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M.Sc. with distinction, Ecological Economics, University of Edinburgh, 2004
M.A., Whole Systems Design, Antioch University Seattle, 2001
Certificate of Organization Systems Renewal
B.A., Ecopsychology, Education and Sustainability, Prescott College, 1997
James Pittman is an Associate Faculty member in the MAP Environmental
Studies department with focus on the Concentration in Sustainability
Science and Practice and as resource consultant for the college's
Ph.D. program in Sustainability Education.
As Managing Director of a leading ecological economics think-tank and
consultancy, the non-profit Earth Economics in Seattle, James has
spent several years as a Senior Consultant serving public and private
sector clients focusing on ecosystem service modeling,
sustainability indicator assessment and stakeholder engagement
facilitation.
For over a decade, James has served
as consultant to the President's Council on Sustainable
Development, the USDA Forest Service, the US Department of Energy the
City of Washington D.C., the Washington State Department of Ecology,
the EcoSage Corporation, a Fortune 50 software corporation and
various other agencies, corporations, non-profits and public
utilities. With strong entrepreneurial inclinations he worked with
others to found and/or manage a number of non-profit organizations
and businesses. He teaches systems thinking and dynamic modeling at
the prestigious Bainbridge Graduate Institute in their Sustainable
Business MBA program. James is a published author and accomplished
speaker with an extensive international network of
colleagues in ecological economics, organizational development and
education for sustainability.
Publications and reports (co)written:
McCormick, R. and Pittman, J. (in press). Valuation of Ecological
Goods and Services. In Kapustka, L., Landis, W. and Johnson, A.
(eds.) Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape
Perspective. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Pittman, J., and Wilhelm, K., 2007. Creating Appropriate Economic and
Financial Indicators of Sustainability. In Litten, L., (ed.) New
Directions in Institutional Research: The Sustainability Challenge.
Jossey-Bass: San Francisco.
Farley, J., Baker, D., Batker, D., Koliba, C., Matteson, R., Mills,
R., Pittman, J., 2007. Opening the Policy Window for Ecological
Economics: Hurricane Katrina as a Focusing Event. Journal of
Ecological Economics, Special Section on Coastal Disasters. Vol. 63
Iss. 2-3. Elsevier: New York.
Pittman, J., Batker, D., de la Torres, I., 2006. Special Benefit from
Ecosystem Services: An Economic Analysis of King Conservation
District Activities. Earth Economics: Seattle.
Batker, D., Pittman, J., Burgess, E., Patterson, T., 2005. Ecosystem
Services Valuation Study for the Tolt River Watershed: A General
Technical Report to the United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service.
Pittman, 2004. Living Sustainability Through Higher Education: A
Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change. In Corcoran,
P. and Wals, A. (Editorial Reviewer) Higher Education and the Challenge of
Sustainability: Problematics, Promise and Practice. Kluwer Academic
Press: Dordrecht, Netherlands.
National Wildlife Federation and Princeton Research Associates, 2001.
“State of the Campus Environment: A National Report Card on
Environmental Performance and Sustainability in Higher
Education.” (Co-editor)
Voices of America’s Youth Roundtable, 1999. Report on Youth Vision of
Sustainable America delivered to the President’s Council on
Sustainable Development at the National Town Meeting for a
Sustainable America. (Editor)
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