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Bert de Vries is a Professor of Global Change Energy at Utrecht University, having established his expertise in energy analysis, climate change modeling, and sustainable development. He has been affiliated with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) as a senior scientist from 1990 to 2013, where he contributed to modeling scenario construction for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a distinction that led to the agency sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. De Vries is a member of the TARGETS-IMAGE teams, focusing on global change integrated assessment models. His contributions to the academic community include co-editing several books such as 'Perspectives on Global Change: The TARGETS Approach' and 'Mappae Mundi: Humans and Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective'. In December 2012, he published a textbook titled 'Sustainability Science', reflecting ten years of teaching and course coordination on sustainable development. The updated edition of this textbook was released in 2023, accompanied by an online platform providing chapter summaries and related blogs.
Department of Psychology