Gretchen Daily
Gretchen Cara Daily (born October 19, 1964 in Washington, DC ) is an American ecologist and professor at Stanford University . She is one of the leading representatives of the ecosystem service approach.
Life and research
Daily did her BS , MS and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. Her dissertation from 1992 was entitled Interactions between populations and resources .
Her research relates to the biogeographical relationships between the future development of ecosystems and their dynamics. It tries to harmonize biodiversity protection and agricultural development and to find common ways for decision makers in terms of sustainable development. Gretchen Daily co-founded the Natural Capital Project , which aims to encourage various stakeholders to act together on nature conservation issues.
Daily is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2003), the US National Academy of Sciences (since 2005) and the American Philosophical Society (since 2008), on the boards of the Stockholm Resilience Center and the Nature Conservancy . She is winner of the Heinz Award 2010 and the Volvo Environment Prize 2012. In 2017 she received the Blue Planet Prize together with Hans Joachim Schellnhuber . For 2018 she was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award and for 2020 the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement .
Publications
Books
- with K. Ellison: The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable. Island Press, Washington, DC 2002, ISBN 1-4175-3934-8 . (also in chinese and japanese)
- with S. Levin, RK Colwell, J. Lubchenco, HA Mooney, ED. Schulze and D. Tilman (Eds.): The Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Academic Press, San Diego, CA 2001.
- as publisher: Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems. Island Press, Washington, DC 1997, ISBN 1-55963-475-8 .
- with PR Ehrlich and AH Ehrlich: The stork and the plow: The equity answer to the human dilemma. Putnam Press, New York, NY 1995, ISBN 0-399-14074-3 .
Daily published about 200 scientific and popular science articles.
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Web links
Huffington Post : Interview April 17, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ What when how: Retrieved May 6, 2013
- ^ Homepage of Stanford University
- ↑ stockholmresilience.org ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Most important environmental award for climate researchers from Potsdam . In: Märkische Allgemeine , June 14, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daily, Gretchen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Daily, Gretchen C .; Daily, Gretchen Cara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ecologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |