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Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series

"Social, Economic and Political Drivers of Bornean Deforestation and Fires: Implications for Carbon Emissions, Biodiversity and Rural Livelihoods"

Speaker: Lisa Curran, Professor of Tropical Resources and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

Hosted by Professor William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG; Sustainability Science Program, Center for International Development

Sponsored by the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard's Center for International Development

Thursday, 19 April 2007
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch provided if RSVP to Mary Anne Baumgartner by Thursday, 12 April
Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG

Biography:

Lisa Curran is a Professor of Tropical Resources and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She has spent over 25 years in the South and Southeast Asian tropics conducting scientific research, training and policy studies. She earned a B.A. with honors from Harvard University, a Ph.D from Princeton University and awarded a Mercer Post-doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University. She has held a diversity of consultancy positions for several foundations, private sector, non-governmental conservation and rural development organizations, as well as multi-disciplinary teams for the US Agency for International Development, The World Bank and Asian Development Bank. Prof. Curran served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the East-West Center’s Ecosystem & Governance Program, Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, and Marie Tharp Fellow at the Earth Institute of Columbia University. Currently, she is a MacArthur Fellow (2007-2012), External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute (2003-2009) and serves on NASA’s Earth Science Advisory Board, as well as governing boards of the Tropical Forest Foundation, The Forest Dialogue and Forest Integrity Network under Transparency International’s Corruption Watch Program. Prof. Curran’s current interdisciplinary research programs examine the effects of land use change, climate, drought and fire on carbon dynamics and biodiversity; and the impact of multi-sectoral governmental policies and industrial practices on ecosystem goods and services and rural livelihoods in tropical frontiers.

Background Documents:

Curran, L.M., S. N. Trigg, A. K. McDonald, D. Astiani,
       Y. M. Hardiono, P. Siregar, I. Caniago, and E.
       Kasischke. 2004. "Lowland Forest Loss in
       Protected Areas of Indonesian Borneo." Science
       3030: 1003.

Soares-Filho, Britaldo Silveira, Daniel Curtis Nepstad,
       Lisa M. Curran, Gustavo Coutinho Cerqueira,
       Ricardo Alexandrino Garcia, Claudia Azevedo
       Ramos, Eliane Voll, Alice McDonald, Paul
       Lefebvre, and Peter Schlesinger. 2006. "Modelling
       Conservation in the Amazon Basin." Nature 440:
       523.