Tuesday, 7 December 2004
12:00-1:30 pm
Lunch will be served
Perkins Room (Room 415),  Rubenstein Building, KSG
 

RSVP required - please contact cid_events@harvard.edu if you plan to attend
 

Biography:

Thomas J. Wilbanks is a Corporate Research Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and leads the Laboratory’s Global Change and Developing Country Programs. He conducts research and publishes extensively on such issues as sustainable development, energy and environmental policy, responses to global climate change, and the role of geographical scale in all of these regards. The global change and developing country programs that Wilbanks coordinates at ORNL have led more than 70 projects in 40 developing countries worldwide in the past two decades. He has recently played roles in the first U.S. National Assessment of Possible Consequences of Climate Variability and Change (1997-2000); an Association of American Geographers' project on Global Change in Local Places (1996-2000); the IPCC Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability) Third Assessment Report; aspects of the UNEP et al. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment related to issues of geographic scale; and he is a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report. He is a member of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the U.S. National Research Council (NRC) and Chair of NRC’s Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change. He is also a member of the Science Steering Group for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Research Program.

PowerPoint Presentation for Seminar:

Scale and Technological Change for Energy Sustainability