Dr. Bert De Vries is an advisor for the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore – India’s first prospective National Innovation University addressing the challenges of urbanisation through an integrated programme of education, research, consulting and advisory services.
Education:
- Ph.D., RU Groningen, NL
- Post Graduate Chemistry, KU Nijmegen, NL
Career Highlights
Dr. De Vries is the Adjunct professor at UCAD since 2010 Utrecht Sustainability Institute in the Netherlands. He is also a senior researcher at Milieu Toekomst Verkenningen (MTV) of the Milieu en Natuur Planbureau (MNP) in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. His areas of expertise include energy, climate change modelling and policy issues. He has vast experience in coordinating interdisciplinary research projectson Global Change [modelling] and in framing the concept of sustainable development and its operationalisations in a variety of contexts.
Dr. De Vries is the Adjunct professor at UCAD since 2010 Utrecht Sustainability Institute in the Netherlands. He is also a senior researcher at Milieu Toekomst Verkenningen (MTV) of the Milieu en Natuur Planbureau (MNP) in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. His areas of expertise include energy, climate change modelling and policy issues. He has vast experience in coordinating interdisciplinary research projectson Global Change [modelling] and in framing the concept of sustainable development and its operationalisations in a variety of contexts.
Dr. De Vries was previously the Adjunct professor of Group Science, Technology and Society at Utrecht University from 2003 to 2009. He also served as a senior researcher at Milieu Toekomst Verkenningen (MTV) of the Rijks Instituutvoor Volksgezondheiden Milieu (RIVM) in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2006.
Prior to this, Dr. De Vries was a staff member and one of the founders of the Interfacultaire Vakgroep Energieen Milieu (IVEM), Subfaculteit Scheikunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL from 1981 to 1990. He was also a research and teaching staff member at Vrije Studierichting Scheikunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL from 1973 to 1981.
Dr. De Vries also holds scientific positions at several prestigious organisations:
- Member of the Balaton Group, a group of scientists with a focus research and teachingabout sustainable development and formally united in the international Network of Resource Information Centers (INRIC); co-organizer of biannual meetings since 2001;
- Member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2004-present)
- Member of the Science Board of the Resilience Alliance (2005-present)
- Lid Redactieraad, Stichting iNSnet (Internetwork for Sustainability), 2007-present
- Panel member for the first call of the ERC Advanced Grant evaluation, Social Sciences Theme Environment and Society (2009)
- Member Review Panel of the C-ROADS Simulator, an initiative of MIT Sloane School of Management and the Sustainability Institute (2009)
- Member Steering Committee SEPIA (Sustainable Energy Policy for Integrated Assessment) project
- Member of the Board of Stichting TERI European Head Office (2010-present)
Awards & Recognitions
- Part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) team that was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2007.
- Co-recipient of award received for the film “De Waagschaal” with Jan Boon, at the International Film Festival in Prague, on renewable and efficiency prospects for the Northern Netherlands.
Publications & Research
Peer reviewed scientific articles:
Peer reviewed scientific articles:
- Renewable energy sources:Their global potential for the first half of the 21st century at a global level: An integratedapproach, (co-authored withMonique Hoogwijk and Detlef van Vuuren), Energy Policy, Volume35, Issue 4, April 2007, pages 2590-2610.
- Conditional probabilistic estimates of 21st century greenhouse gas emissions based on thestorylines of the IPCC-SRES scenarios,(co-authored withDetlef P. van Vuuren, Arthur Beusen and Peter S.C. Heuberger),Global Environmental Change Volume 18, Issue 4, October 2008, pages 635-654.
- Conceptualizing sustainable development: Anassessment methodology connecting values, knowledge, worldviews and scenarios, (co-authored with Arthur Petersen)EcologicalEconomics,Volume 68, Issue 4, February 2009, pages 1006-1019.
- Harvesting Heterogeneous Renewable Resources:Uncoordinated, Selfish, Team-, and Community-Oriented Strategies, (co-authored with Brede, M.) Ecological ModellingVolume 25 Issue 1, January 2010, pages 117–128. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.07.007)
- Sustainability: the search for the integral worldview, (co-authored with van Egmond, N.), Futures, Volume 43, Issue 8, 2011, pages 853-867.
- Model projections for household energy use in India, (co-authored withvan Ruijven, B., D. van Vuuren, M. Isaac, J. van der Sluijs, P. Lucas and P.Balachandra), Energy Policy, Volume 39, Issue 12, 2011, pages 7747–7761.
Books:
- Perspectives on global futures: the TARGETSapproach, (co-edited with Rotmans, J), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997.
- Mappae Mundi – Humans and theirhabitats in a socio-ecological perspective: Myths, maps, methods and models, (co-edited with J. Goudsblom), University Press, Amsterdam, 2002.
- Sustainability Science – Guidance for Living on a Finite Planet, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012 (forthcoming)
Chapters peer reviewed books:
- Scenarios: guidance for an uncertain and complex world? Sustainability or Collapse: An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE), Chapter 19, pages 378-398, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2006.
- In search of sustainability: what can we learn from the past. The World System and The Earth System – Global Socio-EnvironmentalChange and Sustainability since the Neolithic,Chapter 16, pages 258-267, Left Coast Press Inc., California, 2006.
- Environmental modelling for a sustainable world. Principles of Environmental Science, Chapter 7, Springer Science + BusinessMedia B.V., 2009.
- Integrated Assessment, (co-authored with Jean-Paul Hettelingh and LeenHordijk)Principles of Environmental Science, Chapter 18, Springer Science +Business Media B.V., 2009.
- The atmosphere as a commons: The benefits of global coordination, (with Brede, M.),
Proceedings of the 15th AISDRC: Taking up the Global Challenge, 2009. - Indicators for energy security, (co-authored with Kruyt, B., D. van Vuuren, and H. Groenenberg), The Routledge Handbook of Energy Security, Chapter 15, Routledge international Handbooks, Routledge, London/New York, 2011.
