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Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development (2004-2005)

Convener: Prof. William Clark, Science, Environment and Development Group

Audience: Graduate students, fellows, research staff, and faculty

Description: Sustainable development has emerged, in the words of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as one of the three great challenges facing the international community in the opening decade of the new millennium. Long an arena of activism and practical experimentation, sustainable development has more recently begun to build a tradition of critical scholarship. This occasional speaker series will host presentations and discussions of such scholarship by researchers from Harvard and visitors from the wider world.

For more information: View the schedule for the current academic year. To receive periodic announcements about the series and other upcoming local events either sponsored by or relevant to the activities of the Sustainability Science Program, send an email to subscribe to the sustsci_events list. [Note: You will receive an email asking you to confirm your subscription request; you must reply in order to complete the subscription process.]

Event archive: 2006-2007 series, 2005-2006 series, 2004-2005 series, 2003-2004 series

Schedule for the current academic year

2004-2005 Series:

4 November 2004: "The Value-Behavior Gap in Sustainable Development: A Review of the Evidence" - Robert Kates, Independent Scholar, and University Professor (Emeritus), Brown University

18 November 2004: "Rescuing Human Development from the Human Development Index" - Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Research Fellow, Science, Technology and Globalization Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

7 December 2004: "Scale and Technological Change for Energy Sustainability" - Tom Wilbanks, Corporate Research Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

14 December 2004: "Environmental and Social Sustainability: Framing the Risks of Genetically Modified Maize in the United States, the European Union and Kenya" - Adrian Ely, Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

17 March 2005: "Couple Human/Ecological Models: Where Do We Begin?" - Steve Lansing, Professor, University of Arizona, and Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute

6 April 2005: "Inequality and Human Development in Mexico" - Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Professor, Instituto Tecnol�gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

14 April 2005: "Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems" - Louis Lebel, Director, Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER), Chiang Mai University

21 April 2005: "The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's Interventions in Sao Tome and Principe: The Gap Between Research and Practice" - Tony Kiszewski, Instructor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, HSPH

10 May 2005: "The Environmental Dimension of Human Vulnerability � Results from Europe, Thoughts on Haiti" - Dagmar Schroeter, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Science, Environment and Development Group

12 May 2005: "'Raise It, Spend It, Prove It': Learning to Do Development Differently at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria" - Bernard Rivers, Executive Director of Aidspan

7 June 2005: "Consumption and Lifestyle Changes: Why They Are Essential for the Sustainability Transition" - Dr. Fritz Reusswig, Senior Researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Visiting Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard University

Schedule for the current academic year

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