title: Collaboration across disciplines for sustainability: green chemistry as an emerging multistakeholder community.
abstract: Sustainable solutions to our nation's material and energy needs must consider environmental, health, and social impacts while developing new technologies. Building a framework to support interdisciplinary interactions and incorporate sustainability goals into the research and development process will benefit green chemistry and other sciences. This paper explores the contributions that diverse disciplines can provide to the design of greener technologies. These interactions have the potential to create technologies that simultaneously minimize environmental and health impacts by drawing on the combined expertise of students and faculty in chemical sciences, engineering, environmental health, social sciences, public policy, and business.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States. iles@berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Alastair
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iles
authors.forename: Martin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Mulvihill
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D055772:Green Chemistry Technology / Q000379:methods*; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication