Transformations of Social-Ecological Systems / Ecological Research Monographs (PDF)

systems, collective behaviour change, affective expression of narratives of vision and identity for sustainable futures, and creativity and innovation for societal needs.



At IASS, where he has been since 2012, Prof. Chabay was co-leader of interdisciplinary research on ecological, social, and economic transformations in the Eurasian Arctic (2013-2016). He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles in major journals in social and natural science and holds three patents. He serves on international advisory boards on affordable energy for humanity, environmental systems research, social dimensions of creativity and innovation, and integrated risk governance. He was Helmholtz Alliance ENERGY-TRANS professor at the University of Stuttgart Institute for Social Science (2012-2014), elected honorary member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, and appointed Hasselblad Professor in sociology and applied IT in Gothenburg and Chalmers Universities, Sweden (2006-2011). He founded the New Curiosity Shop, a workshop in Silicon Valley (1984-2001), where he led design and production of interactive science exhibitions for 230 museums, science centres, and corporations worldwide, including Disney and NASA. He was associate director of the Exploratorium Science Museum, San Francisco (1982-1983), consulting professor of chemistry at Stanford University (1984-1988), and led research on non-linear optical spectroscopy at US NIST (1974-1982) after receiving his Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago.







Jennifer Helgeson is a research economist in the Applied Economics Office, Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland, USA. Her major research fields are sustainability and resilience science, collective behavioural change, modeling for valuing and understanding co-benefits of resilience planning, community resilience planning, and socioeconomic survey work.

Dr. Helgeson leads the Applied Economics Office at NIST's work on the economics of community resilience planning. She is primarily interested in economic analyses that consider behavioural aspects and approaches to dealing with environmental issues. In the past, she was a researcher at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research, Norway, and a climate adaptation specialist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France.



She holds an M.Sc. degree in environmental change and management from the University of Oxford. She received her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Norway, where she studied the socioeconomics of transboundary reindeer herding. Dr. Helgeson has authored articles, reports, and book chapters related to the importance of recognizing perceptions and heuristics in studying economic and social decisions. She has also designed experiments related to risk perception and resilience that have been applied from rural Uganda to the Northeast USA. Additionally, she has co-edited a previous book on land restoration practices.