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  1. The members of the International Review Panel were Bojie Fu (Chinese Academy of Science), Mogens Henze (Technical University of Denmark), Said Irandoust (Asian Institute of Technology), Olaf Kuebler (ETH), Valdur Lahtvee (Stockholm Environment Institute), Hoesung Lee (Council of Energy and Environment, Korea), Bindu Lohani (Asian Development Bank), Leena Srivastava (The Energy and Resources Institute), Jeffrey I. Steinfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Eric Sundgren (Chalmers University), Peter A. Wilderer (Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability, European Academy of Sciences and Arts), and Itaru Yasui (United Nations University). After the inauguration of IR3S this panel was retained at the request of the Executive Director to serve as an Advisory Board.

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  2. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, IR3S, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan

    Kazuhiko Takeuchi

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Komiyama, H., Takeuchi, K. Sustainability science: building a new discipline. Sustain Sci 1, 1–6 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-006-0007-4

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