David L. Hawk (born c. 1948) is an American management theorist, architect, and systems scientist, specializing in climate change as environmental deterioration.
[3][4] Its research basis was on the 1975 US Legal Order system of regulation leading to climate change and other unmitigated consequences.
The research proposed "Negotiated Order" as a more viable way to avoid ethical cynicism found in US trained lawyers and lead to serious reduction in the human impact on the larger environment of the world.
From 1978 to 1981 he was an assistant professor at Colleges of Engineering and Design of the Iowa State University, where he coordinated the graduate studies in Architecture.
[7] From 1989 to 1991 he was on leave from NJIT and back at the Institute of International Business of the Stockholm School of Economics, and from 1998 to 1999 was on another leave and with the Helsinki University of Technology[2] From 1994 to 1996 Hawk was at Bell Labs AT&T as an Industrial Ecology Fellow developing new models for reduced pollution via industrial redesign.