Pacific Institute

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The Pacific Institute (full legal name: the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security) is a non-profit research institute created in 1987 to provide independent research and policy analysis on issues at the intersection of development, environment, and security. It is located in Oakland, California (USA).

The focus of the Institute is to find real-world solutions to problems like water shortages, habitat destruction, global warming, and environmental terrorism. The Institute conducts research, publishes reports, recommends solutions, and works with decision makers, advocacy groups, and the public to change policy.

Since its founding, the Institute has become known for analysis that cuts across traditional areas of study. Its interdisciplinary approach is applied to resource issues, strategies for community involvement, and economic globalization, with a focus on challenging misuse and abuse of science in the policy context. (See, for example, the Institute's 2007 testimony to the U.S. Congress)[1]

Institute staff are especially known for their work on new thinking around sustainable water resources management and use. (See, for example, reports in Science Magazine [2003] and Nature [2002].)[2][3]

The director and co-founder is Dr. Peter Gleick, a MacArthur Fellow and member of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Institute also produces a biennial report on freshwater resources, called The World's Water (published by Island Press, Washington, D.C.).[4]

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  1. ^ http://www.pacinst.org/publications/testimony/Gleick_Senate_Commerce_2-7-07.pdf
  2. ^ Peter Gleick, "Global Freshwater Resources: Soft-Path Solutions for the 21st Century," State of the Planet, Science 302 (November 28, 2003): 1524-28. doi:10.1126/science.1089967.
  3. ^ "Soft Water Paths," Nature 418 (July 25, 2002): 373.
  4. ^ World's Water 2006-2007: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources, by Peter H. Gleick et al. [ISBN 1-59726-106-8], Island Press.

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