Braden R. Allenby is currently Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and President's Professor of civil, environmental and sustainable engineering and professor of law, at Arizona State University. He is the founding director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management, and the founding chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security, at ASU. He is also an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow, a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He was the U.S. Naval Academy Stockdale Fellow (2009-2010), a Templeton Fellow (2008-2010), and the J. Herbert Hollowman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering (1991-1992). During 1995 and 1996, he served as director of energy and environmental systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His areas of expertise include industrial ecology, sustainable engineering, earth systems engineering and management, and emerging technologies. His latest books are "Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering" (co-authored with Tom Graedel, 2010), "The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering" (Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2011), and "The Techno-Human Condition" (with Dan Sarewitz, 2011).
Education
Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University 1992
M.S. Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University 1989
M.A. Economics, University of Virginia, 1979
J.D. University of Virginia Law School 1978
B.A. Environmental Studies, Yale University 1972
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Research Interests
Expertise: Earth Systems Engineering and Management Industrial Ecology Science and Technology Policy
Publications
Eric Williams, Braden Allenby, Edward Kavazanjian. Environmental, social and economic implications of global reuse and recycling of personal computers. Environmental Science & Technology (2008).
Cliff Davidson, Cynthia Murphy, Sharon Austin, Chris Hendrickson, H. Scott Matthews, Eric Williams, M. Bridges, Braden Allenby, John Crittenden, Yongsheng Chen, David Allen. Adding Sustainability to the Engineer’s Toolbox: A Challenge for Engineering Educators. Environmental Science & Technology (2007).
Graedel, T E, Allenby, Braden Richard. Industrial Ecology. (2006).
Allenby, Braden Richard. Reconstructing Earth: Technology and Environment in the Age of Humans. (2005).
Allenby, Braden Richard, Graedel, T E. Industrial Ecology. (2005).
Allenby, Braden Richard. Engineering the Earth. Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow (2005).
Allenby, Braden Richard. Technology at the Global Scale: Integrative Cognitivism and Earth Systems Engineering and Management. Scientific and Technological Thinking (2005).
Allenby, Braden Richard. Engineering and Ethics for an Anthropogenic Planet. National Academy of Engineering, Emerging Technologies and Ethical Issues in Engineering (2004).
Allenby, Braden Richard. Infrastructure in the Age of Earth Systems Engineering and Management. Digital Infrastructures (2004).
Research Activity
Kavazanjian,Edward*, Allenby,Braden Richard, Cadillo-Quiroz,Hinsby, Garcia-Pichel,Ferran, He,Ximin, Krajmalnik-Brown,Rosa, Neithalath,Narayanan, Savenye,Wilhelmina C, Shock,Everett, Shock,Everett, Torres,Cesar I, Vivoni,Enrique, Vivoni,Enrique, Zapata,Claudia E. Engineering Research Center for Bio-Mediated and Bio-Inspired Geotechnics (CBBG). NSF-ENG-EEC(8/1/2015 - 7/31/2020).
Landis,Amy Elaine*, Allenby,Braden Richard, Chester,Mikhail, Parrish,Kristen, Seager,Thomas Payson. TUES: Collaborative Research: Integrating Sustainability Grand Challenges and Experiential Learning into Engineering Curricula. NSF-EHR-DUE(9/1/2013 - 8/31/2017).
Oneill,Gerald Daniel*, Allenby,Braden Richard, Basile,George Matthew, Brown,Nicholas, Buch,Rajesh, Darnall,Nicole, Darnall,Nicole, Galluppi,Kenneth Joseph, Seager,Thomas Payson. City of Phoenix Waste Diversion Development Plan. CITY OF PHOENIX(3/18/2013 - 9/17/2013).
Seager,Thomas Payson*, Allenby,Braden Richard. An Experiential Pedagogy of Sustainability Ethics. NSF-ENG-EEC(9/1/2010 - 8/31/2013).
Marchant,Gary E*, Allenby,Braden Richard, Askland,Andrew, Herkert,Joseph Raymond. Adapting Law to Rapid Technological Change. NSF-SES(10/1/2009 - 12/31/2012).
Allenby,Braden Richard*. An Experiential Pedagogy of Sustainability Ethics. ROCHESTER INST(9/1/2009 - 7/31/2012).
Allenby,Braden Richard*, Williams,Eric David, Williams,Eric David. The First Symposium on Industrial Ecology for Young Professionals, May 17th, 2009, Tempe Arizona. NSF-ENG(5/1/2009 - 7/31/2009).
Herkert,Joseph Raymond*, Allenby,Braden Richard, Bennett,Ira Mccoy, Canary,Heather Elaine, Ellison,Karin D, Guston,David H, Mcgregor,Joan Lucy, Posner,Jonathan Dov, Wetmore,Jameson Michael, Williams,Joann Clara. Integrating Microethics and Macroethics in Graduate Science and Engineering Education: Development and Assessment of Instructional Models. NSF-SES(10/1/2008 - 9/30/2012).
Williams,Eric David*, Williams,Eric David*, Allenby,Braden Richard. Assessing and managing the sustainability of global reverse supply chains: the case of personal computers. NSF-ENG(9/1/2007 - 8/31/2011).
Allenby, Braden. Workshop on Ambient Atmosphere Air Capture (Jul 2007).
Allenby, Braden. The Future of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Complex Systems and the Anthropogenic Earth. Workshop on Frontier Research Directions in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Jun 2007).
Allenby, Braden. Complexity, Sustainability, and the Anthropogenic Earth. Plenary keynote (Jun 2007).
Allenby, Braden. Policy Implications of Technological Convergence. Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy (Aug 2006).
Allenby, Braden. Building the Sustainable Engineering Community. Center for Sustainable Engineering Workshop (Jul 2006).
Allenby, Braden. What is Sustainable Engineering. Center for Sustainable Engineering Workshop (Jul 2006).
Allenby, Braden. What is Sustainable Engineering?. Keynote Lecture (Jul 2006).
Allenby, Braden. Cognition in the Future. Public Lecture
Allenby, Braden. The Theological Foundations of the Environmental, Technological and Sustainability Discourses. Invited sermon
Allenby, Braden. Transhumanism and the Sacred. Invited Templeton Fellow lecture
Allenby, Braden. Transhumanism, the Enlightenment, and the Future of the Human. Invited Templeton Fellow lecture
Allenby, Braden. Understanding the Social and Environmental Dimensions of Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology Roundtable
Allenby, Braden. Business Decision-Making and Innovation in an Environmentally Constrained World. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Earth Systems Engineering and Management for the Business Student. Invited lecture
Allenby, Braden. Earth Systems Engineering and Management: Challenges to Current Sustainability Paradigms. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Earth Systems Engineering and Management: Practicing Technology in the Anthropocene. Colloquium Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Earth Systems Engineering and Management: The Future of Civil Engineering?. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Earth Systems Engineering and Management: Understanding the Nexus of Industrial Activity and Global Systems. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Engineering for the 21st Century: Managing Humanity’s Relationship with the Environment. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Entrepreneurship in the Anthropocene. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Ethical Dimensions of Earth Systems Engineering and Management. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Sustainability and Beyond, Executive education program. Educational module on earth systems engineering and management (4 hours)
Allenby, Braden. Technological and Natural Systems in the Anthropocene. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Technology in the Anthropocene. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Technology, Industry, and the Anthropocene. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. The 2020 Vision for Space – and the Terraformed Earth. Topics in Engineering Workshop 2004
Allenby, Braden. The Construction of an Anthropogenic Planet: Earth Systems Engineering and Management. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. The Implications of Technological Evolution for Global Health Patterns. Invited Presentation
Allenby, Braden. Design for Resilience: Complexity and Urban Systems. Keynote speech and Public Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Earth Systems Engineering and Management. Workshop on Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise
Allenby, Braden. Perspectives on Human Enhancement. Science Workshop on Human Enhancement
Allenby, Braden. Sustainable Engineering in the Anthropocene. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Sustainable Engineering: Natural and Human Systems in the Anthropocene. Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix
Allenby, Braden. Technology, Nature, and Society: Industrial Ecology to Earth Systems Engineering and Management. Invited lecture
Allenby, Braden. Panelist and Review Expert
Allenby, Braden. An Environmentalism for the 21st Century. Visiting lecture
Allenby, Braden. Corporate Planning and Innovation in Emerging Urban Networks. Keynote Lecture, Meeting the Sustainability Challenge
Allenby, Braden. Designing Material Systems in the Anthropocene. AIChE Annual Conference, Plenary Session I
Allenby, Braden. Earth Systems Engineering for Sustainability. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Engineering for the 21st Century: The Role of the IEEE. Keynote Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Human and Natural Systems in the Anthropocene. Invited lecture
Allenby, Braden. Sustainability in the Anthropocene. Keynote
Allenby, Braden. Technology as a Defining Discourse. Invited Lecture
Allenby, Braden. The Network-Centric Organization. Keynote, National Association of Environmental Managers Annual Conference
Allenby, Braden. Dawn of the Anthropocene: Earth Systems Engineering and Management. Public Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Earth Systems Engineering and Management – The Future Earth Systems Revolution, Earth Systems Revolutions: Key Turning Points in the History of Our Planet. Keynote Presentation
Allenby, Braden. Engineering Education and Sustainability as Myth. Panel on Sustainable Engineering Education
Allenby, Braden. Ethics in the Now and Future Techno World.
Allenby, Braden. Ethics, Technology and Sustainability. Public Lecture
Allenby, Braden. From Human to Transhuman: Technology and the Reconstruction of the World. Templeton Fellow Public Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Industrial Ecology from the Student’s Perspective. Biannual Conference
Allenby, Braden. Industrial Ecology, Sustainability, and the Future: Technology and the Reconstruction of the World. Studium Generale (public lecture),
Allenby, Braden. Interacting Complex Systems: ICT Infrastructure in the City. 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment
Allenby, Braden. Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment. International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment
Allenby, Braden. Life on a Terraformed Planet. Public Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Reality. Public lecture
Allenby, Braden. Sustainable Design and Mythic Structure. Keynote Lecture
Allenby, Braden. Sustainable Engineering Education: Translating Myth to Reality. International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment
Allenby, Braden. Sustainable Engineering in the Anthropocene. Invited lecture
Allenby, Braden. Sustainable Engineering in the Real World. Keynote presentation
Allenby, Braden. Sustainable Engineering Now and in the Future. Keynote presentation
Allenby, Braden. Synthetic biology. Public Television Panel Discussion
Allenby, Braden. Technology, Christianity, and Dueling Teleologies. Public lecture
Allenby, Braden. Technology, Transhumanism, and Sustainability. Invited Lecture
Service
IEEE Technical Committee on Electronics and the Environment, Chair (2007 - Present)
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, GIOS Liaison (2006 - Present)
Center for Nanotechnology in Society, Executive Committee Member (2006 - 2008)
School of Sustainability, Member, Executive Committee (2006 - 2008)
IEEE/Care Innovation/Eco Design joint conference, Steering and Advisory Board (2008)
AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, Chair, reappointed (2006 - 2007)
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Faculty Senate (2006 - 2007)
Academic Senate, Member (2007)
Arizona Product Development and Management Association Annual Conference, Member, Planning Committee (2007)
IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, Co-chair (2007 - 2007)