Research on Sustainable Development Seminar (2005-2006)

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 decades 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.

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

Schedule for the current academic year

 

2005-2006 Series

6 October 2005: "Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Political Subjects" - Arun Agrawal, Professor, University of Michigan and Visiting Scholar, Center for International Development

17 October 2005: "Russian Understanding of Sustainable Development: Biospheres, Noospheres, and Theories of Biotic Regulation" - Jon Oldfield, University of Birmingham

8 November 2005: "Dam It! Environmental Advocacy in China: Public Protest and China's Environmental Policy Process" - Wang Yongchen, Senior Environment Reporter for China National Radio and President of Green Earth Volunteers

7 December 2005: "Global Warming: Combining Mitigation and Adaptation" - Carlo Jaeger, Head, Social Systems Department, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); and Professor of Modeling Social Systems, University of Potsdam, Germany

14 December 2005: "Payments for Environmental Services: A Pathway Out of Poverty?" - Katherine Warner, Managing Director for Forestry and Natural Resource Management, Winrock International

23 February 2006: "Environmental Governance" - Arun Agrawal, Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan

9 March 2006: "Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence" - William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Kennedy School of Government

10 March 2006: "Environmental Governance in a Development Context: The Calabash Project's Use of Environmental Impact Assessment as a Catalyst for Participatory Decision-Making in Southern Africa" - Peter Croal, Senior Environment Specialist, Environmental Assessment and Compliance Unit, Environment Division, Policy Branch, Canadian International Development Agency

11 April 2006: "Mapping the Science-Practice Interface in Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the Arena of Vulnerability and Resilience" - Roger Kasperson, Department of Geography, Clark University

28 April 2006: "Impacts of Conditional Land Tenure Agreements in Contested Watersheds in Lampung, Indonesia: Poverty Alleviation and Commitments to Protect the Remaining Forest" - S. Suyanto, Environmental Economist, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Southeast Asian Regional Research Programme

 

Schedule for the current academic year

 

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