Biography
Davies is a political scientist who, during the last 30 years, has written several books and numerous articles about environmental policy. He chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Decision Making for Regulating Chemicals in the Environment. In addition, while serving as a consultant to the President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization, he co-authored the reorganization plan that created the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Davies has held positions as assistant professor of public policy at Princeton University; executive vice president of the Conservation Foundation; assistant administrator for policy at the EPA; and executive director of the National Commission on the Environment.
Ph.D. in American government, Columbia University, 1965. B.A. in American government, Dartmouth College, 1959.
Professional Experience
Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1992 - present.
Senior Advisor, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 2005-present. Working on a management plan for dealing with potential adverse effects of nanotechnology.
Director, Resources for the Future, Risk, Resource and Environmental Management, 1992 - 2000.
Executive Director, National Commission on the Environment, 1991 - 1992.
Assistant Administrator for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989 - 1991.
Executive Vice President, The Conservation Foundation, 1976 - 1989.
Fellow and Assistant Director, Resources for the Future, Institutions and Public Decisions Division, 1973 - 1976.
Senior Staff Member, Executive Office of the President, Council on Environmental Quality, 1970 - 1973.
Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, 1967 - 1970.
Chief Examiner for Environmental and Consumer Protection Bureau of the Budget, Executive Office of the President, 1965 - 1967.
Instructor in Government and Director of the Bureau for Research in Municipal Government, Bowdoin College, 1963 - 1965.
Journal Articles
What Works and What Doesn't: Voluntary Programs in the U.S. and Europe Robert Hersh, Daniel Beardsley, and Terry Davies Environment | September 1997
Books, Chapters, and Reports
Lessons from the Case Studies Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenstern, Thomas Sterner, and J. Clarence (Terry) Davies Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe | Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenster, and Thomas Sterner, eds. | RFF Press | 2004 | Chapter 12
Social Values in Environmental Regulation Robert Hersh, Terry Davies, and Jan Mazurek Regulating Pollution: Does the U.S. System Work? | Terry Davies and Jan Mazurek, eds. | Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press | 1997
Industry Incentives for Environmental Improvement: Evaluation of U.S. Federal Initiatives
Terry Davies, Janice Mazurek, Kieran McCarthy, and Nicole Darnall
RFF Report | September 1996 | Summary of Findings An electronic version of this report is not available. To order the paper version of this report, contact the Global Environment Management Initiative's publications office at (202) 296-7449.
Industry Incentives for Environmental Improvement: Evaluation of U.S. Federal Initiatives
J. Clarence Davies Washington, D.C.: Global Environmental Management Initiative | 1996
Environmental Protection Agency J. Clarence Davies Encyclopedia of the Environment | Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin Company | 1994
Environmental Regulation and Technical Change: Overview and Observations J. Clarence Davies Keeping Pace with Science and Engineering: Case Studies in Environmental Regulation | Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Engineering | 1993
The United States: Experiment and Fragmentation J. Clarence Davies Integrated Pollution Control in Europe and North America | Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation and the Institute for European Environmental Policy | 1990
The Environmental Protection Act: An Integrated Pollution Control Law
J. Clarence Davies Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation | 1988
Risk Communication
J. Clarence Davies, co-editor Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation | 1987
A Multimedia Approach to Pollution Control: Cross-Media Problems J. Clarence Davies Pollutants in a Multimedia Environment | New York, NY: Plenum Press | 1986
Risk Assessment and Risk Control
J. Clarence Davies Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation | 1985
Environmental Institutions and the Reagan Administration J. Clarence Davies Environmental Policy in the 1980s | Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press | 1984
Controlling Cross-Media Pollutants
J. Clarence Davies, co-author Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation | 1984
Training for Environmental Groups
J. Clarence Davies, co-author Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation | 1984
Overall Costs and Benefits J. Clarence Davies TSCA's Impact on Society and the Chemical Industry | Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society | 1983
Significant New Use Rules for Existing Chemicals
J. Clarence Davies, co-author Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation | 1983
Determining Unreasonable Risks J. Clarence Davies Strategies for Public Health | New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. | 1981
Regulatory Issues in Toxic Substances Control Legislation J. Clarence Davies Mechanisms of Toxicity and Hazard Evaluation | Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science Publishers | 1980
Determining Unreasonable Risk
J. Clarence Davies Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation | 1979
Business and Environment: Toward Common Ground
J. Clarence Davies, co-editor Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation | 1977
Obstacles to Cleaner Air J. Clarence Davies Air Pollution and Administrative Control | Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press | 1977
Measuring the Social Costs of Technological and Environmental Change J. Clarence Davies Social Research and Public Policies | Hanover, NH: The Public Affairs Center | 1975
How Does the Agenda Get Set? J. Clarence Davies The Governance of Common Property Resources | Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press | 1974
The Role of Environmental Indices in Regional Management J. Clarence Davies Environmental Management in the Colorado River Basin | Logan, UT: Utah State University Press | 1974
The Impact of Federal Institutional Arrangements J. Clarence Davies Federal Environmental Law | St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co. | 1974
U.S. Energy Policy J. Clarence Davies Growing Against Ourselves: The Energy-Environment Tangle | Boston, MA: Lexington Books | 1974
The Politics of Pollution
J. Clarence Davies Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill | 1970
Neighborhood Groups and Urban Renewal
J. Clarence Davies New York, NY: Columbia University Press | 1966
Short Articles, Issue Briefs, and Other Publications
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 2000.
Ford Foundation Metropolitan Region Fellow, Columbia University, 1965.
Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth College, 1959.
Professional Activities
Professional Associations and Committee Memberships: Chairman, Board of Directors, RESOLVE, Inc., 1993 - 2001; member 1993 - present.
Member, Advisory Board, Center for Innovation and the Environment of the Progressive Foundation, 1995 - 1999.
Member, EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, Subcommittee on Environmental Statistics, 1991 - 1997.
Member, Board of Directors, The Institute for Cooperation in Environmental Management, 1991 - 1995.
Member, National Academy of Public Administration, Committee on EPA Priorities, 1994 - 1995.
Member, National Academy of Public Administration, Panel on Economic Incentives, 1992 - 1994.
Member, U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, Advisory Panel on Systems at Risk from Climate Change, 1991 - 1993.
Member, National Academy of Engineering, Steering Committee for Symposium on Environmental Regulation, 1992 - 1993.
Member, Advisory Board, Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1985 - 1989.
Member, National Advisory Board, National Institute for Chemical Studies, 1986 - 1989.
Member, Board of Governors, Environmental Health and Safety Institute, National Safety Council, 1986 - 1989.
Member, Board of Directors, Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Council, 1987 - 1989.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Multimedia Pollutants, 1986 - 1988.
Member, Science Advisory Board, International Joint Commission (U.S.-Canada), 1984 - 1987.
Member, Environmental Studies Board, National Academy of Sciences, 1983 - 1985.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health, 1982 - 1983.
Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 1976 - 1981.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Prevention of Significant Deterioration Under the Clean Air Act, 1979 - 1981.
Co-Chairman, Committee on Economics, Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 1979 - 1980.
Member, Senior Steering Committee, Center for Technology and Administration, American University, 1976 - 1979.
Chairman, Administrators Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency, 1977 - 1978.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Environmental Decision Making, 1975 - 1977.
Chairman, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Principles of Decision Making for Regulating Chemicals in the Environment, 1974 - 1975.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Environmental Indices, 1973 - 1974.
Consultant Activities: Consultant, National Science Foundation, 1976 - 1979.
Consultant, President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization (co-authored reorganization plan that created the Environmental Protection Agency), 1969 - 1970.
Consultant, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1968 - 1969.
Consultant, U.S. Bureau of Budget, 1967 - 1968.
Public Service
"The Possible Elevation of the U.S. EPA to Cabinet Status." Delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Government Operations, Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, September 20, 2001.
"Testimony on Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA)." Delivered to the U.S. Senate, Committee on Environment and Public Works, July 27, 2000.
"Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making and the Federal Advisory Committee Act." Delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives, Government Reform and Oversight Committee, July 14, 1998.
