Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series
"Hybrid Knowledge, Linking Action to Knowledge, and Trust: Experiences Balancing Human Development and Conservation in East Africa"
Speaker: Robin Reid, Principal Systems Socio-Ecologist and Project Leader, Sustaining Lands and Livelihood Project, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Hosted by Professor William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG and Sustainability Science Program, Center for International Development
Sponsored by the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard's Center for International Development
Thursday, 17
May 2007
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch provided if
RSVP to Mary Anne Baumgartner by Monday, 14 May
Perkins Room, 4th Floor,
Rubenstein
Building, KSG
Robin Reid is a systems ecologist, leading research on livestock and environment issues at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya. She began her research career as a biologist in the US National Park Service working on plant herbivore interactions. For the last two decades, she has worked in sub-humid and semi-arid lands in Africa, focusing on why and where land use changes and how such changes affect ecosystems. She currently leads a global pastoral and agro-pastoral systems project at ILRI, which attempts to balance pastoral development and ecosystem conservation by actively linking action with knowledge. The pastoral team works with NGO's, government, communities and private industry to bring the best of science (field studies, GIS, remote sensing, and simulation modelling) to bear on critical conservation-development issues.
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