Prof. Simon Levin, Princeton University, on Ecological Early Warning Systems

Why is a multi-disciplinary approach key to addressing biodiversity
loss? Listen to Jason Mitchell discuss with Professor Simon Levin,
Princeton University, about what’s at stake in the effort to
preserve biodiversity loss; how his work has expanded into the
sociological, political economy and policy space; and why a common
language — a grammar for economic reasoning — is vital for bringing
together different disciplines to understand nature. Professor
Simon Levin is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University
Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton
University and the Director of the Center for BioComplexity in the
High Meadows Environmental Institute. His research examines the
structure and functioning of ecosystems, the dynamics of disease,
and the coupling of ecological and socioeconomic systems. Simon is
a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Member of
the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical
Society, and a Foreign Member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze,
Lettere ed Arti, and the Istituto Lombardo. He has over 500
publications and is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
and the Princeton Guide to Ecology. Simon’s awards include: the
Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prize in Basic
Sciences, the Ecological Society of America’s MacArthur and Eminent
Ecologist Awards, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement,
and the National Medal of Science.