Feeding the World, Sustaining the Planet

Jonathan Foley is the director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of the Minnesota, where his work focuses on global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies. His research has contributed to a greater understanding of large-scale ecosystem processes, global patterns of land use, the behavior of the planet's climate and water cycles, and the sustainability of our biosphere. Foley joined the University of Minnesota in 2008, after spending fifteen years on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, where he founded the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. He is a professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. The 2011 Paul L. Errington Lecture.

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