel Bursztyn is a Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability Science in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’s Center for International Development and Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a Fulbright Visiting Senior Scholar. He is founder and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasilia, the major graduate center on sustainable development in Brazil that has granted over 70 doctorates and 250 masters over the past 11 years. He has 30 years experience including extensive work in the design and evaluation of environmental projects in the Brazilian Amazon and North-east regions. His work includes evaluation of public policies, environmental management, science and technology policy, the state and planning, agriculture and development, economics and regional development, urban and regional planning. He received his doctorates in social and economic development from the Université de Paris I (Sorbonne) and in economics from the Université de Picardie.

Environmental Governance and Environmental Science: A Contribution to the Debate on and the Practice of Sustainable Development. The challenge underway is to promote environmental governance by integrating social actors and political forces that generally do not participate in the development arena. At the scientific and technological level, the challenge is to build sustainability science by integrating the fragmented disciplinary structure that now shapes academic life. Bursztyn’s work focuses on theoretical and empirical advancements related to the challenge of implementing sustainable processes. This includes working out the fundamentals and examining experiences in environmental governance. As sustainability science depends on institutional arrangements, he studies how academic institutions are dealing with such a demand. Both activities focus on the university-public policies interface.