School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
PO Box 875502
Tempe, AZ 85287
Email:
riderfoley@gmail.com
Rider is a graduate research associate with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society and a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Sustainability, where his current research includes governance and decision-making within technological innovation. He has an environmental science undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire, an environmental management master's from Harvard University and spent nine years working for an environmental consulting company before moving to Phoenix to continue his educational pursuits. His work experience includes consulting, planning, training, emergency response, and general management. He is a Faculty Associate teaching Sustainability Science for Teachers for the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College in the fall and spring semesters and teaching Sustainable World for the School of Sustainability during the summers. His goals are to learn, teach, and grow from both.
sustainability science (problem-oriented and solutions focused); applied ethics (practitioner responsibility, tacit beliefs, and collectives); governance (adaptive management, risk and anticipatory governance); capacity building (knowledge transfer, translation, and usable knowledge); participatory research (community engagement and coproduction of knowledge); transdisciplinary collaboration (natural-social sciences and quantitative-qualitative methods)
Foley, R. W., I. Bennett and J. M. Wetmore. 2012. Practitioners' views on responsbility: Applying nanoethics. Nanoethics.
Wender, B., R. W. Foley, T. Seager, D. H. Guston and A. Wiek. In press. Anticipatory governance and anticipatory life-cycle assessment of single wall carbon nanotube anode lithium ion batteries. Journal of Nanotechnology Law and Business.
Wiek, A., R. W. Foley and D. Guston. 2012. Nanotechnology for sustainability—what are the opportunities and what are the limitations?. Journal of Nanoparticle Research 14:1093-1112.
Foley, R. W. 2001. Case study of Sardar Sarovar Dam projects on environmental consequences of infrastructure development in India. Presentation at the 5-6 May 2001 Undergraduate Research Conference, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.
Foley, R. W., B. Kay, R. Rushforth and A. Wiek. 2012. Can nanotechnology decontaminate water in a morally contested context?. Presentation at the 16-18 May 2012 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, Boston, MA.
Foley, R. W., C. Kuzdas, B. Warner, L. Withycombe Keeler, D. Iwaniec and A. Wiek. 2012. Designing sustainable governance: Cross-domain comparison and evaluation. Poster presented at the 19-22 February 2012 3rd Annual International Conference on Sustainability Science, Tempe, AZ.
Foley, R. W. and A. Wiek. 2011. Reconciling urban sustainability syndromes and urban nanoscape. Poster presented at the 7-10 November 2011 3rd Annual Conference for the Society for the Studies of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET), Tempe, AZ.
Sanjay, A., R. W. Foley, P. Shapiro and A. Wiek. 2011. Nanotechnology in building construction. Poster presented at the 7-10 November 2011 3rd Annual Conference for the Society for the Studies of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET), Tempe, AZ.
Wiek, A. and R. W. Foley. 2011. Nanotechnology for sustainability? Analyzing the demand for and supply of nanotechnology in city environments. Presentation at the 7-10 November 2011 3rd Annual Conference for the Society for the Studies of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET), Tempe, AZ.
Established in 2007, the School of Sustainability brings together multiple disciplines and leaders to create and share knowledge, train a new generation of scholars and practitioners, and develop practical solutions to the most pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges of sustainability - especially as they relate to urban areas.
5/14 - Student connects art, sustainability through experiential learning
5/13 - Scientists use crowd-sourcing to help map global CO2 emissions
